Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-03-17
CURRENT NEWS.

The snow on some of the Canada railroads
in 81 feet deep.
Miss Maria T. Sanford Is O candidate for
County Superintendent in Chester County,
Pa. NI
BY chemical process, knife handles and
fine tooth combs, it is said are now made
from potato pulp.
There is trouble in New Haven Public
School on account of the violent whipping
of little boys by female teachers.
When stoves are red-hot, the gases of
combustion, it is said leak through their
pores ike water through sponge.
The Pennsylvania Canal along the banks
of the Susduehanna is to be made ten or
fifteen feet wider and several feet deeper
4 bed of pure chalk has been found. near
Omaha Then the State can make its
mark.
Cincinnati pork dealers made an aggre-
gate of three million dollars by their opera
tons this winter.
The Rocky Mountain Herald heads its
column of humorous and other paragraphs
Noodle Soup"
There Is said to be a hookkeeper in
Norwich, CT, who writes equally well with
both hands at the same time.
The latest from Paris is about q beautiful
young lady without arms or legs who sevs
and embroiders with her mouth.
The public debt Statement for February
shows n decrease of $40, 1858, 1853, compared
f0unFa
thankfully received.
A little schoolgirl in Norwich (Ct.) gave
as the definition of the word happy-''To
feel as if you wanted to give all your things
to your little sister"
The growls of the disappointed factions
in the Radical party are loud and deep.
Grant is no longer, in their eyes, the savior
of the nation"
Grants cabinet begins and ends with m
F.. B. Some radicals think this Is because
it is an Egregious Blunder, others because
il is an Everlasting Bore.
The following rules are posted in New
Jersey school-house "No kissing the girls
III school hours; no licking the master dur
ing holidays.
The name of Miss Annie Surratt appears
on the list Df applicants who passed OK
animation for teachers in the public schools
OF Baltimore few days ago.
4 curious statistician, has figured out
that the amount Of money now IL crcul-
alton in Illinois Is just three dollars to each
inhabitant.
limo untoward accident befalls cotton
caterpillar fly to-day, or her children, she
will be the mother Of sixty-fve thousand
million worms by the middle of October.
An Illinois clergyman on the way to ful-
I'll an exchange" appointment, made an
exchange of carpet bags with some one,
and instead OF two sermons found $50, 600.
Rochester, formerly the centre of the
wheat region, now pays twenty thousand
dollars annually for -four made from Wes-
tern wheat.
The price of sugar having fallen two cents
at wholesale from the high prices they had
reached, consumers are correspondtngly
glad.
The Chinese in California number sixty
two thousand. Here will be fine field foI
the politicians to work upon when the Ill
teenth amendment passes.
Reports from Washington announce that
the State Departments literally besleged
by office-seekers, desirous OF conclatlne
the ''man Washburne."
On the 4th inst, Hon. James G.. Blaine,
of Maine, was elected Speaker Of the House
of Representatives for the Forty-first Con
eress, by a vote of 1856
Among the new post-rosds in California,
we observe one from Chico to Humbug
Valley" There ought to be large mail on
that route.
FACE THE MUsIC.- radical Congress
and the radical President Grant have de-
clared for Negro Suffrage. The sneaks IN
Pennsylvania will have to face the music
on this question at last.
The municipal election in Georgetown,
d. c., has resulted in Democrat victory,
the Democrats earring the city by 81 major
ity. Last year the negro vote gavethe city
to the Radicals by a large majority.
The Friend aQuaker paper published Ill
Philadelphia, complains that members of
the sect are served with notices to pay the
State militia tax. 1t advises them to resist
the demand as long as possible.
The largest man on record in modern
times was miles Dardena a native of North
Carolina born in 1898. He WAS seven feet
and six inches high. At his death, in 1857,
he weighed ittlc yver 1000 pounds.
As a flock of sheep were being driven
across the bridge at DanviIe a few days
ago, one of them jumped out of the window,
and, sheep like, the rest of them quickly
followed The result was that eight of them
became food for fish.
J. w Frilling, who was elected chief
burgess Of the borough ofSunbury in Feb
ruary, declines the honor, and z. II. Shin
die ana 4. " BT1ce are applicants for the
appointment to the vacancy by the Govern
or
Kansas City has a citizen of doubtful
sobriety, who obeingarrested, told the justice
that he wasn't drunk by any means-he
had only been made dizzy by watching the
movements of velocipede. He was let off
On the payment OF costs.