The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-11-12
MIsCELLANEOUs.'

MISCELLANEOUS.
! A Kansas man thinks Egyptisn MUM
mics are nothing but naked lujuns.'
Phil. Sheridan is engaged 70 Miss
Morgan, niece of Senator Morgan, they
say.
Hawthorne never told anybody that
he WAS writing book until it was fin-
ished
Susan B. Anthony is spoken Of as a
woman who seems q thousand years
old. 13
Mr.. W. F. Cody, better known as
Buffalo Bill" has been elected to the
Nebraska Legislature from Lincoln coun-
ty.
Mr.. Grant!ey F. Berkely, who is an
authority on dogs, says that "for hydro
phobia there is no cure, and since the
memory of man there never was"
That solemn IDIOT, Blanton Duncan,
has cast gloom over the entire country
by contradiction of the report that he
had sailed for Europe.
A butcher of Orange, Massachusetts,
found a pair of ladies' No. rubber
overshoes in the second stomach of a
steer. The animal was three years old,
fat and healthy.
A Connecticut cow of Msjilton aspi-
rations lately put her hind foot over her
horn, and thereby broke her neck, Like
others who should know better,sh went
to take horn and put her foot in it.
Josh Billings says: "Yu kant find
contentment laid down on the map; it
IL an imaginary place not settled yet (;
and thezs reach 1t soonest who throw
away their compass and 60 it blind"
| A one-armed soldier who has been
living on charity in Dubuque got into a
). fraeas and busted his business by draw
ing forth the severed member, and plan.
ting stinger on his opponents nose
with it.
The crowd who went out from San
Francisco with baskets and shovels to
scoop up diamonds and rubies in Arizo-
m are rapidly returning, and their pro-
fame adjectives can be distinctly heard a
con siderable distanne.
The money was recently collected at
Kalamazoo, Michigan, upon note that
had passed through the Chicago fire, and
. was nothing but ashes yet bad been pre-
served intact between two sheets Of cot
ton batting g "
| Fossil remains Of some enormous an.
imal were found the other day in Ore.
gon. The tusks were four feet in diam.
eter at the base and fifteen feet long -
Portions of the head show that the ami
NAL was two feet wide between the
eyes.
In consequence of the ten per cent
discriminating duty levied by the United
States against goods imported in French
bottoms, the harbor of Havre is crowd.
ed with vessels belonging to the Ameri-
can trade, which their owners refuse to
send hither.
The population OF the United States
is put at 40, SOC, ,000, "a handsome increase
since the census of 1870 was taken. If
we are not a great people, We are very
numerous people, and by 1890 we shall
be ahead of every Christian nation, Rus
sia alone excepted
The driver OF "Topsy," at the York,
Pa, races was thrown npon the shaft by
the bresking Of wheel while the mare
was going at the rate of 2 SO. In an in
slant he jumped upon her back without
materially checking her speed, and won
the race at 2 40 gait.
The Philadelphia Age referring to the
result of the late Pennsylvania election,
says: mot rogue iu the State but now
affects to believe that his roguery has
been .indorsesl BY large array of highly
respectable citizens, and popular ma
jority of nobody knows exactly how
many thousand votes"
A writer in the Galaxy saws the two
great wonderful sights of Europe are
the children of England and the flowers
of Paris. If any one doubts the former
assertion let him make pilgrimage any
fine afternoon to Hyde Park aud look at
the English children as they are at play,
and he will own they are "earthly angels
of incompatible beauty"
! In Marseilles, recently, young girl,
named Irma Gras, o very handsome bru.
nette, assassinated her lover because he
refused to buy her gold watch. To
the general astonishment Of tue court
and audience the jury acquitted her. Ex-
tenuating circumstances!
The total expenditures for the postal
service during the past fiscal year, slight
lily exceeded $4,000, 900; an increase
over the previous year Of S2,250,000 -
The revenues of the Office were also in.
creased $4,000, 900. After deduc.ing all
Expenditures, there still remains credit
to the department OF 100000.
A column in honor Of Prussian victo.
ries, which is to be erected at Berlin in
front Of the new palace Of the German
Parliament, will have casing Of bronze,
the metal of which will be from French
guns taken in the campaign of 1901.
The original intention was to make use
also of the Austrian canRon captured in
1866, but since the interview at Berlin
/ that idea has been abandoned.
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women Voters.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, November 5.-This
morning Susan B. Anthony and eight
other females went in q body to the