The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-02

Professor Spencer r. Baird. of the
smithsonian Institution in. Washing
ton, has labored there for thirty years.
His chief work has been in4egard to
fish and birds.
A Philadelphia paper says that the
Boston women at sSwampscott bathe
In white kid gloves and bonnets. La
dies hereabouts generally bathe in wa
ter.
One Of tshe 6nest siehtstobe Witness
ed up at the Catskill is sunrise, and it
compepsates one for arising at an un-
secmly hour. It is night long to be
remenlbered~ a. 80
"Caua MANS attention be riyeted
with copper rivets?" asks CONNER
cial paper. 1t can, if the rivets arc
sharpened and put where he will sit
~ASIondaet. Ma nay i, says he has
retired from the ministry and from
public -ife, and nd-is-now- giving his
whole Time to private business Gu
A wo6,as heaat Cairo dresad, Up as
Q man to see how much bluff her old
husband would take from a stranger.
She got forty-six bird shot in various
parts OF her body.
Thes Aneer1csng c0lonyiu Paris is
smaller than at any previous time i'll
twenty years. 1t costs twice as much
now to live in Paris as in America in
the same. style. Formerly it cost
double Paris prices in America. There
is nothing now cheaper in France, ex-
cept apparel, aud only parts of that.
Beecher alleges that lie was at ono
time offered $500 900 for twelvemonths,
OF his time, including Sundays. The
syndicate which made the offer pro-
posed to pay down S150, 600, and Sl2,-
BOO monthly thereafter. Mr.. Beechcr
told this to a newspaper man i'll tho
whilom zenith city aof.unsaited seas"
A lady at White Sulphur Springs, Z
when asked by n reporter for q de-
seription Of her dress, said: az don't
wear q very handsome costume, butt
have the incest husband aid two of
the sweetest children i'm the room."
For souIl sense and happy fortune
she deserves TO rank will the mo tller
Of the Gnleeh. A&sStk kss nss
The province of Buenos Ayrcs
counts 81 100000 sheep, of which 49,
OOO,O0O belong to Irish, settlers within
o days ride OF tie city. Tile hocks
will suffice it necessary, to feed the
National g Government Amy for many
years, without counting 6,0OO,O00
cows, which belong mostly to natives.
It is said that the Bank of Montreal
is the largest bank OH this continent,
having n capital of twelve millions, a
reserve OF five millions, and about sew
enteen millions of deposits. Its total
assets amount to over thirty-five mil |
lions Of dollars Compared with the
banks even of New York city, these
are ssuPsndons fgares. ~ a - N
The Cologne Gazette, the oldest ex-
istng German newspaper, noted for
It's enterprise in slow-going GerIpanyy
before the electric telegraph. .eniploycd'
carrier pigeons, 10 obtain early news
from Paris One relay OF birds car
ried the messages from Paris to Brus-
sells, another from Brussels TO Aix-la-
Chapclle, whence the messages were
forwarded by railway to Cologne,
where they arrived sixteen hours in |
advance Of the ordinary post.
: DR.. Blydcn, himself pure African
Of high hsattainments, says the mission
ary societies have ii ale a nistakel I'm
sending to Africa .mulattoc instead I
OF pure. Africans; the former, wlreth-
q born in tie AZ est indies or III the
United States, being almost universal
y Of delicate constitution, and hav-
ing certainly no advantages as to ell
durancc Of climate over white men,
while negroes of pure blood, wherever
born will be found better adapted to
the African climate.
. In the beautifuI church Of ST. Mary,
at Bury st. Edmunds, Eng. is an al
tar-tomb, surmounted by a rccuIn bent
figure Of q starved man, the details of
which are we'll executed and CHASTITY
1t was erected to the memo
~ Of John Baret, who died of starva-
tion In 1863 while attempting to fast
forty days and forty nights.
Winking photographs are said to be
produced in the following manner:
One negative is taken with the sitter's
eyes open another, without change of
position with the eyes shut. The two
are printed on opposite sides
Of the paper registering" exactly
Held before a Pickering lamp, or other
source of light, the combined
show rapid alterations
of closed and open eyes, the effect be-
ing that of rapid winking... .--
In Russia the railways are SO many
separate thread lines, no net tlwork be- :
ing formed. Thus two lines are in q
stanccd which run parallel to each :
other for nearly 500 miles and have no
Tho result is that to get i
from one town to another almost in
The same latitude a long Journey north
has to be made, and then a return to Il
the south the two sides of the trian- -,
ylo between Tzarilsyn, on the Yolga, d
md Kharkoff, via OrcI, measures sone 4
$50 miles, while as the crow flies the
distance between the two towns is not
more than 375 miles. .-.qy0
Professor Marks, of Philadelphia,
Itated at recent meeting of the
franklin. Institute that he had made
ome calculations of the (;naximiini
peed at which locomotives could be
iriven before the centrifugal force on T
he tires of the driving wheels would
,ecOme SO great as to. cause them to =
,urst. These calculations, which were, :
Sonly, showed that die :,
unit Of speed was in the mel ghbor+ :
loOd OF $50 miles an hour. /,
The girls at Cape May are accused Ii
II taking so much care of their COM ',
,lexions aasto carry suisshades in the y
lotel rotnsd a.. As nearly all of them G
Ne Philadelphians, this is probably n
rue, for the lovely compilations OF the 5.
quaker girls are always carefully pre- :,
erved. New. York may assert that il
he is fashionable, and Boston may p
nsist that she is intellectual, but the 4
Philadelphia girl has a skin like
and always means to keep :
t - - =
Isaac d. Lawson, says The Syracuse
10arier, who died in the county in
Ri.e asylum, came to Syracuse about
Ifty years ago as tinsmith, and after
rard folio wed the trade of tinker, ac-
e12, 600, which is now on
eposit with the Syracuse Trust ard "
lie lived in q hovel, without furnit-