The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-10-09
Sense and Mnusense.

ecu aDout tnrce.tourtnS OF the refined
supply last year. aa' .l'.,..l u .'.8,i'. lHl
The failures, during the past three,
months, we're 81 800 900 more 10 amount
than the failures for the corresponding
period last year, h al, -,
During the last. yesr there were 10, ,sl8
boys and l0,3ll girls born In Minneso
ia. There were $50 pairs OF twins,
eight sets of triplets, and one. rof quad
ruplets. gbfae(l 30 FGV9iI t0f1 sdgRig
The income from tobacco to one
county in Pennsylvania last year was
$4,000, 1000. In some parts of the coun-
ty the yield per acre was $500 worth Of
the weed. I5,E9't5r. gon or SIsHT
Pittsburg has 10 glass factories, SO
iron rolling mills, 8 steel rolling mills, Z
whitehead factories, and 20 oil re6neries,
and the coal mines tributary to this
market number 1853 AID aiii a1Gi25 'l5ai
Minister twice married the same coup
lie, divorce, having interviewed, and then
ventured the remark that he didn't like
the idea of adding a repairing depart
ment to his business. Graphic,
The London Times says the end Of
the Eastern, campaign must ,be, near, and
| it promises to present something like q
drawn battle. The Powers will then al.
tempt to avoid another campaign by d.
plomacy. al, 49, - ,''''..,. 80, ~
| fashionable ministers rarely preach to
their congregations now. Their remarks
are specially addressed to the two OF
three gentlemen in front to whom the
church is heavily mortgsged.-RieI.
uond Eaqusrer. E 4s- q .tsl3s!
The French Government has adopted
a revolving cannon that fires eighty.four
shells minnie, each of which bursts
into twenty-four fragments. II can, be
prepared for action with great grapidity,
and two men only are required to work
| it. a;opf5s i8lis;ies,f af,ss5 lsiyaa
The total amount of 4 per cent bonds
subscribed for in this country and in
Europe, foots up 877, 600, 900 and the
final amountLof 5 20 bonds called on &C.
count of this subscription is $l0,000,-
600; leaving $27. 900, ,000D yet to be call.
ed si1oxe8 idsla io slasmli1a3sE
Gen. Lew Wallace. of Indians, pro-
poses to raise regiment or battalion of
frontiersmen for permanent service in
the United States army, specially to
Eight Indians He contends that the
army, as now constituted, is not com
petent for such service is essl tt9a
Wealthy Chinamen Of San Francisco
are suspected of cripling the feet Of
their little girls. after the fashion IN their
own country Alb Moon Is under ar.
rest for having removed the bones from
his daughters feet, so that they could
be compressed. s l.''8'
The gold taken from the bodies oi
Collins and Bass, the Union Pacific train
robbers, who were killed at Buffalo,
Kansas, arrived at Omaha the 30th ult.,
and the amount is $500 1t is prob.
able that they had originally just one.
third OF the amount stolen. ,.i
Lord Beehive lately gave ,322. 500 fol
Canadian cow which is the largest
sum ever given except that for the Du-
chess of Geneva, in New York, two
years ago Lord Bective's mother was
sole heiress Of Alderman Thompson, oi
London, who left e4,50o, 900. 80 ...
Springfield girls ask their men friends
TO give them ten cent pieces which have
been ground smooth On one side and
adorned with ,mongrams, These coins
the fair ones wear about their necks, th,
one with the longest string being an OBJ
lject OF congratulation. sasos.ia1 aii
+ Dispatches from Lourdes are printed
every day in the Paris Univers with sucl
headings as "Three more miracles bc
fore midday six more cures effected,
and "Four new cases" and then follow
the names and addresses of'those rep
resented as cured, and descriptions ot
their ailmentsaoIg ja lnd snoz rk
I New York city is trying 1.-The expert
ment of burning its garbage and ther,
is promise of success A, afarnace i
used, the fres,in (which after being atar
ted are fed by the garbage itself; sth
flames being famed 9by power created
from the heat generated, so5 that tn,
cost is simply the wear and tear, of tb
lapparatus.s ,t3io9 saf III ;sai,so7t bne
: 1t is an odd spectacle, that of. Sittin,
Bull sullenly awaiting, in his camp, lik,
Ia modern Coriolspus,i the ambassadors
LOT o great nations whose troops he ha,
defeated, now beseeching him to be a
peace, This humiliation, which tb
Hayes Administration has prepared 70
US, is likely 10 bear, no fruit save that .
increased chagrin, - D'o
loc Deadwood gamblers are ,remarkabl
lsuperstitious One says, be- is alvay
lucky when wearing q, certain shirt II
won 81 900 in one day while wearing i
Olhers read their luck In dreams, in th
3 weather, or in the number Of men the
inject in walking q certain distance, :
when luck is against them they chsne
their clothing oq 'o3 !. ai'oE,o y. 'Ae
Turkish women do all their shoppin
at the doors OF the stores in Pera, an
!. the ENTHUSIASTICALLY a Greek or q
!. Armenian who speaks Thrkish-mu,
. go, to the carriage window with tt
: things they wish to purchase, An O
: dinance of the Minister of Police prt
t t|hibits a Turkish woman from enterin
j any store In the Frank quarter aao
Two girls 10 the seminary at Oxfort
Ohio, say that they s.becamei possesse
lof DEVILS" and their conduct warrante
+ that assertion. They rsn away frol
1.-THE school without money or extra cl,
+ thing, rode on a railroad train until o,
: off by the conductor, and then took I
2 the woods, living on stolen corn an
? Siehickens until they were reca ptured
e relatives .fiiGo IsogD t
= The political testament aof THE
e commences thus: "Faith in an immen
l. and incomprehensible God has not le
a me for an instant Of my life, and l vii
eft to be my first thought now while
. turn my mind toward my end / hs'
6 always denied personal God, q reve
y ger endowed with all the vain splendol
p and subject to- the miserable passions
hi humanity But 1 PROSTATE myself, co1
ls fused by my littleness, before the il
Id mense uncreated cause of the Cosrnu