Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-07-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

There il company organized In
England which insures you against
burglary.
The Americans in Paris subscribed
10000 in a single day in aid Of the
Pennsylvania flood suffererA
Tho cut population Of Great Britain
is over ., 900, 900, and almost 4, 500. 900
kittens annually enter the world.
In tho Sydney courts Il has been
decided that no Sunday newspaper
can sue for advertisements. the con-
tract being illegal.
Plenty Of sleep is conducive TO beau.
". Even a garment looks worn when
il looscs its nap.-Binghamton Re
publican.
The majority Of the writers on oc.
cult subjects are Hindoos and English,
and the best theosophical works are
issued in London.
There are only two women living
who have gowns embroidered with
real pearls. They arc Queen Margu-
erita Of Italy and Mrs. Bonanza Mac
kay.
The Paris Academy of Science is
just now excited over plant called
colocasia The plant often exhibits
trembling or vibrating motion with
out any apparent cause, and as many
as 100 or i2O vibrations have been OBJ
served in a single minute.
News comes from Toungu, Burmah,
that Koh Pal Sab. a timber merchant
there, has founded new religion,
which isdcscribcd as a sort OF mixture
Of Buddhism and Christianity. Tho
disciples, who number several thou.
sands. keep the Christian Sunday and
abstain from strong drink.
The Paris exposition has brought
sadness to largo part Of Paris. The
shop keepers. the restaurant keepers
and theatrical managers find that the
show drains the boulevards, and that
their business is reduced in manner
unknown since the siege.
Ten years ago there were twenty
one railroads which could not inter
change cars owing to the gauge. Now
all are alike and cars owned in Maine
are seen slipping over the rails in
Texas. The railroad system Of the
United States is declared 10 DO as per
feet rs system eau DO made.
A Connecticut woman is suing her
ncighbor for damages for putting up
tly screens. She claims that the flies
which cannot get into the neighbours
house on this account will como to
hers. and she will thereby lave
double the usual number.
An encouraging literary note is that
there is no longer any money in the
novel of passion. Tho public have
become tired Of heroes who press
kiss after kiss into the rose vale Of
her curved mouth" and Of heroincs
whose sighs of love rend their fragile
frames with their tigerish fcrvidity.
Attachments are never 40 well en-
hibited rs when they exhibit them.
selves. The attainment ought to show
the man, and not the man the attain
mcnt. a small man is generally anx.
ious TO show all the size that he can;
but great mans size is seen without
his effort 10 show it'll. Clay Trum-
bull
The city Of Bucnos Ayres, in the
Argentine Republic, has expended
during the last six years $40, 600, 600 in
constructing sixty magnificent school
buildings for 600 hundred pupils each.
These school houses are the finest
buildings in the city, and collective
exhibit OF them has made n sensation
at the Paris exposition. The Argen-
tine Republic is now, after the United
States. the country which spends most,
in proportion 10 population, for cdu-
cation.
Bankruptcy in England ranks next
10 high crime. II member Of par
lament lose his property aud be nd.
Indicated a bankrupt, he at once loses
his seat in that august body. \ mayor,
alderman. councillor. guardian. over
seer. member Of school board. high.
way board, burial board, or select yes.
try, also forfeits his office il he prove
so dcrelict in his business affairs as 10
DO unable TO pay his debts.
No man ever achieved great sue.
cess in anything. whether finance,
trade, art, literature, law or science,
who is habitually buttoncd up in a
Prince Albert coat. No mans mind
and body can be entirely free whose
arms and body are incased or crampcd
in anything but an easy business suit
Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.