The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
No4 81 ~
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sas, has had bad luck with husbands.
Two of them were hanged by vigilance
committees, third was sent to the
penitentiary, and fourth committed
suicide. Nothing has yet happened to
the fifth. $50 ~ + s-.s- s..sr - ~. .s-
4s' Many men who rcad q good oeai,
saws one who has read a good deal, are
sometimes fioored by chit of glri
who dabbles a little in books, because
she manages to ask them about WORKS
which lie outside their line of reading.
They have never perhaps heard OF
books of which she knows little ,Dut
the titles, but, with womanllke skill,
she contriyes to wave them before thef
eyes.
other country, using annually 333, ,0OO-
600 pounds; next comes Germany,
which takes 21S, 100000; Eext France,
with l1O, ,OO0, 900; next, Austria Hum
cary, with 5000, 900; then Holland,
.Vifh g, ,OOO, ,000, and, finally, Belgium,
with 8,OOO, 900 pounds. These coun-
tries take 80 per cent Of the whole pro-
duct Of the world. England takes but
very little coffee, and Russia still less,
but In both of those countries the con-
sumption Of tea ia immensely large.
Mrs Cannon, of Robinsonvillc, Tex,
while on her way home from church
ON horscb back, felt something strike her
Z in the face, and supposing it to be the
limb of q tree, threw up her hand to
ward It Of. While undressing for
5 bed after her arrival home she was
{ horrified to find rattlesnakc in the
sleeve of her dress. Tile reptile drop
ned out on the floor and was killed.
The lady had not previously felt much
inconyenicnce from the slight abrasion
on her face, but it now commenced
swelling anu became so painful that a
physician was called in to attend her.
1t 10 supposed the snake had taken re-
fuge in the tree, aud that it bit her and
transferred itself to- her sleeve; as she
rode under it.. A'iaH - -sr'S'it -@5 .s,-
The Italians at work on the New
Haven and Northampton railroad ex-
tension in Franklin county, Mass, de-
posit 10 money i'll the local banks,
out all wear belts, and carry their
money with them. They are all
numbered and tagged, SO that when
they are paid of or receive ratiens it
is on presentation Of q little tin check
properly numbered. A little water
BOY, who had to give up boot-black-
ing In Boston because he could not
read or rwrite, acts as in n,erpreter for a
large gang. They live very econOini-
cally, and their bread is bought, sew
eral hundred lOavcs al time, by tho
contractor, while they do their own
cooking. Many of them say they OIL
ly propose to stay in the country long
enough 10 earn 500 or SO, when they |
will return to Italy.
Mrs. j. V. Alexander, of Big Sandy,
Tex, found that her l4-month-old in-
fant fretted unless it was placed on
the dining-room floor daily to play. I
Staying behind the door an unusual |
time, she looked for it, and was horri- !
fed to see the child patting very |
largo black snake upon the head and |
its bread with it, and the |
reptile showing its appreciation by |
wagging its tail. The snake came in
to tine room through hole in the
floor. e. z4--e- So,
The new girls school building which
Mr.. Moody and his friends have put up |
1t North field, Mass, is built of brick,
three stories high, ard with ground
plan 1O0x40. roof is surmOunted
by three towers; the central one ris-
Ing seventy-five feet from the ground. |
The first floor contains a kitchen, din
ing room, parlor, two reception rooms,
. study-roOm and two schOol-rooms.
On the second and third floors are
dormitories. The inte-
rior Is furnished throughout in brown
.sh, the windows being provided with
inside blinds.
Meissonier, when in Paris, lives near
the Pare Monceau. The frontage is at
fl.<< 20, ~f T. 4
ust at the beginning of the Avenue
ie Villiers. Dumas and Sara Bern
lardt are his nciglIbors. The house is
Italian renaissance. There is little to l
ce outside beyond q large expanse of
as neatly joined rs a piece of d
abinet work but within are the ter
aces and arcades which form such /
harning backgrounds in the pictures
4 the Italian school. -
"A French lady, with her husband,
vas sitting recently smoking her ci-
,arette in the Tivolis public gardens
u Copenhagen, when q detective in
,lain clothes appeared and ordered
ler not to smoke. The lady, not un-
Danish, thought. the man
Vanted light, and handed him her :
cigarette, which the detective took and
lsrew away. The husband asked for
n explanation, and finally it was
made clear to the visitors that the
ight of lady smoking u cigarette in
'ublic would hurt the sensitive moral
eeiings Of the Danish public. ---t
The first duel in tho q. :. was fought
t Plymouth, Mass, on the 18th of
une, 1921, between Edward Doty
nd Edward Leicester, two servants,
9th of whom were wounded. For
0 the punishment of having their
eads and feet tied together, and lying
hus for twenty -four hours without
,od or drink. After suffering, how
YER, in that posture for an hour, at
heir masters intercession and their
umble request, with the promise of
they were released by the
a girl astonished An audience in the )
Aiety theatre, London, two years ago
y jumping from a high bridge at the
sck of the stage, landing OIL the floor, I
u than executing sdsasce, which was
lried by leaps of twenty feet i'll the
e. Bhs sPerfornsHsesofA Ariel, as she :
ascs1led were fer D while the tIien-4 4
ical Wonler Of ihe town They were y
Dne by means OF q Jumping apparatus
vented by her husband, Walter -
ssAa yHesubsequently spilled the "
aelalserx 70 othef dancers in London --
ID Paris, and next season several
lplicates Of Ariel will be seen in this
'untry. fuSsysszy9 asgeaEs
Frum tie misty past comes . quaint
ory concerning tue origin of corsets.
certain butcher who lived in the a
dxfsenthA csntury lad . wife that =
lked too much, and to cure her of :