The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-10-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

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1t benefits an orchard for poultry
to run in it.
Prince Bismarck is six feet two
inches tall.
Secretary Lamar denies positively
the report that he is soon to be mar
ried.
Chief Justice Waite looks back
on his Alaskan trip as IAN unbro-
ken streak of sunshine"
1t is estimated that 100000
pairs of boots and shoes are annual
ly manufactured in prisons.
More than $4,000 in fines has
been collected in New York city for
violation of the oleomargarine law.
Many non-Union men have been
employed at Chicago to take the
place of the striking meat packers
November 81 will be observed as
Arbor Day in San Francisco, and
the school children will plant 10000
trees.
Henry Irving will next season
present Faust in this country
1t is the greatest of all his produc-
tions.
r. W. POPE is the authorized
agent of the sale of DR.. j. H. Nc
Leans Family Medicines for Woods
field.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is
building five miles of snow sheds
for the Rocky Mountains at cost
of $1,5OO,OOO.
''Dr. Lindsey's Blood Searcher"-
the great medicine for fever and
ague, malaria, and all blood poison.
Don't fail to use it.
Frank H. Gushing and three of
his Zuni Indians are at work in
Boston on directory and grammar
of the Zuni language.
The total packing of hogs in the
West since March 1st is estimated
to have been 4,445, 900 hogs, against
3,S2O,00O a year ago.
A comedy just completed by Bron-
son Howard illustrates the humor-
GUS features of young wife's at
tempt at housekeeping.
1t is said that William T. Cody,
otherwise known as Buffalo Bill, has
cleared over 100000 with his Wild
West show during the past year.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves
health is so far recovered that she
attends every Sunday the church in
Hartford of which her son is pastor.
The President has just purchased
a magnificent upright piano for his
country house near Washington. 1t
cost $4,000, and was built to order.
James a. Garfield, the son of the
late President, has nearly completed
his law studies at Cleveland. He is
said to resemble his father greatly.
There is an artesian well 1000
feet deep in Aberdeen, Neb., that
throws out numbers of fish that
look like the ordinary brook min
now.
A recent estimate of the number
of live stock in Australia stands as
follows: 100000 cattle, 100000
horses, S0,000.000 sheep and 1,000,-
600 swine.
Mrs. Folsom, the President moth
er-ln-law, will reside in the White
House, it is said, as long as Mr..
Cleveland is President. She has no
other home.
There are 3lO Southern cotton
mills at work, against 16l six years
ago. Production has been increas-
ed from $l6,3SS, 56S to $30,726,1 150,
or SS per cent.
When Nine. Minnie Hauk gave
concert recently in Montana her au-
dience showered scalps, eagle claws
and gold nuggets upon her in the
absence of the usual floral tributes.
The people of Holland are about
to honor the 500th anniversary of
the simple but memorable discovery
of William Buckets. In the year
1886 he salted the first barrel of
herrings.
Ellen Terry wears an Indian luck
stone whenever she faces a new au-
dience. She obtained it from the
Prince of Wales. who received it
from a native when on an elephant
hunt in India.
Lieutenant Greely is slowly re-
gaining his old weight and strength.
He has had quite enough of the
Arctic, however, and does not in
tend to do any more fooling with
the North Pole.
1t is estimated that the value of
the wheat crop in California this
year will be nearly double that of
last year, when it was worth $685.
100000. The yield of barley is
placed at $I6,000,000.
Three vessels that sailed from
Buenos Ayres for Savannah on the
same day, saw nothing of each other
during the entire voyage, until they
entered the mouth of the Savannah
river within a few hours of each
other.
A big eagle that measured nine
feet from tip to tip, captured last
spring near Binghampton, n. Y,
was released the other day. On it's
leg is a brass tag giving the date of
its liharatiOn and OtfnrinU cash