The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-11-25
lTEMS,DF, INTEREST.
! 'Esss

g Rev. Robert Collyer, in a sermon at
New, Y ork said: 81 believe, as l be-
lieve that I am standing here, that
the greatest 10y of life hereafter is
that it will be home over again
! home better, brighter. and more bliss
! full than any we have here on carth."
is On the other side of Jordan is the
town of Salt, ascertained to be the
ancient Ramoth Gilead, containing q
'population of about eight thousand
nominal Christians alHt niahoinetans.
There are upward Of one thousand
eight hundred vineyards in this town
and neighborhood, and also large fields
of corn land. 1t is singular fact, rs
credibly reported, that these people
know nothing of Intoxicating drinks,
and make their grapes into .raislns,
honey and kind of sweetmeat called
milban. - >, =: '.'.. - -
!, ,Superstitions are often epidemic,
and sweep through the community
like a disease. High and low, old and
young, the ignorant and learned, all
yield more or less to the influence of
the strange infection, and society for
the time being seems to have gone
mad.> The healthiest. constitution is
no guarantee against the con,agion.-
In all high excitelnehts, let the occa-
sion be what it may, deilision and sI-
.perstition find acongeniai q atmosphere,
and are prOpagated with great rapid
ity- +. moss ..s,s..rs1-s5 ....-
lr Perhaps the most striking and dra-
matte incident in the late General
Myers active military career was his
signaling from General @Corse's be-
leasuered garrison at Altoona, Ca,
the situation Of tho little band Of he
loes, which signal brought back to
cheer them General 4Sherman's mes
sage from the heights Of Kenncsaw |:
"Hold the fort, am coming. This,
: jis well known, suggested the fam.
ous hymn written by. the late p. p,
Bliss, which las been sung all around
the world. .ssss sfSl4D .EE + 10 = ;
The trout is distinguished in every
stream by variations OF form and tint.
; In rivers rushing over gravclly beds
it arrives at tho highest perfection Of
golden sides changing into 4 rich play
Of gravs ana browns, dasl.cd with .ru-
by spots; willie ina moorlaM sticam
it becomes ass0afk as the peat itself.
In q river flowing .ovei. chalk it. ac-
QuAItS d w AL eiHSaC,t EtbCoS sbA iete
tioHs showing that nature gives it
stirr0dndings as. a means of preserva-
zion from its numerous enemies.
A large refrigerator building has
been built near Smitiifleld market,
! London's gTeatesti market, in which
the owners will test the possibility Of
keeping beet forty days, tho time of
passage from Australia; and ii sue
cessful they viii fit. sevcr,h steamers
with thcirapparatus.3T The tcmpein-
ture is to be Kept evenly 1T 33 degrees
by chemically made ice, the nlachin-
cry costing but $5, 900, Including q gas
engine ofeight lforse' power, which
runs at a. cost OF $40 per day, the ice
costing twenty .centsIa Ion II meat
can he brought 10 England from AUS
tralia, American shippers will meet
with lively competition. Taq siaso yn
History tells of one Mrs.-Story who
went from Connecticut in 1875, aud
who was the first whitc woIriam Who
ever slept in Sails bury or Midtllcbary
VT Her husband after building .
log house, was killed ip telling trees.
She took his place in Clearing up the
farm and caring for Tire family. From
the dense swamp near by she behclh
her own .ando her neighbor'ss house
pillaged and burnt by party of In.li-
ans. In a high steep bank of the
creek sire excavated d place to float
her canoe under ground, where she
made room enough for her family
This was the historic Widow Story's
cave. In 1912 she married Capt. Ste-
phen Goodrich, one of the. carly set
tiers Of Middlcbury. There is a per-
SON now living who was present at
that wedding. This witness is Mrs.
Elizabeth S. Kelsey, now in the oath
year Of herngc. c'.'i