The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-10-01
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All EHgliSH volunteer SnOOuliS lot
the queens prize The other day, made
the remarkable score Of FIVE consecutive
bulls eyes in five shots at 200 yards
At funeral of a little child in Hud-
son, N Y, the other day, the corpse
was drawn to the grave in the baby cart
in which it had ridden when alive.
Cheap funerals are now advertised in
London, where person can be shroud
ed and buried, with four experienced
mourners, for about $40. N
Raw beef chopped up fine with on
ions is new feed" which Germans
consider cure or preventive of dispep.
sia, as we'll as of lung diseases.
Holland has ten thousand wind mills
The "poor Indian" is represented in
Oregon by Howlish Wampoo, who has
600 head of cattle, 1000 horses, and q
bank account of $4,000.
The discovery of rock ice in Ten
nessee cavern, which imparts coldness
to everything it touches, but does not
melt particle, is the latest appeal to,
human credulity.
An old lady recently died in Darling.
ton, D. c., who reared thirteen children,
and lived to see one hundred and thirty
grandchildren and sixty-one great
grandchildren.
An Illinois man lately started steam
chicken mandatory with several thou
sand eggs. The forcing process was
carried on so vigorously that only four
were Matched, the others being roasted
A newly married couple, on their brl-
dal tour, were walking along the edge
Of cliff at Charleston. West Virginia,
few days ago, when they both sudden
ly lost their balance, and were precipita-
ted below, and instantly killed
Grave charges are preferred against
the frog-catchers of Paris A good
many persons having been made sick
from eating toads' hind legs, the police
have had orders to seize them wherever
exposed.
knightsville, Indiana, has we'll
which keeps accurate time At precise
ly two O'Clock, night and day, it throws
up a jet of water. 1t is now over a
thousand feet deep, and is still being
bored with view to ultimate OIL
Every person, without regard 10 race,
sex or condition, who is found in the
streets of the cities or towns of Russia
in state of intoxication, is compelled
to work at sweeping the streets during
the whole of the next day.
The keeper of Duxbury, Mass, light
house sweeps up from the deck every
morning two or three qualts of gnats,
flies and mosquitoes, attracted by the
light of the lantern during the night
and killed by the heat of the fame.
1t is said that the greatest comb man
ufactory in the world is in Aberdeen,
Scotland There are thirty-six furnaces
for preparing horns and tortoise shell
for the combs, and no less than one
hundred and twenty iron screw presses
worked by steam power.
The profits Of Massachusetts manu-
facturers in 1871 were S102,000,000 or
about SOS per capita to the population.
The wages paid amounted to S11S,000,-
600. which to those employed in the
factories was equivalent to S42l each
A English woman advertises in this
manner in English papers "My hus.
band is out on strike. He prefers
that to work. He amt any use to me.
l must work to keep the children and
self. His ten shillings goes in beer
I'll swop my husband while he is on a
strike for sewing machine" )"
A humming- flew into q court
room in Georgia during the session of
the court, one day recently, at half-past
ten in the morning, and continued to
fly within a few inches of the ceiling
until six in the evening, when it fell
slowly and alighted on mantel piece,
where it was captured. 1t had been on
the wing seven and half hours with,
out rest.
! The Shenandoah Valley, Va, shows
but little sign of the devastation done
during the war. All is again plenty
there, the fences replaced, the lands in
grain and the stock replenished. No
tourist travelling through the valley
could detect the marks of the prolong-
ed conflict which has made that section
famous. There is steady immigration
of the most desirable kind, and North.
erh and Southern men live together as
if there never had been any strife be-
tween them.
At the Paris Exposition of 1867 there
were, from forty-fve different countries,
no less than three thousand seven hun.
dred and sixty-nine different kinds of
wood exhibited. OF these, three hun
dred and ninety five came from Europe,
two hundred and fifty two from Africa.
/ eight hundred and fifty eight from Asia,
nine hundred and sixtv-six from Ocean
lea, and twelve hundred and ninety eight
from America.
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