Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-03-17
COOS ano Gnos.
Miscellaneous items.

The editor OF tnh hhIlbhb pthbo Juu'h",
has department Of Stems on Two WheoiS'
devoted 10 velocrede news.
cardinal Cullen, In his regulations for
Lent pubIishedln England, warns his people
that. II Freemaso Ribbonmen or Fenlans,
thew cannot be admitted to the sacrament.
1t Ia proposed In Cincinnati to consoli,
date several educational institutions, and
Rounda university after tho German model
Two young English boods, on a lark, cut
and otherwise defaced tho fixtures OF rail-
way carriage they occupied, and had to goto
prison for fvo years for malicious destruc-
tlon Of property.
--Offenbach has been translated into
Arabic, for the amusement and instruction
of tho Vi9erOy of Egypt.
The first piano sent from this country to
Japan has just been shippedby New Haven
manufacturer.
An old minister the other day asked
woman what could induce her husband to
attend church. 81 don't know, unless you
were to put pipe and a jug of whisky in the
pew" she replied.
In the Charles Reade Va. Charles Il.
Sweetzer trial for libel in Criticising "Grif-
fifth Gaunt, :" it is proposed to give every jury
man copy of the book.
Some years ago man named Brown was
acquitted by jury in Miami county, Ohio,
on charge of numbering an ditor in Day
ton. Since then every one OF tho jury has
become insane, met an unnatural death, or
committed suicide, and the judge who pre-
sided at the trial died recently in lunatic
asylum. This an Ohio journal calls start
ling instance of the retributiye justice OF
Heaven"
"A colony to emigrate to Nebraska has
been formed in New York city, IL numbers
about fifty, and is made up of farmers and
artisans, who will find plenty of occupationin
the new state
The courts, police and other machinery
in New York, for maintaining order and pro-
tecting hfe and property, cost over $66OO a
day, and the Times thinks the people don't
get their moneys worth of the articles this
sum ought to furnish
During the month of January the re-
ceipts of the Fifth Avenue Stage Company OF
New York were SIS, S,22i, representing nearly
third of million passengers.
--Pitsburg has had compound elopement,
in which a married man has run away with
two widows
Two Erie conductors we're arrested last
week for knocking down" too large per
centage of the fares
"A gentleman in 81. Louis, few days
since, lost 50, 000 for the recovery of which
qucnt day he received through the post Office
the sum he had lost, minus the reward. No
name or note accompanied the inclosure
A French paper announcing the recent
manifesto of the Pope against all impostures
and shams inquiries irreverently ii the blood
of ST. Januarus is included in the condem-
nation.
Since the commencement of the efforts
| TO purify the water of the Thames at London,
several kinds of fish, unknown there for
many years, have mace their appearance at
Blacklriars bridge.
A velocipcdist in New Haven, while cross
| ing a street ran into horse and knocked
| him down. The horse was 80 injured by the
fall that the owner was obliged to kill him,
and he now holds the veloclpede rider re-
sponsible / } the extent of $500.
Artificial ebony is made in Europe by an
| ingenious process, from sea weed. After
| treating it with diluted sulphuric acid, it Is
dried and ground, mixed with glue, gutts
percha and india rubber, the two latter sub
stances dissolved in naptha, coal tar, sulphur,
alum and rosin. II is then heated TO 5000
Fahrenheit, and on cooling 1t is said to be in
every respect equal to ebony.
| A Wilmington newspaper advocates the
| formation of new state out of Delaware and
the Eastern shore counties Of Maryland.
doctor, said gentleman to physi-
clan, my daughter had la fit this morning,
and aftcTward remained for half an hour
without knowledge or understanding"
'Oh," replied tho doctor, "never mind that;
many people continue 30 all their hyos,"
A man named Mackson, living at Port
Deposit, Nd, on Saturday had some trouble
with two Young men named 0hr, both of
whom he shot, wonnding them severely. A
| 4 4. In1k k,
was also shot, and 1t Is feared no will die OF
his injuries. Mackison was finally lodged in
Jail,
There il no clearer indication of the pro-
gress Of luxury in this city than the high
wages paid to women cooks in private fami-
lies Time was when this class Of domestics
received about the same wages as chamber
maids and waitercsees, but now, while the
latter get but $40 to Sl2 per month, the
former command all the way from $l5 to $40,
according to their skill and experience
N. y. San.
There il diamond in the British Mu-
suem attached to piece of alluvial gold.
This specimen goes to prove the ancient idea
thar there is an affinity between the gem and
the precious metal. Gold miners, says an
English paper, should know rough dia-
mOnd when they sec it.
--ANlDHR lllt 900 NIIIluGCb VI lbuDtlh
which arc catalogued for salo at Madrid is
one oramented with panels painted by Mu-
rillo.
Without counting the Rothchilds there
are in Paris about one hundred and fifty Is
raOlitea, whose combined fortunes amount to
5000, ,OOO,O0O
Reports speak very fayoTably OF Rogers,
colossal statue of President Lincoln, which
has been modelled in Rome, and is to be castin
bronze In Munich, and to be set up in some
public place in Philadelphia, in commemora-
ton of the signing Of tho emancipation act.
The figure IL twelve feet high, and ID repre-.
sented in sitting position,
General Grant has been given box of
stockings by.a New Hampshire hose cOmpa-
NY with special request to wear one pair
on Inauguration.
= During the great excitement in the fc-
male convention in Chicago, a hair mattress
, maker offered one hundred dollars for the
privilege Of sweeping out the hall after the
meeting.
- Ono thousand fallen women are Mt the
st. Lazarao Prison, near Paris. A novel plan
of making them good members of society is
, being tried. A benevolent society of French
ladies' manage to marry with them dis
, charged male conVcts, giving each couple
300 francs to start their new life with Thir-
) ty-fvo couples have thus far been settled in
this manner, and all arc apparently happy
! and seem to be good citizens.
Tho area of "oystor rock" in Virginia is
estimated at $40, 900 acres, and the annual
revenue at ten million dollars.
DIR. Abemethy asked o student ono day,
what he gould DO IN case'a man were blown
up with gunpowder. 81 should wait until
he came down. was the cool reply, Sand
suppose should kick you for your imperti'
nence, said the angry surgeon, what mus
! cles would put in motonp' "Tho tensOrs
| and acxors OF my right arm, sir!"
0 The accumulation OF models in the Pat
! ent 0nico makes it necessary to dispose Of
all that are over twenty years old. An OK
change suggests that they be advertised and
sold at auction to inventors, ae there must
bo many valuable germs of mechanical idea9