Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-05-08
I'pElI5 OF INTEREST.

An uhkA'Ni phll@H'hroIl7t III Hah-
chester, England, has given 100000 for
an art gallery.
Florida is in the height Of q land fever.
Land has morc tt,an trebled in value
within the last two years.
Siymillion feet Of walnut Lumber lies
in InI anap,ll' yards waiting for better
times, whcu It can b. worked up.
There is an artrslan we'll in Prairie du
Chen III feet deep, which yields $4,000
barrels of water daily.
The mhabitan!s of Greeley, Colorado.
have secured $4,000 school house by
contributing $40 apiece.
A Liverpool firm recently divided
100000 among their employees who
had been with them Eve years and more.
Mr.. Drum Of Troy lived and died
without knowing what u curiosity lie WAS;
but the surgeons found out by dissection
that hc had only one kidney.
Only 80 out Of 2JO of the Nootka Sound
tribe Of Indians, British Columbia,
have survived the visitation Of small
pox.
Amanual labor school, under the name
of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
College, has teen built at Bryan, at q
cost Of $l5O,oOo.
A bullion yield of $2l,l5OOOO is prom
ised from the Utah mines this year,
more than half Of which will be silver.
Several San Francisco merchants have
established regular trade with Siberia,
importing furs and seal skins and eI-
porting general merchandise.
According 10 q decision of the Su-
preme Court Of Nebraska, railroad COM
panies are liable for damages resulting
from prairies being set on fire by engines.
The latest discovery in the vegetable
world is an incombustibl. tree found on
all island in New Caledonia, and called by
the natives the niaoui.
Gar;ball lives in a handsome two
story structure enclosed by high wall,
and in the mids: Of garden embellished
with trees and flowers and conserys-
tories.
Mr.. Chaplin, q well-known English
turfman, has imported four Arabian
horses Of hi.h caste, and is going to run
them against thoroughbreds in Eng
land.
There "a a female evangelist named
Emma f. +. Snyder successfully work.
ing in Southern Illinois who publishes q
list of her converts regularly in the
papers.
OF the seven children Of John Hall OF
North Troy four Of them, all under four
teen years Of age, weigh exactly 2oo
pounds, and each has ten fingers, two
/ thumbs and twelve toes.
Some of the people in Augusta, Ga,
are decidedly nervous because the maya
zine containing 3S,S77 pounds of powder
is is in charge of man named Thomas
sen.
During the last seven years the Bank
Of England has paid 100000 notes.
valued at 3,OOO,OOO0O0 pounds sterling'
which would weigh III tons, and joined
together reach $4,000 miles.
The King of Burmah has ordered the
courts and public Offices to be closed for
forty days, during which time the cere-
mony of boring holes in the ears OF the
Princesses will be performed.
II is estimated that there are now
100000 Angora goats on the Pacific coast
and onite an industry is anticipated IN
breeding them, as their skins make eI-
cellent lap-robes and gloves, while their
wool is very precious.
At Yen-ping, China, placafds melting
the populace against foreigners are
posted on the walls of the city, and nags
hearing the inscription, "expel and de-
stroy the foreign barbarians, are nylng
in prominent localities.
Because a man in Portland, Oregon,
'deemed it necessary for the preservation
of his authority at home 10 tiog his wiIe'
sll the women in the vicinity met Ii
council. passed resolutions, and then GO
ing to his house, whaled hun until ne
became insensible.
A Southern paper says that when the
revenue detectives of Mobile boarded .
steamer direct from Cuba the other day.
the Csptsin invited them below to dine,
and while he was saving very lengthy
grace, the crew put ashore lot of SNUG
gled cigars.
Under law enacted by the last Legls-
lature, many Cinnamon ar" being ar
rested in San Francisco for fishing with
acts so fine that even the spawn are
caught.
Boys are not to wear out their knuck-
les hereafter in "knuckling down. A
patent has been grantedfor pistol which
Is designed to shoot marbles by the aid
Of spring.