The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-29
WAITS.

Louisiana has q school population OF
29O, ,O36. OF this number 1S9. .657 are
colored.
Mrs. Curl, of Bourbon county. Ken
tucky, has q clothes line that has been
in use for over seventy odd years.
A Pottsville Pa-) dentist in forty
minutes chloroformed three women
and pulled seventy teeth from their
jaws
The crown diamonds of France are
to be sold in order to provide for the
better maintenance of the public mu-
seums-
The members of the New Hampshire
legislature drew pay for eighty days.
work, and were in session a total OF
III hours.
Scotland derives 81, 500. 900 per an
mum as rental from sporting grounds.
The Duke of Westminster pays $lO,OOO
for one track.
An Arkansas man rode three hundred
miles to shoot the chap who cheated
his father in a horse trade. Filiai al
fection can never die in this country.
The will of Horatio Foster, deaf
mute, was offered for probate at East
Machias, Me-, recently. but the judge
said his infirmity made him incompe-
tent to dispose of his estate.
! Near Blue Water. New Mexico. is the
crater of an extinct volcano. From that
point streams of lava have covered the
ground for many miles in extent ana
to q considerable depth.
We have seen ladies who were lnsuf-
ferably shocked at the sight OF q man
in his shirt-sleeves; and their own arms
were bare almost to the shoulders
Women are strange creatures
Z Tourist-'Where is Block Islandr'
Polite American-"In Rhode Island.
Tourist-s.But how can you put one is
land in another island?" Polite Amer
ican-.aO, that's nothing-we accom-
plish anything in this country"
There is no better way to live health
ily and happily than to cultivate tenn
permanent wherein the most contradic-
tory qualities and properties of tho Or
ganism are perfectly counterbalanced
and controlled
A remarkable discovery has been
made in Sweetwater county. Wyoming.
1t is deposit of sulphuric acid In
natural state. The ground is impreg-
mated over a large area-1OO acres or
more-and parties have filed claims
upon it
Although it is more than twenty
wears SINCE the udTN6Eu DAu"
scum of Natural History was founded,
there are apartments of its structure
which have not yet been opened. and
large quantities of collections that re-
main unassorted and unarranged.
The use of gas for cooking and heat
ing is making rapid headway in Eng
land. Gas is cheaper in England than
here, which may account for the moro
general use of the cleanly gas-stove
there than will be likely to be the case
with us. 1t is also claimed that if gas
could be substituted for coal in Lon
don there would be a material improv-
ement of the atmosphere.
Calcutta, according to the recent
census, has a population of 6S4. 658
souls, two-thirds of whom are males
and of these the greater part are in the
middle period of life. The number OF
Young persons under 20 years of age
has Increased perceptibly, and from
this it is known that the resident pop
ulation is growing.
In the upper part of Sonoma county
California, near the coast, may be seen
an actual road-bed in the tree tops
Between the Clipper Mills and Stuarts s
Point, where the road crosses a deep
ravine, the trees are sawed off on a
level and the timber and ties laid on
the stumps. In the center of the ra-
vine mentioned, two huge redwood
trees, standing side by side, forIn a
substantial support, and they are cut
off seventy-five feet above the ground
One more story about Dean Stanley.
s.No one feels up to his work." he said
one day. Il have always thought that
aDean should have three qualifications,
none of which I possess First, L think
aDean should know something about
music; am absolutely ignorant of the
subject Secondly, I think Dean
should know something about architec-
ture; know nothing about 1t. Third
ly, think Dean should know some
thing about the management of busi-
ness; am always thankful when our
audit is over and we have not come to
some grievous mishap."
Ben Wood some years ago won, 1t IS
said, 1925, 600 ut single sitting at faro.
He borrowed 81, 500 from Judge Nc
Cam to begin on, and he went away
with every pocket stuffed with checks
and bills The cigar seller in the
gambling rooms says that Wood that
night smoked $40 worth of cigars. He
took cigars costing 81 each, and light
ing one end, began, in his nervous way.
to eat the other, and in about two min
utes he would take fresh one.
Colonel Dan Murphy, of Halleck
station, Eiko county, came to Califor-
mia in 1874, and may be said TO have
made the country pay him we'll for his
time. He is now probably the largest
private land owner on this continent.
He has 1000, 900 acres of land in one
body in Mexico, 10000 in Nevada, and
rs, 600 in California. His Mexican
grant he bought four years ago for
$500. 900, or cents an acre. 1t is six
ty miles long and covers a beautiful
country of hill and valley. pine timber,
and meadow land. 1t comes within
twelve miles of the city of Durango,
which is to be station on the Mexican
Central Mr.. Murphy raises wheat on
his California land, and cattle on that
in Nevada He got $4,000 sacks last
year, and ships 5000 head OF cattle a
year right along.
Instruction in eating watermelon is
given by the Baltimore American,
which should be good authority, as it
is published in the melon region. The
hotel plan of cutting a watermelon like
a tulip. and putting lump of ice in it,
is condemned, because ice should never
touch the pulp; but a burial of the un-
cut melon in ice for two days is wise.
Then cut leugthwise, and:eat between
meals. '.People deal unjustly with this
fruit sometimes, by eating hearty
dinner first. and then topping off with
q melon; and then if a moral earth
quake sets up in the interior, they
charge it to the melon. The water
melon was intended as an episOde-an
interlude-a romance without words
a nocturne in green and red-not to be
mingled with bacon and greens. Its
indulgence leaves q certain epigastraIi
expansion, but this is painless and
evanesccnt. The remedy is to loosen
the waistband. and-take another
slice"
The islands in the group in the st.
Lawrence, known as the Thousand