The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-26
NEWS BREv1T1Es.


Celia Logan on Anna Dickinson:
s'She wants to be an actor and with the
actors stand; pair of tights upon her
Yorick's skull within her hand"
Mr.. T. A. Carnegie, of Pittsburg, Pa,
is about establishing free library for
the benefit of his employees The build
ing will cost 5000 and he will put in
5000 volumes.
NJ Droz, the new President of the
Swiss Confederation, who is only 81
years old, was the son of a workman.
and has attained by private study u
high degree of literary culture.
Hon. A. II. Stephens is very popular
in Washington, and is rarely alone.
Young and old are fond of calling on
him, and daily, except Sunday, he en-
joys game of whist with friends
The book of the General Presbyterian
Council, Just issued in Philadelphia,
gives the number of the Presbyterians
In the world as about 5000, 900 COM
municants and about II, ,0OO,0 600 adher-
ents to the several Presbyterian bodi es.
A woman in Maine attempting to talk
through telephone for the first time,
exclaimed, s.How do you do?' and then
dropped into a chair, protesting that
"she could not say another word; she
felt as if she had been talking to
ghost" !.II q B.3
There is in Edinburgh, Scotland, q
Sunday Science School, attended, from
November. to July of last year. by an
average of sixty pupils out of an en-
rolled number of ninety-two artisan
and other youths who could not. ow-
ing to prolonged business hours, attend
evening classes on week days
A Louisville mother did not like the
young man to whom her pretty daugh-
ter was engaged. and arming herself
with pistol started out to shoot him.
She fired two shots at short range and
scared him badly, but did not hurt him,
and the daughter says she will marry
him even if she has to elope to do so.
Gen. Raillton, the 5-foot commander
of the Salvation Army, stepped off at
Halifax from the steamer in which he
had started from Europe, and failed to
get back aboard in time. Being thus
left in Halifax he declared that Prov
idence had so ordered it for the saliva
ton of the city. He undertook the job
at once, but the hooting and missiles of
a mob compelled him to stop.
Woman's suffrage propositions have
been defeated this year by the legisla-
lures of Connecticut, Massachusetts, In
diana, Kansas, and Maine Missouri
has taken a step in favor of it, but no
law has been enacted The New York
assembly has one pending. Wisconsin
has been considering a bill to compel
women to decide by vote the question
If they want the suffrage like the men,
The aged Duchess Of Cambridge is
now the sole survivor of her generation,
having in the last five months lost her
brother and two sisters. The death of
her sisters, the Princess Louise, was
somewhat inadvertently broken to her
by the Prince of Wales, who was calling
at St. James Palace to condole with the
Duchess; the real fact being that those
in attendance upon her had thought it
inadvisable to break the news SO short
ly after the terrible account of the Car s
assassination.
The Vallejo Chronicle publishes a
lengthy article on the unfitness of the
Mary and Helen for the expedition to
go in search of the Jeanette 1t re-
ports that an examination of the whaler
was made by competent men, and that
the general verdict was that the gov
ernment was sadly taken in on the
purchase The vessel, as fitted for
whaling, was good and sound; for ice
business she was of no use.
There is good deal of literary abili-
ty among the Rothschild ladies' Mrs.
Flower and Mrs. Eliot. both daughters
of Sir Anthony Rothschild, published.
when young, a work on the religion
and literature of the Israelites. Lady
Roseberry Miss Hannah de Rothschild)
wrote in one of the quarterlies an arti-
Gle on Jewish women, and the Baroness
Lionel de Rothschild has been much
praised for her stories and essays
Some residents of Union City, Ind,
have formed what they call the Ma
tional Marriage Dowry Association"
the object of which is declared to be to
encourage lawful wedlock, to promote
economy, to endow homes, and to
make married life the end and the aim
of the rich and the poor alike. 1t
promises to pay dowry in three class
es. 81. 200, $4,000, and $3, 900, respect
lively.
The Cosmopolitan Club, of London,
which is frequently mentioned in EN-
dymion," has been established for many
years in what used to be Mr.. Watts
studio, lofty room in Mayfair. The
largest picture he ever painted still oc-
cupies one wall, and on the opposite
wall are some water-color drawings by
Severn. Here princes, peers, poets,
painters, politicians, and even prelates
meet to smoke and gossip on Wednes-
day nights and Sunday nights
The wife of the historian Grote must
have been an extraordinary woman.
She rode without a saddle; she was not
afraid to put off in boat without Il
man; and she was plucky enough to
marry her lover without permission.
and return home without saying a word
about it. Sydney Smith described this
lady and her lord in this happy fashion:
81 do like them both so much, for he is
1adylike, and she is a perfect gentle
man."
A haunted house near Bowling Green,
KY, is attracting considerable attention
among the Spiritualists- A suicide was
committed in the house twenty years
ago, and the rope which did the deed is
still hanging to the rafters- The same
old loom and spinning-wheel are there
also The rope, loom, ETC., jump around
and make strange noises, strange OBJ
jects are seen nightly, and altogether a
halo of horror hovers over the place.
woman residing in Bristol VT, in
serted this card in the local paper:
''Lost. strayed or stolen, from his be-
reaved household, one red-headed man.
five feet and eight inches tall, full set
of false teeth on upper jaw, and one
real one on lower jaw. yellow snuff on
uppeS jaw. Please cause said man to
be arrested and returned to his be-
reaved wife" The man subsequently
returned to the bosom of his family,
and without an arrest.
A mechanic, of Rochester, N Y, has,
according to his own statement. just
compelled duplicate of the celebrated
astronomical clock of Strasburg, in
which city he was born and lived for
many years. The only difference be-
tween the workings of the two clocks is
their size and in the form of the astro-
nomical portions. The case for the
main part of the Rochester clock is ten
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