The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03
ALL SORTS.


been determined.
Rubbing it in: ''Oh. you are too self
exclaimed Adolescence; -
am conscious of nothing" Tbats
what said," replied Fogg.
Nearly all the ice imported intoGreat
Britain comes from Norway. When
the business began it was in Wenham
Lake ice, sent from Boston.
Extract from Mime. de P's album
(Madame is thirty-five-or rthereabouts-)
sWomen are like roses; they are most
beautiful just before they begin TO
fade"
Thirteen female physicians are prac-
ticing in Clayton. Iowa. and at re-
cent fire there were not well men
enough in the town to run the engine
out
A merchant died suddenly just after
finishing a letter The clerk added, in
postscript: '.Since writing the above
have died Tuesday evening, the |th
inst"
Dialogue at the Newport Casino
Swell American, just returned from
ENGLAND: II say. doctor, Is there
much asth-mia here?' Doctor: Every
little; more jack-ass-mia-
The wages of laborer in Russia is
8 cents for q DAYS work of fifteen hours,
and he s.finds" himself. 1t is not stated
where he finds himself at the end OF the
month, though.
. Irate sportsman. 'Confound IT,
you've shot the dog! / thought you
told me you could hold a gun" Pat:
..Shure and SO can. your honor. It's
the shot, sor, couldn't hould?'
..What an observing man that Brown
is,n remarked Jones, who had been
reading some of Browns latest writ
inos; sswhat eyes that man has3' "Yes."
said FoSg, ''plagiarize-"
4 The manner in which Connecticut
courts and jurics are run has provoked
critism from every state in the Union.
A man who commits murder in that
state has got to own it and prove 1T be-
fore jury will believe it
Year by wear the British army, once
the most beautifully clad and brilliantly
equipped in the world, loses something
in picturesaueness. Feathers and epau-
lettes are gone, and, except with the
hussars, lace of gold or silver has all
but disappeared.
The case of the state against Hall for
wife murder, in Cherokee county. Ala
bama, has been pending for fifteen
wears, and is romance in itself, the
testimony of which would fill large
volume.
Mason Wins, who was few years
ago regarded as young man OF rare
promise, is now roaming the woods in
Monroe county, Tennessee. and Is
called ..the wild man." His head was
turned few years ago. when he fell in
love with girl that didn't reciprocate.
The small amount of transatlantic
travel from Boston is accounted for by
the fact that there isn't a frst-class pas
senger steamer plying between Boston
and Liverpool. Boston steamers are
half the power, half the tonnage, and
twice as old as those falling from New
York.
A sleepy passenger, who allowed his
hat to fall from the window of the
smoking-car while a western express
train was going at the rate OF forty
miles an hour, near Hancock, Md,
pulled the bell-cord and stopped the
train. He wanted the conductor to go
back after his hat, and was indignant
when he met with n refusal.
There arc $50 educated female ply
sicians in active practice in twenty-six
States of our Union-the majority in
Massachusetts, New York. and Penn
sylvania The figures above given
show a marvellous growth. Persons
not very far advanced in years can re-
member when there were no women
claiming to practice medicine who were
worthy of public confidence: The
change that has already taken place is
probably only the beginning of new
era In n few years the number OF
women who are creditable doctors will
be so great that their sex will cease to
be a matter of comment.
4 letter preserved in the New York
Historical Society has the following
sentence in it: My sons wife is late
ly dead, and is very much lamented by
all vino knew her; could have wished.
had it pleased God, that his mother-in-
law. who is ripper for the other world,
had gone before her."
Rather a novel decision was given in
Branford, Conn.,, by q justice before
whom boy charged with stealing baz-
elnuts was recently brought After
hearing the case patiently, the justice
said TO the culprit: "H it was not so
hot. and was not so utterly exhaust
ed, would give you a sound thrash
ing"
A valuable property in tobacco is the
resinous gum which the leaf freely ex-
udes during the process of ripening.
and which, being soluble in water, may
be washed off by a heavy rainfall. For
this reason tobacco should not be cut
Immediately after a rain. II the work
is postponed for few days after q rain
fall, the leaf has time to again secrete
the nece essary supply of gum. Neither
should tobacco be cut when wet, for if
laid upon the ground in this condition
dirt will adhere to the leaves, causing
damage to the crop.
The receipts at the fairs are the prin-
cipal, and often the only, source of
revenue to American Agricultural So
cieties. In Great Britain the member
ship fees of the breeders agricultural
societies are high, and the list of men,
bers long. In the case of the Royal
Agricultural society of England, which
has 5000 or 10, 600 members, the an
nual subscription is FL. OF the forty
two annual shows or fairs held By this
society. only ten have been a source of
profit. The net losses up to the present
year are given as f46. 56f; the Kilburn
or London show, in 1879. aone caused
less of f14.056.
There is n constant tendency of ami
mails to revert to the characteristic points
: of their even distant progenitors- Such
reversiOn Is often the case when a low
bred animal has been allowed to cross
with thoroughbred stock, and may crop
out again in the third or fourth gener-
alton Agassiz once made this remark:
mo offspring is simply the offspring of
his father and mother. 1t is at the
same time the offspring of the grand
father and grandmother on both sides;
in fact. this dependence of offspring or
liability to reproduce family character
istics extends much further up the an
cesiral line"
Caponizing fowls is practiced to a
great extent in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey. Its effect upon the fowls is
that they grow one third beyond their
otherwise natural size, fatten more easi-
ly and rapidly on less food, and their
flesh is of finer quality, the price they
command in the market being so per
cent higher than that of ordinary
fowls of the same age. As an illustra-