The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-02-10
KEWs BREvTTIEs.


In the last financial year the stamp
duty of Sd. per pack was paid on ,094, :
S23 packs of playinc-cards in England,
amounting to f13,6 5s Cd.
A family never becomes extinct in
Japan Ii there are no male descend
ants, a young son of another family is
adopted, and takes the family name.
A beautiful mirage was recently seen
in Accomac county, Virginia. The is
land of Chinosteague, thirty miles away,
appeared to be only quarter OF a mile
distant.
A lady in London, Ontario, stumbled
in her room and fell against bureau.
She broke three of her ribs, and the full
extent OF her in Jury was not discovered
for several days
The parishioners of the Rev. DIR. Hen
ry j. Mortor. of Philadelphia, have
presented him with n check for $40, 900
- upon the completion of his fifty years of
service rs their pastor.
A man in Montgomery county, Pa,
whose family already contained thirteen
children, was electrified when his wife
presented him with three more (triplets)
all bright and healthy.
3 The Supreme Court of Mississippi de-
clares that eighteen mills on the dollar,
including three mills for State tax, is
the utmost limit to which taxes can be
laid.
While a negro was hunting near Sa-
yannah, Ga, his dog playfuily jumped
up and caught his foot in the trigger of
the gun. The negro's arm had to be
amputated.
Messrs. Wertheimer, in London, paid
$2OO, 900 for Mr.. Goding's collection of
snuff-boxes, miniatures, and enamels,
one of the principal attractions of the
South Kensington museum
James Buchanan, President of the
United States, made an election bet in
1919 and lost it, and the deed by which
he conveyed his land that he forfeited
is, in his own handwriting, on file at
Warren, Pa.
The artesian well at'Laramie, w. T.,
has been sunk to depth of two hum
dred and sixteen feet, and has two hun
dred feet of water in it. 1t will be sunk
further depth of thirty-four feet, by
which time it is hoped the water will
flow from the well.
= The Italian minister of public instruc-
ton has taken possession of the vine
yards and grounds of the Baths of Titus
and Carcalia, at Rome, and has turned
them into public walks. Their art frag
ments are to be preserved in the Capt.
tol museum
The school board of Indianapolis, af-
ter experiments for years with various
heating apparatus, are now in favor of
heating all school buildings with stoves
instead of steam, believing them supe-
rior in respect of ventilation and distri-
button of heat
VI zf &C.
in Italy is opposed by capitalists and
spectators in gold; yet a forced cur
rency is no longer needed, as the coun-
try is peaceful and advancing in manu-
features, and last year there was an ex-
cess of S42, 294,O00 i'll receipts over ex-
penses in the budget. Parliament has
voted to adopt resumption policy.
In all German towns of any conse-
quence occasional exhibitions are held
where new foreign inventions and pro-
ducts, which are in any way affiliated
to the local manufactures, are exhibited
to be minutely examined by artisans
and factory operatives Any excellence
in the foreign article is quickly detect
ed and initiated by the local workmen.
The new building for the Boston Eng
lish high school and Latin school is
said TO be the largest free public build
ing in the world, being three hundred
and thirty nine by two hundred and
twenty feet, with hollow square in the
middle. There are fifty-siX rooms in
all, including a drill-hall one hundred
and thirty by sixty, n gymnasium of the
same dimensions, and an exhibition hall
capable of seating one thousand two
hundred and fifty persons.
Mark Firth, wealthy manufacturer,
who died recently at Sheffield, Eng,
during his lifetime gave that place
public park at an expense of $1,000
provided almshouses at an expense of
$3.50, 600, and also founded and liberal
ly endowed Fifth College in Sheffield.
The Hon. f. M. Stillwell, fish COM
missioner of Maine. is making arrange
ments to establish iish-hatching room
i'm Bangor, expecting to hatch some
30O,0 600 there. He intends to forward
10O,OO salmon eggs TO Morelicad lake
for the waters of the Kennebec, 100000
to Norway for Sebago lake, and 100, 900
to Rangely lake for the Androscoggin
river.
In 1880 Marshal Soult brought par
rot named Jocko TO the French war
office, where the bird remained forty
years. He served under eighteen diff
fercnt ministers. but was always 4
stanch Royalist. Through every change
of administration Jacko cried, "Vive
lie roir' but would never say without
painful effort, ..Vive L rempereurr' He
died on the anniversary of the death of
Napoleon l., in 1870.
A mean fellow in Taunton, Mass,
whose aged mother had made over to
him large and well-stocked farm, un-
der promise that he would care for
her as long as she lived, recently ap-
piled to the city authorities to extend
aid to her as pauper. The discredit-
able facts were ascertained, and he was
given very forcible reminder of the
advisability of filial disobedience.
Americas Symmes, the sole proprietor
of the Symmes theory, an intramundane
vacuum, is resident of Louisville, KY,
gray, and advancing in years, wearing
plain clothes and spectacles, and is
charming eonversationalist when on his
favorite theme, the hollowness of the
earth, which conceals the glorious un-
discovered country that is only to be
entered somewhere in the farthest arc
tic regions. His face reminds one of
the portraits of Victor Hugo.
1t is related of the late Lieut.. Com
mander, III. c. Niel6s, of Philadelphia,
tHdi, "Hie eHlpioyeu on Ine nalntOp-
sal yard of a sailing vessel during ter
rible storm at night, he was pitched ov-
erboard by terrible lurch of the ship
He Immediately disappeared among
waves that ran mountain high. 1t
flashed upon him that the struggle was
hopeless, and so that his agony might
not be prolonged, he clasped both
hands over his head and per-
mitted himself to sink. At that mo-
ment the ship bore down upon him,
and, as if by a miracle, his hands came
in contact with a rope, his life being
saved.
In 1873 Joseph Kline married Lizzie
Rose, at Randall, Montgomery county,
New York, and lived happily with her
until June 16, 1879, when he suddenly
left home, saying he would neverreturn.
NJ. caI1Se anas ori1-or, and his 4