The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-08-05
Items OF Interest.

Items OF Interest.
| A Boston man has made a piano from
stone.
English farmers are liable to arrest fo,
killing hares on their own farms
Freeman says that the Scotch are really
North English-the real, pure, true and
original English.
Old Pokebury, Blood Sucker, Grand Turk,
Scud, Old Hat and Squedunk are the names
of mines in Arizona.
An English firm sold 8, 600 fire-proof safes
in Turkey before it was ascertained that the
filling was only sawdust.
Vermont couple put off applying for a
divorce one term of court, so that they
could profit by their tin wedding.
Prince Bismarck has given up smoking,
the doctor having pronounced tobacco an
impediment to a cure of his nerves.
A Dakota man has novel Indian relic in
the shape of a human skull with an arrow
shot into the eye and piercing the brain pan.
prominent Auburn grocer gave his wash
erwoman bar of soap as reward for re-
turning 81, 200 she had found in one of his
garments.
An Ohio woman, before drowning herself
in shallow trough, strapped her head down
in the water for fear that her courage might
fail when she began to smother.
New York pays more for tobacco than for
bread Dealers say that there are smokers
in that city who average 100 cigars week,
and men whose cigar bills run up to thou
sands of dollars per annum.
Janesville, Wis, boasts of wonderfully
just man. He secured the conviction and
imprisonment of his wife on charge of
elopement, and then, to show that he was
her pardon and secured her release.
At Folkstone, Eng, lately, married cou-
pie who only three weeks after marriage had
by mutual consent, met on the
beach, when the husband ran up to the wife,
put his arms around her, and kissed her.
She gave him in custody for assault, and he
was bound over in ST. 900 to keep the peace.
An ouraug outang lately exhibited at Mu-
mich amazed people by the skill on the vio-
lin, until one evening doubling visitor
stuck penknife into it, and as this had no
effect, pulled its tail, which came off, bring
ing along piece of hide. The disguise had
defied detection for week. The wearer
Dizzy.
Temple Bar is to be replaced by hand
of the roadway, and adorned with the stat
ues of Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales. |
Old Temple Bar will be re-ereoted in Epping |
Forest. The stones have been numbered, |
20 that it may present exactly the same ap-
pearance as of old, when it marked the |
bounds of royal authority.
The London Lancet urges the necessity of |
seats to shop girls while on duty, |
auU OScldreS ltS luGeuLlou 10 puDlSn uStS OF |
he names of those houses which at once |
furnish seats. These lists will be given to |
who will exhibit them in their
families, the ladies of which will be asked |
not to trade at shops that, for want of seats,
ire cruel to women.
It is the health, not the eyesight, which
parents with studious children should pro-
ect, though they should be most merciless |
n insisting on a sufficieney of light, and |
light which actually reaches the object of
Ittention. You may sit in a room full of
light, but have all the while only twilight,
'r even deep shadow, falling upon the
work. in hand. Light, full light, but light
Without glare, is the grand preservative of |
he eyes.
A driver in street-car in Kington, N. Y,
lad terrible toothache. A dentist, who
lad paid his fare, perceived, from the look
# agony on the mans face, what was the
natter. He went to the front platform,
ook from his pocket one of the implements
4 his trade. and offered to take out the Of