Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-09-22
News Itoms.
Iowa has had its female prIzO.

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tie over 1000, 600. lIi
The women Of Chicago are to CO.
tablish female mdicai college.
Partisan ladies carry summer
mutfs of lace and perfumeTy.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad was
completed to Denver on the 10th
inst.
The Chinese in the South live
almost entirely on Watermelops.
There are 20 known dwarfs in
the world smaller than Tom
Thumb.
"Will you demonstrate your agil-
ity in a Whirl ?" is the way they ask
'em to dance at Saratoga.
A little child died of hydropho-
biz recently at ShelIi,l Id, England,
from the bite of a donkey.
Nitro -gIycerine has been in use
but five years, yet over 1,70O per-
sons have been killed or MANNED by
Iit/
The remains of Admiral Farra-
gut are to be taken to New York
city. There will be public funer-
al.
1t is said that it takes ten men
nearly a year, working steadily, to
finish a handsome 2amel's hair
shawl.
An Illinois farmer cut his throat
because of the drouth. They bur
led him in a rain which lasted "a
hours.
The tax on spirits and fermented
liquors during July was 1887, ,2S5
more than for the same month
last year.
A London paper declares that
England could not get 10000
troops ready for foreign service
within a month.
A correspondent says the people
who spend the most money at the
watering places are the old men
with young wives.
The population of Lexington,
Ky, is estimated to be $1,000. Two
years ago the Assessors books
showed it to be 21,000.
A New Haven temperance con-
yention got away with thirty thous-
and glasses of root beer, and 10000
bottles Of soda in two days.
Nails, whose points have bOen
dipped in grease, can be driven
easily into hard wood which would
otherwise bend or break them.
The latest thieving trick in New
York is to approach a street car
and snatch through the windows
hats from the passengers heads.
The Spaniards have saying:-
"At IS marry your daughter to her
superior; at 90 to her equal; at
30, TO anybody who will have her,"
The man who married three sis
ters in succession excused himself
for so doing on the ground that he
got of with only one mother in
law.
A sergeant from a regiment ef
the Prussian Guard committed sui
eide because he received orders to
remain at home for recruiting ser
vice.
A Troy hod-carrier has inherited
$4,000. He was half way up the
ladder when he heard Of it, and he
just let go the hod and said he'd
have to be excused.
If we scrutinize the lives Of men
of genius, we shall find that activi-
ty and persistence are their leading
peculiarities. Obstascles cannot
intimidate, nor labor weary, nor
drudgery disgust them. U .o
Mark Twain's new book, which
is to be published next spring lis to
be an account of travel at home,
describing, in humorous and 81
tirical.way, our cities and towns,
and the people Of different sections.
No character can be lastingly in
| iured by a fearless discharge Of du-
| ty. Calumny or prejudice may
obscure it for a time, but
in the end it will shine the
brighter for the clouds which OBJ
scure it.
General Walker says he will have
the census figures in hand by Oc-
tober 1st, and that the total will be
about 41,500,0o0. He will have
the figures of all the large cities,
except San Francisco, by the 18th
of September.
Two centuries ago not one in a
hundred wore stockings. Fifty
years ago not a boy in thousand
was allowed to run at large at night.
Fifty years ago not a girl in q
thousand made a waiting maid Of
her mother. Wonderful improve
lneut in this age,
A cataract has been discovered
in British Guiana, in South Amer.
lea, consisting OF two falls, ene Of
seven hundred and seventy feet,
and the other Of fifty. The Vol.
ume of water passing over the falls
is seventy eightfeet deep and three
hundred feet broad during the dry
season.
Tho oFhnst of a derpaspd vOnnp