Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-08-06
yreuihes.
Miscellaneous Items.
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"A fair future-Pretty soon.
"A wretched Meanwhile.
o. Tenement houses Bowling alleys. l
Affection Of the chest plnndered
trunk. Ml Nti tFl
-Ap Indian pipe Of peace-A pipe Of
one-half ofthe land under cultivation in
Utah Is sown 10 wheat ~
do they have races in summer because it
contains so many heats2 -
Dogs are great humorists, for they al
ways have a waggish- tail. .-----
"A dealer in Faneuil Hall Market sells six
hundred frogs legs per week. oitf
Though the theatres are opposed TO prize
lighting, they all hayepriyate boxes
-7tThe bright little isle of our own" which
women seek-the Isle of Man. =. =, NbE.
when il man guilty of TRANSPARENT false
AoodH When helies on his face fMt
when a boy throws stones at turbulent
cats, does he intend to rock them to sleep2
Twenty carts are hereafter to sprinkle
lime DAILY in the hueets OF New York that
need IT, EH * tl
"A diasipated Latin Student at collegede
clared the only thing he couldn't decline was
hic, hRc, hoe. ,.c
There are 10000 tenement houses in New
York City, containing ON an average four fam
lies to each story.
What is the difference between pill ana
a hill2 One is hard to get down, and the
other hard to get up.
A salmon trout, recently captured in
0kego Lake, weighed 1Spounds, and was two
i0o' 'ea aalIH iiiGiies ' iopg'I u H fylEL 2
"A Montreal Clergyman has been fined Tor
uniti'g in wedlock widow of 40 years to
susceptible youth ofl6.
Cincinnati is,yorth in her own right, ten
million dollars. her possessions consisting
principally Of real estate. . 8t.
AN owl, measuring four feet and six
inches between the tips OF its wings, was
caught last week near Mansfield, 0hio.i 41
-on the Homeopathic principle that like
cures like, sulphur is considered good for
eruptions, because it comes from Vesuvius.
The city Of Boston owns public parks and
squares which would sell for fifteen millions
Of dollars, which is enough to pay the city
debt.
Human bones have boon discovered at
the depth OF sixty-eight feet below the sur
face Of the ground in digging well $50 miles
west of Omaha.
European letter writers agree that the
weather last month was intensely hot. Thou
sands Of tourists were driven out of the cities
to the mountain districts.
"A brick chimney in Worcester, Mass
one hundred feet high has been moved four
hundred feet, without STAYS or prop 1t is
detached from any building.
--Garlands of natural flowers are usedto
adorn the hair of ladies in evening; toilette.
They are keptifresh by quilts being filed with
water, and sealed at both ends.
Tho New York Tribune has lust declared
another dividend of $500 share, During the
past eight months its profits have been at
the rate Of 81 per cent. per annum. ,-
ALBERT D. Richardson's Beyond the
Mississippi sold seventy-fve thousand copies
in twelve months, one OF the largest sales an
American book has ever had in the same time,
! Ground will be broken for a new dormi-
tory at Yale College, within fortnight Be-
fore year passes another dormitory will be
erected, and all Yale can then be expected to
roomin theieollego,lA ''i'u4u
in Litchheld, Ky, Friday, 1000 people
the hanging of Pleasant w. Shields,
a ,boy'of IA years, hung for the murder of a
Henry HasEins He made forty
minutes speech from the scafIold. lfl
-''No man knoweth his sepulchre" A sex
was digging He was found lying in it several
hours afterwards Z He was digging it iof an
madeit- his own, --'s e
Newspaper publishers are imprisoned in |
Bavaria for inserting patent medicine adver-
tisements. In Mecli1ehburg all medical adj |
vertsements have to be submitted to the |
plpper authorities before they me permitted
to be published. /
"A. H. GTiswold, the man who was report |
ed as having bsenEobbed of 100000 in Coy /
ernment bonds on the Hudson river road |
last week, found his package of bonds on the
tloor of his Office in New York. 1t had drop
ped from his pocket as ho was leaving the
office
The staid town of Middlefeld Mass has
1 sensational SANDER suit, the parties being
DR.. Starkweather, late Of New Hampshire,
aud several members Lyman the father,
Alyron tho son, and daughter), Of one OF
the rich Church families. The doctor sues
each for $1,000 worth Of character out of
which they have slandered him.
The Cape Cod Gazette SAYS that during
the tempest of last Thursday Waquoit Bay
received two severe thunder bolts, which so
affected the eels that they came to the top of
the water, their heads out like sea serpents
and swan to the shore. On being taken up
md thrown back into the water, they iinme-
lately came ashore again. The following
morning some fifteen barrels of eels were
picked up, having come ashore.
"A correspondent of the New York Times
states, for the benefit of hydrophoba victims,
hat it has been discovered in America that
lorse-radish and sweet Ola tablespoonful OF
his mixture as often as it can be swallowed
md retained on the stomach, together with
poultice OF the same over the wound--has
proved prompt and perfect cure for this
appalling malady in several instanoes-in-
Iced, in all in which it has been tried so far
Is known. l..