The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-14

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The London World says that thcr,
isnot more immortality in London thar
heretofore, but now it is shameless
The stories that correspondents tell D
London life confirm the last part o
the statements. The latter part of tht
;Eeign Of the good Quecn Victoria is il
marked contrast with its earlier years
Sharp remark by Charles Brad.
laugh, the Eng lish radical 81 am sOr
~ to say many of Your rich Ameri.
q cans, who have money in shoddy, Pc
troleum or pork, try in Europe to
forget that tlIey arc Americans and
republicans, and only resume theii
republicanism when they lake posses
sion of their berths ON board the ocean
steamers" z.
Gambling at the London clubs runs
oslIkk now rs Il did in the days OF
The Rqgcnk when estates were 5risked
on the turn Of the dice at Brooks. AT
the new club, where ready money only
can be staked under the club regula-
lsions, an officer lost S55, 900 one light
lately, another S20,OOO, and q "well-
known Viscount" won S40, 600 at sit
ting. has ilfhit4l fltJit#
siT Since Mr.. Swinburne appeared as an
expounder of Shakespeare, lie has found
Mr.. Furnivan buzziiig about his ears.
The poet brushed the latter away as
he would 4 fly, with the remark that
he sneed not fear a reply" The fly
retorts 81 do not fear controversy
with o man who knows his facts. am
not likely TO dread it with Mr.. Swim,
lburlie, WHO iinagInes them" $50 10 N
~ There arc in the United States about
twelve thousand dcntists. Every ear
they consume about five hundred
Thousand dollars worth OF pure gold
In the plugging of teeth and about one
hundred thous,slid dol lars worth of
silver aud platina for the sanie pur-
pose There are annually manufac-
tured three millions OF artificial sets
of teeth mounted ON gold, platina or
rubber. Mouths have become gold
and silver mines, and feyyi persons of
either sex can now he classed as paul
pers 80 Ioug as they have wealth pack
e6away betweentheirj jaws. 81.
Dan Watson, who is known to the
police throughout tile country as an
expert and bold burglar, is in the pen
.ttentiary at Philadelphia. Being ask
ed why his gang, had not made an at
tempt ON the Northumberland bank,
W whiIe operating in that neiglibOrhoOd
several years ago, he said: Three
times we went to do 1t, and each time
we were frustrated, and by what do
you think? a terrible -buif-dog, the
Wstchmasis revolver, -tle-strength
of the safe? Neither, but by q little
child. You see, the watchman gen.
orally came down to tic bank from
his supper, leading his little child by
the hand We had it all arranged to
pounce upon him and gag and bind
him, and then rob tile place, but
somehow, when i saw that innocent
LITTLE one, i hadn't the -hearL tosgivc
the sigInl and hurt it, SO he escaped.
I'm bad man, and l -ain'r afraid of
the best man living, but 1 couldn't
pear to see the little thing hurt"
Mr.. H. d. Parker, the proprietor of
q well-lcnOwn Boston hotel, desired to
ehhfee his hOnsc, but the property,
his, which he wished to pur-
chase, belonged to q maiden lady we'll
advanced in years, and she refused to
sell. Every offer to buy was met by a
refusal. Finally, the proposition was
Dssssle that disinteresteds parties should
fix the value of her estate, to which q
bonus of $50, 900 would be added. This
ofIar, like the others, was refused. The
old lady said it had been q pleasure all
her life to say "no," and she wouldn't
bcdeprived of that pleasure for money.
A retired Paris tradesman, advanced
In years, recently took it into his head
to buy q coffin. Once in his lodgings,
hc thought he would try how one felt
in 1t. He got in and lay down, but
being old and stiff lie could not get
out again. There he lay for several
days, when his hall porter, weary at
not having seen him, Knocked at his
door. Hearing groans, the porter
broke the door and found the state of
things described. He broke the sides
Of the coffin and released the old man.
With the aid of wine and beef-lea he
was restored to health.
1t may not be generally known that
al the horse chestnut trees in Massa-
chusetts are from two trees still in ex-
isteIce and finely growing on the
llunneman estate OH Washington
street near franklin street in Boston.
These, says the Post, were brou ght
over and set out in 777by Tom RaIm-
rill, Of Roxbury, an old Revolutionary
Soldier. They thus possess an histor-
ic1l interest rs ancestors of one Of the |
finest varieties of shade trees we have |
In this region. As it is probable that |
these trees cannot remain longer in |
their present position, it has been pro-
posed that.they be reset Oh the Com
mon or Public Garden. "a
x1E Moody has, at his home in
Macs, chickens, bees, pigs
md ducks. "With all of which," says
] correspondent of the Cincinnati ]
Commercial, "he is quite familiar, with
The exception Of the bees. L had SO
many beautiful theories about bees,
md had been drawn into telling him
II their curious habits, that he led me
% . certain hive, and removed the top.
will never give the particulars for 1 /
,Irned my back suddenly ON my friend
md, giancing over my shoulder, saw
!ome very unclerical antics OH his part.
Bees are no respectors of persons"
The microscope shOwsa variation in I
he human hair from the aI-25Oth to]
he 1-6OOth part OF an inch but, not
vithstanding such fineness,it is u mas
i've cable in comparison with some
,ther fibres. Thus the thread of the
ilkworm is many times finer, being
rom the IL, Tooth to the -2,0OOth of
nch. This is, however, nothing to
I've slenderness of the SPIDERS thread
which has been found in some in
tances to be no more than 1-3O, ,OOOth
Il an inch in diameter. The fibres
rielded by the vegetable kingdom are
lso Of astonishing minuteness. Thus
very fibre of fax is found to be COM
,Osed of Q bundle OF other fibrils which
re about Is, ,5OOth of an inch in diam
ter. Similar fibres obtained from the
pineapple plant have been ascertained
0 be NO more than 10, 5,0O0th or even
=, ,0O0th OF an inch in diameter.
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