The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-04-07
NEWS BREvrrIEs.

field, Mass, have been told that they
will be suspended If they exchange
significant glances" with the boys.
1t was despicable in Rupe to shoot
Fuller, SO thought the people of Tom
inson, Ark, for Fuller was at the mo-
ment proffering his hand in token of
his desire to be friendly. A mob muir
dered the murderer.
The wife of William Bancroft, of
Marysville, Ohio, obtained a divorce
from him, on the ground of drunken
ness and cruelty, and on the following
day, won over by his promise of reform,
she married him.
Pastor Marsden said to his Methodist
congregation, at Yarker, Ontario, that
If certain members persisted in attend
ing dancing parties they must withdraw
from the church Six persons instantly
stood up and asked for dismissal.
Evangelist Moody emphaticaIly de-
nies that he ever said, as has been re-
ported, that his grandmother having
died without hope in Christ, he knew
she was in hell. The story, he asserts,
is twenty years old, and has been at
tributed to half a dozen minister's
A gentleman not unknown to literary
circles was present at one of the pope's s
receptions The holy father approached
him and said: ''You are an American?
Are. you a Catholic or Protestant"
''Holy father" replied our friend, am
neither Catholic nor u Protestant. 1
am a journalist"
Nothing mads man more than to
come down TO breakfast and have his
wife tell him he has been talking
in his sleep, and refuse to give him
hat be nf ri
science troubles him: oh, no. He is only
after psychological facts.-Lotceu Cttt-
Gull island. at the end of Long Island
Sound, owned by Capt. Brooks. who
keeps the lighthouse, is great breed
ing place for gulls and a source of
profit to its owner, who sells the gullS'
eggs. They have no iishy taste, but,
on the contrary, are superior to hens
eggs, selling for fifty cents a dozen
when the latter are worth only twenty
five
Clarence III. Thayer, the choir master
at St. Peters Episcopal church, Cam
bridge, Mass, refused to conform to the
ritualistic manner in which the Rev.
Edward M. CASHIER conducted the SER
vices, and was therefore compelled to
resign The rector openly accused him
of lying and stealing, and he brought
suit for $50, 600, but recovered only S23.
Berlin has 3.239 sets of apartments
without fireplace or chimney, and
half the population lives in dwellings
with only. one fireplace Privy Coun-
cillor Starke draws shocking pictures
of the immortality that exists in the city.
Drunkenness is attaining alarming pro-
portions. Over 10000 youthful GRIM
tall inf hn
streets out of prison, and more than
5000 are hopeless vagabonds-
A return of offenses other than agrari-
an in Ireland in 1880, presented to the
House of Commons, shows that the to-
tai number of such offenses was 3,084.
OF these nineteen were murder and
forty-four manslaughter. The total
number of cases in all Ireland in which
offenders were convicted was 694; the
number of cases in which offenders
were made amenable but not convicted,
420; the number of offenders awaiting
trial is 155; the number of cases in
which offenders were neither convicted
nor made amenable, 1,S15.
The Western device of a creased pole
in fire engine houses, on which the fire
men slide down, instead of using the
stairways, is ridiculed by officials of the
New York department Cincinnati fire
men respond with defense of the pole
and declare that the celebrity claimed by
the New Yorkers-three seconds be-
tween the first tap of the alarm and
readiness to starts an impossibility.
They gave an exhibition recently, and
the best achievement was twelve sec
onds, the men being in their rooms
when the gong sounded.
A circus proprietor has offered pre-
MUM of so, 900 to the loveliest lady in
America on the condition that she gives
her services for thirty days as the main
participant in a grand daily pageant.
Ii is stated that as beauty, and not tai
ent, IS required, good looks alone will
secure the prize. But what man, or
men. will dare decide the question?
Angelo Neumann, the opera director,
and Maurice Strakosch have contracted
with each other for the performance of
the '.Nibelungen'' representations in
London Neumann is to get $4,000
for his share of the work, and the great
er part of that sum is to be deposited
rs security before starting from Ger
many. Strakosca, Notwithstanding the
price he pays, thinks he is going to
make money out of the venture. Tick
the res;Iit is satisfactory, he may repeat
the venture in the United States.
According to the Hotel H0i1, every
lady of station i'm Austria knows how to
cook. They do not learn the art at
regular cooking clubs or at home, but
they 90 to the house of n prince or rich
banker where there is q famous chef, |
and learn from him. When 4 chef en-
Cages to cook for any one he reserves
the right to receive and instruct as
many young ladies' rs he pieases. |
When a banquet is 10 be given he noti- |
fies his pupils. and they come to watch |
the process. without necessarily know
ing the mistress of the house. At this
time it would be a great breach of eti-
quette for any member of the family to
trespass upon the cook and his depart
ment.
The London Truth reminds those
alarmed at the prospect of Mr.. Glad |
stones coming legislation on the sub
ject of land that the premier is himself
a landlord. Mr.. Gladstone owns nearly
1000 acres in Flint and Lancashire. In
fact, the landed interest is pretty well
represented in the cabinet. The Duke
of Argyll owns 10000 acres, rental
over ESQ, 600; Lord Hartington's father,
20O.O .OO0 acres and ESQ, 600 ayear; Lord
Spencer, $1,000 acres and f46,O n
year; Lord Kimberley. 1000 acres and
f25, 900 year; Lord Northbrook, 10,-
600 acres and f12,O0O; MIR. Dodson,
5000 acres and f3,5 800. Lord Huntly,
who has just enrolled himself in the
ranks of the administration, is lord of
10000 acres and f27, 900 year.
: According to the A1'nuair'e of Brus-
sells Observatory, for 1881, there are at
present 112 public astronomical observ-
atorics in full activity, viz; 81 in
Europe, in Asia, 2 in Africa, 8 in
Oceanica, and 81 in the two Americas.
The United States alone have 19, Mexi-
co has 2, Brazil, Chill, Columbia. Ecua-
dor, the Argentine Republic, and New
Britain, one each. In Europe, Prussia
is the State which has most public OBJ