Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-02-03

Miscellaneous Items.

mer Canada, was burned Wednesday morn
ing. Tho papers and records were saved.
California papers note the death Of
Scotch terrier which crossed the plains to
the Pacific coast moro than twenty years ago.
| Tho bell that was taken at Sebastopol
| by tlo English troops has been hung in the
keep OF Windsor Castle 1t posses very
rich and musical tone.
Heidelberg is to have professorship Of
American history and literature, and dis
tingulshed American scholar will be invited
| to fill the chair.
in Switzerland the oil Il extracted from
tree beetles and used for sad dressing and
wheel grease, In France dye is extracted
from the same insect,
. The largest number of bottles of cham
pagne opened for callers at any private house
on New Years day is said to have been ole
hundred and seventy.
"A distinguished horticuturist learned by
chance that the best way TO label a tree is to
write with lead pencil on zinc. The name
cannot be erased at FIRST and it grows more
distinct and durable with age,
--One OF the Literary papers" comes down
with exceeding severity on the common use
of the word Standpoint and in the next
article uses the word IN exactly tho manner
which it condemns.
Here is pretty oonceit by Cham In the
Paris Oharivari my friend, be careful
where you step. ROssini left great void
when he went, and II you should happen TO
fall into itl'
Not long ago whole edition of the Inde-
pendance Beige OF Brussels was seized Just
as it was entering France, because it con-
tanned too much news about the precautions
to resist an expected popu lar outbreak in
Paris.
"A criminal was brought to the scaffold.
On ascending the platform he turned ana
asked the executioner, What day is itP"
"Why do you ask ?" 81 want to know"
swell, it's Sunday" 81 have begun the
week early"
"A house in Rochdale, England in which
we're assembled on the 9th ult., seme 400
persons in the capacity II a Sunday school,
was blown down and 400 persons buried in
tho ruins. Many were bruised and badly
hurt but II o deaths were reported.
There is said to be some disappointment
among railroad men at the defects found in
the steel rails, which many roads are putting
down. They are more liable to injury in
winter thaniron, and break IN frosty weather.
A new plan Of putting steel face ON an iron
rail promises well.
Another prize fight between Chicago
roughs is being arranged. Jerry Donovan
challenges, and Fred Busy &C tpts. Both
have had several istic encounters. The
stake is to be $4,000 upward, and the mill is
to come off within six weeks after the signing
of articles, In Canada.
Whittier says that in tho name "Maud
Muller" the Muller should be pronounced so
al to rhyme with duller. He adds that the
name is very common one in some parts of
the mountain regions of New England, and
that although it is of Hessian origin, it is
known universally as Muller in Yankee re-
gions, where it abounds.
The word "Cleveland',. was originally
spelled with an "a"-Cleaveand. Nearly a
century ago the proprietor Of newspaper,
The Advertiser, changed the spelling on ac-
count of a mistake OF the printers in setting
up the heading. The type used Was too
large, and he ordered the superhous letter
"a" to be left out SO as to get the words in
the allotted space.
The latest style of the water velocipede
consists OF two floating tut es of tin, in the
shape of cigars. They are connected by two
bars OF iron which support the wheel. This
is moved by pedal like the fore wheel Of an
ordinary velocipede.N The rider sits on sad
die just behind the Wheel and easily drives
his machine at the rate of six or eight knots
an hour.
"A stranger rode up to the store of q mer-
chant in Providence, on Saturday, and asked
for a loan Of $40, which he obtained on con-
dition of leaving his team as security. He
did not return to oredeem his horse and sleigh,
but man from Pawtucket appeared on Sun
day. and took possession Of them as his
property. The merchant is $40 out. It was
a pretty sharp confidence operation.
-Sutteeism is now practically abolished in
Calcutta, but only 81 years agothe annual av-
erage of bodies burned in that city was ten
thousand. The manner Of burning was such
that the health of the city was constantly
endangered by the decomposition of half
burned bodies. Cremation is still practised,
but much more completely and on better
system.
Ohio has $3.50 miles of railroad track.
During last year the casualties on all the
roads in Ohio involved loss of life to one hun
dred and six persons and injury to one hun
dred and sixty-four, nearly all the result OF
the careessness of the persons themselves.
The gross earnings Of all the roads were
nearly fifty million dollars, and tie net earn
ings upwards Of fourteen millions.
AN inyeterate tobacco chewer was in the
habit OF declaring about once month that
he would ''never chew another piece" but
broke his pledge as often as he made it. On
ava Np-o,NNAj Nap bOptl tuhluB
chew. "Why. said his friend, "you told me
you had given up that habit, but ] see you are
at it again. !" "Yes,'" he replied, 81 have
gone to chewing and left off lying"
There are thirty or forty beef packing es-
tablishments in Texas. Scarcely any two of
them are pursuing the same process for cur
ing and packing beef. When any process il
discovered by which the Texas beef can be
shipped in good condition to foreign MAJ
kets, it will constitute an immense source of
wealth. The number of cattle in Texas is
estimated at 100000, and the annual in
crease is at least 1 100000.
--Velocipede building now forms an i'm
portant branch oftrade in Paris There are
not only manufactures OF these new locomo-
tives, but f0undrlCs where the iron work of
which they are composed is cast. One OF
these employs 250 workmon, and finishes 12
yelocipedes per day for coach builder Of
Lyons. A Lyonose velocipedist is willing to
take any bet that he will beat the fastest trot-
ter in a race.