The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-11-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
1t will take one toll each from 2OO..
900 foot passengers to pay the cost
! (s3,OO3 27) of painting the Cincinnati
Suspension B:idge,
Campb, II, the printing press manufac-
turer, is completing large newspaper
press which, it is said, will eclipse all
others in speed and excellence.
There is a bullfrog farm in South.
Eastern Wisconsin, 30 acres of swamp
fenced in, and the proprietor sends
thousands of these featherless birds to
New York.
A man, the toes of whose feet had
been run over by street car in New
York, sued the Company. laying his
damages at $4,000, or $1,000 a toe
FIhe Company had to foot the BILL
Boston Post Toe bad. But with S5,.
900 in his pocket, he is pretty well beel.
ed.-Chicdgo Times.
At the Georgia State Agricultural De-
partment is a specimen of the plant
called Paint Root Its popularity is
said to be that it causes white hogs to
shed their hoofs. and also renders them
blind, while it does not in the least af-
| feet colored hogs. Swine fatten on it
rapidly, and wherever it grows the hogs
are large and fat and blind.
Little Ike" is what thev call q tough
nut in Montana. Eighteen months ago,
being in Jail for assault with intent to
Kill, he escaped was retaken, was sent
to the penitentiary for one year, served
his time. came out, went to stealing
horses, was pursued, shot in the arm,
escaped, and at the latest date was row.
ing free
In Portland, Me, the police we're
morally certain that one Anderson, a "a
loon-keeper, was selling lager, but they
never could fad any on his premises
1t turned out that he had small keg of
the beer inside a barrel of cider, with a
curiou,ly contrived faucet which played
cider or beer, according to The way in
which it was turned
Miss Julia E Smith, one Of the Glas-
tonbury sisters who have become ia
nous through their resistance to taxa
ton without representation, is about
! publishing a translation of the Bible,
ma le by hers III without aid She has
written ont the Bible five times-twice
from the Greek, twice from the Hebrew
and once from the Latin.
| A pluckv woman is Mrs McKeen, of
Belfast, Maine Her husband, who COM
manded Philadelphia vessel, dying on
the voyage to Genoa, she assumed COM
mand, put in at Fayal and procured a
metallic coffin, in which she placed the
remains, continued in commanl to Ge-
noa, and attended to disposing of the
cargo.
Hiram s. Beers, one of the original
proprietors of the Boston Herald, is
now type setter in the Office o: that
paper A few days ago he had the
pleasure of setting take from an arti.
4 Gle printed in the Hcral1 thirty-eight
wears ago, which he recognized as hav.
ing been set by him when it first appear
ed. The take came to him. the second
time in the usual way-by lot.
| On the 1st Of January next the EN-.
pire of Germany will adopt new and
uniform system Of coinage, the basis OF
which will be the mark The system
will be decimal, and correspond in some
degree with the French. The standard
coins will be the FIVE, ten, and twenty
mark pieces. worth, respectively, 81 19
50 SO, and "a 76 in American money
/ Somebody has undertaken to demon
tstrate that fences are an expensive folly
.1those in the United States having cos
S2,300,000,000 Their annual repair
depreciation, and interest on first cos,
lis put at $4O0,0O0,000 In Pennsvlva
MIA they cost an average of Sl1 40 pei
acre; in Rhode Island, Sl9 So They
also sometimes prove very expensive tt
politicians who bestride. them.
4 Apropos of Dragons, it may inter
est you to hear, perhaps not for the frs
, time, the origin of the word "dragoon.
From the old fable that the dragon
spouts fire, the head of the monster wa'
worked upon the muzzle of peculis
kind of short musket which was carried
by the horsemen raised by Marsha
Brissac in 1860. The circumstance LEI
to their being called dragons Gu
: best dragons we're the Scots Greys, es
tablished in 1853 London Letter.
] Mrs. Sarah. Draper Mitchell died a
Lu Verne, Rock County, Minnesota, q
/, few days ago, aged one hundred ant
! lone years and eleven months. Mrs
Mitchell was born in Saratoga County
;, New York, November 8, l773. She wa
the mother of twelve children, nine O
whom are now living, and the younges
is fifty-eight years old. She has owe
, one hundred grand children and abou
, the same number of great grand chil
dren. Il aai 81 z E.
, Y On the occasion OF Kaiser Wilhelm
elvisit to Italy the King presented hin
= with two splendid mosaic pictures, mad
Il at Rome, which are much handsome
abthan the mosaics he gave to the EN-
-Epress of Russia and the Shah of Persia
81 He also gave his bust in marble t
: Moltke, and his portrait in oil, or min
fiature set in diamonds, to other officer
of the German suite. He. also presen
S ted $4,000 to the poor of the city in Oh
der that they may have pleasant reco
r lection Of this happy event.
. One Mcclure, a farmer of Lyman
O ILL.,, took lad to work on his farm fror
the Christian Brothers Home in Chics
go. This boy he kicked, fogged, straf
$ ped, pounded, starved, and in all poss
o BILE ways maltreated, sending him o
J. horseback in freezing weather to her
cattle, driving him to labor when hi
arm had just been broken, and maxim
. him dress himself out of doors with th
q thermometer I3o below zero Whe
} the boy was rescued he was pretty we
3 used up A jury has given the lad 81
600 damages, and the brute is also to b
;, prosecuted criminslly, which is conso
= ing.
Dr. Joseph P Thompson says Adm
raj Farragut once rem arked to him: g