The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
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needs health for his travels.
Prepared chalk" says q medical
Journal, sis remedy for dyspepsia"
Wouldn't hotel milk do just as wellP
Madam" he gallantly observed.
al have an image photographed upon
my heart" Indeed" she said, "a sort
of negative impression of me. I sup
pose
Texas furnished forty Generals, thir-
ty-four being Brigadiers, to the Con-
federate armies. Mrs. Jane Mikell, of
South Carolina, has learned recently
that thirty of the forty are dead
Housekeeper: How can you tell if
an egg is bade One way to tell is to
taste it. If it makes you so sick you
want to die to get rid of the taste, you
can feel pretty sure its bad egg.
Attendant (trying to.be civiD: 'Yes.
miss, your feet are small what ladies'
aren't? But the skates-I never see
such small skates. think it would be
better if you changed with the gent,
/ do"
A ssnotice to vacate'' in Arkansas
need not be served by an officer of the
law. The muzzle of shotgun stick
ing through a front window is invari-
ably taken as due and sufficient notifi-
cation.
Women are rapidly entering the
medical profession. There are forty
two women now studying medicine at
the School of Paris, three of these being
Americans, eighteen English, eleven
French, and ten Russian
s'How does this strike youp" asked
the lightning of the barn.-N Y.
Neys. ..It is electrical, and very
sparklingr' replied the barn. ''But
as I'm down, please do not strike me
againv' Philadelphia Item.
Now the chowder's in the pot, and
the days are getting hot, and we all be-
gin to swelter with a swelt, swelt, swelt.
While the crimson lemonade through
q straw enchants the maid, who dis
plavs a bunch of flowers at her belt,
belt, belt.
1t has been affirmed by DIR. Arnott
that no wave of the ocean rises more
than ten feet from the ordinary sea
level, which, with the ten feet its sur
face afterwards descends, gives twenty
feet for the maximum hight of the en-
tire wave
The man who invented the fifteen
puzzle is now making patterns for the
latest style of oilcloths. The rumor
that he had been struck by lightning.
last summer was a canard, published
by his friends to throw hired assassins
off the track
A London paper asks: SIS this fair
betP If 1 win, you are to keep me In
chocolate creams for a year. Mind.
like the pointed ones. Ii you win. Tli
work you something There is GER
tain vagueness about that something,
though none as to the creams"
Baltimore and New Orleans are the
Gwo cities that have placed a value on
their streets as franchises for horse
RAILWAYS. The latter has secured more
than 81 900, 900 in two years, and the
money is used to extinguish the city
debt Baltimore maintains its Druid
Hill Park from the same source.
There was a young girl Of Eau Claire,
Who was witty, and good, and seau faire:
All the other girls found,
That when she was around,
They were just counted out as neau whaire.
There was an old darkey in Guinea,
He had a big daughter named Muinea;
She fed cufds to the COWS
And hay to the sows-
Ohi How could she be sucn .n nulneaI
bright little girl was sent to get some
eggs, and on her way back stumbled
and fell, making sad havoc with the
contents of her basket. won't you
catch it when you get home, thought"
exclaimed her companion. mo, In
deed, / won't" she answered; 1--WE
got grandmother"
One of Sir Edwin Landseer's pictures
recently brought at London sale the
sum of S14, $50. The auctioneer re-
lated that while Sir Edwin was engaged
upon it Mr.. Millais happened to call
upon him, and the elder painter said
to the Younger, s.If don't live to finish
this picture. you will do it for me-"
Sir Edwin did die, leaving the work
unfinished, and Millais completed it.
While the family of an English of
ficer, Maj. Gen. Byers, were making an.
excursion on the coast in the Leonbes
quarter, one of the daughters, named
Ada, slipped into the sea and disap-
peared. Two others, Lillian and Vio-
let, in endeavoring to rescue her, also
disappeared, and the mother who tried
to save her children, was likewise en-
quilted.
sWhy is it." said Chicago woman
to the proprietor of hotel at Boulogne
sur la mer, whore she was staying"
that American hotels are almost the
only ones that supply their guests with
soap?" Pardon, madam" returned
the polite maitre. eff supposed that
there was any danger of my guests
" tuC taOi6 Will SOllcu AdCc VI
hands, should supply them with soap,
too"
We have rarely seen finer bit of sar-
casm than the following A little Shell
byville boy, who is in the habit of say
ing his prayers before going to bed, the
other night asked his mother, '.Mam-
ma. how long will it be before Pm big
enough to leave off saying my prayers?
You never say yours. do you?' And
the mother said, Little boys shouldn't
ask 50 many questions. Go to sleep,
child.''
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore states that
one evening, twenty years ago, few
ladies, interested in the welfare of
women, discussed the employments
open to the fair sex. They counted
eleven, and could think of no more.
Recently the same ladies repeated the
enumeration. and were able to point
out two hundred and eighty-seven en-
plOyments in which women could en-
gage.
President Eliot. of Harvard, is to be
thanked for keeping open free, this
summer. the museum of comparative
geology, the Peabody Museum, the
botanic garden, the Hemenway Gym
nasium, the university library, the
meteorological cabinet. the now Sever
Hall, and the Memorial Hall and Sand
ers Theatre, and the college buildings
and grounds generally. Moreover, the
museums are to be opened Sunday af-
ternoons from two TO five.
Eight years will measure the actual
time of missionary work in Japan, yet
there are now in that empire 16O mis-
sionaries, SO organized churches, with
5000 memberships. Christian COM