The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-03-24
NEWS BREvTTIEs.
The cultivation of rice is attracting
attention in louisiana


have arrived at Jacksonville, Fla
Austria has a petroleum region one
eighth the size of that of the Unitet
States
The Pullman car company earns oil
each car about $50 month net, ant
has 474 cars
A very large amount of money is al
legged to be due to east Florida claim
ants for losses of 1872.
The dominion of Canada, in thirteer
years, has accumulated debt of 5000,
600, 600, principally for public works.
On Pierce's hill, Dorchester, neal
Boston, stands house built in 1910
and which is still occupied by descend
ants of its builder.
A corporation is about to establish a
geological garden above Central Park,
Chicago, with an observatory three hum
dred and twenty-five feet high.
The body of an infant was found by
the janitor of school in Bristol, X. l.,
neatly done up in package and laid
on the shelf
In Waterville, Me-, the prohibitory
laws are so strictly enforced that the
college professors are unable to procure
alcohol for scientific experiments.
The estimated rent of the new build
ing on the corner of Broadway and
Wall street. New York, will net to its
owners the princely sum of $500 q
year.
The total value of England's i'm
ports for 1880 was f409, 990, 900, an in
crease of about f40, ZOO, 600 over 1879.
Living animals were imported to the val
a 4 q l,nr <.f <arr
imported was 747, ,412, 40, worth f.
241, 800.
Capt MW. Barnes and wife, of Wat
ertown, Conn.,, recently celebrated the
seventieth anniversary of their mar
rage. The captain is SO years old and
his wife 81, and both are now in good
health
Bradlaugh is a stalwart who believes
in muscle. When the authorities of
Scotland yard rendered him detective
protection against assassin alton recent
1y, he thanked them and said he
thought he could take care of himself
and it would be best to protect the as
sassins.
The demand for George Eliot's books
has been so great since her death that
the London publishers have not been
able to meet it. One thousand readers
incurred for '.Adam Bede'' in one week
at a leading circulating library. A
cheap and an expensive complete edi-
ton of her works will be issued in the
spring
Large depots are to be put up on
Harlem river, to accommodate the rail-
roads to New England, which will con-
meet there with the railroads to New
lf
for the purpose has been bought for
S166,O0O, and eight and half acres
near by sold for $4,000 to another
company.
The largest deed ever put on the
records of Naugatuck. Conn, consisted
of eighteen pages of .closely-printed
matter. 1t was a mortgage to the
Mutual Union, of.New York city, for
$3.50, 600 from the New Union Telegraph
company. The charge of the town clerk
was S13.
A man who had lived in Boston
clearinghouse for ten years, and had
been known only as George" was
found dead in his room recently.
Among his effects were found papers
which indicated that his name was Eben
Leman, and money, bonds, and bank
notes to the value of SIS, 600.
Four years ago a schoolboy in
Monroe county, Indiana, threw dead
rattlesnake around the neck of a little
girl, and it has made her permanently
insane. During all this time she has
recognized no one, but daily sits with
her slate in her lap, making out the
same figures she had been given as 4
lesson at school on the fateful day,
occasionally crying out: ''Take the
snake away"
Mr.. Edison has nearly finished dy-
machine having three
field magnets six and half feet long,
and an armature one and half tons
in weight. The armature is connected
directly to Porter-Allen engine of 100
horse power. Both the engine and the
machine are mounted
upon a large iron bed. This new cleo
trio generator is intended to do what is
usually done by sixteen smaller ma
chimes with greater steadfastness and
economy.
1t is remarkable that the working
classes of Germany have taken little
part in the anti-Jewish agitation, At a
stormy meeting in Berlin recently, in |
which the Jews were denounced as peo-
pie ..unfit to mix with other races" 4
workman had the courage to state that J
after seventeen years hard work in
Berlin, although Christian himself, his |
was that Jewish employers
rad, as rule, treated him far better
han his co-religionists-' He accord
ngly proposed n resolution in favor of !
religious liberty The result was
hat the meetiGg Missed him and turned
him out.
Henry Brand and wife, living at No.
y Raymond street, Brooklyn, n. Y.
led from the house in which their child
lad died of diphtheria, and the health
took the body away and
,uried it, and could not find the child's
,arents- Subsequently it was ascer-
aimed that Brand had 4 child who died
few days before of diphtheria. Then
he second child contracted the disease
nd died, and Mrs. Brand was also
AIKEN i'll. Brand was too poor to bury
he child, and he thought it best to get
is wife out of the house.
MIR. Spurgeon wrote recently that
ne most useful members of church
-ere usually those who would ''be do
ig harm if they were not doing good.
hey could not be the chips in the por-
Iugc-tucy Hlusb HdbOT IL one way OF |
Ie other" '.In my young days." he
ontinued. 81 feared l said many odd
Iings and made many blunders, but my
udiences were not hypocritical, and no
ewspaper writers dogged my heels;
nd SO L had happy training ground,
| which, by constant practice, l attain
1 such a degree of ready speech as 1
ow possess. There is no way of learn
~ to preach which can be compared
preaching itself. If you want to
vim you must get into the water"
As the steamship Labrador was on her
ay from Havre to New York, an i'm
ligrant passenger named Jacob Neick
erthy committed suicide by jumping
rerboard in mid-ocean. The sailors
lade every possible effort to rescue thpl
ian, but the weather at the time was
, rough that they were unsuccessful.
erthy left in his trunk two letters, one
which was addressed to his sister