The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-01-14
PARAGRAPHS OF ALL SORTS.

PARAGRAPHS OF ALL SORTS.
Arkansas has over 200 incorporated
railroad companies.
Kentucky has filed two lunatic Asy-
lums and wants another.
An Indian sscalp hangs iE one of the
Lyons, N Y. banks.
A Danbury girl has married a poet,
and carries her own coal.
All the Henry County Ind, officers
are either farmers or mechanics
A son OF Prince Bismarck is about to
marry an American girl.
Nebraska is enjoying heavy immi-
grafton from Eastern States.
An Iowa minister smokes so much
that he can't get time to chew.
Barnum says that his last show was
the biggest humbug of them all.
AT least twenty paper mills are pro.
jected in different parts of Indiana.
Lotta, the actress, denies the report
of her death, in a published card.
A Michigan doctor took his wedding
day to indulge in deltriam tremens.
There is great activity in Indiana at
present on the temperance question.
Worcester, Mass, boasts only thirty
one paupers in a population of $4,000.
A youth of tender years has been ar.
rested in Oregon for stealing saw logs,
A San Francisco paper calls burglars
active but useless members OF society
Kentucky and Massachusetts are the
States suffering most from small pox.
School kept at Alden, MINI. ,all night
because of raging snowstorm outside
A Boston lyceum is struggling with
the question, "Why do grindstone:
burst 7"
Ireland finds coal 80 abundant that il
costs Dublin bu. guinea ton, deliv-
ered.
/ Six thousand novels have been pub
Eshed IN France this year, up to the Isl
of August.
They call woman crazy in st. Pau
when she kicks every one she meets il
the streets. is
An air line railroad is projected be
tween Chicago and Kansas City, cic
Keokuk, Iwoa.
| Colored emigrants from Georgia ar,
gathering in the southern portion o
Florida.
The Prince of Wales has harvested
most of his oat crop, and is now mod
ell husband.
i The female convicts in the Maryland
4 penitentiary are furnished with sewing
machines.
\ The cold weather has changed th,
| list OF fatal shot gun accidents to deati
by drowning.
1 1t is sure sign of an early Spring t.
see cat intently watching small hol
in the wall.
Fsgging and flogging in schools il
!, lexciting considerable attention in Eng
land just now.
Il Norwegians keep the small pox ava,
by wearing bag of sunfower seed
around the neck
u Ripon, Wis, pays 81, 500 for an acci
dent to man who fell through de
fective sidewalk.
They have young lady, Miss DELL
Heed, as enrolling clerk in the Idah,
Legislature.
One thousand Yankee girls are re
ceiving their physical and mental edu
Ication at English schools.
j They have trout pond near Re
! Wing, MINI, in which are $4,000 of tn
, speckled beauties.
Indians are fined for drunkenness j
Olympia, w T., and made to work
, out on the streets.
A New Jersey Catholic priest has ir
sured his life for SlS0,000, the benef
to accrue to the church.
| A competent German statistician es
i Inmates that the present population c
t the world is J,377, 100000
The classic Tiber is not much of
!, river after all. 1t is filled with old bal
t rels, straw and garbage.
Window shades, says Nine. Fashion
should no longer be of linen, but {
lace, and real lace. too.
One of the oldest inhabitants of Ir
. diana remembers that we had the hors
: disease just 100 years ago.
!, An amiable Wisconsin Indian empt;e
! a box of rattlesnakes on the bed of
man who had offended him.
Il An elk weighing three hundre
. pounds dressed, was killed after an e,
e citing chase, in Martin County, MINI
/ esota.
Wild ducks are wintering in imndens
i numbers, near Augusta, Me. On
: sportsman has brought in 200
: Vicksburgh is cursed with 1900
dogs, that eat beef and bread enough t
!, feed several thousand people.
, A veteran soldier who fought unde
!. Napoleon l. is now living in Californi.
He was at the battle of Waterloo.
q The Polish boots worn by ladies fc
: warmth over their dancing shoes, are
success in a hygienic view.
Il At Princeton College, recently, som
e mischieyous persons smeared all til
' seats of the college chapel with tar.
; Paris pickpockets have dogs wit
, them, and when the dog grabs the ma
. by the leg, the thief gets into his pocl
ct.
There is great demand for woo
choppers in the northern counties {
California, at from $50 10 S75 p,
month.
Niagara hack drivers will doub
7. their prices next year, to make up Il
= the epizoot and dull times of the pre-
ent
An intelligent gravestone cutter
!, Detroit keeps ready-made grave stone
: with the name ---- Smith, cut Their
! on.
According to the statistics of the la
complete census of the United State
men outnumbered women by 42S, $50.