The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

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MISCELLANEOUS.
Some young women are endeavoring
to start new community on Lone Prai-
rie, Ill Itisto be Mermonisln. with the
grand principle of the sect reversed = =
The Princess Mathilde, who was ex-
tremely partial to fheophile Gaurhier,
went to see him laid out after death, and
Wept abnndantly on Withdrawing i /;
Man and wife are generallYcaIled one,
Some people, though, reckon them astwo.
But tenisthe proper calculation Of some
persons-the vile one and the husband 4
cypher - Gas saa as5
An old lady named Mrs. Green lately
died at Montgomery, Alabama, ,f.om gen
eral debility, neglect and starvation.
When found she was in the attitude of
prayer. -. s.
The numbering b6siness Of the 81. Croix
River the past season is reported to have
been satisfactory both tothe producer
and dealer. The amount sawed up is es-
timated to have been 120, ,000, 900 feet.
The Indiana Legislature. proposes to
checkmate the insanity dodge by assign
ing to the insane criminal a number of
years in Bedlam proportionate to the
crime, that Of murder being for]ife,, ..,,e
A Michigan man lately bad his head
cut into by a circular saw as far as tue
brains ought to be. As none were found,
the top of his skull was spiked on again
and he is recovering. sy8 ss7as s4as
George Robinson, VI. D.,ofNew York,
has invented amethod of cutting wood
by platinum wire heated by electricity
Anything up to huge pine tree may be
felled "by child" -
The Presidential Electors OF New
Hampshire, at their recent meeting at
Concord, were "astonished to find that
not one of their number was user Of
liquor or tobacco in any form" E''
The hanging of Rogers for the murder
OF officer Donahue, encourages New
York paper Ia hope that it will now .-be
settled by divers executions that some
Iprotectionis to be extended to the gene
raj public. q. ssr :
Virginia T. Muir has sued the St Louis
Board Of Registration for 500, 900 dam
ages for refusing to allow her to register
as voter. She could scarcely have
claimed more damaGes Il they had i'm.
INJURED, b
Mr. Rnskin recently wrote as follows
81 was Obliged to write too young, wien
/ knew only ,half-truths, and was eager
to set them forth by what I thought fine
words People called me good writer
then; nov they say / can't write at all"
They are .makipg paper of mire grass in
Georgia, but in limited daantities. The
swamp palmetto is also being used for the
same purposes A large mill FOR the man
ufacture Of paper from. that article is be.
ing erected IN Lowndes County, Geor'
| gia. 3.-st 49, .gs.sa .,,s
The valne of q cows tail was definitely
decided in Bedford County, Pa. 1t is ten
dollars, aninch. A couple ofyoung men
cut off twelve inches of cows tail and
nailed it to aschool house for s'sport,
for which sport the young men paid Sl2(
to the owner of the. bovine for damages.
Keokuk, Iowa, claims tohaEe,a COW
that can climb into a wagon, unite a sack
Of oats orcornf with her Teeth, uniock 8
cellar;door and go do wn cellar and eat NJ
| the, winters stock of cabbage, or climb 9
ladder into the hay NOW, ae
"A medical professor in France has sub,
mitted to-tke French Academylan inven.
tion by which he can kill animsls BY
blowing air into the eye. One sremarka.
BILE feature of the invention is THAT il
leaves no trace behind of the manner oil
desth. s'nsassi
hrs. MaryS. Prince, of Portland, Me
widow Of Sewell Prince, a soldier of tht
war Of 1919, has reason to be proud o
her family. All but two Of the male
members of her family have been engag,
ed in the service Of their country for iivs
&SHSthtiouo.., s.ts-szS -. ~ frsss
The Oneida Community proposesfnF
therto etleralize themselves by reducing
their meals from three to two a day.
They think peoplesat from force Of shab
liz, aHdthat by degrees that habit should
be broken Off There are to bo no crack,
ers or "nibblings" carried around i
pockets, and no slipping into the pantr,
between meals. 4i.. $50.
The Italian opera season came to-:
close in New York, Saturday, after forty
performances; at ten of swhich Miss Kel
legg wasthe star and Lucca at theothe
thirty The performances at which Miss
Kellogg was the attraction gave'a return
Of S2l, $50 and Lucca was worth $l2Ss
796, making the gross receipts Slo0,3 3lS
This exceeds by nearly 100000 the sun
that Nilsson brought to the treasury last
| year.
A letter from Dallas, Texas, u, the
Houston Age, says that twelve Indian
cattle thieves were lately causht IN one
of the western counties and hung to
| limb Of tree. because there WAS no 'lllnt
Of the law to plead for them Before
hanging them their faces were scrubbed
and eleven Of the twelve did not pan ou'
as Indians--they being unprotected or
phans from Kansas mostly
{. Itis stated that Theodore Tiltcn vii
Fpublish statement in the Golden Agt
denying the domestic irregularities re
Icepax alluded to BY Woodhull Il Clatfiin
His statement has been ready for som
time, tut was withheld until .thosws,inel
were Isleased from jail. Alr. 4 ffio
] FIRST q slsrnlide.i to iaa0re the w
- st has been 50 seyxreli y
,ie.1rl.. iils, Z 40 T2a1I