The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-12
NEWS BREvTTIEs.

pealed the law forbidding the intermar-
riage between blacks and whites.
A Portland, Maine, lawyer has sued
a man for twenty-seven cents which he
had lent him.
Anna Dickinson says she has been in
love many times, but fell out again be-
fore she had time to get married.
A farm has recently been sold in Cas-
tleton, VT, for g, 800, which the own
er refused $4,000 for twenty-five years
ago
Men are SO scarce in Enfield. Conn.,,
that a dozen expert girls have been
brought from New York to sort to-
bacco.
An elevator in Bridgeport, Conn.
factory came down on a. woman at
work in the opening. and, although
weighing 400 pounds, was held up by
her until help came.
Professor Virchow, of Berlin, has
dealt the vegetarians blow. The adj
vocates of vegetable diet have MAIN
tanned that animal food was not natural
to man. This is denied by Professor
Virchow, who goes into the anatomy of
the question.
In the year 1880 America issued sew
enty patents to women And not one
of these was an indicator to be attached
to a bedpost to show if there is a man
under the bed. And yet think how
much getting down on hands and knees
such a thing would save women.-BOs-
ton Post,
Three and one-half miles north of
Owosso coal has been struck at the
depth of III feet. The vein is found TO
be four feet nine inches in thickness
olx IS la,.
coal and one foot of soft. The vein of
hard coal is thicker than any part of
the Corunna coal mines.
The hall occupied by the British
House of Lords is much larger than
that of the House of Commons, but
though it can seat five hundred, only
fifty or sixty peers form the average at
tendance for the transaction of the busi-
ness of.the realm Speakers never adj
dress the chair, or "wool-sack," but
merely MY lords"
Augusta, Me-, is disrespectful to the
gentler sex, or seems TO be- The other
night $50 Augusta people, accompanied
by a brass band, marched through the
muddy streets to the residence of citi-
zen who had come out of $4,000
breach of promise suit victorious, and
gave the man a serenade. Scores of
handsome bouquets were also left along
with congratulations
The windows of the Claiming Me
mortal church at Newport, r. l., will
be very. beautiful. George III. Norman,
of Boston, will put in one to the men,
ory of the late Rufus B. Kinsley. Mrs.
Augustus Hemenway and Mrs. Philan-
der Shaw, of Boston, will each furnish
a window, and Mrs. Richard Baker, Jr.,
of Boston, will put in a memorial WIN
dow to her daughter.
By decree of the Khedive, Egyptian
dervishes are henceforth forbidden to
cut and slash themselves with swords
and knives, to beat themselves with
great balls of iron, and, finally, to howl
themselves into epileptic fits on fete
days. He also commands them not to
eat snakes, swallow burning Goals or
crunch glass. The Khedive's order is
regarded in conservative clerical circles
in Egypt as a deadly blow at religious
liberty.
An anti-vaccination riot occurred !
recently in Brighton, England. The |
public vaccinator, whose duty it was |
to prosecute Il batch of persons who had |
refused to be vaccinated, was roughly |
handled on leaving the police court, to |
which the anti-vaccination party had |
accompanied their friends with brass |
band and with flags flying. The person |
who had served the summonses was
likewise assaulted. Several rioters |
were arrested and fined and one was
sent to Jail.
The friends and relatives of the late
Captain Hanning Speke, the great Afri-
can explorer, are very much grieved at
the imputation that Speke put an end
L., 70 Tbo f,af fnl
Captain Speke was out shooting with a
relative, and was attended by game
keeper and other persons. In the act
of climbing over a stone wall his gun
went off, with the fatal results known.
, The Court of Appeals of New York
has decided that bonds issued by the
town of Hancock, Delaware county, in
aid of the New York and Oswego Mid
land railroad are invalid in the hands
of bona fide holder because the law of
1866, under which the bonds purported
to be created, provided that they should
issue only on the consent of 4 majority
of the taxpayers owning or representing
more than half of the property on the
assessment rolls, and that such consent
was not obtained. The assessor had
made affidavit that the necessary con-
sent was given.
The Society for the Propagation of
the Jewish Faith, the headquarters OF
which are at Berlin. estimates the num-
ber of Jews in the world ut from 6, 000,-
600 to 1000, ,000-about the same num-
ber that is-supposed TO have existed in
the time of David There are 100000
i'm Europe, POO, 900 in Asia, 800, 600 in
Africa, and nearly 1000, 900 in Ameri-
ca. Russia has the highest number of
in, hn |
lowest There are said to be more Jews
in Berlin than in all France, and near
ly twice as many as in all Palestine.
The production of good and cheap
dinner by the New Century Cooking
Club, of Philadelphia, was recently de-
scribed. The same same society has
since provided 9-cent dinner for
persons. There were real
ly thirty-twO guests, which reduced the
cost to seven cents heafl, and there
was plenty of food for all. The bill of
fare included pea soup, Irish stew,
rolls, butter, potatoes, pork and beans,
veal croquettes, cold slaw, maccaroni,
rice pudding, apple dumplings and cof-
fee. Nothing was charged, however,
to the account of fuel or labor.
A traveller IN Sonora, Mexico, init
mates that the postal facilities there are
not equal to those of the United States.
He says: Il cannot get a postage stamp
here, though this is a town OF 1,500 in
habitants; if could, and if 1 and the
postmaster obeyed the rules, / should
be obliged to attach it TO the envelope
in his presence and mail it in his office,
for it is contrary to regulations to sell
more than one stamp at time, and a
stamp mailed in any other office than
that which issues il would be worthless
Every stamp should be crossed with
the number of the Office that sells it"
An eminent pianist, having suffered ;
much from the irrepressible converse
ton of drawing-room audiences, de-
vised, the other day, means of giving
q little lesson to the town. He ar I
ra nned with his 1-inIin his uinlincello |