The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


dists of Cleveland, OHIO, have built over
twenty church edifices, at q cost of over
e30O, O,OO0
Last year the South raised 500, 100000
pounds of tobacco, which exceeds the
production of any other year by H.
coo, 600 pounds.
The acid poison OF the cobra is so
active that one-fifth of a grain injected
into mans veins would be sufficient
to cause his death.
Sig. F1orelli. in charge of the exca-
vations at Pompeii estimates that. it
will require seventy years and one mill
ion dollars to complete the work
The most beautiful pearl in the world
is in Moscow. weighing twenty-eight
carats- In the French crown jewels is
pearl as large as pigeon eggs, val
ued at SS, 600.
The first railway line built in this
country was between Baltimore and
Washington in the spring OF 1874 It
was iirst opened to the public for bIisi-
ness April L, 1915.
There are at present in this country
2,053 National, 923 State. ESQ savings,
and 1913 private banks or these, 2G3
have been organized i'm the last twelve
months.
An ant, three-eights of an inch long,
carrying burden of onc-sixth of Il
grain, moves 1T the rate of one mile in
eloven hours. The weight "a small one
compared to that they can carTy) Is
eighteen times thir own.
Less than fifty years ago one man
could not make more than II pins q
minute; now he can make more than
14OO- Then one girl could stick on pa
pers about 10,0O0pins day; now fair
days work is from 800, 600 to 1-O0'3. Geo.
Serpents, scorpions. and large pinch
ing-ants, are regarded in Egypt as
transformed villains 1t Is believed
that these reptiles and vile insects are
wickedly disposed. and feel a pleasure
in committing mischief.
The number of bibles and testaments
issued each year by the British and For
eign Bible society IS nearly 5000. 600;
by the American society, 1.400. .0OO.-
Within seventy-tive years $50, coo. 600
copies have been put into circulation.
Sir Henry Bessemer has taken out no
less than III patents. The freedom OF
the city of London has Just been con-
ferred upon him Before his steel pro-
cess was introduced into Sheffield the
entire make of steel was LOCO tons Z
year; now it Is $50, 900 tons
California was called the land of gold,
4 Is now called the land OF grain
Last year it produced $50, ,000, 600 worth
of the former and 800. zoo, coo worth of
the latter. Agriculture is the back
bone and source OF real wealth to a ma
ton after all.
Mr.. A. Bronsan Alcott has no faith
in the opinions of the ancient disciplin-
arians of New England. Il hold" said
he the other day, that the man who
cannot govern children, or men either,
by moral means-by the power of his
eye, the charm of his manners, the re-
sources of his intelligence-is not wor-
thy to control his fellow-creatures.
The gross earnings of the Suez ship
canal for the present year will be SS,-
O66, $50, while the Disbursements, in
Guiding S. per share, have been only
IS, 7S5. sos, leaving for distribution
among the shareholders S2,2S0, $50 as
the profits of the year
In Great Britain, rs appears from q
Treasury return published a short time
ago, the receipts of the Patent Office
during the twelve years, 1868 to 1870,
were Fl, ,779, ,S92, and the expenditure
only f504 1922, leaving 4 net gain to
the public exchequer of 1.275, $40
Mary Ellen Chase is authority for the
three to one in heaven. VIII she dis
pei the agonizing doubts in puzzled
brain by coming forward and explain
ing how, under those circumstances
heaven could be heaven-for the men,
Before the year 1900 the Spaniards
commenced to import African slaves
into the West Indies, and some were
landed on the Spanish portion of what
is now the territory of the United States.
The first slaves landed upon the terri
tory of the original states We're 20 sold
from Dutch vessel at jamestown,
Virginia, in 1919. The earlier slave
trade, after New England was settled.
was chiefly in the hands of Massachu-
sets and other New England slIipown-
ers, who not only brought negroes to
their own ports, but sold them wher-
ever they could find a market Slavery
in Massachusetts was ended by the
adoption of the constitution of 1880,
but Vermont had abolished it three
years before.
The English newspapers refer h;Irnor-
ously toS"an alliance of beer and Bi-
bles. bricks and mortar" There is a
great brewer at Warrington. Sir Gilbert
Greenall, who, upon one side of one of
his public houses has built school and
on the other side church. Somebody
quotes as apropos of this queer conti@-
tIity the old couplet: Wherever God
erects a house of prayer, the devil
builds chapel there" This Tory
brewer, they say, has taken contract
for both. But this is not so good as the
ancient quatrain written upon church
the vaults of which were let for the
storage of strong drink. Upon the
door of this miscellaneous edifice some
wag wrote: There's a spirit above and
a spirit below; A spirit of joy and
spirit of woe; The spirit above is the
spirit divine, And the spirit below is
the spirit of wine.'
A singular sort of compliment was
once paid to Tom Playside in New Or
leans. At the end of a much-applauded
scene, when ''bravos'' rent the air and
flowers were falling thick around him,
q carpenters broad chisel sped whizz-'
ing from the '.fiat'' n few inches from
his head. The offender was speedily
discovered and brought before the in
dixnant actor. What have l ever
done to you,' he said, ..that you should
asteGnpt my lifeP'' Attempt your life,
Mr.. Playside," cried the honest fellow
with tears in his eyes, II never dreamt
of such thing. But they was all a
throwin' you things, Mr.. Playside, and
hadn't nothin' but my old chisel to
show how liked ye, Mr.. Playside, and
SO 1 throwed yer that ''All right
said the actor, laughing, ''here's your
chisel, but next time let me take your
liking for granted. Hour.
The majority of the people do not
have any opinions. They have simply
notions. impressions, sentiments, feel
ings; they have prejudices, a desire TO
see this thing prevail, or that. But
how many men are there that, concern
ing any great problems of the world,
have earned the right to say that they
have an opinion? How many men are
there that have studied the question.
that have weighed opposing claims and