The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
GaribaldTs body, below the waist, is
almost insensible.

sued her husband for divorce on thu
ground that he called her ian old cow
The Duke of Portland is so pleased
with Lord Bute's beaver colonies tina
he is going to establish several ON hi
estates.
New Orleans has organized a com
pany with 800, 600 capital to manufac
ture jute bagging, which has hitherto
been imported.
A California inventor has devised /,
process for pressing and drying pota
toes so that they will keep for year!
without loss of flavor.
Twenty-nine cousins contest the viii
of an itinerant preacher in Westchestel
county, New York, who had managed
in some way to leave a property o1
$4,000 behind him.
In a certain English parish the curate
bears the name of Hare. The ladies
there being sufferers from the unac-
countabie mania of curate hunting,
have received the title of the ..Harriers.'
The Russians are paying great atten-
ton to the revolver as an Instrument OF
warfare Upwards of sixty thousand
of these handy weapons are being man.
ufactured ut Berlin for the Russian
army.
A bather in Bridgeport, Conn, bar
ber's shop recently fell asleep in a bath
tub full OF water, and remained there
five hours before he was discovered and
awakened. The water was barely be-
low his mouth.
MIR Elisha Shepperson, aged 20 years,
OF Hanover county, Va, died recently
while a letter he had just written to a
lady in eastern Virginia, to whom he
m 10 Ixf hi.
carried to the pdstoffice.
Smithland Chambers, of Barren coun-
ty, Kentucky, weighs 13O pounds and
his wife 112. Their 6-year-old daugh-
ter weighs 239 pounds and measures "a
inches around the waist. Mr.. and Mrs.
Cham bers have lost a son five years old
weighing 200 pounds.
On the Hawley branch of the Erie
railway, the other day, a deer sprang
from the woods to the track in front of
loaded coal train, and kept ahead of
the engine for about two miles; then,
startled by the appearance of n pedes-
trian, leaped into the Lackawaxen river,
SWAN across, and disappeared in the
forest.
The Americans, says The Spectator,
have invented, and Englishmen are
slowly adopting into their political vo-
cabulary, a new word, intended to ac-
count for the unaccountable popularity
of some politicians. They say they are
''magnetic''-that is, they attract as the
magnet does, by virtue of some quality
not yet explained.
Two men are litigating at Elizabeth
town, KY, over slave trade that took
place in 1855. The defendant bought
a negro of the plaintiff, but finding the
slave unsound made the plaintiff take
him back. Plaintiff discovered that the
negro was unfit for work, and in 1869
brought suit to recover his value. The
case is still on. The plaintiff is 20 years
old and the defendant 80.
The city of Cambridge, Mass, has
recently set three memorial stones, |
weighing over a ton each, at as many |
points within its borders to mark GER |
tain events in its history. One on Ninth |
avenue, corner of Spruce street, is in
scribed: THE site where four citizens
were killed by British soldiers retreat
ing from Lexington, April 16, 1775."
One on Inman street containing the fol-
lowing: s'Site of the house which was
the headquarters Of Gen. Putnam in
1775." The other monument, located |
on Duster street, has the following in
scription: 'Site of the residence of
Thomas Dudley, A. d. 1880, founder of
Cambridge and Governor of Massachu-
setts." Each stone also bears the words,
Erected by the citY-1660."
The United States fish commission
has received information that the Cali
fornia State Association has Just re-
ceived from China quantity Of cow
ramy, very fine food fish, which is to
be introduced in the California waters.
Some of them are to be sent to w ash
ington for propagation and distribution
in all rivers and lakes of the country
where it is claimed they viii flourish
1t is claimed they are superior to sal
mon.
1t is reported that the Parisiars are
ct last beginning TO discover that the
.'eau de seltz'' which they consume so
largely in '.siphons'' Is capable simply
of poisoning them. An analysis of
Twelve ''siphons," taken at hazard in
different quarters OF Paris, which was
presented to the Academy Of Sciences
by Mr.. Pateur, shows that it contains
per litre fourteen one-thousandtLs of
salts of pewter and dtwo-onc-thousandtlis
of salts of copper. These substances
are poisonous
The London World says: a masquer-
ale dinner is rather an original enter
|
may become a fashionable amusement. Il
L he other day, at n very splendid house,
where everything was cnreglc and all the 4
of the best and choicest, Il
tie company of the creme de In creme
of society, and the hostess a charming
and beautiful woman, the guests were
requested to come down to dinner mask
ed-that is, with real concealing masks
on their faces. The mistakes and dis
coveries that resulted were not at all -
pleasant, and the amusement was ratli-
er n risk Needless to remark, the
beautiful hostess is herself widow.
Solomon Jones, of Bloomington, Nd,
was 40 when, after many years of pow
erty, he received 5000 in pension
money. He had no relatives to leave il
70 when he died, and therefore made "
mp his mind to spend it all himself In
view of the probable short time re-
naming to him in this world, he felt d.
hat he must be fast and furious in his
pleasures If he would spend the whole
=, 900. He married q young wife, and
yratified her love of dress; lie got in a
arge stock of beverages, and drank
hem recklessly; he bought fast horse,
md bet on him. At the end of three
months the last dollar was gone, his ID
wife deserted HIM, his horse died, and II
ie is still without any immediate pros -
,cct of dying.
Queen Victoria, it is related, recently
lad the pleasure of witnessing remark
bile piece of artistic enterprise. When
unching out-of-doors with the Princess
,eatrice and a few attendants, the par
Y was surrounded by no less than eight G.
eporters, who stood boldly looking on
i the consumption of cold lamb and (
of course, to the Queens u,
nnoyance. Finding that they did not Re
nove, Princess Beatrice herself went
cross to where they had planted them T.,
elves, and said that the Queen had a =.
reat objection to be stared at while
he was at luncheon, and would be glad
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