Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-21
IN GENERAL.

Among the men of note who dice
the past year were Gen. Burnside, Johr
, G. Palfrey, James T. Fields and Johr
G. Holland, among Americans, and
among foreigners Lord Beacons6eld
Thomas Carlyle and Dean Stanley.
An important addition to our know
ledge Of solar physics. and one destined
to have an important bearing on meteor
ology, has been made by Professor Lang
ley from the top Of Mount Whitney, l5,-
600 feet above the sea.
The peppermint crop of the United
States reaches about 10000 pounds a
year, ofwhich 80, 900 is exported. Two
thirds of the peppermint oil Of this coun-
try is produced in New York, and about
one-third in Michigan.
An old Connecticut statute reads {:
"a wife shall be good evidence against
her husband" In what way or !or what
she was good evidence don't appear, but
an old bachelor Judge ruled that it meant
that married man was to be condemned
on general principles.
Statistics disclose the fact that Of
every ten children born in England and
Waes, less than seven ever reach their
Goth year. In France only one half Of
the boys and girls who are born attain
that age, and Ireland falls even below
that miserable standard fjuvenile health.
fulness.
When Guiteau saw the plaster cast
Of his head he exclaimed That looks
like Humpty Dumpty." And Guiteau,
like Humpty Ddmpty, is destined to have
"a grea. fall"-BelJast Journal.
A Pennsylvania husband sued man
for alternating his wife's affections, and
the jury gave him 81 damages. When
woman's affections are considered
equivalent to ten pounds of cheap sugar
it is no wonder young men are remaining
single.
In trying to settle the question Of
morning prayers at Harvard college, the
faculty wrote to the families Of S2S stu
dents to ascertain how many of them
were accustomed to family prayers at
home. Out Of 74l families who replied,
2ll had family prayers and $50 had
none.
A newspaper consolidation has TAX
en- place in Rockland. Mr.. Fuller, Of
the Courier, has purchased the interest
Of Mr.. Vose in the Gazette, and on Tues
day next the Courier Gazette will ap-
pear under the proprietorship Of Porter
and Fuller. Mr.. Henry p. White, Of
Belfast, and Mr.. Jones, Fuller's partner
in the Courier, are engaged on the pa
per.-,Jownal.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg recently
dined at hotel at Milan, Tennessee.
Miss kelloggs maid is colored wo-
man, and when dinner was announced,
mistress and maid entered the dining
room together and sat at the same table.
This social equality did not suit Mr..
Miller, the proprietor, and he ordered the
maid to another table iu a different part
Of the house. Miss Kellogg told the
landlord that if her maid could not sit be-
side her at the table she would go to an
other hotel, and Miller relented.
A stone bridge to be built at Min
neapolis bids fair to become one Of the
notable structures Of the world. 1t will
consist of sixteen so feet spans and four
100 feet spans, and including the shore
pieces will have a total length Of 900
feet. 1t will support two railway tracks
a, height Of over sixty feet above the
water, and will run diagonally across the
river below St. Anthony's Falls. The
cost is estimated at nearly S500,000.
A contemporary quotes from James
l., Is, II, Is, to confute the inspiration
theory set up by Guiteau to justify his
assassination of President Garfield. The
passage reads: Let no man say when he
is tempted, | am tempted Of God, for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither
tempteth- He any man. But every man
is tempted when he is drawn away by
his own lust, and enticed. Then when
lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin;
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth
death.
When Vennor goes out sleighing
with his girl this winter, and allows the
horse to run away and destroy the vehi-
Gle, the damage may be charged up to the
prophet and lass account.
TO. day the first through train over
the Southern Pacific Railroad left San
Francisco, for New Orleans, and train
going West started from New Orleans at
the same time. The completion Of this
road connecting the Pacific with the
Gulf of Mexico, is an event Of Nation
al interest. Its first effect on the cur
rents of commerce will no doubt be to
cause large portion of the grain which
now goes from California to Europe by
way of the long sea passage around Cape
Horn to take the much shorter route by
New Orleans. The road will be Of great
and immediate benefit to the metropolis
of the Gulf, which declined in business
and population during the decade follow
ing the war, and has only begun to re-
cuperate since the completion of the
Mississippi jetties. 1t will also facilitate
the rapid settlement of Northern Texas,
develop the mining resources Of New
Mexico and Arizona, and give fresh
and needed stimulus to the growth of
California.
1t is related of Mr.. Blaine by
Washington correspondent of the Spring