Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-04-28

Miscellaneous Items.

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neat dodge Of Western female pick-pockot.
New York thieves are training dogs to
snatch bundles of notes from bank counters.
Melbourne, Australia, though but thirty
| years old, has o quarter OF million OF inhab-
itants.
kites in the air and and orange peel on
the side-walks ara fruitful causes OF acci-
dents in New York. ~ hA
"A citizen OF Louisville claims TO have in
| his possession a watch presented to Lafayette
by George Washington
| : The bed of the Missouri river at Sioux
City, is $40 feet above that Of the Mississippi
at Dubuque, in the same latitude.
"A thief in San Francisco pawns 30 much
of his plnnder as possesses personal value,
and returns the tickets to his victims wtha
polite note.
Charles Cadwalder, engineer on the
Central Pacific Road, has sounded the Dom
ner Lake to the depth of 1000 feet without
finding bottom. r.
"A new hotel at Cape May, in process OF
erection, will be 800 feet long, four stories
high and have porches 400 feet in length.
II will cost $3.50, 900.
The Wurtemburg police have prohibited
the representation OF play, the scene OF
which is laid in America. One OF the actors
represents Gen. Grant,
A reverend gentleman of Philadelphia
sends all his complimentary dressing gowns,
smoking caps, and slippers to furnishing
store on commission.
AN escaped lunatic attempted to commit
suicide at New York, last Wednesday, IN
obedience, as he thought. to the orders OF
''Abraham Lincoln, First Ruler OF Heaven!"
Wolves are making havoc among the
hogs and sheep in Amite county, Miss. They
are supposed to have been driven into that
county by the high water in the Mississippi
swamps.
1t ia understood that Commodore Van
derbilt has offered Erastus Corning, ir.,
| 500, 900 for the trotting horse "Goorne Pal
mer." He is said TO BIO the fastest morse OF
his age in the world.
| A young yelocipedist, while practising
near the steamboat wharf in New Haven,
Conn, last week, got under, snch headWayy
that he could not stop, and both bicicle and
rider rode off the dock into the waters OF the
harbor.
"A farmer at Taunton, Mass, has re-
markable COW. During the last year she has
given 7,434 quarts of milk, weighing about
| IA 1868 pounds, and yielding about $3.50; while
the keeping of this animal cost only $l44
AN intelligent gentleman from Germany,
on his first visit to an American church, had
| n
| sented to him, and whispered to the collec-
tor, IL don't got mein papers unit can't
vote"
The monument to be erected by the Now
York Seventh Regiment to the memory OF
| themembers of the regiment who fell during
the war will cost about $4,000. II will be
placed opposite the Seventh avenue entrance
to the Central Park.
A Ieavenw orth paper thinks it 'an evl, +,
| dence of The Westward March Of Civilization"
that the Kansa Legislature appropriated
| s., 400 for tobacco for the penitentary pris-
enors, and only $500 for preaching the gos-
pei to them.
Isaac and M. T.. Burbank, the parents Of
Mrs. Senator Morton and Mrs. Postmaster
Holloway, of Indianapolis, celebrated their
golden wed ding on Tuesday, at their resi-
dence In Centerville. All Of their children,
seven in number, were present
"A Nashville druggist has invented rat
paint made of a preparation OF phosphorus.
You first catch rat, then you paint him.
After dark he looks like ball OF fire, and
going among his fellow-rats, they vacate the
premises, the "bright particular" rat follow
ing and hurrying up the rear
-Rothschild's heirs evidently believe that
man has no business TO let property 20 out
of his family. They refuse to pay TO lega-
tees out of the family the sums, petty in
comparison with the whole estate, which the
Baron willed to them.
The Florida orange crop will not be
failure after all. Those trees which did not
lose their leaves have blossomed very heavily,
and many persons anticipate that even those
which were rendered leailess will blossom
later in the season. Peaches and plums have
set very abundanty.
Australia has been suffering o fear
full drought. The accounts from Sydney
and Melbourne detail the fearful effects Of
the heat and lack of moisture. One farmer
in Victoria lost 3, 800 sheep which died Of
thirst; and the mortality in all the region has
been frightful
"A hack driver in Buffalo, who had de-
tanned two gentlemen pnrposely from reach
| ing their train in order that he might make
more money out of them, was arrested at the
instance of the gentlemen, and was COM
polled TO pay their hotel bill and the costs of
the case.
A donkey in the suburbs OF London has
attained q celebrity by showing foundness
for hearing the concertina played. At the
sound of the instrument he will gallop to.
ward the player, braying loully Perhaps he
humanely wishes only to drown the sound Of
tho concertina.
Tho other day X. called on Madam o.
''Madam, can see your husbandp' ''No,
sir; he is out at present He went out to buy
a cigar" "Dd he say he would return, mad.
am ;" "No." 'IIas he been gone long ~
'.More than twenty years" ''Ah, see," said
X, che wanted 10 geta good one"
"A widow in onondaga county, n. Y, re-
Gently cnt out her own daughter in the good
graces of her lover, aud MAI ried him herself
TO obtain revenge for this most unm0therly
trick, the daughter SET her cap at the young
mans rich father, Of whom he was the only
heir, TO tho infinite annoyance Of her step
children.
"A few Sundays since q clergyman In
Maine, in the middle OF his Sermon had oc-
casion to use his handkerchief, and to his as-
constituent scattered in all directions some
fifty specimens of paper. dolls, which his
little daughter had lodged IN the parental
pocket for safe keeping. The effect upon the
audience was marked
The extent Of the calamity to Gloucester
(Mass.) fishermen from the storm on George
Banks is now summed up. II caused Tie
loss OF tlirty-six lives, leaving fifteen wild.
ows and eighteen fatherless children, spd
$40 900 worth Of vessols and property, in
Guiding anchors, cables, and four wrecked
ships.
The leader OF tho "claque" AT the Paris
Odeon Theater Ia q wealthy man. He accu-
mulated a fortune black-mailing dramatists,
managers, actors and actresses. some vain
artists often pay him thousand francs for
one nights, eenthusiastic applause" with
the necessary "enCores," calls before the
curtain, etc.
An incendiary fire recently broke out at
the Vatican, in the Court Belyodere. The
flremen were quickly on the spot, and, after
four hours and half OF umtiring oxertions,
succeeded in oxtinguishing tho flames. The
fire was happily confined TO the storeroom Of
the factory OF mosaics, where some valuable
works have been destroyed but IL nearly
reached the museum, and especially endan-
, gered the portico containing the Apollo and
! Laoco0n.
AT meeting of the assgnees Of Mckay
4 Aldus, locomotive engine builders OF Bos-
ton, who recently failed, IL was voted to ofieI
, the works for sale, limiting the price AZ two
r hundred thousand dollars, sealed proposals.
= for the same 10 be sent 10 the assigneea. II
4 not sold, the works are TO be broken mp
There are three other locomotive works IN