The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-16
TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Il TOPICS OF INTEREST.
A toy maker of Montrose, Pa, use
6OO, 900 feet Of bass wood every year
Upward of 1, ,442 persons in the Brit
ish empire enjoy hereditary titles.
Wese last yearto Europe 1 800, ,OO(
macs. pA sbsssg.xEE fstt
The kingdom of Siam is to be con-
nected with the telegraphic system oi
the world.
Seven machines in Pittsburg, Penn,
produced last year over 1,O63 ,345 kegs
of nails.
Steam and horse railroads in this
country require 1OO, 600 men to labor
on Sunday.
There are made yearly in Reading
and Berks counties, Pa, over 6,OOO,O ,OOO
wooden hats.
Arizona has produced q Equality of
cotton equal to the Sea Island cotton
from seed brought from China.
The fifteen car manufacturing estab-
lishments in this country turned out
81 $50 cars in eleven months.
English and Scotch farmers and cap
italists are making large purchases Of
land in Minnesota.
The packages Of tomatoes put up
the total of 19, ,968 600, of which New
Jersey put up 5,592, 900 cans.
1t is estimated that $4,000 men and
women are employed in Philadelphia
in the manufacture OF clothing, making
10000 suits year.
Over ], 500 persons arc employed in
chair making in Gardner, Mass, turn
ing out over $4,000, 600 worth annu-
ally. sttsE
No class of offenders in England de-
fy the law like the clergy. The courts
illuminate against MackonOchie, the
ritualist. but he simply ignores them.
The grape islands of Lake Erie have
1000 acres of vines, and the yield in
1879 was 16, ,OOO, 900 pounds. The wine
production was ], ,526, 400 gallons.
Illinois farm products amounted to
$2OO, ,OOO, 900 last year, which is double
the product of all the gold and silver
mines in the United States.
The difference between the neglect
ed woman In society and q twelve
inch partition is, that one is q WALL
party, aud tho other . party-wall.
Manufacturing clothing in Chicago
gives employment to $4,000 people,
and the value of the goods made is
SIS, 600, 600. This industry has doub-
led in four years.
Chicago packed last year 5, ,1OO, 900
hogs, being an increase of ten per cent
over 1873, and seventy-fve per cent
over 1877. Over 10000 men were en-
ployed. sas<l --.-...,
Tho Boy Of Tunis has given that
city q railroad and waterWorks, but
cannot yet afford gas. The town is,
however, very safe and ORDERLY at
night
A French paper says that no true
count or lord is ever found playing a
hand-oTgan OH the streets of America.
This will he a sad disappointment to
American girls in search or titled
husband.
Less than fifty years ago one man
could make over IA pins minute;
now he can make more than 1,40O.
Then one girl could stick OH papers
about 10000 pins q day !; now a fair
days work is from SOC, 900 to ], ,O0O, 900.
Houses tumble down here some-
times before they are 1000 hours old,
which il wholly inexcusable, but q
HOUSE which lately tumbled down at
Belper, England, had at least the name
Of being ], 600 years old. 1t was occu-
pied up to last month, and four hun
dred years ago was the only inn in
Belper. 1t was ono storied, with q
thatched roof
At Kolomna, Russia, they have Just
celebrated the completion, in the ms
chine shops of that place, of their
locomotive and ten
thousandth railroad car. The first
engine was built there in 1868, and is
still in active use.
The German traveller, DIR. Naumann,
has Informed the Berlin Geographical
Society that the japanese Minister of
PublicssWor has requested him to
carry out q geological and astronomi-
:al survey OF Japan, and to examine the
'oil for copper and coal.
For the first time since the Franco
Prussian war German newspaper has
been started in Paris. 1t is called the
Oeutsche Zeitung fur Paris, issued
daily. 1t is worth adding that there
Ire in the capital of France no fewer
han 5O, 900 Germans.
Creek Tom and boy, half-breeds,
It Mill Greek, Indian Territory were
n league with the devil, and were by
him empowered to work mischief
Such at least was the belief of the In
lians in the neighbOrhood, and it was
ieemed expedient to kill them. which
vas done bya mob at night.
There was more business done in the
and financial circles of
his country during November, 1879,
han during any month before ii the
history of this country. The bank
Of several cities for the
month foot up the enormous aggregate
# %, $50, ,255 ,523.
Cuntes seem to be much better paid
II England now than formerly. The
dvertisements for them in no case Of
VI tuOitI I0SS tIldH 1OOO, 8uu lie MOST
rom $500 to $3.50, whereas $500 used
o be the max imum. The fact is that
here is dearth Of educated. eligible
nen.
An Italian has invented q movable
over, called the "MOretta Elevator"
which he claims will be invaluable in
escuing people from burning build
ngs. 1t can also be employed as an
to watch the movements
4 an enemy in time of war, as q scaf-
Olding for workmen, and for any sim,-
lar purpose.
After being q lane for six hundred
ears, Drury Lane, London, becomes
street. 1t derived its title from the
esidence of q once distinguished fam
ly, long since extinct or sunk into
bscurity, Drury House. In q few
months the locality will scarcely be
such are the changes being
lade.