The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
Items of Interest.

A tract of 80 COO acres on the Northern
Pacific Railroad has been bought for col
ony from Belfast, Ireland. q
After a shower at Kokoma, Ind, recently,
the ground was found to be covered with
fish, all of which were alive and Hopping
about on the grass. They were small, of
the size of nlinnows. The people are puz-
zled. ..ff-.sss ,
Cyprus has a plague of wild dogs, which
roam about the country feeding upon the
! ease. They come boldly into the towns,
drink from the public tanks, and poison the
water.
The lower jaw-bone of mastadon has
been found in sand bar in the Loup River,
about twenty five miles from Kearney, Neb.,
and further search is to be made in the
! hope of finding some other portion of the
remains.
The native Christians of the Island of
New Hebrides in the South Pacific have re-
Gently shipped for London ], 700 pounds of
arrowroot to pay for an edition of the Old
Testament as it is now being issued in their
language. - @
Professor Silliman, of Yale College, has
been on an exploring trip to Mexico. Ho
says that there is reason in the world
why those great plains, heretofore considered
uninhabitable, should not be converted into
fertile farms
An old colored woman was turned ont of
her home in Atlanta for non-payment of
rent. All her furniture and other property
was sold to satisfy the claim, except an old
umbrella, which she took into an adjoining
field, hoisted it, and lay down on the ground.
refusing to move.
| A centenarian ex.soldier, who recently
died in Russian village, continued his
business of tailor until lis death, though he
had been blind for forty years His sense
of touch was so acute that he could distin-
guish different bank notes. He used to
thread his needle by means of his tongue.
The Swainsboro (Ga. } Herald says: There
is negro woman in Emanuel county, known
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mother at the age of twenty six years. She
gave birth to a girl when only thirteen
years old, and the daughter, when about
that age, became a mother herself.
/ William Reynolds was so popular among
his fellow workmen in an Alabama factory,
that they bought a watch to present it to
him. just before he was to have been in
formed of the matter he committed suicide,
while laboring under the hallucination that
they were jealous and intended to ruin him.
An Illinois woman went into the show
business on smell scale with bogus petri-
fed baby which she wheeled from town to
town in pfralnbulator, telling story of its
sickness, death and final transformation into
stone. The figure had been well made up
| as to head and arms, but plain marks of the
chisel We're found elsewhere.
The tattoo marks with which the natives
of British Columbia adol7l their bodies are
now understood to have a definite meaning,
being III fact a record of events which have
! taken place in the life of the wearer. 1t has
also Dtell loilcctt tflstt DfOhei ItScS,
eyes and bitten ears on prize fighters are
marks that in some way record events that
have happened in the lives of prize fighters.
1t may not be generally known that levees
are necessary 10 preserve Sacramento from
the danger of inundation. The city lies Ill
the focus of PERCEPTIONS watersheds, and &
heavy rainfull produces great alarm. A
plan is under discussion to extend the
levces ON n grand scale, and make them
serve the additional purpose of al,irling
the city by converting the crests into pleas
ure drives. -.
The son of the Burmese King. Theebau
for whom II cradle of gold was made.
incrusted with diamondi, sapplIires ana
emerllds of incredible value, ha;
Gently died OF small poX. Vast sums were
spent upon the little fellow, and all the peo-
pie living around the palace stoclade had to
buy new cooking kettles, lest the smell of
rancid oil from the old ones might offend
his tender little nose. ''.5i 81 Fi+
Mem. the village of Dubno, Province OF
Vladimir Russia, n number of dogs attacked
n woman and tore her to pieces. A peas
ant, who happened to see the woman strug-
Cling with the infuriated dogs and who
tried to save her, was nearly killed himself.
He was rescued by the combined efforts of
seven peasants. The dogs belong to rich
man, who takes barbaric pleasure of keep
ing the peasants IN dread of them.
A British official, reporting on the trade
of the east coast of Madagascars says that
British trade has suffered seriously from the
large importation of American gray cotton
sheetings. Manchester manufacturers have
been SO completely supplanted that British
firms formerly importing largely Manchester
gray cottons deal almost exclusively in
American cloths, and one British merchant
at Tamatava has become agent to Boston
firm, and receives from them their cotton
goods ON consignment.
The house in Letitia street, Philadelphia,
which William Penn built for his daughter
Letitia, and in which she lived and died,
has recently been bought by j. A. Janney
has been used as a saloon. Adjoining this
house is the old mansion once occupied by
Penn himself, and built by Penn, in 1862,
with materials imported from England. The
firm have offered the Letitia House to the
Pennsylvania Historical Society, with the
privilege of taking it down and removing
it. 'i. +t.-t -.
Eight hundred and twenty-five deadhead
tickets are distributed for first nights at the
Theatre Francais in Paris. Two-hundred
and twenty-three go to the press, Is to the
administration of the theatre. 319 to the
societaires, 60 to the employees, s5 to auth
ors, and 90 to artists playing in the piece.
General Kaufman has Just presented to
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