The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
NEWS BREVTTIES.

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The a.u1der Of great words does not
always betoken q great thought. for
many grand salute is fired with a
blank cartridge
F. NJ. Gustaye Dore's mother is dead,
aged IA He always lived with her.
She was the widow of a government en-
gineer of bridges and highways.
Edmond de Lafayette, the younger
brother of the late marquis, is now the
only living grandson, in the direct male
line, of Lafayette
:! Ex-Secretary Evarts gets even with
the carpers who complain of his long
sentences. He says the only men who
object to long sentences are criminals.
! 1t is now said that the gentleman
known as Commandant Alfred Aylward,
now serving with the Beers, is no other
than Muphy, the Manchester informer.
Secretary Lincoln's face in repose is
described as serious almost to stern
ness; but when he smiles it grows
bright, and then he sis positively and
undeniahlet handsome"
: The empress of Austria complains
that England is disappointing after Ire
land; that there is no '1eppin," and
that the fields are too small for good
gallop.
A distinguished German geographer
is of opinion that the diamond district
of Africa is the Ophir from which King
Solomon drew such liberal supplies OF
gold and precious stones.
Physicians in the mining regions say
that the presence of diphtheria is direct
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ted molasses, sugar, ETC., which are
largely used in that section.
jefferson Davis Bill, of Connecticut,
has completed his studies at Eastman
College, Poughkeepsie. He has two
brothers named Lecompton Constitution
Bill and Kansas Nebraska Bill.
Samual J. Tilden, though now an old
man, is actively engaged in railway
operations He is estimated at SO. .0OO,-
900, and hence may be considered the
richest bachelor in the country.
Lady Walter Campbell and Miss Bal
dock, though not professional beauties,
are gainfng celebrity as among the pref
test women in London, and the society
papers seem likely to make them pro-
fessionals in time
Prof. KO-Kun-Hua, who graces the
Chinese chair at Harvard, has frequent
and severe twinges Of rheumatism, and
is said to express his opinion of the Me-
lican climate in language that is more
flowery than celestial
+, The wife of the Hon. Timothy o.
Howe, of Wisconsin, will reside with
her daughter, Mrs. Totten, in Washing
ton, while the ex-senator is in atten-
dance upon the international monetary
conference in Paris.
Mr.. Wash. Mclean, of the Cincinna-
ii Enquirer, has purchased lot in
Washington on which he Will erect a
handsome mansion, to be presented to
his daughter, the wife of Gen. Hazen,
of the signal service.
Florence Percy" the author of
'..Rock Me to Sleep" Mother, now lives
in Maine, and edits paper there. One
of her young daughters has for name
her mothers nom-de-plume of Florence
Percy.
1t is proposed to build a ship canal
across the State of Delaware. A COM
pany is to be formed with q capital of
$50, 700, 900, and application has been
made to the Legislature for the right of
way.
An old man in San Francisco COM
'mitted suicide because two confidence
swindlers had robbed him of S2, GOO, by
which act he saved them from punish
ment, as he was the only witness
against them
The Austrian Empress hunting ex-
ploits in Ireland and England are con-
sidered scandalous by the stay-at-homc
ladies of the court in Vienna. whose
taste lies in dress, eating, balls, and
theatricals.
In Philadelphia pantomimic play a
coach is drawn on the stage by live
horses, two wheels come off, and the
upset throws the passengers, who are
skilled acrobats, into grOtesque atti-
tudes in all directions.
The marriage of Lord Broke, NJ. p,
heir of the earl of Warwick. and Miss
Maynard, the beautiful heiress whom
the gossip betrothed not long ago to
Prince Leopold, is fixed to take place
soon at Westminster abbey.
America boasts of the biggest father
in existence in the person of John Heff-
ner, of Reading, Pa, who emigrated
from Germany in 1854. BY three wives
in Germany and America he has had no
less than forty-one children.
Mr.. Henry Willard, who is trying to
obtain control of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, was formerly an army cor
respondent of the New York Tribune.
He married daughter of William
Lloyd Garrison, the great anti-slavery
leader.
Col. r. G. Ingersoll said in lecture
in New York: MY tears are not shed
in St. Petersburg, but in Siberia, -
from which it may be inferred that the
Cars sudden taking off didn't affiict
Robert to any great extent.
- Five generations of one family live in
Madison, Wis. They are Mrs Wallace,
aged IS; Mrs. Langdon, her daughter,
aged 55; Mrs Lewis, great-grand-
daughter, aged IS; and an infant great
great-grand-child
Few cities in America are more in
Tested with beggars than Washington.
The police are making an effort to rid
the streets of mendicants, and all vag-
rants arrested are sent to the Washing
ton Asylum, where they will be put to
work.
Thomas Jefferson was the only skep-
tic in the line of American Presidents;
only two of them, Washington and Gar
field, have been communicates Jack
son was Presbyterian, and Harrison,
Polk and Grant were all Methodists and
the rest belonged to different denomina-
tions.
Mr.. Henry o. Tiff, revenue boatman
atNewport, r. l., is probably the oldest
man in the revenue service in the coun-
try, being 80 years of age. He has
been in the service there for more than
half a century, and is still an efficient
officer.
Hennenway, one of the most stirring
Methodist exhorters in Massachusetts,
has gone to the Penitentiary for steal
ing a bag of corn, He conducted his
own defence in court, and made a
fervid appeal to the jurors, but they did
not melt. I-a
A fashionable young woman.of Gales
burg, ILL.,, has undertaken alone to re-
form the men of that town. She enters
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