The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1883-05-08
FROM ALL POINTS.
About Things Generally.

About Things Generally.
The Uited States uses $4,000, ,00(
pounds of tea year
Omaha produces sixth OF all tht
lead used in the United States
F ur smasf sturir, instead OF one, arr
now worn in the shirt front by bloods
in Paris.
The French end of :he channel lun
mel is moving eighteen and the E1glist
twenty Yards q day.
| alv produces more silk than Chins
and the two nations furnish nearly three
fourth Of the wtrld's supply.
1t is said that the Indians first dis
covered maple sugar. The white man
had the grit to sand 1t, however.
Four hundred and fifty miles Of thread
are made each day in American mills
Thirty years ago all the thread was i'm
ported.
A Phoebe, Nevada, Chinaman one day
last week ate or q. wager at one mea
nine bowls OF rice and O four and hal
pound chicken.
A Hungarian Jew sent TO Vienns
paper q grain of wheat on which he had
written 300 words taken from TIssot's
hook on Vienna. o.
About 240, 900 head Of cattle will be
driven out of Texas this year, and more
than $4,000 sheep were sold out of Los
Angeles last year.
California wine production. as meas.
ured by receip's in San Francisco, hss
risen from 1884 GOT gallons in 1879; to
100000 in 1882.
Prussia imposes an income tax on
every body who has 1925 or more pei
annum, and has just remitted the. tax.
alton from 3,74O,00O people who earn
less.
Carpenters at E kton in saving through
a heavy oak plank found piece of a
parasol handle, Of iron and walnut, which
had been inbedded in the wood perhaps
fifty years.
Captain Carey, who some over zeal
Gus aristocrats demanded to have court.
martialed after the young Napoleon met
bis death in Africa, died very suddenly
last month In Kurrachee.
The State Of Georgia has let out to
contractors 1900 convicts. The lessees
pay $40 year for each man, and clothe
and lodge them; and are entitled 10 ten
hours day labor from them
The King OF Bavaria has appointed a
niece Of the late Richard Wagner to be
"Royal Professor OF the School OF
Music" this heing the first appointment
of the kind which has ever been given
in Germany TO a lady.
The famous Baron S,ultz is probably
an unique instance of an ennobled tailor
He was created nobleman by the Grand
Duke Of Baden. The orphan house at
tached to the Convent Of Lichtenthal
was founded by Stultz.
The Scott law, go for as the drug
stores are concerned, is in full opei alton
now, and they cannot sell unless on an
order from physicians. But liquor ss-
looms, which pay the tax, can sell by the
drink or quart, as may be desired by the
customer.
1t was given in the Chicago News in
response to 8 query regarding the great
est distance OF stan1,ng jump on record
it being IA feet, as given in that paper
A man by the name Of Russell. from
Virginia, jumped lS feet at Point Pleas.
ant. The walls are there and can be
measured any time. He stood on one
wall and jumped to the other.
The mail service throughout the Uni
ted States, is beng supplied with new
locks and KEYS. Those at present il
use were sent out in 1870, and many %
them are badly warn. 1t will require
about 10000 new locks and SIS 900 keys
each key being fastened to a small bras
chain about four feet in length to secur1
1t to the postmaster's table.
W. Graham. OF London, has cablec
10 the World special challenge 10 am
one in the world to shoot with him
pigeon match Of 100 birds for 81 900
side, and announces that his preference
are for contest with DR.. Carver, Cap
tain Bogardus, Mr.. Mitchell or othe
American experts. He also announce
that he will, with one hand, at 26 yard
rise, wager 81 900 that he can beat th
best sho' in the world shooting agains
him at 80 yard rise. Deposits will b
covered at the Office OF ths Londol
Sportsman.