The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-06
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Captain Nye, who commanded the
steamer Stonington at the time OF the
Narragansett disaster, is now mem
Der of the police force of Providence,
r. l.
The first newspaper set up in North
America was in Boston, on the 25th OF
September, 1890. 1t was named Pub-
lick Occurrences, both Foreign ana
Domestick. Only one number is known
to have been printed
The year 1881 will be an eventful one
for the imperial families of both Aus
tria and Germany, as its first three
months will not have elapsed before the
heirs to the thrones of both empires
have entered into the bonds OF matrl-
mony.
The special school at Constantinople
for the advanced instruction of girls
and the training of teachers and gov
ernesses has for its principal the widow
of Hungarian officer who was in the
Turkish service. The public schools
are free TO girls as well as boys.
The British War office authorities
have now detailed whole company of
the Royal engineers for instruction in
the art of military ballooning. A very
small detachment had, until this change
was made, been engaged in balloon ex-
periments.
The question has been asked, why it
is considered impolite for gentlemen TO
90 into the presence of ladies in their
shirt sleeves, while it is considered In
every way correct for the ladies them
selves to appear before gentlemen with
out sleeves at all.
MANY farmers and especially farmers
sons cannot rid themselves OF the fas-
cination of breeding horses for speed.
1t is well for them to bear III mind that
weight, endurance and strength are
what are most needed on the farm, and
that speed is not compatible with those
qualities.
As early as the reign of Phillip II. of
Spain Q544-159S) a canal across the
Isthmus of Panama was proposed, but
in view of a possible national monopoly
Ibis majesty decreed that no one should
attempt or even'propose such an under
taking. under pain of death.
Oil CITY, Pa, is claimed by the heirs
of the Indian chief. Cornplanter. The
site was originally purchased from him
in 1908, but its purchasers, being un-
able to pay for it, reconveyed three
hundredkRcres of it, to which his heirs
yet claiH title They propose to test
the matter in the courts
The practice obtains in England Of
calling trains by special name, as
1.-The Wild 1rishman" or 1.-The Flying
Scotchman.r The third-class train
from London to Lancashire still arrives
daily at Preston, and after the lapse OF
nearly quarter of q century bears the
name of 1.-The Polka"
Steel engraved pictures are now
placed in the corners of note sheets and
correspondence cards, and all the CO.
Quetries known to the engraver are
practiced to make them look like pen
and ink drawings pasted in their places.
The designs are usually landscapes, but
there are some groups of flowers on
palettes and few birds among them
A free-lunch fiend was fatally pois-
oned in Boston by eating some cheese
on the bar which he afterward learned
had been compounded with some rat
poison Neither the mans name nor
the saloon are known, he having died
in drug store before an antidote could
be given.
Four million two hundred thousand
TONS of hot water, averaging 13J : Fab
renheit, are annually pumped from the
Comstock mines. To heat this mass of
water by artificial means would require
consumption of over $4,000 tons of
coal year. The water from some of
the deepest shafts, 5000 feet, has a
temperature of 157 deg. Fahrenheit.
Mummies were certainly made in
Egypt some 1000 years before the
Christian era began. The body of the
patriarch Jacob Che died B. c. 1889
was embalmed and deposited in the
IL Il So .I,I
son Joseph, who died before Christ
1855, was embaImed in Egypt, by his
own desire, and his descendants re-
moved his remains, and, during the
Exodus, buried them in Shechem-
The ..Parisian'' tells of woman who
found ont a way to prevent wrinkles.
She squeezed out the juice from the
bulbs of several white lilies until she
Lad obtained about seventy grammes
of liquid, To which she added an equal
quantity of the best honey, and thirty
five grammes Ofpure white melted wax.
These substances, being well mixed,
formed pOmade, with which she deli
cately rubbed her face night and morn
ing.
Mile. Hubertine Auciert, the cele-
brated French advocate of wOman's
rights, is described AS blue-eyed bru
nctte of distinguished appearance and
delicate features. Her age is about %.
She is the daughter of a rich landhOlder,
and was educated i'm a convent She is
not q brilliant orator, but earnest, sin
cere and energetic She possesses a
handsome patrimony, and lives on her
income.
The statue of Jeanne dare, at Com
piegne, the town where she was taken
-, Il,
and represents Jeanne holding stand
ard in one hand and pointing to the
enemy with the other. The sculptor is
Nj. Leroux. The government cast the
work in bronze and presented it to the
town of Compiegne, which has had it
erected in front of the belfry, almost on
the spot where ''Jehanne'' was taken
prisoner by the Picardy archer who was
in the service of the English.
The estate of William Birks Rhodes.
called the Hounslow miser, who died in
1873, has lately been wound up. 1t re-
allied the sum of f7S,000 from invest
ments, chiefly in gas shares, and was
bequeathed in equal parts to the Life
boat institution and the Royal hospital,
Gray's-I road. The sale of the effects
in the residence of the deceased realized
Is Us, and the sum of f100 has been
received by each of the five neXt-of-kin
from the above named institutions in
full of all demands.
4 cave in eastern Tennessee is two
miles in length, and has openings at
both ends. The owners of the ground
around each entrance charged for adj
mission, and acted As guides for visit
ors. Their rivalry led to serious fights
in the cave, for each held the other to
be itrespasser. Then one of the con-
testants hit upon novel and effective
means of running the others business.
He sunk shaft so as to admit large
stream into the cave at about the GEN.
tire, and, as there was an incline in a
favorite direction, the water poured out
at the enemy's portal, while his own
was unobstructed. The matter is to be
made the subject of lawsuit.
Some of the most eminent scientific