Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-06
General News Items.
Japan has established patent Ia


Japan has established patent laws.
Up to this time, 1872 600 patents
have been issued by the patent Office.
The Paris chief of police writes fash
len articles i'll his leisure moments.
All election DAYS are holidays in
Wisconsin by act oftlae legislature.
Fifty-fve Thousand public schools
will be established in the empire of
Japan.
Michigan las already raised ice
this seaso that would support
skaters.
A Pennsylvania patient who had
long suffered from rheumatism was
recently quite cured through being
struck by lightning.
A cargo of eight hundred live fish
was recently brought from ice!aud to
England.
Indiana is excited over the birth of
q pig with q Countcmaiice as much
like 4 christian as 10y other inhabi-
tant of the town il which its par
cnts live.
1t took exactly three days and six
hours to wei.l, The COG, 900, 900 francs
recently seat Nv the French govern
nient 10 Emperor William Of Ger
ma y.
\ hidcous'y ugly negro having
"lopetl with Il Young white woman
Of Madison, Ind, the editor Of the
Daily Progress has become 4 Oar
::iuian enthusiast.
Boston has a fruit and flower asso-
citation which, daring the past wear,
has d~isiribui,ds 1890 bouquets and
96s baskets of fruit TO the poor ana
sick of that city.
New York burns about 1000. 900
COO cubic !cct of gas per nuum ;
Chicago, 400. 200. COZ: St. Louis. ESQ
OC).00O; Cincinnati. I0o. GOA. 900: Pitts
burg, 100000 800; San F]ranciSro,
35O,U1o,0oO and Baltimore, 410, o0O.-
OC0.
Boston proposes to bcrome a sec
oiii Venice. This si.. will do bv cx-
tending scvcra! mere bridges over
the water which divide her from her
suburbs. and by draining, res iaiinins
and filling i'll the marshes Which bur-
der the Charles river.
Tho money was recently collect
cd At Kalamazoo, Michigan. upon i
';",e that had passed through the
Chicago fire and Was nothing BIZ,
ashes, yet had been preserved intact
between two sheets Of cotton bat
ting.
The driver Of "Topsy' at the
York, Pa, races was thrown upun
the shaft by the breaking Of a wheel
Willie lii" mare was going at the rate
of 2:3333. In an instant, lie illnpcd
upon her back, without materially
checking her speed, and won the
race at a 2:i0 gait.
Messrs. a. & w. Spraguc, OF Prov
idemce. II. l., have recently purchased
10000 acres of timber lands in
Maine, paving therefor SO per acre
or $l.3aO, 0G0 for the whole. They
paid down $250,OG0 to bind tic bar
gain. This is one of the l.r"cs,
Transactions in real estatc Oh record.
There is q difficulty in fiu4iny &
Jury when an Indian nm into an
ch'9ha Ithti. ZIG OF TIE panel, BE-
ing asked if he had any prejudice. re-
piled: NO; only I've been chased
by 'cIE, been III several battles With
en-, and wound han. every devil OF
'c,n at sight"
Rails are laid on the Northern Pa
ciic railroad 175 miles west of Red
aud the track will be completed
the Missouri river, 4j5 miles west,
Of Lake Superior, in about Is days.
The Pope has resolved to defend
the cause Of the church in Geneva
the Swiss government, which |
has forbidden Bishop Termillod to
exercise his Episcopal function on
territory.
j. ii. Merle d. Aubignc, the his
torian of the Reformation, died III
Geneva. Switzerland, on the 2lst of
October.
Tie Brulc and Teton Sioux. in
Dacota and Eastern Mon
:alia. arc reported on the war-path.
They have refused 10 so on their reg
crvaiion and are becoming trouble
some. They are the most savage and
lntr!ctablc of all the Sioux bands.