The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-09-15
THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Is. 1885.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An Irish invention shields the wheels
OF horse cars so as to prevent injury to
individuals falling between them.
Statisticians state that out of six hun
dred graduates of well-known ladies'
college, scarcely one-third have entered
the holy state of matrinony
Brandy used to he the drink par &c
ce,tence OF the Southerner. 1t was dis
placed by whiskey and now whiskey is
giving away to wine, ale and beer
Prince LOUIS of Battenberg is an ex
cellent practical printer. and once when
his ship reached small port where no
one was competent to print the pro-
grammes required for dance given by
the officers, the Prince came forward and
undertook the work.
Dora White, a Western advocate of
additional rights for her sex, demands
that divorce shall be made easier for wo.
men and entirely impossible for men -
Only by such a reform, she thinks,
would feminine helplessness be made
equal to masculine perily in courtship
and marriage.
Drinking water, says hygienic wri.
ter, may be tested in this simple way =
Fill pint bottle three quarters full Of
the water. Dissolve in it one half tea
spoonful of the best white sugar. Set
it away in a warm place for fortv-eight
hours. II the water becomes cloudy it
is unfit to drink
Thimbles lined with Indian-rubber are
now employed, and are said not 10 fall
of so easily ,as the ordinary unlined
thimble They are also warmer to the
skin and free from the metallic "rust'
which sometimes takes the form of yer.
digris, substance of poisonous ma
ture.
CLAIMS to the number of dozen or
so fell recently from clear sky at Man,
scato, MINI, the v6city of their de
scent shattering the shells The clans
we're alive and about four inches in
length. The phenomenon, it is said,
was witnessed by several trustworthy
men.
Lemonade is said 10 he one of the best
and safest drinks for any person. wheth-
er in health or not, being suitable for all
stomachic disorders, and excellent in
sickness. Lemon juice ls the best anti
scorbutic remedy known. II the gums
are daily rubbed With lemon Juice, they
will be kept in health.
Recently, Mrs. James Walker, OF War
ren, Me-. was examining an old quilt,
she saw, glistening through threadbare
place, something that looked like gold
On examination she found it to be val
liable gold ring. The ring was lost thir-
ty.ive years ago hy Mrs Walkers moth
er in the town of Red6eld at an old
fashioned quilting.
You can make enduring labels by wri-
ting with soft lead pencil on soft wood,
over which coat of white paint has re-
Gently been spread. The paint must not
be dry when the pencil is used The
pencil marks will usually stand up dis
tinctly above the surrounding surface
when the weather has worn the adjacent
parts away.
1t has been shown experimentally that
seed corn is rendered more valuable by
being slowly kiln dried at high temper
ature, the corn so treated terminating
in much colder weather than would
o herwise he the case, while, on the other
hand, it may he exposed to much greater
heat without losing its terminating pow
er.
The Big Woods of Minnesota are
rightly named, for lhev cover 5000
square miles, or 8 200, 900 acres, of sur.
face. These woods only contain hard.
wood growths, including white and black
oak, maple, hickory, basswood, elm, cot
tonwood, tamarack, and enough other
varieties to make an aggregate of ovel
thirty different kinds.
An Indian heaistone, about the size
Of large water itcher, and similar in
shape, except that the top is oval, was
found in the Housatonic River lately by
a resident of Brookfieli, Conn. On the
ovsl shape part are wrought two distinc
hieroglyphics. On the sides of the stone
are also curious carvings. Experts pro
nounce it one of the finest specimens O
Indian beadstones in the country.
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