Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-09-24
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Miscellaneous Items.

-st Petersburg has Ave daily papers, four
lpubliahed In Russian and one in French
Trembling roses and Gowers covered with
ants are used N Paris for bonnet tFinmings
--Aman who has had his say William Tell
4 A man who has had his day-fhe Dey oflAl-
giers. CD ~
"A German philologist at Jena, predicts
that in five centuries English will be the uni
versal language.
The loss sustained by the bush fires in
Canada, the present season, is estimated at
over $5,OO0,O00
1t is now forbidden the singers at the Vi
emma. opera house to RESPOND to encores, ex-
cept between the acts. ."
Many Of the most noted negro fninstrels
cannot read o note fmusic but haYe'to learn
all their songs by rote.
The new law in Ohio compelling all ply
siciana to suspend practice who have never
received regular diplomas, goes into effect 0c-
tober J., ~ Gt'}
Female medical students are now admit
ted to all the privileges Of the medical school
Of the University of Paris ON the Same terms
as men.
The losses to American marine insurance
companies for August amounted to S248, 900,
and for the first eight months of the year,
$40, 100000. QI YIn0f fN nJirDf
"A disrespectful writer says that the En-
press Eugenie exerts her womans privilege
quite royalty, by being in an almost perpetJ-
al quarrel with her husband.
"A valuable Jewell stolen from the royal
treasury at Lisbon, two years ago, was re-
Gently recovered at Athens. It was dia-
mond worth $4,000. " h.iiHJ
"A Young gentleman, speaking Of Young
beauty's fashionable yellowish hair, called It
pure gold. ut ought to be-" quoth K, sit
looks like twenty-four carrots"
The cost Of the water works at Portland,
Me-, will be about s2,00O,OO0. The conduit
| involves the heaviest expense The reser-
vOir when built will cost 100000,
The anniversary of the landing OF George
Popham's colony on the ancient peninsula of
Sabine, at the month Of the Kennebec river,
in Maine, was celebrated on Saturday Of last
week.. .i
Another accident is chronicled among
the tourists in Switzerland. A young Eng
lish lady while climbing up the mountain at
Chamounix. was crushed by a huge block of
stone rolling down.
Some one in Paris writes to the Evene-
mont that he thinks he ought to have the
Cross Of the Legion Of Honor, because he has
lived sixty five years in the city of Paris and
has never been run over.
Foreigners who have visited thenewly
discovered gold and silver mines in China re-
port fayorably on the ease with which they
could be worked II the Chinese authorities
would but sanction the undertaking.
The manufacture of wood-soled boots
and shoes is one of the latest Boston novel;
ties. 1t is claimed that they will last much
longer, are impervious 70 water, and only
cost about one-half as much as leather
An attempt was made, last week, to con-
test the will of Matthew Vassar, Of Tough
keepsie, which failed. He gives $780, 900 to |
the College, and surrenders mortgage of
$4,000 which he held against the institu- |
ton.
"A boy eighty years Of age was seized by an |
eagle in Tippon county, Miss, and carried |
some distance into the air. He was finally |
dropped, but died in consequence Of the fall |
and OF the wounds inflicted by the eagles |
talons.
Mr.. Cuthbert G. Grundy publishes in the
English papers the fact of the discovery, by |
some workmen digging in cellar in Black
pool, Lancanshre, Of Buing oyster, s'irmly |
imbedded in the clay at a depth Of five feet |
from the surface"
The available funds for the erection of
the Harvard University Memorial Building
now amount to $3.50 Charles Eliot Nor
ton has resigned as member of the building
oI1 oTInhliIteei Mlu Cnaries W. hiiiott mas peen
ei0cteu III 'iiS pace
recent explorations have led to the dis
coyery that the asphaltum deposits OF Swift
zerland are very much moro extensive than
has been supposed Already forty thousand /
tons annually are produced and sold and the
prospect is OF large increase.
"A fire recently took place at Northum-
berand House, London by which about
t5O, ,OOO worth OF pictures and rare objects OF
art were destroyed, especially collection OF
Sevres vases gwen 70 the northumberland
family by Charles X OF FraHce
Manufactures are reviving at the South.
me cotton factory at tredrlcksburg, Vaa
cohInehced operatl0ns AGAIN last week, and
the Brlarheld Iron Works, at Selma, Ala, are
daily turning out large quantities of cotton
ues and bar IRON OF excellent qualify
"A &c man farmer in Woodbridge, who
was digging under large boulder on his
farm, to bury it, on Saturday, was crushed
beneath the premature fall OF It,. After con-
siderable labor, and the help OF cattle, the
stone was removed, but lie was extinct.
Mr.. Beecher's recipe for making coffee Ia
as suggestive as it is Beecherish: "The best
way know of to make good coffee is to 90 to
the principal hotels, restaurants, railroad
eating-houses, etc, and ascertain just how
they make coffee-then make 1t as they
don't"
A caricature OF young lady with the
Grecian bend and panniers was posted at
Congress Hall the other day 1t was thought
to resemble young lady from New Jersey.
4 Inc @ aItst was aetecIea ara Iorced 70 leave
.ns me nouset Inc young lauy now carries ner-
Sen upright
"A needle has lately been successfully re-
moved from the windpipe OF Mrs. Martin
Clace. Of Taunton, Mass. She accidentally
drew itiinto her windpipe, a fortnight since,
and would probably have died in consequence
nai I1 nnorotn ion0i Sofueu Oy SSucceSsiui sur
ei0ai opeiapon' =.
"A young woman, meeting former fel-
low servant, was asked how she liked hernew
place. N
Very well.
"Ihen ',Is you have nothing to complain OFT
Nothing, only master and mistress talk
very Dad grammar l.
-fIlnra ig GREAT nXpitnmnnf in munipfnal ,