Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-08-10
IN GENERAL.

DIR. Tanner. needs no rich relations, says
the New Orleans Picdyune.
Memphis, Tenn, has lost 5000 in popu-
latlon in ten years, and is the only city in
the Union that has fallen of.
The free floating baths OF New York
were patronized by 2lS,9i9 persons last
week, OF whom $3.50 were females.
A woman was recently sent to the
workhouse for three months at Cambridge,
Eng, for picking a rose aud spray OF
geranium.
1t has been noticed in cities where
ladies' are employed As ushers in the
churches that the worshipers with new
bonnets are all compelled 10 take back
seats.
The oiiicia! return gives the value OF
diamonds exported from the South African
diamond fields in 1879 as f3, 6S5, clio, the
value OF those obtained In 1878 being g.,
0si,7ll.
Tanner cocktails are all the rage In
Gotham. They are made by adding one
ounce OF cracked ice TO three ounces OF
filtered rain water. They are considered
very fattening.
Jose VI. Salazar saw young girl in an
Arizona mining camp, fell in love with her,
and within three hours asked her 10 marry
him. She declined, and he killed her on
the spot. Retribution was a speedy Is
his cOurtship had been, for he was AZ once
hanged by the miners
A droll fellow fshed rich old gentle
man out OF 4 millpond, and refused the Of
fer OF twenty-five cents from the rescued
miser. "Oh, that's too muchl" exclaimed
he; faint worth It, and he handed back
twenty-one cents, saving calmly, as he
pocketed four cents, That's about right"
E. L. Bradley, wealthy and promi-
nent citizen of San Jose, Cal, died on the
18th inst, from the effects OF a bite on the
ball OF the thumb by kitten with which
he was playing four weeks previously.
Shortly after receiving the bite his hand
began 10 swell, and, the poison extending
up the arm, finally resulted in death.
Look heah, squire, dars a niggah in
Galveston what's been SaSSln' me; suppos-
In les maui de life outen him?" The
lawyer replied, You would be- apt 10 get
your neck stretched" Nov, boss, you
Is jokin. What do white folks care for
one nlggah noah or less now de census IS
done tuck!"
General Treyino, the Mexican officer
who has Just been married 10 Miss Roberta
Ord. gave 10 bis bride some beautiful mar
rage giftS. Among them were pair or
magnificent diamonds earrings and brace
lets, necklaces, lockets aud rings, all re
splendent with large diamonds. lie also
presented 10 her dainty saddle with silver
StirrupS and ornaments.
-Au Englishman says that no other
people in the world. SO fur as lie knows,
can equal the Arkansians in of-h2nd eNag-
gerations. "Do you see that spring over
there, stranger" said one OF them to him.
lie said he did, whereupon the settler
added: "Well, that's an iron spring, that
is, and it's so mighty powerful that the
farmers horses about here that drink the
water of il never have 10 be shod. The
shoes Just grow on their feet nat rally.
There are some interesting things that
are not down in the census that ought 10
De. For instance, there are in this country
Just !, 900 persons, who own walking sticks
that Andrew Jackson used 10 carry and
II, 900 and some odd persons who have
curls from the head OF the late Lady Wash
ington. relict of the late George Washing
ton. These are matters OF great public in
tereSt, and should not be omitted nom the
census.
The announcement that Gen. Garfield
would attend the New England Fair was
N least premature. He writes In response
10 the invitation: "From the present ap-
pearances and nature of the multitude OF
my engagements, cannot promise TO be
present" The presence OF Gen. w. !.
sherman and Vice President Wheeler Is
assured for Thursday, Sept. =, the third
day OF the fair. They will be given 3
grand reception, and the Governors of the
New England States will be invited TO be
present on that day.
A curious fact comes from Fhila-
dephla, where the death of nine boys from
injuries received by the explosion OF toy
pistols on the 4th and 9Th instantS, are
already reported, and there are several
otherSoys reported seriously injured in
the same way. These nine boys who have
died ranged in age from 10 TO 10 years, and
each one was injured in the hands which
resulted in lockjaw and death. The
wounds of an ordinary pistol do not usual
~ produce lock Jaw; why then should the
charges OF these toy nuts ances do itt
There are ca cities in the United
States with 4 population exceeding 5000
there are IL cities with more than 10000;
81 with more than $4,000; u with more
than 90, 900: a with more than $4,000; 20
with more than 100, 900; with more than
SOC. 600, and with more than 100000.
London is long way ahead of New York,
but the other English cities fall below the
American cities. Liverpool ranks below
Philadelphia and Brooklyn; Manchester
and Birminham are below Chicago and st.
Louis; Leeds and Sheffield are below Bos-
ton and Baltimore.
A German physician considers insanity
in the light offs boon. He holds that the
loss of reason lands the sufferer from asea
of trouble into one OF comparative calm
often into one of decided happiness and
attempts to restore such person To sanity
would be cruel rather than kind. Further,
he asserts that a certain degree of insanity
is needful TO success in life, and that all
eminent men are more or less mad. In
fact, the greater mass of mankind are also
insane, and unable TO distinguish between
good and evil. Maybe the German doctor
himselfis insane.