The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-12-08

| HAS uO" f,CO1 PuOiAS oShOoios
and has gained $1,000 in attendance
since last year. She has school pop
ulation Of 314,S27 white and 24O. $50
colorcd, and The vsluo OF her school
property is 81. III. .s44. Sc.
Two of the crew of Gloucester fish
ing vessel were lost in fog last July
while attending their travis on Grand
Banks. One day recently they arrived
home. having been picked up by an
outward bound ship and taken to Eu-
rope.
It is claimed that Accomac and
Northampton counties, in Virginia,
have the best soil for peaches that is
known in this country. There are
peach trees living and bearing there
now which were planted in 1916.
A widow at tho West, intending to
succeed her husband in the manage
ment of q hotel. advertises that 1.-The
hotel will be kept by the widow OF the
former landlord, Mr.. Brown, who died
last summer on q new and improved
plan"
The firemen of Canton, O., receive 40
cents an hour for the time they are on
duty This is noble. The fireman who
wouldn't risk his life saving other peO-
pie chairs and feather beds for 40 cents
an hour has no enthusiasm in his ma
Iture.
The Spanish government is shout to
carry out project of forming military
colonies in Cuba, composed Of officers
and men whose terms of service have
Iexpired. They will receive grants Of
Ilaud and money for the purchase of
necessary implements, and will be liza
BILE TO be called up in case of invasion
or civil war.
Important works of establishment
are now being made in the Cour du
lMurier, Mt the Palais des Beaux-Arts.
The busis Of all the former professors
and directors of the school will be
lplaced OIL pedestals on each side of
Henri Regnault's monument; those Of
Ballard, Dubois and David Leroy are
already set up.
Congressman Cox writes to tho New
York Sun from Constantinople: EVERY
year the Turkish Empire is winnowed
for the handsomest young lady to adorn
the Sultan's place MS new wife. The
mother of tho Sultan selects from the
bevy of beauties gathered from 'silken
Samarcand to cedared Lebanon One
Of the singular laws of royal marriages
here is that the wife becomes the slave,
when married. to his Majesty. Whye
Because the Crown Prince. or future
Sultan, must be born slave himself,
and thus less in rank than the free peo.
pie of the realm he governs.
According to the London World. the
first cause of tie animosities between
regiments has always been difficult to
trace; but the bad blood'' circulatos
through generations of recruits. There
are two distinguished corps in her maj
esty's service whose men mover lose an
opportunity of pumneling each other
when an opportunity offers itself. and
the only reason which can be assigned
for this is tradition that some officers
of the one had been insulted by an Off
A mule with artificial ears was an at
traction at Knoxville, Tenn, recently.
The Chronicle says the old kicker had
the misfortune to he raised in North
Carolina family In which feud existed,
and the spite Of one party against the
other was visited upon tho innocent
brute by clipping his ears close to his
head. The artificial oars were made of
calfskin, crisped in tho shape of natural
ones and so attached to the bride rs
to flap qfite we'll.
A curious mass of insects has heen
disco vered by hunters near Eugene,
Orc. They say that every bush. treo
and shrub is completely covered, and
stripped Of every vestigo OF foliage by
thousands of ca,erpillars Of all sizes un-
der an inch and half long. A hunter
passing along the trail soon wears q
coat of these insects, and his gun is
covered with them.
Edward Maud, well-known and
successful business man of Los Angeles
county, Cal, was sorting wool, some of
which had been clipped from scabby
sheep, and was consequently poisonous.
After handling this infected wool ho
touched a portion of his person which
was bleeding. inoculating himself with
the poison, and died of lis effects.
In 1860 there were in Groat Britain
only nine art schools, with nearly 500
Students; now there nre l. 400 schools,
with nearly 5000 students. and nearly
81, 600 students have received the BEN
efits of tho classes. Last year there
were 10000 examples of students
work examined, all being offered in
competition for tho government prizes.
art schools and classes, and 8S7. $50
pupils received instruction in element
airy drawing.
gan estimates, from reports of corres-
pondents from 624 towns, that the
wheat raised in that State this year will
aggregate 1S, O85. 92O bushels, or an av-
eraye Of 10 and 15-1OO bushels on an
acreage of 1.781. 1865. His returns also
show for corn an acreage of about 101
per cent, for oats 104 per cent, barley
50 per cent. and for hay 1O3 per cent.
of tho acreage in 1880. The yield of
! corn per acre is estimated Mt 80 per
cent. of the yield in 1880. indicating to.
tai product OF 36.519.773 bushels of
ears. The yield of oats per acre is re-
ported at "a bushels. indicating total
yield of 81. .045. 386 bushels. Barley is
estima ated at % aud $40 bushels. and
hay at and 2-10 tons per acre.
A small shark was lately caught off
the south coast, and was exhibited at
well known watering place. in small
tent, outside Of which was a placard,
with the rough sketch of q marine
monster. inscribed, ''Mun-eating shark.
Admission pence" Two yokels
the mass of decaying fish. Crowds
came and went, but still the yokels
they went up to the exhibitor and said:
when will the man begin?" .What
manP Begin whatP" queried the an
cient mariner. ''Why, when will the
man begin to eat tho sharkP" said one
yokcl. mo man amt going to eat any
shark. They amt lit to eat," said the
old sailor. ''Well rm blowed! Thon
what do you mean by putting up no.
tice that you show "a man eating sharka'
Come on, Bill; thought it was hum
bug. - GidSgOW Erentng Times
Scientific tests of the cements of
Travis apd Rsxor oount;ao Tax o,od;t