The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-10-06
ALL SORTS.

A Norwich, Conn, man, who was in
Paris recently found no trouble in pay
ing his hotel bill with United States ma
tional bank notes.
Dan Simpson, drummer of the An
cieut artillery of Boston, is 80 years
old. and has played at sixty annual
parades-
A southern editor discovers that the
town which has the greatest number OF
cheap, modest. available cottages has
the greatest number of marriages
A Pottsville barkeeper claims to have
seen a mouse killed by the opening OF
a champagne bottle. The mouse
puawed the string off, and the explod-
ing cork killed him.
The Maine Beet Sugar company had
TO make 1,221 separate contracts In
four different states to get 1000 tons OF
beets last wear. Some of the roots came
from the Mohawk county.
The ice factories at Houston. Tex,
have allowed dnantity of ammonia,
used in the manufacture of ice, to es-
cape into Buffalo bayou, and millions
of fish have been killed. The surface
is covered with dead fish.
A negro girl. aged IA years, residing
on a plantation about twelve miles
from Lake Providence, La, gave birth
to three children, all boys. One was
black. the other white, and the other a
mulatto.
1t is probable that the southern part
of the territory of Utah will supply
enough antimOny for this country The
ore mined about 40 miles from Salt
CITY Yields from 60 to 65 per cent. OF
antimony.
Last season the San Gabriel valley.
California, produced 6O,OOO boxes OF
oranges. but this year the crop will not
exceed $1,000 boxes, so says good al-
thority. Last year the Riverside orange
crop amounted to 5000 boxes, aud Will
this wear be three times as large.
The Berlin papers report that recent
ly at the village of Ahrensdorf, not far
from the city, seven children returning
home from the fields took shelter from
a thunderstorm under tree. The
tree was struck by lightning. and all
the children were killed on the spot.
The Hotel Nail reports an interview
with an old waiter, in which he makes
the statement that ''waiters seldom
grow old As rule, they're sassy un-
til they're %. They begin to be weak
when they touch 80, and at 40 they are
but little good, as indigestion kills
them"
Major Benyurd, of the United States
engineers, says: THAT while at the
mouth of Red river, the other day, he
had made observations which satisfied
him that the Mississippi was cutting for
itself a channel through the AtchaIal-
ava river, which would in no great
time become its outlet, and New Or
leans would be lek in a shallow
stream"
A gentleman having stated that a
French chemist can take sugar, flour,
and other substances and make a nicer
egg than any hen ever left In a nest,
a lady wanted to know what excuse
there was for anyone's keeping fowls il
that were so; boy in the room
promptly answered: That they may
annoy the people next door"
A rich find of silver about ten miles
from Deadwood was followed in forty
eight hours by the creation of West
er, the settlement of 200 persons, and
the opening of nine saloons and two
faro banks On the fourth day a daily
newspaper appeared
An ingenious system to insure people
who may lose their keys against the
fraudulent use of their KEYS, in case
their ownership is indicated on a label.
has been adopted by London lock-
making firm. Attached to the key-ring
or chain is n label, which bears on one
side the address of this firm. and on the
reverse, ..5s Reward. No. =" A
register is kept by the firm. on which IS
inscribed the number, name, and adj
dress of each purchaser.
1t is dangerous thing to tamper
with Scotch Institutions. Only week
or two ago the Dunoon Castle steamer
carried a deck-load of excursioniSts
down the Clyde on the sabbath.
That very night she stuck on sand
bank, and no one got home: next day
her captain, in a fit, fell overheard, and
was drowned; the third day the pro-
fame vessel was in flames; and few peo-
pie i'm Scotland have much doubt as to
what all that means.
From Central Asia the British for
eign office has learned of the release.
from his long captivity. of the intrepid
correspondent of the Daily Ne,cs, of
London, whose letter from Merv, re-
Gently published, gave so striking a
picture of hardship and of TurkOman
life and manners. He was escorted
from Merv to Meshed by guard of
thirty Turcoman horsemen, his release
British minister at Teheran.
The importation of tropical fruit at
New Orleans for northern and interior
markets has assumed a magnitude of
which few people are aware. There
are now two steamships and fifteen or
twenty schooners plying between the
bay islands and New Orleans, making
regular trips and bringing full cargoes.
Another steamer is soon to be added to
the fleet. The principal fruits are
cOcOa-nuts, bananas. pineapples, lines,
and lemons. and they go to Chicago,
ST. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, Louis
vile and Cincinnati. A short time ago
carload of assorted fruits was ship
ped to Denver. Col, and although the
freight was $3.50 it was proiitably dis
posed of. 1t was the first shipment of
the kind. ever made from the south for
destination so far west
Old gold and silver Peruvian orna-
mcnts, recently sold in London. brought
a magnificent total of S503, 800. The
following were among the articles
which sold for great sums: An Old
brilliant cluster. $3.50; an antique bril-
liant ring, S625; long antique pearl
and diamond earrings, 81, ,175; a Gu
rious antique enameled gold and emer-
aid cross, 5000; silver-gilt miter with
scrolls of precious stones, 81, 365; an
antique gold cross, with large cabochon
emerald, 1915; an antique chased gold
chalice, in pieces, and paten, 1899; an
antique enameled heart-shaped reli-
quarry, with diamonds and garnets,
$3.50; an antique gold monstrance
with diamonds and topazes. "a, 700; a
life-sized figure of a pelican. decorated
with precious stones, $1,000, and an
antique chased gold monstance, en-
riched with many stones, $4,000.
1t is a matter of inquiry among smok-
ers what the initials 1T. d. on large
number of clay pipes offered for sale all
over New England mean. There once
lived in Newburyport. Mass, an &C.
centric genius named Dexter, who used
to have his name written with the suf1ix
my Lord Timothy" He was great
l.