The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST

A French monk has been imprisoned
Tor month for remarking to one of his
comrades that the Paris police, during
the recent expulsion of the Jesuits were
like dogs following the holy sacrament.
A girl only years old was arrested
for drunkenness at Lowell. To COM
plete the disgraceful picture, the police
aet her lie ten hours insensible in cell
without attention
This ''vin de Champagne color is a
handsome gilded shade combined with
pale rose. Some marvellous toilets are
making of satin and brocard in this
color, which combines well with all
other hues.
= jefferson Davis Memoirs" it is
stated, will not be given to the public
until April next. The Appletons have
tho first volume in type, but they are
delaying the publication until the second
volume is ready
Rufus Hatch's Iron Steamboat COM
pany has closed a contract with Phila-
delphia and Chester boat-builders for
eight new iron steamers to be finished
May /, 1881. The amount involved is
about 81, 500, 900.
Rev. L. w. Bacon, of Norwich, Conn.,,
has started new temperance move
ment in which he recognizes the need
of q certain limited sale of spirituous
liquors, and also of places of entertain
ment for young men,
Mr.. Thomas Brasseay has bought from
Sir John Macdonald 64,000 acres of
land in Canada, at the foot of the Rocky
Mountains He NAV now have from
1000, to 1,6O0 working tenants, with
from ''forty to fifty acres each"
The holy synod of Russia has decid-
ed upon erecting an orthodox church in
the city of San Francisco. The priest
of the Russian chapel of New York has
recently petitioned the holy synod for
permission to erect an orthodox church
in that city.
King Oscar, of Sweden, gave 10000
crowns toward the expenses OF Norden-
skjolds expeditions. The total cost of
the expedition is said to have been
419.177 crowns. Nordenskjold's ac-
count of his voyage is shortly to be
published in German, at Leipsic.
DIR. William Sharswood, of Philadel-
phia, is giving his time and efforts to-
ward founding a great museum of prac
fical art and applied science in connec-
tion with the university of the South
at Sewanee, Tenn, owned and con-
trolled by the dioceses of the Episcopal
church comprehended in the ten States
lying south and southwest of Virginia
and Kentucky.
In excavating for the st. Gothard
railway near Amsteg. magnificent
glacier garden, series of sO-called
giants kettles, or enormous holes torn
in the rock by the action of glacier
millstones, has been laid bare One
half of the garden. lay across the rail-
way track. and had to be blasted away,
but the other half has been walled
round. and will be carefully preserved.
Prince Bismarck, says Berlin CORES
pondent, has sent q commission to AL
SAGE to study the condition of the work
men there, especially with regard to
their dwellings, which are somewhat on
the English cottage principle, every
man living in his own house. This sys-
tenn seems to be in favor with the chan
cellor, who wishes it to be introduced
all over Germany by government help.
He conjectures that this plan would go
long way to satisfy the lower classes
and make them dependent on the state
The new street coaches in Philadel-
phia. after weeks trial, are pronounc-
ed = great success. They go full all the
&c
or stages, each passenger is sure of a
seat, and the roads are so varied that,
by transfers, any part of the city may
be readily reached. Those now in use
hold eight persons, and are drawn by
ona horse. Additional ones are to be
Of double size, for two horses.
A Connecticut couple were legal.
married, few days ago, in strict con-
formity with the township map. They
procured marriage license from the
Ledyard town clerk, and in the evening
called upon a minister in n neighboring
town to perform the ceremony As the
rite could only be performed in Led
ward, the clergyman and contracting
parties with the witnesses, took lanterns
and walked through the woods just
across the town boundary line, where
the marriage was performed.
A Bremen newspaper says that the
North German Lloyds have engaged to
convey three thousand Roumanian
Jews to New York. The emigrants are
sick of their own country, and have
been enabled to seek fresh homes across
the Atlantic by the hberality of their
coreligionists in France and Germany.
The North German Lloyds have under
taken to find orthodox food for the
emigrants during the passage. The
patrons provide funds not only for the
passage, but also for the purchase of
homes and farms in America.
Miss Gardner, who has achieved dis
tinction by having evicted a good
many of her tenants in Ireland, lives in
n house defended by iron bars, chains.
and by several policemen. She has
been shot at through a window of the
building, and she carries revolver in
in the pocket of her shooting jacket
Her only companion is lady named
Miss Pringle. 1t is related that the
poorer peasants speak of her sa malev-
olent fiend, an ''extherminathor," a
tyrant striving to make the lives of the
poor so wretched as to drive them off
her estate. "A strange lady is she,
sOrr," cried one of the tenants. '.Oeh,
she's a devil of woman entoirely.
All she wants is to hunt the poor off the
face of the wOr-r-rold."
A rather curious phenomenon has
been observed lately at Sparks d Co. S
Touring mill at Alton. In passing
through room in the second story in
comparative darkness, it was noticed
that the rapidly running belts were
aglow with what appeared like phos-
pnoTeSccuI HSnl. AZ III oI 1hiS was us
cribed to the reflection from the lamps
on the copper rivets with which the
belts are constructed. After all the
lights were taken away, however, the
belts presented clearly defined illumin-
ated outlines, and when~the hand of q
spectator was held close to them, bright
little globules attached themselves to
the palm and fingers, being especially
noticeable on the thumb nail. No heat
was felt, and it is more than probable
that the light was of electrical origin, be-
ing unusually bright on account of some
peculiar state of the atmosphere.
The minister of the United States al
st, Petersburg, in dispatch to the
department Of state, draws a gloomy
picture of the present economic anC
social condition of Russia. The grain