The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-07
TOPICS OF INTEREST.

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In Dude and the northwest prov
inces of India, 4O1 $50 persons died Of
fever last October. .:
During the year 1879 twenty minor
planets were discovered, and their
number is now 211.
During the last twenty years 10O, 900
women died from cancer in England.
DIR. Arthur Haviland claims that
high, dry, well countries have
little mortality from this cause.
If you want to see an egg waltz,
half fill small quill with mercury,
and thrust it into hot, freshly hard
boiled one. The hotter. the egg the
more rapid will be its jumps and rolls.
Full many rose is born to blush
unseen, and waste its fragrance OH the
desert air full many nip is taken
behind the screen, and cloves and COT
fee, too, are eaten there. |!
The Hawaiian Legislature has ap-
propriated $4,000 to build a palace
for the King, whose palace has hither-
to consisted of q number of wooden
cottages enclosed by high stone wall.
India-rubber trees, which are tapped
every other day, continue to yield sap
for more than twenty years; and 1t Is
. singular circumstance that the old
est and most frequently tapped trees
produce the richest sap.
The Burlington Hawkeye says that
man never feels more forcibly how
true it is that "kind words never die,
: than when his love letters are read out
to the absorbing interest of all present,
An a breach of DrOlnise suit.
Experience has shown at the Petro-
leum Iron Works ct iitusviHe, Penn,
: tSAt 3 barrel of petroleum Will gene-
rate heat sufficient for making ton of
iron, while ton and q quarter of coal
would be required for the same result.
The total assessed valuation of Tex
as Is $500, 525, ,4O7, on which the State
ad valorem tax of fifty cents on the
500 il 81 sos, ,668 81. Also assessed
PSI, ,76s polls at 81 each making poll
tax of $520, ,58S. Total State revenues
Occupations excepted), S2,O25,2o0 67.
4 Nearly every pswnbroker i'll Chica-
20 has loaned from $50 to $50. on
watch chain made of q remarkably
close imitation of gold. The operas
tors were two young men, who simply
offered the chain as security, without
saying that it was gold.
A widow, who lives in secluded
part of Michigan, talks very inpcr-
j 1ectIy by reason OF having lost her
ualate. and her two daughters, aged s
and. 12, can only speak the strange
lanauage they have learned of her,
% though their vocal organs are perfect.
McKeeben was compelled, while a
loaded pistol was lcveled at him, to
marry Miss Moore, at LeavenwOrth.
: Kansas He contested the legality of
the marriage, and the courts declared
it null and void. Then he voluntarily
had the ceremony repeated.
Lightning travels nearly million
times faster than thunder. The speed
= of lightning ia SO great that it would
po 4SO times around the earth in one
minute, whereas the sound of. thunder
would 90 scarcely 13 miles i'm the same
space Of time. Thunder will take a
second to travel $50 yards IS. a. .-,,
Grape growing in the q. S. is rapid
ly assuming Importance. From the
three largest reproducing sections
of the country we learn the crop for
1879 to be: Missouri, with l, 500 acres
in cultivation, producing 100000 gall
!. Ions Of wine; Sandusky, o., and vi
cinity Gncluding the Lake Erie Is
lands) has four thousand acres
in cultivation, producing sixteen
million pounds Of fruit, and the re-
e ported quantity of wine produced is
given as l, ,526 400 gallons; California
has $1,000 acres set with $4,000, 600
vines, and represents in money value
Qncluding the land) $50, ,OOO, 600. s