Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-07-30
prtOitifs.
NLlsceIlaneous Items.

"A century plant Is in bloom at Troy
Throughout Indiana the locusts have
disappeared. tt M
-Auatralia Is trying hard to raise sugar,
both from cane and nom beets.
"A new comic paper, entitled Nip and
Tuck, has been started in Schenectady.
The citizens of Providence, r. l., are
subscribing to build hundred thousand dol
lar opera house.
"A scientific paper states that mon with
grey eyes are better ritle-shots than persons
with eyes OF other colors.
"A great American Exposition is proposed
for 1875, the centennial anniversary OF tho
Declaration Of Independence.
-0f the six hundred and eighty conwcts
now in the Kingston (Canada) Penitentiary,
one hundred are there formurder.
"A venerable looking English bull-eye
watch was lately found in the stomach OF o
large catfish, which was caught in Monroe
county, Ind.
THE treasury Of Amherst College, Massa-
chusetts, reports that this institution is now
worth more than million dollars, and free
from debt.
If the roots of trees are dipped into wa
ter, Just before planting, the earth that sticks
to them will give immediate support to the
small fbres. 3ih
in Cincinnati, an unfortunate woman
named Cordelia Wade has made twenty-five
different attempts to destroy herself by poi
son. She still lives. n 1.B5 u
"A young lady living near Powder Springs,
Georgia, was fatally poisoned by using twig
for q tooth brush, wherein tho locusts had
Deposited their eggs.
Eight miles from st. Charles, Mo-, there
is an apple orchard of hundred acres. In
1867 the yield, at an average price of SO per
barrel, was worth over $1,000.
/ Tho ceiling Of the dome Of the Senate
Library in Luxembourg palace lately fell and
destroyed the beautiful painting by Eugene
Delacroix which covered 1t. rla.
The southern papers continue to fill their
columns with politics, to the exclusion Of all
news. The war did not teach them the ad-
vantage Of the opposite course.
AL New Yorker writes to the papers that
he can't go to church without being "awful-
ly shocked" by the tobacco juice of the boys
and the hirtations Of the girls.
The drought in France is SO extreme
that the working-women are gratuitously
transported to the River Rhine by the rail-
way companies, in order to wash their family
linen,
California sends q denial of the report
that she is already overcrowded Figures
are given by the Alta California to show that
the demand for labor is greater than the
supply.
1t is remarked that tho sewing women
are the only working people who never strike.
Their earnings are too small to feed them, and
Of course they have no strength for violent
exeTtion.
The population Of France is shown by the
latest statistics to be 38,067, OTIS people; 49,
OLA, 100 are men; 19,O52,965 are women. The
excess of women is smaller than in the New
England States.
"A gentleman in Davenport, Iowa, has so
constructed his dwelling house that, every
thirty minutes, it is completely exhausted Of
all the air it contains, and ro"tilled with pure
fresh air from without.
"A celebrated old document known as the
''National Covenant of Scotland" signed two
hundred and thirty years ago by the Scottish
people, is at present in Canada, in possession
OF family called henderson.
"A French paper announces that Italy
feels that it owes such a debt Of gratitude to
both France and Prussia, that in case of
war between the two countries it would re-
main neutral.
"A new parlor toy is a magnetic fish, cut
from strips Of paper, and colored in imitation
of nature. If the palm Of the hand be moist
ened. and the fish placed thereon, it writhes
in various ways, though invariably following
the pulsation Of the wrist. r.
"A few days ago gentleman was driving
a horse on the Hannibal road, between Dex-
ter's Corners and Hannibal, N. T., when
swarm Of bees which was outi the vicinity
alighted upon the horse and stung him so
that he died within quarter of an hour
The largest conger eel ever known was
recently caught near Wexford, Ireland. His
length was over fourteen feet, and his cir
cumference exceeded four feet. The name
on his back resembled strong horse hair, and
stood four inches high.
--one of the Washington fashionables gave
private theatrical party the other evening"
the stage being erected in the garden, The
performers were amateurs, and the guests
were seated at small tables on which refresh
ments were served between the acts, in imi-
tation of Partisan cafe chdntdaL
Mortimer Doesticks Thompson prints in
the last number Of the Public Spirit magazine
an article entitled 'Lost, wherein he endeav-
ors to show forth that far the greater proper
ton of sudden and mysterious disappearances
in the New York metropolis are purposely
effected, by persons who desire, through
crime and shame, to become '1ost" to their
friends and acquaintances.
Personal Items.