The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-08-25

waiter 10 nay See0, JUST IrCu1 Tie IuTai
districts. ..Mealr' exclaimed Hayseed,
contemptuously, "do yer think I'm a
hossP Get me some corned beef and
cabbage, young man."
An Amherst (Mass. woman who lost
her voice more than two years ago, and
has since been unable to speak above
whisper, was delighted recently at the
return of her power of speech. She
can now converse freely.
There are 1, ,790 Post Offices in Mis-
souri,, and clerk in the St. Louis Post
Office, with but eighteen months SER
vice. is said to have named them all
without prompting in thirty minutes,
with the county of each.
A man who was fishing for front in
the Tionesta years ago, so the story
runs, caught his hook on q bag of gold
and brought it safely to shore. As he
looked at the gold he sadly said, Just
my luck; never could catch any fish. !"
A Swiss newspaper says that the on
ly men who know how to keep a hotel
are Swiss and Americans 1t in
stances scores of leading hotels in Eu-
rope with Swiss managers. and thinks
that American hotels are the best in
the world.
Trinquet, the member of the COM
muneswho assumed the boldest front
before the court-martial, and who was
elected a municipal councillor while
still in New Caledonia and ineligible,
has been appointed by the prefect of
the Seine an inspector at S4S0 a year.
Mrs. Haley, a widow lady residing at
Boston, died of injuries by falling from
a hammock. Mrs. Haley got into the
hammock, and while swinging fell to the
ground, a distance of only two feet,
striking on her head and injuring her
spine, with the above result
San Francisco Chronicle: An eastern
society journal says that the present
fashion at Long Branch is only one
toilet day. The style is also popular
among the Piutes Mt many watering
places in the mountains on this coast,
but it is not deemed worthy of special
comment.
A plague of rats has appeared near
Dagneux, in France. Innumerable
swarms, which seem to come from the
direction of Lyons, have invaded many
communes, doing great damage to the
crops Some farmers have killed from
five to six thousand rats in their fields
in a single day.
There was recently sold in Manches-
ter, for f6 15s., copy of Three Ways
of Spending Sunday. by Timothy
Sparks" which is one of the earliest
and rarest of Dickens writings. 1t
was purchased by the bookseller, who
sold it for three pence! 1t has been re-
sold for f8 IS.
When a man was profanely express
ing his opinion to one who had sold
him some kind, of quadruped, and
by way of compliment called it a horse,
the jockey replied: ''You are COM
manded not to swear at ALL" The vic
tim instantly replied, and with wit
which he did not exhibit when examin-
ing the quadruped aforementioned:
Sir, / obey the command. l swear
not ut all, but only at such fellows as
: A French newspaper relates that q
millionaire lost his entire fortune ex-
cept about one hundred thousand
francs, and died of grief within "a
hours His brother who was his sole
he'll, had long struggled in poverty. and
now. on the sudden receipt of what he
regarded as large fortune, has just
died of joy.
The Rev. W. w. Colley. re Gently a
in Africa, has distinguis he'd
at Norwich, Conn.,, by declar-
ing i'm a lecture that there was no bar
rem Sahara, and that the. whole country
known on the maps as sterile and un-
was fertile and densely pop
ulated- The willy Arabs started the lie,
he explained, in order to keep out COM
petitions in the ivory traffic.
Albuquerque. N. NJ, has q greatly
justice of the peace. An IL
ustration of his method of dealing
Justice is commended to justices in
,ther far-west towns He said to a
Mexican: ''Ye are charged with steal
ing canned goods; what have ye to
sayP' The Mexican replied, "Quien
sabea'' '.Well," said the judge. "rIl
thrust the harpoon of justice into yez.
and send yez up for ninety days. till
Tez maybe can 'sabe.' Nixtr'
James William Fletcher, the Boston
spiritual medium. whose professional
yoing to prison for swindling an Eng
lome without her. He says that |
lmong the London attendants at his
eances were Count GIeichen, Princes
Albert and George of Solms, the Due
lie Parma, the duke of Newcastle, the
countess of Caithness.
Ring ut the door bell, half past A.
4. Doctor pokes his head out Of the
Window s.Hellor' Hello yourself,
IN no telephone. Come over to IL
last X street. Man awful sick over
here" whats the matter with him?"
How dye s'pose know! That's what
'ou've got to find out. / didn't bring
diagnosis with me-" And the doctor
down the window, slammed on
lis clothes, and profanely logged over
o the desired locality to find sufferer
rom an overdose of cold peas just
,etting through the worst of it, Double
ee.
The laying down of the cable be-
ween Berlin and Settin, which was
ffected the other day, completes the
telegraph system in the
ierman empire These cables now
over 3. 420 miles, nearly all of them
aying seven wires, and they have cost
yer 81, 100000. They are laid beneath
II the principal rivers. and establish di-
ect telegraphic communication be-
gveen 221 different cities and towns of
is German empire. The first cable
ras laid just four years and eight
lonths ago.
QueenVictoria has invested the duch-
50 of Abercorn, whose husband had
,r many years been her representa-
We at the mock court of Dublin, with
Ie order of Victoria and Albert. She
al previously invested the wife of an
ther lord lieutenant, the duke of Marl-
orough, with the order, which is worn
Y the ladies of the royal family and {
ighly priced. 1t is beautiful cameo.
ngraved with the heads of the queen /
nd prince consort, set in diamonds
nd pearls, and surmounted by a crown I
/ diamonds and rubies. 1t is attached {
, white satin ribbon and worn on
le left shoulder of the evening dress.
Reports from the Moravian mission
.aiions ON the west coast of Green
md. dated at the end of March of the
resent year show that the winter of
,SO-S1 was exceptionally mild. Sum-
Ter weather prevailed in January and
ebruary. the country was free of snow,
ie Esquimaux were able TO fish along