The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-10

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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The four great grandmother of . Troy,
N. r., infant are living.
CorsianA Texas. hiss religious fanatic
who calls himself Righteousness.
Only three policemen are employed in
Baton Rouge, La, city of 5000 inhabi-
Physic, saysan old surgeon, is the art Of
amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease. 1 -
The living members of the English royal
family, exclusive of the Queen, received
down to 1877 $e2, 100, 900 from the British
treasury.
Two professional rat killers are going
through Virginia. They agree to kill all
the rats IN . town for 800. They have
with them two ferrets and q small dog.
Two young woman of Bungalore, India,
have been admitted as probationers into the
post oeaee in that place. They are the first
women who have been able to get govern
ment employment in Asia
A young lady belonging to the English
aristocracy signs her name 'Lyona Decima
Veronica Esyth Undine Cyssa Hylda Row.
ena Adela Thyra Ursula Ysabel Blanche
Lellas Dysart Plantagenet !"
Half breed Indian girls are used in Mon
tana as domestics, because, being cast out
by their tribes, they are willing to work
without wages. A movement is on foot in
Helena to see that they hereafter shall be
given proper schooling.
Boston is carrying on the manufacture of
isinglass quite extensively, giving employ
ment to many fishermen's wives who col
lect the sounds of the hake. Refined isin-
glass Is used in the manufacture of varnish
and the settings of lager bier.
Various curious forms of charity are visi-
bic in Chinese cities. In summer, vases of
cold tea are sometimes set at the door of
the rich, that the poor wayfarer may drink
and be refreshed; and in winter, the tea is
replaced by hot ginger soup. In the warm
months fans are distributed.
The dome of the Troy Polytechnic In
stitute's Observatory is twenty-nine feet iu
diameter, and made of paper, reduced by
pressure to the hardness of wood, and one
sixth of an inch in thickness. Its weight is
only one-tenth of the usual material, and
it is so nicely adjusted that child can
turn it
The soldiers at Camp Douglass, Idaho,
have as a pet yearling deer with good
ear for music. When the Fourteenth Regi-
ment is ON parade, General Custer,"-
which is the animals name-marches proud
ly in front of the drum-major, with head
erect and lofty steps, keeping excellent time
to the music of the band.
The sponge-divers along the Florida
coast have begun to adopt an innovation
that may work a great change in their bust
ness. 1t is found by cutting the live
sponges into small pieces, attaching them
to pieces of rock, and sinking them to pro-
per depths in suitable locations, each piece
in three years attains marketable size.
Here is another fact about American en-
terprise. Scissors, which are still made in
Sheffield by tedious hand process, are
made by one stroke of die in Connecticut
Hence Sheffield is sending large quantities
of steel blanks to the United States to be
struck of, repacked, and returned to Eng
land where there they are finished, and go
back again as Sheffield ware.
A tramp was put to work cutting the grass |
in graveyard at Decatur, Ala. He soon
abandoned the job, and declared that |
young woman in one of the graves had |
warned him not to disturb the grass over
her. What convinced the neighbors of the |
mans truthfulness was the fact that he |
gave the name of the graves occupant,
though there was no tombstone to convey
the information, and he was stranger in
hose parts.
A fire recently broke out in an extensive
German brewery and Gerhaus in Monte
Video. All available supplies of water hav-
ng been exhausted, and the flames still ad-
the fire brigade asked and re-
,eived permission of the proprietor to make
lse of q large stock of bier on the premises
n order to continue their operations. After
,ome 20, 600 gallons of bier had been cast
nto the flames, the confagration was ar
'ested.
Says the Sioux City Qowa) Journal -
tAt Elkhorn q widow lady, comfortably
ID, allowed her affections to be won by a
tranger, who represented that he was
,attie king of the plains, owned controll-
ng interest in the Omaha Nail Works and
,ad 375 shares in the water works of the
anne city. He pressed his suit, the day
vas fixed, and he, being disappointed in
lot getting a $40, 600 draft he was. expect
ng, the confiding widow advanced him
$500 to go to Ohama and buy carriage
nd get her lot of wedding fxings. He
vent, and that is the last the widow has
cen of him.
A pretty story comes from Florida, thus
"A little child in Jacksonville was in the
'abit of playing upon the piazza of his
ather's house. Near by mocking bird
lad its nest in the orange trees, and the
hid would throw crumbs to the bird daily.
After q while the child was taken sick and
led While the child's body was lying in
he coffin the bird was seen to perch upon
he slat of the window blind, pour forth one
+ its most brilliant songs and then fit away.
'ome hours after this the body of the little
ird was found dead upon the floor of the
be piazza, and was placed upon the coffin
f its little friend and was inferred with it
D the same grave.
Between male and female there is differ
nee of kind only-not degree. Man is