The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-04-28
NEWS BREVITIES.


assessing its horse railroad companies
5000 q year for each mile of the
streets on which their tracks are laid.
A bowler in Cleveland alley had a
bali poised to roll, when a bystander
made an insulting remark, and he
threw it violently at the offender, kill
ing him by fracturing his skull.
ssThe Danites'' had its thousandth
performance recently in Philadelphia,
and is worn out. The Rankins, to
whom it has brought fortune, intend
to try another mining camp play next
fall.
Arizona resembles all mining regions
in being overcrowded with persons who
have no money and find it difficult to
make q living. There are 1000 per-
sons in Tucson and Tombstone living
from hand to mouth.
''The Associated Press is great
boon, is it not?" asked he. ''It is, in
deed" she replied, in soft tones;
.'George and had one all last winter.
but papa came in one night before
George could take his arm away, and
acted dreadfully.''
Letter carriers intrusted with valua-
BILE mails have been assaulted by rob-
bers in the streets of Vienna and Pesth,
and now the employees of the Austrian
postal service have been armed with re-
volvers, which they are forbidden to go
without. tA
Algeria is beginning to develop a
taste for the fine arts. Not long ago the
success of the exhibition at. Algiers
took every one by surprise, and now
another, which has been organized at
Oran, is equally successful. The pic
lures sold," says an enthusiastic CORE
spondent, ''as if by enchantment."
There was only one rocking-chair in
the Nessells' residence, at Kendallville,
Ind, and both the sons, John and Hen
~, liked to sit in it. Henry had en-
joyed it two hours, when John demand
ed q turn. A quarrel was followed by
a fight, in which Henry was killed by
his brother.
The discovery of human finger i'm a
sausage has ''cast gloom over the
trade in that delicacy in Liverpool.
The explanation offered was that the
boy at the machine had his finger cut
of, and the digit, being left lying
about, somehow went in with the other
mincemeat while its owner was at the
hospital.
M. Cluseret, once a colonel of volun-
teers in the Union army, and subse-
quently, under the Commune, war min
lister, was sentenced in Paris by default
to two years Imprisonment, and to pay
5000 francs fine, for an article in the
-Mdrsei1ldise deemed insulting to the
army, and justifying Berezewsky for
attempting to kill the Gar.
Sergeant Snyder, of the Belleville
money in small amounts. and his cred
itors were importunate. Duns met him
at every turn. He could not dodge
them, for his duty compelled him to
patrol certain streets, and therefore il
was easy to find him. Unable to pay
his debts, he endured the torture for
several months, and then committed
suicide.
According to lie Francais, French
journal recently stated in Cambridge,
Mass, M. Jules Ferry, has just proposed
a noval method for public instruction
in geography. For this he will make
use of the race-course at Longchamps
by arranging on it cards bearing the
names of the different countries with
their capitals and seaports.
The natives of the Itu-o-tane district
VI Dhhil, OuC VI luC
attacked German sailing vessel, but
were repulsed without loss. The Ger
man Government then demanded pay
ment of g, 800 by way of punishment,
and under compulsion this amount was |
finally, though very reluctantly, paid. |
The German Government now becomes |
and orders the money to |
be turned over to a fund for building |
hospital in Abba the chief settlement OF |
the Islands.
All the debtors in Glasgow prison
were set free at midnight on Dec. 81,
under the provisions of the Fraudulent
Debtors (Scotland) act. There were
men and two women. One
of the women had been there eighteen
The Glasgow Tolbooth is
thus probably for the first time in two
centuries without debtor psisoner.
Debtors were also liberated at Edin-
bnrgh and other places.
Annie Flagg declined James Drugs
,ffer of marriage, at Front Royal, Va,
md when he pressed her for the reason
The said she was in love with Noah Ben
ord. This was untrue, and she regret
ed saying 1t, for Druggs vowed ven
,eance on his supposed rival. She
cared the threat would be executed,
md sent letter of caution to Benford;
,ut arrived too late, for he was found
presumably by Drugs.
A young Chicagoan gave an elabo-
ate dinner to nine friends at the Union
Tub in that CITY, The entertainment |
vas well advanced when the steward
ntered the room, and whispered to the
ost that his mother was at the door
his retirement from the fes
witty. He went out to plead his cause.
ut she resolutely laid hold of him, led +
i'm to the family carriage and took him
ONE. The guests finished the dinner ]
18th one vacant chair. r
In a recent exhibition of old satirical
rints and drawings in Liverpool were
everal subjects relating to the Revolr-
Onary war. One print of 1872 rcpres-
nts ''Miss America travestied as
irginia princess, and holding the cap
Liperty on a pole. She is making
er peace with her estranged parent:
Mamma say no more about it, 10 i,
hich Britannia responds in gener-
Is spirit: '.Be good girl and give
e q busS."
A young man in Russia of decided
,ility was attacked by an acute disease
ought on by excessive dissipation.
tier MS recovery lie was found 10 have
st all his mental faculties except cal
Ilation and memory. These were i'll
eased to such degree that he could
rpass all mathematicians in power of
entail calculation, and could repeat
'etry which occupied several minutes
reading after hearing it only once. ,
all other respects he is helpless 1
lot.
At the last Paris exhibition consider
lie attention was drawn to some mus
curtains to which flame was con-
antly applied without setting them on
e. The chemical composition of the ,
bstance which rendered them in
as recently made known,
IS 80 parts pure sulphate of ammonia,
of carbonate of ammonia, 80 OF
racic acid, II of pure borax, 20 OF
Irch, and 1000 of distilled or pure
ter. The materials to be rendered
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