The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-12-15
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lish philanthropist, gives away, on an
average $500. 600 every year.
Ayignette of President Garfield will |
appear on the checks for the per cent /
bonds continued at 81 per cent
There were present at the Yorktown |
centennial generals and colonies |
enough to command an army of 1000
600.
There have been set up in the Grand
Opera House at Paris a number OF |
mirrors, measuring 45x52 feet, and
weighing from LOO to 1,6O0 pounds.
OF the 1,317 male teachers in the
public schools Of Maryland. 232. are
colored men. and of the 1.775 female
teachers, 157 are colored women
That prisoner has a very smooth
countenance," said the judge to the
sheriff. YES" said the sheriff, ''he
was ironed just before he was brought
in"
A lady called at a drug store where
they also kept books. and inquired OF
one of the firm: ..Have yOn 'Grote's
Greece7" mo, mum; but we've got
some excellent bears oil.
'.How is your husband this afternoon
Mrs QuiggsP'' why, the doctor says
rs how If he lives till mornin', he shall
have some hopes for him; but If he
don't, he must give him up"
The building boom has struck WASH
jngton. More than $50 new buildings
are in process of erection. Forty-one
of them represents and aggregate cost
of 1867, 600. Secretary Blaine house.
which will cost $4S, 900, is the most ex-
pensive.
At Adrian. Mich, cake baked
twenty years ago at the birth OF Z. Z.
Huleit and hermetically scaled in a tin
can was opened and eaten, 1t being MIR.
Hulett's twenty-first birthday. The
cake was found sound and sweet, though
it had an old taste.
Solvent Iowa farmers are taking
loads of spring-beds from glib agents,
merely for storage OF course they
gave receipts for the property. and, OF
course, the receipts turn up in the hands
of third persons as regular promissory
notes.
Secretary Blaine now has in good
position on the wall of one of his par
Tors a fine engraving of Gladstone. seht
him by Mr.. Gladstone himself, with an
autograph. The large photograph of
General Garfield, which was displayed
on the catafalque in Cleveland, now
hangs in Secretary Blaine's parlors.
A recent traveller in Germany and
Switzerland says that thousands of girls
in those countries cultivate their hair as
carefully as farmer does his crops.
and once a wear it is cut off and sold to
the hair merchants. Swiss girls have
the finest hair, and the prices vary
from 25 cents to $35 an ounce.
A company of Davenport, Iowa, sent
an AGENT to invest its $20, 600 capital In
Leadville mines. He put all the money
into seven ventures that Welded moth
ing. while three others that turned out
we'll proved to have been made on his
own private account. The company
has voted lack of confidence in him.
Christmas cards grow larger. more
artistic, and more expensive. In few
wears a young man that has only q
couple of hundred dollars to spend
during the holidays will be undecided
whether to buy his girl Christmas
card or n cold watch and chain.-N07'-
ristoUn Herald.
There is a dentist uptown who adj
yertises that he can make n set of teeth
for a person in ten minutes. Double
sets are set on hiBges, and if they do
not happen to fit the owner, all he has
to do is to grab them and chew his
hands, which Is not only a novel inven-
ton, but one that is very saving on tho
jaw--PucG.
A Boston firm proposes to receive a
limited number of girls from the pub
lie schools who may desire to become
saleswomen, and educate them as boys
are educated for business, giving them
800 the first year and increasing their
pay according to their proficiency.
They are to be allowed a vacation Of
two weeks out of the time, and every
means will be afforded for their adj
vancement.
Everybody in the Allegany IN. Y. }
oil field is busy and full of life and ac-
tivity. Those who have drilling terri
tory are scrambling for rig timber and
lumber-a scarce commodity by the
way-by which to develop their new
acquisitions, and those who have none
are rushing around hunting territory to
drill The business in real estate is
very active, important sales being re-
ported every day.
Among the mummies recently dis
covered Mt Thebes, it is asserted, with
all the earnestness of truth, is that of
"Pharaoh's daughter" the identical
maiden who rescued the infant Moses
from the cradle among the bulrushes-
1t is said the body is that of lady of
rare beauty and exquisite form. and so
perfectly preserved that it appears as if
only recently embaimed.
An enterprising firm of piano-makers
in New York has stationed man at
the entrance 10 the opera to give away
libre,tos 10 all that come. AS this is nm
interference with the business of some
one who has paid for the privilege of
selling .'booksthopera Englishandeye-
Italian wordzaumusic," an effort has
been made to stop the gratuiious cir
culatinn of librettos by arresting the
cOlportcur for obstructing the sidewalk.
Ell Paso Hegmid: An Indian mound
on the Texas Pacific railroad was exca-
waited few Weeks ago, and was found
to contain a great many rocks and the
remains of a human being about four
feet high. The forehead was not an
inch high, but was very broad. and lay
between fiat rocks covered with char
coal. In the grave was also spear OF
red flint several inches long and sever
al speckIe ones with fine edges.
This is from the R,u'al Ne,o Yorker.
What does it mean? '.What q grand
system of parks the Chicago folks can
boast of. and what belts of glowing col
ored plants may be seen there; such
profusion and such variety! Still if
there are not in the vegetable kingdom
plants enough to paint the flowerbeds
OF the Chicago gardens. the gardener
has to summon 10 his aid sea-shells.
whole and broken! What libel on hor-
ticu.ture, what an abortion of that
which should be beautiful-a flower
bed. But L have seen worse things
where better might be expected, name
ly, in Massachusetts,"
A jew named Adolph jacobson has
brought a suit for $1,000 damages
against another Jew named Moses
Ginger. in the marine court of New
York. the plaintiff claiming that the
defendant had slandered and injured
his business by reporting that be had
attended to business on ''Yom Kippur''
day, by going to Connecticut and pur-
chasing hats, good Israelites observing
that day, and those engaging in busi-
ness being despised. He claimed the
slander had driven away his customers.
The court could not entertain the suit,
holding that such disputes must be set
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