The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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The total circulation Of the nationsl
bank is stated at $31S,6S6, ,999.
Thirty thousand gallons of castor oil
have been made in California this sea-
son.
Perpetual motion-The movement of
fashionable lady in a warm room with
pretty fan.
Why was Louis Napoleon's army like
his moustache? Because it was waxed
at both ends.
The Davidson fountain at Cincinnati
supplies water through 1000 feet of
coiled pipe surrounded by ice.
A recent live stock census of Great
Britain shows 9,235,052 cattle, 32,7S7,-
1888 sheep and lambs, and. 3,950,730
pigs.
Fossil lions, tigers, ,lcopards, elephants,
heilers, lemons, palm leaves, and cocoa
nuts have been found in Colorado.
A New Orleans man who tried to
frighten his wife by playing Burglar
hopes to recover, even if they cafrt find
the ball.
Whole herds of cattle near Council
Bluffs, Iowa, are becoming totally blind,
and no cause can be assigned for the
calamity. =
An exchange wants to know. if $3.50
| is good pay for fair days work, how
much should be considered an equivas
lent for wet days work?
One hundred and seventy nine trains,
carrying passengers, daily arrive and
depart from Chicago, eighty three Of
which carry the U S. mails.
During last year 94O,OOO,0OO letters
passed through the post offices of Great
Britain, and of the whole number only
$4,000 were alleged to be lost.
Two firms in Natick, Mass. annually
consume the skins Of two thousand
horses in providing envelopes for the
balls used in the great national game.
A Norfolk (Va. paper reports that a
little girl was lately lost in the tall weeds
of a principal street, and was only found
after an hours search by the neighbors.
The Washington Capital is discussing
the momentous question: sShall we
have better White House to put our
President in, Or better President to
Iput in onr White House ?"
The Boston News, the organ of the
Massachusetts prohibitionists, says that
the Republican party in that State is
nondescript animal, in which rum head
is joined to prohibitory body.
Calais, Maine, is nice place for
young men to go to. The local paper
there says that two-thirds of the wealth
: of the town is to be inherited by young
girls. The rich men there do not have
sons.
| In Canada the facts that riot occur
+ red in New York on the Twelfth of July
and that Reddy the Blacksmith is not
hung, are considered forcible arguments
against voting by ballot and annexation.
There is but one peddler in all Ire
land He takes his certificate from the
county of Down. The fact appears in
parliamentary return, and occupies a
whole page. There are in England and
Wales 81, 1854 peddlers, and in Scotland
|, IL 1862.
> The lazy school boy who wrote the
name of a distinguished soldier and pat
6 riot as & Drew Jaxon, has been outdone
, by a theological student who. having
= half a dozen shirts to mark, wrote the
first John Thomas and the remaining five
h ditto.
t Horse-stealing, formerly an extensive
e ly cultivated and profitable branch of
industry in Missouri, but which of late
s years has been somewhat neglected in
that State, is being renewed to a great
extent in the region extending from St.
/. Louis to Arkansas. -
A California paper having accused the
! Memphis Appeal of telling a falsehood,
: the Louisville Courier Journal remarks /:
> at is comparatively safe, when there is
: half a continent between you and, a
Memphis editor, to tell him that be lies,
but it is death under any other circum.
stances"
j. Gov. Palmer of Illinois is determined
to punish the lynchers of Martin Merea,
s who was hanged by a mob for murder
: ing his son. The brute certainly de-
e served hanging; but the Governor is
J. right in his resolve to bring the rioters
who took the law into their own hands
j. to strict accountability for their act
b ions.
+ In Vicksburg hundreds of colored
people have been attracted to the shan
ty of an cid negress who believes she
can see angels in the air. Her visitors
do not pretend to see the celestial be-
ings, but they have the satisfaction of
looking upon one who does ard this
has proved an attraction sufficient to
1 draw ignorant creatures from all direc-
: tions, and in some cases from great dis
iances.
+ 1t is believed that large proportion
of what are termed Indian outrages are
committed by white desperadoes from
;. Mexico, who disguise themselves as In.
dians for the purpose of deceiving their
D victims as to their nationality. They
I are said to frequent the Mexican line in
4 the vicinity of the Rio, ,Grande, commit
ting depredaticns with impnnity upon
n the people on both sides Of the river.
! A gentleman in jefferson City who
Il was troubled with bed bugs soaked the
= bed with kerosene and turned in, leaving
: the light burning. Just as he was
!. dreaming that regiment of bugs were
u drawing up set of resolutions, con-
IL demning him for using kerosene, he was
awakened by fireman pointing the
n nozzle of hose through the window /;
the house was insured but the man was
not.
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