The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-05
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NEWS BREVTTIB.

towns have elected women as superin-
tendents of schools.
1t is alleged that the oysters found
off the Texas coast are the largest and
finest in the world. :
Canadian papers report an unusually
large demand for horses. particularly for
export to this country and to Manitoba.
Making barrel slaves is said to be a
new industry In Texas. "A contract to
make LOG. 600 has been taken by a gen.
tleman of Jasper.
The new. church at Hawoth, which
stands on the site of an old building so
closely associated with the Bronte fam
lily, has been consecrated.
The town and county of Dallas Tex,
were named (about 1S46) after George
nj. Dallas, vice-president of the United
States.
The money order department of the
New York postoffice handled SOL ,O0O,-
600 in cash last year. The orders aver
aged S13O.
Young Brown could not lift one end
of heavy timber at Unionvile, Ohio,
and old Brown, aged 20, showed
him how to do it, but killed himself
in so doing.
A complaint somewhat like the Nj
agara Falls cry comes from Boston,
where it il asserted that there is scarcely
a spot in The city, adjoining the sea, to
which the public has free access.
Upward of 1920 young girls are at
present attending the painting and
drawing classes in state and municipal
schools in France, while 1,96O are stu
dying music in the various colleges
An agreement has been reached in
the case of Lewis the Hoboken miser,
who left : million to the United States
government The government gives up
q fourth qfthe estate to the heirs
The total humber of periodicals pub
lished in the United States at the Begin
ming of the present year was 10. 131,
Louisiana has had three cabinet Of
ficers, as follows. 1881, Edward Living
ston, secretary of state; 1850, Charles
NJ. Conrad, secretary of war; 1881,
William IL Hunt secretary OF the navy.
Harvard is q pushing university.
President Eliot says that for pressing
needs-that is needs which are clearly
calculateis 4 and foreseen and recog-
nized, ~ Harvard viii, in the near fu-
tuIt, VAIL &O,OoOsOOO AAAoA
A fierce dog ran after Emma Grutz-
rier, q bright little 1f-year old girl of
San Antonio,- and when the brute
reached the horror-stricken child she
fell lifeless to the earth. She was alb
solutely frightened to death
The New Haven Journal tells story
of a young woman from the back coun-
try who attempted to enter n car on the
II ~ Har--
self through a window, supposing that
to be the only means of ingress.
The Dominion parliament house at
Ottawa has an open bar in the base
ment, and an attempt is being made to
close it. If the movement succeeds the
bar-keeper will use tea cups instead OF
tumblers.
White labor is badly needed in South
Carolina. A gentleman of Due West,
Abbeville county,. has applied to the
South Carolina commissioner of immi-
grafton for ten families to be employed
by himself and responsible friends.
The French government proposes to
employ the electric light in forty-two
lighthouses along the coast, where oil
has till now been used. Up to the pres
ent time there are but seven electric
IOHl-uOuccS III tilO --WOL1d, ILL &C VI
which belong to France.
The late Thomas Brassey, '.Englands
wealthiest son SO far. at least. as per-
sonal property was concerned, was ma
tive of Cheshire, and his sons have lately
restored the southeast angle of the cath
edral in his memory. MIR. Brassey be-
queathed to his eldest son his modest
patrimontal estate, farm in Cheshire,
but divided $50, GOO between the
three.
A corporation has been recently or
ganized in Boston, with a capital of
81 200, 900, to finish the bottoms of
boots and shoes by a new invention. 1t
is claimed that by the aid of the ma
chine six hundred to eight hundred
boots can be finished by one operator
in one day, where one hundred and fif-
ty to two hundred are now done by
hand.
One Herr Won Rodt, the son of a Prot
estant minister at Berne,s who fought
in the Austrian cavalry in 1866 and in
the f1uncs-tire,,1,s in 1870, has rented
the island of Juan Fernandez from the
Chilian.. government, and established
there colony to supply whalers with
vegetables and meat.
treaty between Italy and Roumania, to
get over the objections of the latter
country to capital punishment, is be-
Heved to contain a special agreement
on the part of King Humbert to COM
mute any capital sentence passed upon
a criminal extradited from Roumania.
The teachers of New York and Brook
lyn are making an effort to pass bill
through the legislature to pension the |
teachers of the two cities after twenty |
five years service; or if disabled by |
sickness or accident while teaching, |
after fifteen years service, the pension |
not to be less than one-half the salary |
received at the time of retirement, and |
the pension money to be raised in the |
same manner as teachers salaries.
Theodor Billroth, the illustrious pupil |
Of Langenbeck, has performed another
deed in surgery He removed cancer
from the stomach of woman, formed |
n healthful, if reduced, stomach, and |
had the great fortune of saving his
patient. Such an operation has been
performed but once before on a human
being, and then with disastrous re-
suit. But some animals have been thus
treated successfully, notably by Gussen-
bauer, Whitewater and Czerny. Bill
roth's patient had sleep, was able to
take milk, and suffered no pain beyond |
a feeling of general dibelity. The pa
tients appearance, according TO the
latest accounts, was favorable.
Not long ago Deacon Lewis Hunt, of
the Peekskill(N, Y.) Reformed church,
visited Herman Forces house and
while there, so it is reported, took a
drink of liquor. At q subsequent meet
ing in the church, Force thought he
would get joke on the deacon, and so
he said, right out loud: ..Well Deacon,
how do you like my rum?" The deacon
denied having drank it, and caught the
young man by the nose, which he
twisted SO that Force followed with
pain. LASTLY, the deacon walked him
out of the church. The young man
brought an action AGAINST the deacon