Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-03-27

minister's preaching. and locked the
church door against him. He smashed
in a window and preached sermon four
hours long TO his brother-in-lsw.
A firm in Germany. manufactures 8
pressed fuel Of refuse tan just as it Is
taken from the pits The tan is satur-
ated with coal tar and powerfully CON-
pressed into bricks. The manufacture
is said TO be very profitable.
A posthumous fiye-aet tragedy by
Bulwer has been discovered by the edi-
tor of his POSthumous papers. A London
manager who has seen the piece is
charmed with it and wishes to produce it.
The scene is laid at Athens. 1t is written
in heroic metre and is highly poetic in
treatment.
Mr. Edison. the electrician. hiss brought
out an ingenious and usefui invention.
which e1eels in novelty all his previous
efforts Ii is an electrical duplicating
press which enables one to write letter
and take five copies per minute until
hundreds of copies are produced.
While several children were playing to-
gether. in y. Y the four-year-old daugh-
ter Of Elizs Wagner thrust her tongue
through the crack Of the room door
which one Of her plsymates instantly
slammed to. cutting of nearly one-hah
Of the member.
So great is the excitement over the
recent disco ries at Pixies Peak. and so
rich all the country Whereabouts, thai
citizen of Colorado Springs, SIS joke.
reduced stone jug in mortar. carried
the powder 20 an sSSayer, and was much
surprised TO find the jug yielded at the
rate If Sl7.S2 10 the ton.
Victor Hugo preserves blot on his
carpet caused by the upsetting Of his
inkstand Just as he had finished one Of
his most famous chapters in Les Miser-
sbles." 50 man might slwayS cherish
patch in his pantAloons inserted after
he had been kicked all the way down
stairs. There is nothing under the sun
like sentiment.
The Washington correspondents say
that when old Jerry Black speaks in the
Supreme Court all other counsellors are
in the habit Of leaving their hats outside
the bar. When the divine hstUlence is
on the eloquent Jerry he doesn't know
seven and half beaver from euspadore,
and he eIpectorates Ike Yesuyius.
Half dozen years ago the orange or
ehard II Colonel Hart, opposite Palatka
Fla. could have been purchased for Sl0,-
600. but not now. The orchard at pres
ent comprises 5000 trees, and last year
the net profits realized from those 5000
amounted to $4,000. This years eropis
contracted for at thirty-iye cents dozen
on the trees.
The man who plies the lash at the
whipping-post in Richmond. Va. Is de-
scribed as person Of tender heart, who
executes his OdiouS and iguoble task
from a patriotic sense Of duty. He was
given his place in preference to an enter
prising rufian who offered to do the fog
ging without pay, declaring that the
pleasure Of inAieting the stripes would be
sufficient compensation.
2 A ball made Of feathers and cloth.
gummed together and vanished. has
been an object Of fetichism in a communi-
" Of negroes near Vicksburg. The be-
lief was that the owner could control any
person near whom he placed the ball
unobseryrd. and it was recently found Sc
ersted und.r awhile woman's pillow. She
irreverently burned il. and the grief of
the negroes Is deep.
Oliver Kingsbury is hermit Of
Sharon. Mass, who had mania for col
leeting steel pens when young, and after
finally inventing 3 machine for their
manufacture. left home, and for forty
years wandered none knew where. When
finally he returned, be brought with him
three barrels Of steel pens. He lives an
entirely secluded life and allows NO one
to enter his hsbitstion.
II may be laid down as q safe rule that
you should always know whom you are
marrying A Cincinnati man married
woman the other day Of whom he knew
nothing except that her name was Mary,
and be is not sure that she did not lie
about that, as she has since left for parts
unknown. taking with her all the house
hold goods. including even her husbands
spare clothing.
The noblest last words that have re-
Gently been uttered were those Of Super
intendent Flint, Of the Midland Railroad
who. held fast amid the ruins Of the
train that fell through the treStle work at
Willowemoc. called ont 10 those who
we're trying to. rescue him, stop that
mail train :" and died. The mail train
and its passengers that were rushing to a.
most certain destruction were saved.
An ingenious toy. apparently Of Japa-
nsse origin, has recently been introduced
into London. Ii consists Of small pie
ture, on paper Of a man pointing fire.
arm 81 3 bird. target. or second person.
Upon the application Of the hot end Of 4
match. Just blown out, 10 the end Of the
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