The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-11-04
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The mosquitoes, it is said, annually
drink 81 600 gallons OF human blood in
this country alone.
Oak pillars are now considered to re
safer in ire than iron ones. They do
not wrap from the heat.
Three strappiug Ohio school girls re-
Gently waylaid pedagoeue and souadly
thrashed him for alleged favoli'ism.
A new species of horses with erect
names like the qaills of the fretful por.
curine has been discovered IN Central
Asa.
The number OF Q1akers in the United
States is estimated at less than 10000.
They have fine college at Richmond,
Ind.
The MahGi sleeps during the day and
works at night. II he only slept at
night, too, he would remind Us OF a po.
| liceman.
Dynamire is drug on the n xican
market. The local Feniana find tnst the
shotgun is much more servi:eable as an
annibilator.
GoldsmIth's "Vcar OF Wakefield"
sold for ff0, and the publisher held the
manuscript imprinted un II the author
bad become famous as poet.
| The late ANTHONY Trolope could com.
mand as much as e. 600 for o novel /;
yet in his earlier years he had to he
content with les than E20 as the resul;
OF years labor.
Washington Irving and ]. Fenimore
Cooper had great difficulty in having
their earlier works pub ished, and the
former brought out his "Sketch Book"
A. bis own cost.
The total registration 10 New York
CITY lie 241 $50. The total registration
in 1880 was 2l7,023. and the vote for
Presidential electors was 204. .745.
Wilbur F. Storey, proprietor of the
Chicago Times, died at BIZ, residence iu
Chicago on Monday night, October 27.
He was horn near Salisbury, VI. Decem.
Der l9, 1919.
All the navies of Europe occupy less
space in the British and continental
newspapers than is taken up in Ameri-
can papers by the few old hulks CON-
stituting the North Atlantic squadron.
At church in Mexico the men stand,
bnt the women kneel. Bonnets are NOT
allowed. The women must not gaze at
each others costumes nor at the breth-
rem.
The statistic show that 64S5 horses,
307 asses and 40 mules were eaten in
Paris last year. Ttis extraordinary con.
sumption is attrihuted to the high price
OF beef and mutton.
The wreck OF the Tsllapoosa may be
seen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. !,
looks AZ if it had encountered the larger
portion OF the English navy And yet
though it cost The Government severa
millions OF dollars in one way and an,
other, it went down iu two minute con.
1ist with dirty little coal barge.
The latest drink among the young
bloods is the "Shandy gaff." made by
mixing bot,le OF ginger ale with bot,
us Of BASES ale, or as an occasiona
variation, a bottle OF Stout.
| The scientists of New South Wsle,
are experimenting to discover whether ,
rainfall can he produced by the use o
iexplosives. 1t won't work. In spite o
the explosives which have been let of
dnring this entire campsign we have bar
the most disastrous drought on record
An exchange says, "Mrs James Sui
Ivan OF Michigan Centre has shot
hawk with brass collar aronnd its necl
engraved with the date 1776" What
again TIE last time Ms. Sullivan sho
this hawk was dnring the Pre,i'enlia
campaign of 1856.
The Congress Of the United State
would not be compIeta without the pres
ence in it OF that eminent statesman
that honest man, that good fellow, Sam
uel S. Cox. and of course his renomi
nation is equivalent t. his reelection
: No representative has done more for tn
country than he, anil probably no ma,
is 40 thoroughly equipped for the erea
ques i'm of tariff reform which will b,
so live an issue for so ne time TO come
4 The Duke of Cumberland's inveterst
obstinacy. observes Tru,b, is worthy o
his great. grandfather, George III; bu
nothing can be more foo i,h than bi
present a. attitude, for be will, of course
lose the Brunswick succession; and Will
he remains hostile the ruling powers a
, Berlin will retain possession of the f3,
, 100000 belonging to the late Kini
G G.orge, which they captured so dex
terousIy in 1865
It is not generally known that, in al
diiion to the famous decora ion "fo
merit" which has recently been bestowe
by the Kaispr on P.ince Bismarck, ther
is another German order pour 70 meritt
which was founded 10 1865, and con
sis,s of a star vi the portrait Of Fred
erick the Great This decoration is ex
clu.ivelv mi itary. and the only knight
are the KAISER. the Grown Prince, Primo
l. n A. la.