The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-02-17

600 for the purpose of renovating and
completing the Roman Catholic cathe
dral in Philadelphia.
1t is asserted that Amos Perkins, of
Unity, n. H., was the oldest man to
speak from a political platform in the
late campaign. He is 92 years old.
They claim to have parrot in Cow
entryville, Chester county, Pa, known
to be sixty years old. 1t has been own
ed by members of one family for that
length of time.
Representative Alexander H. Steph-
ems is so fond of whist that he supports
on his plantation an old gentleman to
make out the four persons needed to
play the game.
A dueling bill has been passed by the
South Carolina Senate, with an addi-
tional section providing that it shall not
affect indictments now pending or Of
fenses committed before its passage.
The State of New Jersey offers 800 to
every free public school in the State
with which to start library, upon con-
dition that the district raises as much
more. And 80 is added yearly upon
the same condition.
A magnificent white oak stands in the
Quaker burying- ground in Salem, N. j.
1t is more than 200 years old, and is re-
markable for its amplitude of shade. In
one direction its branches have a spread
of 112 feet.
Mrs. Heingartner gave a generous
breakfast to a tramp ut Canton, o., and
he rewarded her by pocketing some
spoons. She intercepted him at the
gate, shot u bullet through the stomach
which she had enabled him to fill, and
recovered the silverware.
The tallest trees in the world arc in
Australia. A fallen tree in Gippsland
measured 435 feet from the root to the
highest point of the branches. Anoth-
er, standing in the Dundenong district
in Victoria, is estimated to be $50 feet
from the ground to the top.
When the Sultan of Turkey goes to
prayer on Fridays he is attended with
much ceremony. Soldiers form in line
and national bands discourse music be-
fore his appearance and while the state
carriages are filling. Liveried officers
sprinkle the streets.
A Boston man heard burglar at
work at one of his windows, and tele-
| phoned for "a policeman. The question
came back: .'What do you want po-
liceman for Mt this time of night? ?''
| While he was endeavoring to explain
the burglar became alarmed and made
his escape.
DIR. John ID. Gray, Superintendent of
the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, has
been chosen an associate member of the
Medico-Physiologic society of Paris.
Six years ago he was elected to the So
cieta Freniatrica Italina, and two years
later TO the British Medico-Physiologic
association.
In twenty years the yield of the Com
stock lode has been 1925, 600, 600 worth
of bullion. The length of shafts and
galleries is two hundred and fifty miles.
Three hundred and sixty million tons
of waste rock have been hoisted, and
l, $50, ,OO0,O 900 tons of water pumped to
the surface.
Lord Dufferin has been writing an
exhaustive pamphlet on the Irish land
question, to aid the Cabinet in its delib-
erations. He has already written one
in 1860, in which he opposed the crea-
ton of peasantry proprietary, in op-
position to the views of Stuart Mill, but
he has altered his views since then.
| Dublin is eminently garrison town,
and the terrors of Boycotting are almost
| chtiTeiS IoSt III tne uellSHl experienced
at the return of the guards. which that
process has necessitated. The guards
are chiefly composed of younger menu
bers of the arislocracy, and Dublin re-
| joices in live lord. When last quar-
tered there at the time of the Fenian
troubles, the guards gave fancy ball
and several other brilliant feteS. SINH
lir engagements are now hoped for.
The law of California provides that
the same pay shall be given for similar
work, whether done by men or women;
and, rs Il consequence, the women vice
| principals in the San Francisco schools
receive rs much pay as the male vice
principals. 1t is said by the Alta that
| proposition is under consideration to
give the title of master to male vice
principals, and thus enable them to
draw higher pay.