The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-20
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Capt. Stone arrived ut Moundville, w
Va, thirty-five years ago, settled ther
and planted two seeds, remarking +
his family that he would like to rails
his own coffin One of these seeds die
but the other flourished and grew
From a shoot it became a sapling ant
finally fine tree. About eighteel
months ago it was blown down in a sc
we're wind-storm. He had it cut int
lumber and sent to a Pittsburg, Pa.
firm In a short time it was returned
to him in the shape of a beautiful coffin
In which he was recently buried. 4.
At the Winter Palace in st. Peters
burg there is room full of diamonds
pearls, and other precious stones Ar
Empress of Russia is allowed to borrow
from this room after giving receipt
for what she takes, and generally tho
Grand Duchesses are allowed to borrow
from it also. Il remember" says NJ
Labouchere, .tonce going into the room
with French diplomatic lady. She
beat hasty retreat after one glance
around, for she felt that, if she stayed.
her principles would succumb to her
admiration, and that she would try to
steal some of the contents"
At Harvard college, students consume
great deal of milk and of bread, with
much oatmeal and cracked wheat for
breakfast. There is comparatively lit
lie coffee used Oyster soup is great
favorite for dinner, requiring fourteen
gallons of oysters for seventy-five gal
Ions of soup. Celery, too, is a favorite
at dinner, nearly three hundred punches
being used daily. The boys also like a
plenty of ice-cream and very many ap-
pies and grapes, Beef-steak is largely
consumed at breakfast and roast beef at
dinner. Scrambled eggs disappear rap
idly at breakfast time.
There was considerable circumstan-
tial evidence that John Shufelt murder
ed his wife at North Egromont, Mass.
She disappeared very mysteriously, af-
ter living very unhappily with him. A
track was found that looked as though
1t had been made by dragging a body
from the house TO a lake near by; an
old boat was discovered concealed in
some bushes, and it was believed that
Shufelt had sunk the remains in the
water The lake was persistcntly drag
gcd, but the woman was not produced,
and the husband was necessarily dis
charged from custody. Suspicion chung
to him, however, only TO be diSpelied
by the positive proof that Mrs. Shufelt
eloped, and is still living.
The census of Vermont, complete,
shows the population to be 49,, 2S6,
which is less by 2, 1876 than was reported
some months ago. This takes away
more than half the supposed increase
in ten years. 1t now appears that the
gain from census to census was only
half of 1 per cent The number of
males has increased more than twice as
much as the number of females, the
sexes being very evenly divided, as
there are 991 females to every 1000
males. The native population has in
creased, and the foreign-born residents
have decreased. There are now less
than Al, coo foreigners in Vermont. or
only little more than II per cent. The
colored people number but 1,043, of
whom eleven only arc Indians and half
breeds.
A curious incident occurred in Paris
in the course of the recent proceedings
against the religious orders. As the
commissary of police was about to put
the seals on the doors of the Dominic
ans chapel, the superior, Father Jouin.
remarked to him that there were al
ready some seals on the DOORS II beg
of you," he said, Monsieur lie Commits
saira. not to destroy those seals. They
are historical, being those which were
affixed by the men of the commune in
1871. We have carefully preserved
them as souvenir of those trying times.
I should be obliged if you would not de-
stroy them and place yours on the side
of them" NJ. Dulac acceded to the de-
sire, and the two seals are now side by
side.
1t is rare, writes Paris correspond
ent, for French brides to shed tears;
but Mile. Samary, the actress, did, at
her recent marriage with M. Paul La
garde, the only son of a rich stock
broker. The pulpit stairs. and even the
pulpit of the Madeleine, were filled with
pretty actresses, who crowded to see the
bride. She entered leaning on the arm
of her father, the violoncellist Samary,
and was beautifully dressed in ivory
satin and orange blossoms. Mile. Bar
retta, in an opal blue and silver toilette,
was bridesmaid. None of the bride
groom's family was present. In the
sacristy the whole company of the The
al re Francois defiled before the bride, |
whom the actresses embraced, and the
actors saluted by kissing her hand.
BY the departure of the Carthusians,
France will lose some S250,000 a year |
i'm the shape of license duties, which |
the fathers paid on their celebrated |
liquor manufactured in large quantities |
nj La Grange Charteuse, near Grenoble- |
The order at one time owned a vast |
amount of property i'm Paris. in the |
ncighborhood of the LuxembOurg-a |
property which, it is said, was obtained |
by pious fraud not uncommon in the |
middle ages The monks having set |
their hearts on the chateau of Vauyert, |
that habitation at once became the |
nh - rh<,
alarmed the proprietor that he disposed |
of his residence for mere trifle. The |
property was purchased by the Carthu- |
slams, who had little difficulty in getting |
rid of the evil spirits.
Miss Eva Sothern, the beautiful daugn-
ter of E A Sothern Uord Dundreary), |
is about to appear, or has by this time |
appeared, in conjuction with MIR. Bouci-
caIilt, at the Olympic, London, in ..An-
DIV Blake" one of Boucicault's French
dramatizations of the ..Gamin de Paris
reyamped as far back as 1858 for his
wife, Agnes Robertson. MIR Sotherh |
has vehemently, but Intellectually, OPP
posed her going on the stage. He has,
since their separation, allowed Mrs.
Sothern 91 900 year for maintenance,
but recently made affidavit in court that |
he is not, all told, worth more than
fl0,000. The allowance has accord |
ingly been reduced to f175 a year, and |
on this ground the Judge has decided
III favor of Miss Sothern going on the
stage
Jonathan II. Greene, once the most |
notorious and successful gambler in
America, and afterward known as an
exposer of gamblers tricks, is now
aged and poverty-stricken in Philadel-
phia. From 1881 to 1912 he won money
right and left, not only from amateurs,
but heavily from professional players.
On one occasion he took $50, 900 from a |
party of card sharpers in three days.
He was wonderfully skilled in handling
cards, and invented several of the swim
ding devices still used by faro dealers.
AT length he renounced his evil ways,
restored great deal of money to men