The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30
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TOPICS OF INTEREST.
Neariy soo, 900 persons are employed
on British and Irish railroads.

Nearly SOC, 900 persons are employed
on British and Irish railroads.
An enterprisinx Yankee is making q
Honolulu directory, and for the first
time the houses are to be numbered. -
. Htbere Il an angel who records the
sorrows Of men as well as their sins,
he knows how many and deep are the
sorrows that spring from false ideas
for which no man is culpable.
Some papers are altogether "too
fresh" with their stories of canine sa-
gacity. What we want are a few in
stances of human sagacity. They
would be 80 neutrality-suspicious.
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The congregation sang 1--WE are go
ing home to die no more" in West
field, CMass.) church, and an irreverent
fellow, leaning over to dyed deacon,
said in q loud tone, ''Then you'll be
gray in week"
The ex-Empress Eugene has ordered
of the sculptor Boehm a marble group
of life-size representing the Prince
Imperial lying dead on the ground,
partly wrapped i'll his cloak, while an
angel is crowning him.
The young Earl of Fife has proper
ty which brings, him in handsome
income. In one part of Scotland he
owns one hundred and twenty thous-
and acres. Altogether he has an in
come of about three hundred thousand
year. ~ -s
Krupp turns out 800 cannon of the
largest calibre every month, and often
double that numbcr-15, 900 i'll two
years. He has fattcned ON war. In
1910 the firm employed 10 men; in
1S43 100; to-day many thousapds of
operatives draw wages from him.
A dull, clergyaan, having written
some observations on Shakspeare's
plays, brought a specimen of his work
10 Sheridan and asked his opinion of
it. ssT wonder people won't mind
their own affairs" said Sheridan;
'you may. spoil your own Bible, If
you please, but pray let ours alone"
A man always writes better than he
can speak This is rule of universal
application. Even when q gentleman
stands on the bank of q stream, he gets
no fish by speaking, though he be
never SO eloquent; but, on the other
hand, if he just ''drops line" to the
fnny tribe, they respond with great
alacrity. ' Is j
A tramp found woman alone in
Vermont farmhouse, aud threatened to
kill her if she did not give him i've
cents. "Well, here it isl she said,
showing the coin, "but l guess PHI
shoot it to you," and she dropped it
into the barrel of a shotgun. The fell
low did not wait to take it
We'd Connor was chairman of o floor
committee at q Colorado ball, and
xvowed his intention of excluding ne
groes, if he had to shoot them. 1t was
deemed . good joke TO .blacken the
face Of . burly white desperate and
send him to force an entrance; but
We'd carried out his promise by shoot
ing the intruder. 's
California averages higher rates for
farm labor than any State in the
Union, viz: $41.OO month without
board, and 1927 day for transient
help in harvest times. South Carolina
is said to pay the least, or an average
Of &9.S3 per month, without board
Transient help is paid for at the rate
of SO osnts day, without board. u
The comparative force of gunpow-
der and dynamite was discussed by
two miners at Truka, Cal. They
agreed, - . test, to explode certain
ouantiti6G of the substances under two
planks, the friend of gunpowder to
stand on the dynamite plank and the
friend of dynamite on the other. The
trial was made in the presence of an
interested crowd of spectators. 1t re-
suited in . broken leg for the man who
-aa lifted ten feat into the air by the
dynamite, and suncounted bruises for
the ono whom the gunpowder Or threw
against the trunk of . tree. ssl,