Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

= Arkansas boasts hamlet called Topper.
Vile.
= Missouri has 10000 suuday-soAOOl
children.
= 1t is curious that "Sous of Temperance
should be abbreviated s. o. 7.
- The Sbont crop of this country is esti-
mated ut SOC, 900, 600 bushels.
- To Indiana, they are manufacturing aud
shipping wagon wheels to Germany.
- 1t is said that not single mombor Of
the Miupesota Legislature was born in that
Ststs.
- Tho Fredericksburg (Ya) Herald has
entered upon the pineticth year Of its e&iG-
tenoe.
= The Telegraph Companies threaten IL
charge for extra lelset5, in words having moro
than ten.
A new Iron Company has boon orgaA-
ICED in Marietta, Ohio, with 4 capital OF
sl5OieOO.
- they arc cutting over 1000 kegs OF
nails per week at the Riverside Iron WorkB;
Wheeling.
"A gentleman Of New York hss lately
donated a handsome museum 10 Washington
and Lee University.
= One iu every forty Of the population Of
Durhatn County, England, has been con-
viCted of drunkOnness within year:
- Tho keel Of n now tugboat which vas
recently laid in San Francisco, WAS composed
Of one stick of timber l40 feet long.
- Lamp-blDek is being manufactured near
Walhonding, Coshocton Co, Ohio, from the
high pressure gas wells near that place.
- During the year just closed, there were
exported 100000 sides Of leather. Two
years ago thore were exported 800, 900 sides;
a very satisfactory increase.
- There are now eight pin factories in the
Chitod States, which make Al, 600, 900 pins
daily. In addition to these the inportGtions
of pins reach 25,OOO,OOO daily.
- Two children of President Taylor are
still living. Mrs. Bette T. Dnndridge, for
mer!y MrS. Bliss. living at Winchester, Va,
and Gen. Richard Taylor, who has also re-
Gently removed from bOuisiaDa. TO Winchester
"A young woman IN Chicago put her
false teeth in a glass Of water at night, Ehd
in the morning found them imbedded iD n
chunk of solid ice. She was late at break
fast, the process of thawing opt tho teeth with
bonfire of matches having been slow.
- The London Standard states that SOW
ersl naval powers are directing their attention
to the prActicsbility Of establishing telegraph
stations in mid-Ocean, By which messages Oah
be sent from any part of tho sea along the line
ef the cable to the terminal points on shore,
and vice versa.
- The bones Of "Traveler," tho horse
which General Lee rode during the war.
which died shortly after its master, have beea
forwarded to the North by Professor Me-
CulIock for the purpose Of having them put
together They viii be added to the Wash
iDgtoD and University museum.
10 the Newark IN. j. common eoun-
ell few days ago, resolution that no hon
orably discharged Union soldier or ssilor em-
ployed in the fire or police dePartBents be
removed except for charges preferred, was
voted down by party vote Of eleven demo-
Gratis for the resolution and eighteen republic
cans against it, This is an item for the con.
sideration OF Congressman CasOn aud Fort.
- Sadler's Catholic Directory for 1875
gives the following statistics Of she Catholic
Church in the United States Total Catholic
population $500, 300; archbishops IL; bish-
ops Sc priests 50T4 churches 5O46 ehap>
els and stations l ,4s2 total churches. sta
tiOns and chapels 6,52S theological lemi-
naries o3; ecclesiastical students 1878; col-
leges 60; academies and select schools 557
parish schools 1,645 asylums 2l4 hospitals