The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-12-01
ALL SORTS.

new ScnOOi-nOuSeS, WAS ?l,OC3,O".
: The two Siamese princes before leav-
jng Paris. bought $50 pianos for their
brothers harem.
Six hundred snags and logs have
been pulled out of the upper part of
Red river of Louisiana by the snagg-boat
Wagner since the middle of August.
Wolves are appearing in great num-
bers i'm the east of Franco. A pack
recently devoured fifteen sheep and a
goat close TO a country house.
The Shah of Persia has sent to the
emperor Francis Joseph the Order OF
the Sun, set in diamonds, as gift TO
the Princess Stephanie.
A Pennsyiyanian has leased ten thou
sand acres of land near Woodbury..
Canton county. Tenn, and will bore
for oil.
The water of the Hudson river at
Poughkeepsie has been pronounced un-
fit for drinking. but the people pay no
more attention to this fact than If IL
was announced unfit for firewOod.
1t was u Boston lad who. walking one
day with his guardian, saw a drunken
soldier lying in the street, and pointing
to the recumbent figure, remarked:
Papa, l guess he doasn't belong to the
standing army"
Conversation on seaside hotel We
randa between a young man and an
elderly guest: Young mani must
have seen you somewhere. sir?" Elder
1y gent-..Very likely; L am pawn
broker"
A deposit of iron ore has been found
near Williamson. Va, which is believed
to he the most extensive yet discovered
in Allegheny county-"enough to run
half dozen furnaces like Longdale
and1Iowmoor for n thousand years"
A Young man in San Antonio. Tex,
has been punished severely for defam-
ing young lady of that city. The
victim of his evil tongue went for the
scandal monger on the street corner
and horsewhipped him severely.
A Young man of San Antonio, Tex.
fractured his jaw bone SO completely
that Ibis attending physicians drilled
holes through the bones and bound
them back into place by means of
thread wire.
Over 40 per cent. of the imports at
San Francisco in August is credited to
China and Japan. A large portion of
these imports, however, is in transit
for markets in the Atlantic states, and
San Francisco gets very little benefit
from tile movement.
The gas Company of New Bedford,
Mass, encourages the use OF gas stoves
in that city by leasing the stoves and
making connection with the pipes with
out cost. In four years they in this
manner let ever four hundred stoves
from June to November.
During the present season 47,414, 064
pounds of salmon have been canned on
The Pacific coast. The future of the
business in that region depends largely
upon the results of the seasons foreign
shipments. regarding which much in
terest and some natural anxiety are
felt
An Austrian engineer has been max
ing experiments in blasting rocks under
water in the Danube. He places a
cylinder containing dynamite on the
rock, and explodes it by means of an
electrical apparatus. The rock is shat
tered, when the dynamite explodes. into
fragments so small that they are wash
ed away by the stream. The process is
said to save 40 per cent. in tho cost of
removing submerged rocks.
A sad case of bereavement occurred
in Atlanta. Ga A daughter of 4 widow
lady died and was taken to Augusta for
interment- While absent another of
her children had died. This one was
taken 10 the same place for burial by
the grandmother, and ere she returned
q third child was stricken down and
died in a few hours.
Electricity is now employed in the
rectiiication of inferior alcohol. The
electricity generated by Voltaic bat
terry and Il dynamo electric machine is
N.
disengage the superiluOus hydrogen.
By this means beeiroot alcohol, which
is usually very poor, can be made to
yield 80 per cent. of spirits. equal to
that OBJ aimed from the best malt.
The London Lancet says, speaking of
cliurcl-bclIs: s.They are an intolerable
and most misunderstanding nuisance.
To tie sick their ding-,long and jangle
are u serious annoyance, and we do not
hesitate 10 say that in many cases the
loss of rest and the disquietude they
produce not only lessen the chance of
recovery, bat may expedite a fatal
issue"
The Imagination seems To have full
play in the Catskills, where it is said
Garfield face is as clearly and distinct
ly drawn against the blue sky by the
irregulariy undulating boundary of the
Catskilis, as if u faithful artist had
traced its A number of people are said
to have seen the apparition, while pass
ing the '.Reclining Giant or the '.Man
in the Mountains on the river.
The Chicago Tribune treasures timid
travellers. frightened by the recent
train robbcries, as follows: '.The
trouble on the Alton railroad is only
temporary. A number of fine safety
deposit cars are now being built, and
when they are completed no fear of
train robbers need be felt. Each pas
senger will be locked in u chilled steel
casket before the train reaches Missouri,
and on reaching the state line will be
unlocked and set at liberty again by
officials of the road stationed at that
point. 1t is believed that, by adopting
this plan, tine James boys will eventual
ly be obliged TO work for living"
A home for Incorporate women was
established in Boston three years ago
by good woman who was deeply
moved by the unfortunate condition of
some of her sisters, and she has carried
it on successfully aud to a point where
it needs TO be enlarged. In the three
years 374 incorporate women have
been under her care, but the greater
portion of them are now leading sober.
Industrious, and respectable lives.
Most of her patients are poor. others
are able to pay for their board. The
inmates labor constantly for their own
support. A laundry and a sewing
room are established in the home,
where work is well done.
Very little has yet been said or writ
ten about the latest and most audacious
net of vandalism which long-sufiering
world has been called to endure. This
is nothing less atrocious than the intro
duction of steamboats, on the Grand
canal of Venice. The triumphs of
practical age have left few spots invest
ell with the peculiar beauty and fascin-
alton which belonged to the world
when it was younger, and one of those
few spots is, or assuredly was, Venice.
The presence of the Steamboats, tends
TO the rapid extinction of the gondolas,
and when the gondolas have disappear
ed from the canals of Venice very little
Of the poetry of motion will be left on
earth.