The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-04-20
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of the handsomest mOrgue in America.
Fritz has named his dog Non Sequitur,
because it does not follow.
The fly who was invited into the spid-
er's parlor did not make his party call.
Ohio was admitted to the union in
1902 The first public school in Cincin-
natl was opened in April, 1929.
A young attorney at Brownsville. KY,
who failed to oget license to practice
law, has gone to chopping wood for
living.
A woman in FL Paso, Tex, shot q
Chinaman faFagiyings her some Jaw"
wherrp pon some 81 the citizens present
ed4lef With 4 sifverscdp.
An Indian burial l-ground has been
found on side-hill, overgrown with
vine-maple, at Eddy point, half mile
below Knappa, Oregon.
The German association of spelling
Ttformers has published the first Of a
series of classical native authors in the
REV photography.
Frost on the Comstock has penetrated
mining shafts seven hundred feet, freez-
ing dripping water at that depth from
the sufEtce..
lever do any thing heroic?' said the
Vermont 1nans .I reckon l did; Ionce
went bail for neighbor O. mine who
wasn't worth two. cents.
James B. Nance, of Nashville, Tenn
essee, is noted as the man who sounded
tie Last Confederate bugle charge of the
war.
A Virginia turkey was accidently shut
up in cellar for five weeks, without
food or drink. When liberated it was
terribly emaciated, but living.
A Kansas man and woman have been
married to each other once year for
four, years, divorce having separated
them after each union except the last
one.
The Chinese embassy's cook at Wash
ington buys canyasbacks often, and
when he has got the birds, chops them
up carefully into mince and SINNERS it
slowly. inBweet oil. 50
A grass widow, aged 81, has eloped
from Harvard, Clay county, with q
younger man, who sacrificed his prop
erty, and deserted wife and children for
her sake.
'Is he a good German scholar?" they
asked of the Washington belle concern
inc her lover. ''Splendidr' she replied.
''iIe holds alady beautifully, and knows
all the figures" 3sH 81 =.
1t was a good thing for the whalers
when~.,Jonahs sblubbered in the marine
monster that took him in. That blub-
Der has made the fortune of thousands.
Somebody has figured out that Van
derbiIt's income would allow him to, in
one day. visit 5000 circuses, eat 10000
pints of peanuts, and drink :, 200 glasses
of lemonade.
A sgirl at CarTpllton, Ark, was be-
trothed to one man while she desired to
marry another She married the first,
but promised the second that at the end
OF six morths she ewonld elope with him.
This Arrangement has been carried out.
! FhesAxife Of alWest-cnd imam recently
correcting little son at the table: ut
isn't nice TO sayszslassss.2g darling" said
the mother; ''you must say 'molasses.' "
"And il Seu want it right bad, my son, F"
suggested the fatlier. eating his turnip
greens with shisA knife, ''you must say
'morelaSSes.'
A Pacific coast paper makes the
climate of California is changing, the
weather appearing to grow colder every
winter p The present winter has no re-
corded parallel there, either for the low
deorec-of temperature attained or the
number of days of frost
An act is about to be introduced into
the Freuch Chambers which may have
the effect Of keeping alive great many
children who would otherwise die. 1t
gives the municipal authorities power,
which they never have had yet, to deal
stringently with parents who neglect
their offspring morally and physically.
General Israel Putnam's grave al
Brooklyn, Conn, bears evidence of bott
neglect and vandalism. A small marbL:
stone, with an inscription by President
Dwight, of Yale College, formerly marke,'
the Revolutionary PATRIOTS resting place.
but this has crumbled to pieces, and &
hidden by weeds
Appointment lady in London socies ,
has put her foot down, and determine.s
that, at all events in her house, pokcs
shall no longer be playedfor high stake.
The evil has lately become so serioue
that, at recent poker party given Ia
Berkeleysquare, each player-and ladita
We're thnre-was bound to put ESQ int.
the pool before the game commenced.
This IS n Point. 1t is not Sharp like a
Pencil Point. IT is as Broad as 1t is
Long Where did we get the Point? 1t
came from n Mining Brokers' office If
we take the Point what win it do? 1t
will 30 through us like bad Story
through a Boarding-house. What shall
wa do with the Point? Let US Copper
it.-Dc.SUer TTibanc Primer.
The aurochs, or wild oxen, which sur
vive only in the imperial forests of Lith-
uania and Poland, threatened, q few
years a.;o, to become extinct, and strict
orders were issued for their preserva-
ton. Under imperial protection they
have multiplied to about six hundred
head, and hunt was recently permit
ted near Bielostoc Two aurochs were
killed and sent to St. Petersburg.
An unreasonable youth: Anything
yoE see me do, you can do" said Pin
grey to his son. THANK you, SIR" re-
piled the young man; "but perhaps |
would like to do some of the things you
take such mighty good care l shan't see
you do" Pingrey thinks of this and
trembles every time he goes behind the
cupboard door to look into the bottom
of that tumbler.
James Payn, the novelist and essayist,
says that he once heard two popular
story-tcllers, A, who writes seldom, but
with much ingenuity of construction,
and B. who is very prolific in pictures of
everyday life, discoursing on this sub
ject. "Your fecundity," said A, .'as-
tounds me; 1 can't think where you get
your plots from" ''Plots?" replied B.
'Oh! i don't trouble myself about them.
Totell you the truth, generally take
bit OF one of yours, which is amply suf-
ficient for my purpose"
About three years ago aMexican min
er working in the La Carmen mine,
Carbon district, Sonora, Mexico, was in
jured by. a blast, and had his right leg
amputated above the knee and his right
arm above the wrist. The accident af-
fected his wife deeply Recently she
gave birth to a male child, healthy and
in every respect perfectly formed, ex-
oa1f that ba y.;obf 1aor fror, ohn,,o @I,o