The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS TTEus,

Joseph ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ubintickcr lives in Topeka, Kansas. ~
Two medical students were captured
in Chicago. last week, with an express
wagon cuntaining FIVE bodies that had
been resurrected for dissecting purpo-
ses. They were held, in two thousand
dollars each. IS - br5 5-ssr .yszsvc., -.
The extreme cold, it is conside-ed.has'
injured the peach trees in Delaware, but,
a half crop, or l,5GOGO0 bushels, may
be expected.
The silver productioafin Nevada, for
1871, foots up s22 900. coo, Of (which
the Comstock mine furnishes, S1l,e00..
600, the Phoebe S4,000,0s0, the Eureka
s2,0OO,000
A recent calculation estimates that.
enough iron wire. to belt,tbe globe with
heltipg yard wide, is, made. yearly
into cages for birds, gos,..,sTf
Amherst College now offers more
prize money for excellence in compost
ton and defamation than any other in.
sttution in the country. 49,.
In 1850 hut nine heats faster than
:46 were run in America in 1860 there
were twenty three; in 1870, thirty one;
and in ISL, forty.four. Z. 3nyrfs, 4
A Philadelphia halter, lately estab-
lished in Madras, has written home for
large consignment of stoyepipe hats
for the use of the, idols of the natives.
A boarding house keeper in Atlantis
found that he had filed his caster With,
whisky instead of vinegar, as soon. ,2s.s
his lady boarders got hilarious on pick.
| les.
The Socialist Liberte, of Brussels, in
reference to the late executions at Verh
sailles, remarks: ..All the blood that
flows on NJ Theirs flannel waistcoat
will not make a purple mantle Of t."lasss
A New Bedford man vented his spite
by paying judgment of s2S limb of
| the law had obtained against him in one
cent pieces The lawyei SAYS he never
before thought SIS, was 80 much mon
ey. .''- 30 '-i s7;is ls'gssoF{ sss Is
| A Yankee who has recently visited
Norway, describes the maelstrom, as
seen by him, to be no more than an
ocean current between two islands, less
dangerous than many on the coast Of
Maine .s.r.s z--sx y e. .,ae,
"A Massachusetts politieian'si opinion
Of the intermarriaoe of whites shdine-
groes was -that-he didn't belieyein,its--u
Said he : 81 think that every. person
ought 10 marry some one 'of~his own
sex" sA.
Count Moltke's autograph preserved
in the royal library of Munich, and dat
ed Berlin, November. %, lS7I,s runs as
follows: Free only is the people which
is strong enough to maintain its free.
dom. Strong it becomes through un-
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t A new style of hat for, gentlemen has
been, inyen,ed. which resembles an or
dinary beaver, butts lined inside WITH
thin plated steel, the, object, being JIG .
man is attacked in the street at night
he can either 'Sare off or give blows
with this veritatle sscrasA hat ,IIs digs
Fire insnrances were effected on prop!
ertySip LQndon during 1870 to the -enors
mons amount o: f46O,742,O76 an in
crease of. fl9,535,0 ,07Sl over the returns
of the preceding year And yet. Lon
don is BY no means thoroughly insured.
The local Editor of the Mobile. Reg
lister hashtully chronicles the fact that
while sitting abaft Of 5. lady whose dress
: was somewhat dissrranged, he had his
attention attrscted TO her sbustle,p and,
being blessed with strong optics, was
3 enabled to read nearly The whole of q
! double leadcd editorial therein.
The area of rectangse which will
embrace all, the territoryrTof, the Penn
sylvauis oil region from which oil has
yet been obtained is about 1000 squsI e
miles lNIt the wheie number OF acres
which have yet produced oil' does not
exceed $500, equal to ten square miles,
on one two-hnndredth part of what is
known as the "oil region" The region
produced, during 1871, ave and three.
fourths millions ofebarrelss of Oil rof
forty three gallons each. L,sQ 7..s
HThe Wilmington IN. C. J Star RS
! fers pleasantly to the present 6utcrop-
ping Of frauds, in these words: "FfApSis
in the custom-houses, frauds in the Post
Office! Department, frauds, in the Treas
ury, frauds here, there, everywhere-
Brihes of Coneressmep,s hribes. of un.
der, r,ofiicials, ,hribes of the. Presidept, him
self, in the shape of presents. Thieve-
ries, p,culations, jobs, stealings, plum
oeripgs, robbipss sand. if there 80 my
other ma me for corsptos, that siSneRk
: meanness, open yilliany, handed
crime Almighty and illimitalas ssoarS-
drelsm. Oceans or corruption and
mountains of vice. sss. & .bsAs saga y