The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

prepared for presentation to the 1mpe-
rial Parliament.
A San Francisco merchant says that
he picks up from six to n dozen pistol
bullets on his fiat roof every year,
striking illustration of the number OF
chance shots fired in the city.
The Due d'Aumale is receiving sue
cession of large parties at the Chateau
of Chantilly The Countess de Paris
and the Duchess de Chartress act as
hostess, turn and turn about.
A bill against dueling, introduced in
to the South Carolina Legislature, pro-
vides the death penalty for the survivor
and imprisonment and fines for whoever
carries the challenge and sees the fight
The price which England is to be
called upon to pay out of the pockets OF
the English, Scotch, and Welsh taxpay-
ers, IN order to settle forever the dis
quieting Irish land question, is. accord
! ing to the Statist, the very modest
amount of 81 SOC, ,000,0 600.
The fires of last spring in the swamps
of southern New Jersey had the effect
of producing the biggest cranberry crop
ever known. Growers bewailed their
certain ruin, but the fires SO enriched
the ground that the plants have pro-
duced treble in quantity and quality.
The committee of the Spinners' asso-
citation of Fall River, offer a reward of
$25 to any minor or woman who will
give testimony that will convict any
corporation of violation of the ten-hour
law. They claim that violation of the
law is quite general with the manufac-
turers, while the latter deny it.
There is nothing in the world equal
to fashionable enterprise, says the New
York Mail. A well known and very
ambitious lady of Murray Hill has sent
to China for a certain rare kind of tea
which she proposes to serve at kettle
drum.
A New York florist recently charted
a car to send a piece of decorative work
to a Cleveland wedding. 1t was bow
er of matched straw, fifteen feet high,
and studded with roses and trimmed
with wreaths.
A curious new club is about to be es-
tabiished in Albert terrace, Knights
bridge, London. 1t is TO be founded by
bachelors, who are To be allowed to in
yite ladies to dinner. When member
marries he is to be permitted to retain
his membership on payment OF fine OF
% guineas.
For St Paul's cathedral, London, a
bell weighing ten or twelve tons is
wanted. The largest bell hanging
there at present weighs only five tons,
and the dean and chapter say that this
is intolerable. They have already col
lected 81, $50 for q new bell, and they
wish to double the amount.
The Cape Cod Canal company, which
has been reorganized at Boston, will
make a practical survey of the line soon.
Before beginning work 1t must reim-
burse the old company for its expendi-
lures, assume the responsibility for land
damages, and must have bona fide sub
scriptions of $500, 900 worth of stock, of
which $500, GOO shall be paid in.
The Rev. DIR. Voolfolk, Baptist min
lister Mt Versailles, KY, thinks that he
has discovered the location of the infer
nal regions. He says that every star is
a burning world. Our sun is one of the
smaller of these stars, and is far adj
vanced in the process of combustion.
The white stars have a still more in
tense combustion, and he believes that
some such world will be the future
abode of the lost
John Chinaman loves the flavor of the
agile octopus. Several Celestials while
fishing off Angel island, on the Pacific
coast, caught huge devil-fish in their
nets. As it came slowly to view on the
surface of the water its arms grasped
the sido of the boat With a sharp Ak
they succeeded in chopping off the huge
fee1ers, and thus freed their craft FL
nally the whole body was got into the
boat and the prize conveyed to China
town, where it was. cut into pieces and
sold to various restaurants. i..i
The American Minister in London has
submitted to the British Board of Trade
the project of an International copyright
treaty between England and the United
States. Full reciprocal protection is ac-
corded to all authors, provided that
within three months after the publica-
ton of a work in their own coun<ry it q
republished by them in the other couE-
try.
The marquis of Hartington's views on
the Irish question has been anticipated
with eager interest in England. His
father, the duke of Devonshire, owns
60,325 acres in Cork, Waterford, and
Tipperary, but the rents on these es-
tates have been paid nearly in full.
This can be said of very few of the
great estates in Ireland.
There are six moss factories in New
Orleans and vicinity. All the moss
ginned is shipped abroad, as the furni-
ture manufacturers do not buy it GIN
ned, preferring to pick and clean it
themselves. The total amount paid for
the rough moss by the ginners, uphol-
sterers, and mattress-makers of the city
is above $500, 900 per year.
The London Economist estimates that
the immigrants to this country in 1880
bring with them S35, 5,000, COG in specie,
while the average value to the United
States of each person in adding to the
productive resources of the country is
$94O, so that the number landing in
1880 constitute an actual and potential
addition to the wealth of the country of
$10O, 100000.
German tramps so greatly abound in
Switzerland, and have lately become
such an intolerable nuisance, and the
vexatiOus requirements of the German
authorities render their extradition so
difficult, that the Federal Council have
been constrained to apply to Prince
Bismark for modification of the treaty
which regulates the return of the neces-
sitOus citizens of the two countries to
their respective domiciles.
A splendid picture, which Will not
fail to create much sensation at the
Salon. is that of ''LeDrapcau." by nj.
Georges Bertrand, the author of the
'.Femme POmbrelle Rouge" so much
admired last year for the brilliancy of
its coloring. The standard-bearer of
the Cuirassers has died at his post of
honor, killed by bullet His compan-
ions return with his body, still on horse
back, and holding the colors they have
fastened on his breast and saddle. A
gloomy, wintry landscape is the scene
of the episode.
The Car has pardoned his nephew,
the Grand Duke Nicholas Constantine
witch, whose reckless extravaganza and
consequent lawlessness were the occa-
sion of his Incarceration and subse-
quent exile to central Asia There the