The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-19
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raise 1850 pounds on a health lift.
General Grant is said to be growing
old very fast; to have lost his military
bearing, and to become round-shoulder-
cd and adipose.
1t is estimated that over one-hah of
the new manufactures started in the
south during the past two years belong
to northern capitalists.
1t is said to be difficult to obtain
teachers for the Pennsylvania schools
this year. The cause is conjectured to
be the smallness of the salary.
A vindictive horse in Savannah, Ga,
saw cunning COW stealing his oats.
He rushed upon her and bit off three
inches of her tongue. The COW lives,
but shuns the horse.
A Judge at Lyons. n. z, has SEN
fenced n prisoner to be hung on Thurs
day. He claims credit for breaking
away from the superstition attached to
Friday, the hangman's day.
Crazed by the conduct of her two
daughters, woman chopped off one of
her hands at, Parkville, Conn, striking
not less than a dozen blows with
hatchet.
Marvin, Virginia's champion biga-
mist, now in jail at Richmond, had an
alteration with one of the inmates the
other day, and in the fight was badly
injured.
Most of the mechanics of the rural
towns of California are struggling with
patents of devices to apply to two
wheeled carts so as to overcome the OBJ
jectionable bobbing motion of the ordi-
nary dog carts.
The model for the statue of General
Robert E. Lee, which is to crown the
monumental shaft in Lee place, New
Orleans, has been completed. 1t is said
to be an excellent likeness, and is the
work of Alexander Doyle, local sculp-
tor.
Young ladies of England having shown
a desire to make palmistry the next SEN
sational folly, the London Truth calls
attention to an unrcpealed act Of Pariia-
ment which imposes upon all who 60
about practicing the art the penalty Of
being scourged, having the ears crop
ped and being placed in the pillory.
George Chamberlain. member of the
state board of equalization, has left with
the Historical society for inspection a
stone dug up in tho town OF Enterprise.
Jackson Co., Ill. by Mr.. Lester while
digging post hole. 1t is about four
inches in length and one in width, and
has carved on it rudely the letters M. K.
and on the other side 1777.
A Cincinnatian has written a PAM
phlet recounting the events OF 'the waI
of 1886" between the United States and
Great Britain. The result of the war is
the defeat of the United States. The
object of the pamphlstser is to arouse
attention to the fact that the national
defenses have been neglected and the
army and navy permitted to become in
efficient.
Mrs. Mary Anderson, aged 7e years.
lost her way on Lookout mountain,
Walker county, Virginia, and for eight
days wandered imlessly about, exposed
to pitiless rain storm, which ragged al.
most constantly. When at last discov-
the banks Of Little river, nearly dead
She will probably recover.
About two years ago Commodore
Watson, of tho DeBary line, ON the St
Johns river, Florida, dirscted that nc
more shooting be allowed from bis boats
This Is done not only for the protection
Of the passengers, but that the game
should not be driven from the banks o;
the river Tho order has had good
effect. and now the alligators and bird;
may be seen as OF yore.
The San Antonio Express reports s
case OF the hospital there. A Mexican
was brought in sometime ago who wa:
bitten by a cenuPede. The leg on which
he was bitten was treated and cured
but since then the man has begun tc
drink spirits, and the old wound ha:
broke out afresh, and the gangreneC
flesh is now dropping of the leg where
the centipede touched.
China is something of a country. 1t
has four canals, equal to all the rest in
the world. Some Of them are five thous-
and years old; the longest was dug six
hundred years ago, and is twice as long
rs the Erie canal. That Titanic wall OF
defense, the Chinese va1, was built
more than one hundred years b. c.; it
is from twenty to thirty feet high, and
fifteen hundred miles long, and repre-
sents moro labor than any other struct-
ure on the globe.
Inventor Edison tells reporter that
he does not believe a submarine tele-
phone comes within the region OF pos
sibilities. He says: The present con-
dition Of the art will not permit sound
to be audible by submarine or under
ground conveyance more than few
miles. 1t is all they can DO to talk
across the English Channel. and that
with the very bes; instrument yet con-
structed."
The English Educational Department
has just published circular in which il
lays down the principle in instruction
that, rs general rule, but especially in
the lower standards, the examiner
should be careful rather to ask for the
meaning of short sentences and phrases
than to require explanations of single
words by definitions or synonyms. The
circular mentions Robinson Crusoe'
as one of tho reading books for schools
authorized by the department.
A number of physicians and other
citizens of Boston have united in cir
eular addressed to the teachers of thai
city. urging them 10 use all their in
fiuence and authority to suppress the
use of tobacco among tho children in
their schools. There is no doubt that
this habit is becoming more and more
prevalent among children, to whom it is
equally certain TO be injurious. The
makers of cheap cigarettes are largely
responsible for this condition of affairs,
which is attracting much anxious con-
sideration on both sides Of the Atlantic.
The most beautiful woman in the
world is said to DO Nine. Gautherot, the
American wife Of rich Paris importer
She is twenty-siI years OF age Hez
head is strictly classical. and she vears
her fair vavy tresses in Greeian ban
deauX. In form she is faultless
Venus de Medici transmitted into flesh
and blood. AS lately seen at recep'
tion in Paris she was dressed ia corr
oolored silk. part Of which WAS covered
with net work o& yellow beads and
buples, She wore q necklace of dia,