Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-05-31
IN GENERAL.

The Kalamazoo mich. Telegraph as,
serts that 40 pound pickerel was captured
| hv two boys with pitchforks at NASHVILLE,
Barry County, that State April ~
There's material for the crisis OF q
arst-class novel In the story now a,oa,,
that the Judge who pronounced the death
sentence upon Sophie Pieoffsky was COM
naniou of her childhood, and once suitoT
| for her hand.
When Chester w. Chapman, of Spring
field. was q years old, he drove team LOT
sIo n month. Now he Is one OF the richest
men in Massachusetts,, and pays more tax
az than the whole town OF Springfield ala
in 1922.
Connecticut has struck blow at
itiperant auack doctors, by demanding
that henceiorth they shall pay the same
license as a circus, that Is. $50 day ior
every day they hold forth in town. That
is right, Sockitto'em.
| AT Racine. Wis. on Thursday, Annie
| Myrtle, a girl l3 years OF age. died rom
the effects OF jumping rope. She jumped
iO2 times, which so injured her brain ana
other internal organs that she was a terri
BILE sufferer until relieved by death. An
other girl, Mary Faber, Is now very SICK
! from the same cause.
Conversation was carried on between
Dover. England, aud Calais, France, on
! Saturday, by means of the submarine ca
/ bic and a new apparatus called the electro
phone. IL is claimed that by this means
conversations may be carried on across
the Atlantic.
The dowry OF whitelaw Reds bride,
as given in the published accounts OF the
wedding, Is greater than that Of the Prin-
cess Stephanie, who married the Crown
I Prince OF Austria, the latter being $500
while Mr. o. ID. Mills made his daughter
/ wedding giit ola check for $500, 600.
Judge Samuel Blatchford OFT the United
/ States Circuit Court in New York has
/ heard and disposed of al motions aud a. )
prals before him for the Southern district.
/ The last case on the calendar was decided
Thursday. \ clear calendar has not been
! known in this or any other Fedral CouIt
| In twenty live years.
1t pays better for the American girl to
be kissed by a postmaster than bitten by
a monkey. The Indianapolis miss who
was kissed by n postmaster, against her
( will, sued and recovered 5000, while =
J New York girl whose nose was badly Bit
/ ten by monkey sued the monkeys owner
aud reco yered bat &, j00-Boston Post.
+ Mr. F.. X. Woodlu, President OF n Car
shop Company In Berwic, Penn, finding
his works crippled by the drinking habits
of his employees. bought off all the rum
sellers thotcls) by paying them for their
annual profits (about 10000 so THAI no
licenses are paid In that town this year
He believes that the company Will be the
gamers.
The mills OF the Government like those
OF the gods, grind slow, hut often they
grin fine A Corning, y. Y woman, who
has been receiving "A Government pension
for forty years, has just received notice
that IL will be stopped, 1t having been dis
covered that her husband did not serve In
the war OF 1872, - had been alleged.
Memorial sevlces OF an imposing char:
acter were held at The tomb OF Abraham
Lincoln, Springfield, H., last Friday, II
being the sixteenth anniversary Of his
martyrdom. The Governor and Licuten-
ant Governor OF the State and many other
prominent men were in attendance. \
reading of Mr.. Lincoln's celebrated Grafton
ut Gettysburg, aud extracts from Others OF
his speeches. The Lincoln Guard OF Honor
has determined TO make anniversary me-
mort Il services u regular yearly occurrence.
Sir Matthew Hale, then chlef-iustice
OF England, more than 200 years ago,
said The places OF judicature have held
in this kingdom have given me an oppor
tunity 10 observe the original cause OF the
enormities that have been committed for
the space of nearly twenty years, aud by
obserN alton have found thu the muir
ders aud mius!aughters, the 0urglIrles
and robberies, the riots aud tumults, aud
all other atrocities that have happened in
that time, were divided into five parts,
four OF them have been the issue and pro-
duct OF excessive drinking.
The explosion of 500 pounds of blast
ing powder In a New York street, the
other day, not only did no damage beyond
shaking up houses and soaring people pref
" generally, bat II also accomplished a
remarkable cure. \ woman was In bed In
house near by, Frustrated by rheumatism
and hardly able to move. When the eX-
plosion occurred, however, she jumped out
Ol Dtu III IIlgll auu ran niluOly GOWN
stairs, and has since had no touch OF her
malady. The remedy, however, IS one
that Is not likely 10 prove popular or TO
come into general use.
People who are alarmed by the APP
preaching cojunction OF several Of the
planets should read the following note
written by Prof. Young Of Princeton Col
lege To a Nebraska inquirer: Dear Sir
IL is true that Saturn, Jupiter aud Venus
are near conjunction and +. lear its peri
helion. But they have no Influence what
ever OF any sort on the earth. The non
sense talked about the matter IS worthy OF
the dark ages. Two tom cats lighting
In the streets OF Pekiu will disturb the
world more than all imaginable planetary
conjunctiOns. Yours, c. A. Young"
According to the largest ecclesiastical
arithmetic, the Baptists are more numer-
Gus In tile United States than any other OF
the denominations commonly classed as
evangelical. The five reporting the larg-
est number ofcommuncants are as follows
Baptists 2,374, $780, Methodists, La, 1922
Presbyterians, 9l2, 740 Luthcrans, 700, lis;
Episcopalians, 1854. During the last
year The Baptlsts increased l63,624 the
Methodists. 81. 500: ithe EDisconalians