The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-06-09

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- Rsv. Dr. Crosby has received several
gros1 insults at the hands of students OF
the New York University, of which be
y Chancellor.
Russian monasteries seem TO be In ..
perilous state The trial of a monk for
the murder of another monk has brought
out some damaging testimony concern
ing moral and pecuniary matters.
Bfr. Joseph Cook has decided to r.
main abroad for another season, and
will then return to America by way Of
India and Japan. He has had exceed
ingly large audiences at his lectures
throughout Great Britain. He is about
to give another series OF lectures in
London
lGinnesota has new law permitting
teachers In the public schools to give
daily Instruction in social science, good
morals, and patriotism. Thirty topics
are specified, such as health, honesty.
industry, and chastity, but none of them
are distinctly religious.
The consumption of opium is rapidly
Increasing in San Francisco. There
ara 400 places where opium is sold. and
each one of them receives an income
nveraging 375 day from the traffic.
The religious and secular press are cal
ling attention to the matter.
A ferocious bloodhound was added to
. New England s'Uncle Toms Cabin
company He was expected to chase
Haley with simulated ferocity, but on
his debut, 1T Providence, he bit the fu-
zitive in earnest. This was q valuable
advertisement for the show, but it al
most cost the life of the actor.
In England there is Just now a curl
ous rage for one style of dressing the
hair. It is very simple and very ugly.
Imagine pretty blonde who has shorn
the sides and top of her head until the
golden locks are about three inches
long, curled into bushy mass, parted
1t on ono side, and coiled the remainder
of her crowning glory into q light little
knot on the naps of her neck.
A Cleveland man sold q finger to .
surceon to be transferred to q wealthy
pstieut's incomplete hand. The price
was 800. Halt was paid down on ann
putation, and the other half has become
the subject OF lawsuit The other
owner demands its return in default OF
payment. and the question arises wheth-
or Judge can order it cut OF the hand
of the present owner. .ts ,1
Col Forney says: j. T. Raymond told
me the other day, that while playing
Z Col. Sellers in London, he received .
dozen or more letters asking the mean
ing of the word appropriation" in the
phrase 81 go in for the American nag
and an appropriation" After while
they found out "appropriation" meant
the same as Parliamentary grant, !"
and then they saw the point of it Iii,l
Hodscha-Ahmet,w who was sentenced
In Imprisonment for life for having
translated the Bible into Turkish, and
Tor having circulated it in the States OF
the Sultan, escaped from the prison at
Chic after the earthquake. The prison
was thrown down by the violence OF the
shock, but Hodscha-Ahmet was not
~hurss He msnagea 70 got ON board an
English vessel anchored in the harbor,
and b Is now IN London. "a
! 1 The Honne for Intemperate Women
in Bostol has, Since its opening in JAN
uary Of last year, furnished shelter and
care for over 800 women The institu-
ton, though unsectarian, is conducted
a. Christian home. A laundry and
sewipp-room enable the inmates 70 pay
part for the benefit they receive The
institution has Just been incorporated
under the State laws, the corporatOrs
including, among others. Mrs julia
Ward Howe and Mrs. James I. Fields
Denver, Col. has populations of less
than so, zoo, but it includes six men who
are worth from 81. 600, 900 to IS. 900, 600
each, twenty who,are worth $500. 600.
and 200 who represent $3.50, 900 in their
own right Mining fortunes, however,
have way of vanishing, a. they are
usually reckoned by calculating the out
nut of a mine as q dividend, when in
7act it is q payment off the principal.
Denver. has. besides its batch Of rich
men. six widows whose combined for
tunes aggregate eS. .OO0. 0O0. q
The Trustees of the Maine Agricultu-
raj College announces that they will be
compelled to charge tuition fec Of
$50 per year hereafter. because of the
failure of the State Legislature to make
adequate provision for the support of
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