The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-08-12
Items Of interest.

! One ward in Nashville. Tenn, has four.
teea twins.
The usual gift of English bridegrooms to
the bridesmaids is an arrow brooch.
A Newburg man is the proud possessor OF
a healthy kitten with sis legs, all perfectly
formed.
Adam and Eve are the names of Chi
fcaaso man and wife. They were born on
the same day.
There is said to be an apple tree in
/. Washington county, Penn, which bears
nine varieties of the fruit
Sir Garnet WoIseley has been made a G..
@. B.-Knight Grand Gross of the Order of
the Bath-in recognition of his services in
South Africa
Lady Burdett Coutts lately gave a tea
party to over two hundred London cabmen
and their wives, as a means to induce the
cabmen to treat their honses with kindness.
The youngest official in the Post Office
Department is the Postmistress of Sitka,
Alaska. She is the fourtesn-year- old daughter
of territorial officer located at the capital OF
'tour Arctic domain"
Danish settlements in Greenland were es-
tablished as far back rs about 1 900 A. d.,
and there is reason to believe that visits
were paid by some of these adventurers to
the eastern coast of North America.
The number of burglaries i'll London has
increased &c per cent. since 1869 while it
has decreased 30 per cent. in the rest of
England 1t is asserted that since the
death of Sir X. Mayne the London police
fprce has been steadily deteriorating.
1t has long been known that fishes return
to about the same place in the same rivers
10 spawn, but it is a recent discovery that
in going up they ascend the eft-hand side
of the stream, while in coming down they
take the opposite side Fishermen may be
benefted by remembering this,
Paris has an eccentric millionaire, M. Mo-
Eer, who has n splendid residence in the
Rue de BenouviIle, Avenue du Bois de Bou-
logne. 1t is the particular joy of this droll
body to have private circus near his house.
He lately gave his first entertainment, which
proved great success, all the performers,
even the clowns, being well-known person
alities in Paris society.
Education is receiving great attention in
Greece. The nation npends more than
five per cent of her entire revenue on edu-
cation, which is larger proportion than Is
devoted to the same purpose by France,
Italy, Austria or Germany. This is done
by people numbering less than half the
population of London, under the most ad-
verse conditions.
Martin Burr, of Bloomfield, N. Y, re-
Gently found an old inllabitant on his farm
who had not been seen for eleven years It
was box turtle, and it is known to be over
one hundred years old, as Mr.. Burr's father
marked It in 1850, and it has been found
several times since. The present Mr.. Burr,
who is over seventy years old, marked the
creature in 1s47.
A remarkable occurrence lately took place
ON our northern coast fore-and-aft
schooner, while lying in safe harbor, as
was supposed, and having no crew on
board ON account of the safety of the po-
sition, was boarded by rats in such numbers
that they ate away all her standing rigging,
including head-stays, and also the jibs,
foresail and mainsail ALI were destroyed
beyond the possibility of repair.-San
FrgnciscO Examiner.
The Newark Cement Company, of Rom
dout, N. Y, has mule which displays ex-
traordinary talent When the signal sounds
for twelve o'clock he at once refuses to
work, even to finish hoisting load he may
have started, but deliberately allows it to
settle back to the bottom. After feeding
he wiz allow himself to be hitched up, but
no amount OF coaxing or beating will in
duce him to work until the one O'Clock
whistle sounds.
The first engineer of the Rhenish Rail
WAY. which has the longest experience in
steel rails, has made a calculation, according
to which the average duration of steel rails,
where twenty four trains pass over them
every day, is thirty years; whilst that of
iron rails. with traffic of seventeen trains,
i; eleven years Steel rails according to
this calculation, last four times as long as
iron rails, although they are but one-third
more expensive.
London has been bnilding an enormous
dock, which is now nearly completed The
magnitude of the work done would make 1t
almost n great a curiosity the Pyramids
or the Chinese wall, if it were not for the
fact that modern engineering appliances
have been extensively employed to simplify
operations Four million cubic feet of
e.:rtii have been removed, and eighty thou
sand tons of Portland cement were used in
Iuilding wall three and half miles long,
forty feet high, and from five to nineteen
feet thick. The cost of the work is esti-
mated at about five million dollars.
Amoug the arrivals in Berlin is Swedish
tourist, who has made his way to the Prus-
sian capital in very curious conveyance.
T.ris is no other than n carriage drawn by
three dogs, which are expected to drag the
man and his luggage, consisting of provi-
sioas aud clothing, and also firearms, all
over the Continent of Europe. The man
las already travelled in his peculiar vehicle
over great part of Norway, Sweden and
Denmark, and is only now at the beginning
of his tour, which he expects to last si1
months and to finish off by getting back to
the north by way of Paris, BRUSSELS and
Tie Hague.
A recent traveller in Japan says: They do
know how to cook rice, though, and for the