The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The oldest living graduate of Har-
ward college is said to be Joseph Head,
who was graduated in 1904.
The increase of the Roman Catholic
population in this country in the last
twenty years has been about $500, 900;
that of priests has been 3, 75i; that of
churches and chapcls, 4,022. The gain
in priests and churches still continues.
AT the termination of Anton Ru-
binstein's last concert i'll Moscow, the
patrician beauties of that city carried
the platform by storm, and devOurcd
the great pianisi's hands with fervent
kisses, to-liis manifest embarrassment
and confusion
Miss Sarah Martin, a Cherokee girl,
wrote letter to Rev. L. Moody. The
letter was shown To a wealthy friend
of Rev. Moody, who WAS SO well
pleased with it thlt he placed $1,000
mt the disposal of Mr.. MoOiv tor the
continuation of Miss Martins educa-
tiOn.
S. A. Bemis, an old citizen of BOs-
ton, whose father was the first person
to announce, by ringing the church
bells, the British advance on LeXine-
ton and Concord on the night prcced-
ing the memorable 10Th of April, ITO,
offers to give new bell to the Old
South church in Boston i'll exchange
for the old one.
The new compromise" metals of
which so much was heard few
months ago are to have 4 trial at the
mint. The director of the mint is to
have coined four hundred specimens
each of the "stclla," the metric silver
dollar, and the "goloid" dollar. These
are specimens of reform coinage re-
commended by Alexander H. Stephens
and invented by Hubbell, of Philadcl-
phia.
AT Scarlettstown, Pa, a young man
tried to prevent his father from chas-
tising little girl, when father and
son clinched in hard tussle for mus
cular supremacy. The pugilists roll
cd into mill-race and fought in the
water for some minutes, Having end
ed the struggle ut last, the father
packed up few duIs and left for the
West. The son also packed his trunk
and left for unknown parts.
The German war maneuvers this
autumn will include the massing of
some twenty thousand cavalry behind
tuC liOitNi, w lbl 10
experiment practically on the rapidi-
ty with which the frontier line can be
covered and held in force by this arm,
pending the arrival of infantry, to re-
bel invasion. The test will be exllaus-
tive. including the marching, feeding
and disposition of the troops, as if un-
der the stimulus of an actual emergen-
cy.
Joaquin Miller who has recently
revisited California, says that the So
ciaI decadence and ''business dry rot"
i'm San Francisco are very marked, and
that nothing ever happened half SO
disastrous to the Pacific States as the
building of the Pacific railroad that
The road became at once 2 sort of si-
Uhon, which let i'll Il stream of weak
and worthless people, and gave "the
brave young States" there all the van-
tiles and vices of the East, with none
oil their virtues.
A town i'll Arizona is called Toomb-
stone. The story goes that two young
luen, brothers, when about to start
from Tucsor on prospecting tour
into the Dragon Mountains. Sonora,
were advised to give up the undertake
ing, FOR if they persisted they would
iinG neither mine nor fortunes, but
their "tOmbstoncs" instead. The boys
bravely bade goodbye to their friends
though warned that they would never
come back alive. The prospectors went
of, and following blind rail made
their camp On looking about they
s:,w ledge of orc cropping out sever
al feet, all marked and rich with prec-
ious metals. I'VE have found our
,mbstones," they exclaimed, and no
other name would do to designate the
camp. The town has adopted the
rIIne, which, if not poetical or classi-
c:L, is certainly original