The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-10-06
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bad wart taken off her nose by faith
cure.
Cows in Key West are labelled with
the names OF persons for whom their
milk is kept
The refusal by teetotal tailor 10 make
clothes for rum sellers is o new cause for
temperance discussion in London.
The penalty for selling a cigarette to a
boy or girl under 16 years Of age in
New Hampshire has been made $40 for
each offense.
The Emperor OF Russia travels in rail
road cars that once belonged to Napo.
leon III, but they have been greatly i'm
proved and are said to be the finest in
the old.
A Baltimore negro has literally worn
two fingers off in many years of shovel
ing coal. The case is reported by ply.
sician as curiosity. There is no appa-
rent disease and no Inconvenience.
The duty of an official at Monaco is
to hear the petitions of ruined gamblers
tor aid to get away. He gives nothing
out of sympathy, but endeavors to sup.
press scandals and prevent tragedies as
cheaply as possible.
The modern beverage in cheap taverns
in Normandy is cider that tastes like vim.
egar and water, and is sold at two cents
quart. A tourist says that mouthful
OF good New England apple juice would
delight and astound native.
The skeleton of a man nine feet one
inch in height is said by the st. Louis
Globe Democrat to be on exhibition at
the office of firm in Thayer, Oregon
County, Mo. The skeleton is further
said to have been discovered by party
Of men who we're exploring cave some
three miles in length situated about nine
miles from Thayer.
Cholera failed to strike single one OF
the 1000 women employed in the na-
tional tobacco factory at Valencia, Spain,
though the disease ragged violently in
that city, and the Medical World recalls
that tobacco workers were also noticed
10 enjoy exemption from attack during
an epidemic at Am sterdam.
Somebody remembers that Morse once
predicted that talking through hundred
miles Of wire would become common and
that ocean steamers on voyage would
keep up communication electrically with
the shore The first prediction having
come true, the second is hopefully re-
garded, though regarded as wild when
made.
A persons ancestors are more numer-
Gus than at first contemplated. Taking
three generations to century, one has
father and mother (two). grandparents
(four), great-grandparents (eight). AT
the end OF the second century they mum,
ber sixty.four Following the calcula.
tion you will find that at the end Of eight
centuries one is descended from no less
than 10000, 900 ancestors.
Physicians throughout the country
have received circular from dealer in
human cariosities. The menageries are
supplied with beasts the world over by q
single German firm, but the exhibits of
human deformity are found through
items in the newspapers. This specula
tor has planned to be monopolist. He
says be will pay literally for immediate
information of any physically peculiar
child, so that he may get ahead OF COM
petitors in bargaining with the parents
Speaking OF the trumphs OF German
surgery, writer points out number Of
men now walking around in the empire
with only fractional part OF their d..
gestive organs. Some are referred 10 as
being without spleen, or having but a
single kidney, others lack a gall bladder
ard several meters oil intes,ines, while
the climax is reached by ''the man with.
out stomach"
The Bib'e contains 1868 letters,
Sl0,697 words, 3l.l73 verses, LISA chap
ters and 66 books. The word "and"
occurs 46 227 times, "Lord" 1,955 times
'reverend" only once and that in the
llth psalm. The 9th chapter Of Ezra
contains the alphabet. The 18th chapter
OF the second book of Kings and thu
9Th chspter Of Isaiah are alike. The
first man recurded as being buried in q
coffia was Joseph-50th chapter of Cen
esis 26.h verse. Nowhere but 10 the first
chapter of 81 Timothy is the word
"grandmother" mentioned.