The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-04-14
NEWS BREVITIES.

Melbourne, Australia, consists of 424
members, twenty-one of whom repre-
sent the United States.
California vine-growers say that the
wines produced in that state will ere
long drive French wines out of the mar
ket in the Eastern states.
English sporting papers are full of
advertisements from gentlemen giving
up game preserving who are anxious to
find places for their gamekeepers.
A cotton fair is to be held in Atlanta,
Ca, next October, at which the raw
material and the various machines used
in its cultivation and manufacture will
be exhibited.
A school for teaching chambermaids
and other house servants has been es-
tahlished at Milan; SO far it has worked
very smoothly, and Milanese house.
keepers have high hopes of the future.
Canada is determined to keep prize
fighters from crossing the line to have
out their ''mills," and the Ottawa house
of commons has erected Il Sl0O fine and
imprisonment rs a barrier.
A Paris manufacturer claims to have
discovered aprocess for substituting the
leaves of the eucalyptus tree, which in
burning emit delicious perfume, for
tobacco leaves in making cigars.
An English authority says that reform
is much needed in the American rail
way system as respects safety, speed,
and punctuality, Strengthening the
lines and building them better, he
thinks, would yield the desired results.
One of the most celebrated authors of
Paris is thus viewed by his barber:
'.He comes here nearly every day. i. He
likes to look well, but as for brains,
judge for yourself. He might enjoy
my conversation: he prefers to read
the paper"
Some of the citizens of Boston are
complaining that certain non-resdents
are trying to secure charter for an
elevated railroad in that city, not in
the interests of the city, but wholly in
the expectation of large pecuniary
gains to themselves.
An Italian offered to bet German in
St. Louis SO that the latter could not
drink ten schooners of beer without
stopping. The bet was accepted and
the beer duly drank, but half an hour
later the fatherland had lost one of its
children.
A heartless Montreal landlord turned
a man, his wife, and seven children
into the street when the thermometer
was Is degrees below zero. The victim
was recently arrived Englishman,
unable to get place and robbed of his
usual income by the failure of creditor
in England.
The Colorado (Tex.) Citizen has dis
covered another of the signers of the
Texas declaration of Internationally.
B. Scates, nearly so years old, and still
able to do light work on his farm. Mr.
Scates thinks that besides Dr.. c. b.
Stewart, another still lives in the per-
son of John w. Blunt, of San Angus
tine.
Frost seems to have no effect on Paris
duel1ists, Paul de Braulien and Viscount
Maiden settling difficulty with swords
recently when the centigrado ther-
mometer registered II degrees below
zero. They fought in their shirt sleeves,
too, and Maiden got hit in his right
shoulder before their ''honah'' was sat
isfied.
Lord Campbell fell in love for the
first time ut Il, and though rejected,
wrote to friend: Il can only say, with
Gibbon, that feel dearer to myself for.
having been capable of this elegant and
refined passion" How much more
should the Baroness Burdett-Coutts be
pleased with her romantic self, asks the
Toronto Globe.
The North Carolina legislature has
. passed a bill providing for the publica-
ton of roll of the North Carolina
troops in the late war. The duty of
collecting the names has been deleo at
ed to Major Moore, the historian. In
addition to this work he will add other
facts descriptive of the movements of
each regiment during the war.
In forty years the imports OF, BRUSH
India have risen from the value of eight
millions sterling to that of ffty-three
millions. The exports have advanced
from twelve to sixty-seven millions
sterling. The imports from the United
Kingdom are valued at thirty millions
sterling per annum. The exports
amount to twenty-eight millions.
In the Lipp-Schaumburg forest at
Turbs, in Hungary, peculiar animal
was recently shot, which was at first
supposed to be a very powerful fox.
The Vienna biologists, however, have
shown that it is q cross between q wolf
and fox. Its form is that of fox,
Dul IL HIS lUc COiOI VI IL WOIl.
A woman died in the medical college
hospital at Nashville, Tenn, recently,
who is said to have twice enlisted in the
regular army during the war, and to
have served for some months each time
before her sex was discovered. Her
name was Jennie Robinson, but she was
more familiarly known as ''Soldiers
Charley"
The following are the principal items
in the permanent property in the city
of Paris: Churches. syna"ogues and
other places of worship, POP, 17S. 134f.;
cemeteries, 80, 500. S46f.; theatres, H.
130, ,O64f.; parks, squares, and nurser-
les, 272, ,3O3, 031f.; statues and foun-
tains, 3,233, 7O5f. The total value of
the property of the city is 1,059, 62S,-
S79f,
Stillmann B. Allen, of Boston. has
just distributed $500 in prizes to Maine
boys under Is years of age who have
raised the most Indian corn on one
eighth of an acre in the past season.
More than six hundred boys in all parts
of the State competed, and the first
prize, $500, was awarded to Frank E.
Small, of Stockton, who raised 2, ,246
pounds.
Three islands in the Hudson. near
Albany, known as Hillhouse island,
Draker island, and Island Park. and
an aggregate of 260 acres,
have recently been purchased by Mr..
Erastus Corning, for the purpose, it is
said. of a dumping ground for the i'm
mense quantities of cinders, scale, Stag
and ashes coming from the Albany and |
Rensselaer, steel and iron works.
There are in the United States, ac-
to the census report, 25, 52O, 5S2
males and "a, ,642, 2S4 females. The ma
tives number As, ,475, 500 and the foreign
born 6,677, $50. There are So, 304, ,S77
CATTLE colored, 105,463 Chi
nese, and 255 other Asiatics. There
are 15, 15S colored persons to each 10O,-
300 whites, against Il, ,52S in 1870, and
}6, 519 females to every 100000 males,
against 97.S01 in 1870.
A u,aar old lo6v iuct daad in Rar1i,