Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-05-14
BREVIrIEs.
MIsssIIansOus items.

Over fYe hundred thousand vol
umes Of the Appleton's cheap edition
Of Dickens works have been sold.
After Mr.. Gladstone had made his
great speech on the Irish Church, his
wife rushed to the lobby and kissed
him. ~ ,
In 1866 nine females over one hun
drsd years OF age died in Massachu-
setts. They had all been married and
were widows. N5' e- ~
rg--E. Y, Robbins, Of Cincinnati, has
invented a cylindrical iron car, which
he asserts will hold all alive who hap
pen to be inside, in case Of collision
OF trip down an enbankment @
Printing books in Roman type is
becoming very common in Germany.
II the practice should be generally
adopted, the business Of oculists would
be almost destroyed. a.dsAH ta
Will tea restore the memoryP a
man in Winthrop, Maine, has been
drinking about pound week in the
confident belief that this is asovereign
remedy for defective memory.
In digging cellar in Sandusky,
the wofkmen found rock, in the cen
ter Of which they found o hole con-
tanning q solid silver ever and pitcher
OF antique pattern.
= Henry Ingalls, says he has found a
printed play OF Shakespeare called AL
bumazar, He courts an Investigation
Of his alleged discovery. II bears date
1916 ~ all7l
"A southern paper contains an edi-
torial apology for "a cussed chirogra
ply, as undecipherable as the hyreo-
glyphics found upon the sarcophagus
of a mummy OF snte pyramidal sepul-
ture." A" i'''
"A college about to be established
near Springfield, Mo-, is to be named
Lyon University, after Gen. Nathaniel
r. Lyon. About $4,000 have been
pledged for the building fund, without
any solicitation. T.
-"Brains every day become more
precious than blood" was remarked
by Disraeli in one OF his novels, and
he has now given a practical illustra.
ton Of the truth Of the observation by
having become Prime Minister.
There is a young man attending
college in Albion, Mich, whose heart
is on his right side. He has been ex.
amined by several of the most noted
physicians of New York and Washing.
ton, who all agree that such is the case.
This is the second case on record OF
the kind. f4t
The latest style in visiting cards
are oval in form, and the border is
divided into twelve angular sections
each carrying the figures from one to
twelve, to represent the hours of the
day. The visitor turns down the corner
which contains the hour at which the
call was made. r
An omnibus load of passengers
were arrested on Tuesday, in Boston,
and searched TO find lady's pocket
book, which had been strangely alb
stracted. AS they filed into the sta
tion-house, the pickpocket was shrewd
enough to drop the stolen article into
the straw, where after the fun OF the
search, it was found.
"A little family controversy has been
going on for the past two years in
Bloomfield, o., over matter in cash
value not exceeding twenty-five cents,
and 81 500 have already been expended
in the courts about it, with no better
prospect of settlement than ever. The
parties are members of good standing
In the Methodist Church, and own
property among them to the value of
50, 100, 900.
In responding for the Southwestern
Press. at the Dickens dinner, Col. I.
B. Throps said: "Twenty.eig years
ago he saw fiat boat coming down the
Mississippi, with the name painted in
large letters on its side, samuel Vel.
er.' On his asking the Captain Of the
craft whose name it bore, he replied
that he thought probably it was that oi
the new candidate for Congress in In.
diana"