The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-11-23

IOru county, mdryldnu, uOunGeu his
bicycle the other day, and made spin
of fourteen miles in one hour and twen-
ty minutes.
A Mexican at Laredo the other night
put his hand in box to get bottle of
whisky, and drew it out with cent?
pede fastened to the finger. Whisky
saved him.
"Kind ladies and gentlemen, take
pity on the poor, blind man who has
gone to breakfast" was writing on a
card pinned to a hat seen on mendi-
cant's chair in Paris recently.
For my part 1 am quite content
Eden; let others, if they choose, look for
theirs in the garden called geological"
Dean Bavyon, Of England.
He was indeed an absent-minded man
of Bismarck who tied his jackass to
post and then, thinking that the animal
had been lost, put an advertisement for
him in the paper.
Des Moines business men are estab-
fishing a new industry. A man there
offers 800 for 1000 rats in good order.
1.-The paper didn't state' whether they
were wanted for canning purposes or
to supply a deficiency in the local meat
market.
What a wonderful conscience. and
sense of justice that Brooklyn man
must have had who sued the Eagle for
known among his neighbors, by whom
he is spoken of as a most estimable
gentleman
The country can expect to be greeted
at any time with the news of the total
annihilation of the male portion of Cal
anus, Iowa. The young ladies there
have organized kissing club, and
jealousy is already foot deep all over
the town.
Browner Brothers, clothiers in Buff
falo, N. Y, have sued the Courier Com
pany, of that city, for $4,000 damages
for refusing to continue their advertise
ment on the page containing the tele-
graph news. The difficulty grew out
of the Courier's recent change of make
up.
Breslau, Silesia, has q society of veg
etarians whose recent annual dinner
was as follows: Fruit soup, caulihower
with sauce, raspberry pudding, stewed
fruit, green fruit as dessert, and ice
water. And for fear of partaking of
animal food they had the ice-water
boiled and filtered.
The son of an old Boston merchant
received by mail photograph of his
fathers trousers and letter saying
that the garment had been seized in
Providence while the owner was where
he had not ought to have been. The
rascals demanded $500 for silence, and
got arrested instead.
A school of sportive whales carried
away the propeller of the ocean steam
err Mount Lebanon and left her almost
helpless far at sea. A passing steamer
towed the disabled craft to Halifax,
where she was found to have ex-
perienced SO great damage that she was
unloaded and dry docked for repairs.
That architectural impertinence, the
bay window that overhangs the side
walk, has been judiciously condemned
in Philadelphia, as ian unjustifiable en-
croachment on the public highway,
prejudicial to the interests of the COM
munity and the rights of individual
property-owners in the CITY,"
Professor Edward C. Pickering, of
Harvard College, says that, in under
taking to measure the intensity of the
light of the satellites of Mars he had
occasion to need all extremely small
holes. A hole about the twenty-five
hundreth part of an inch in diameter
was finally secured.
A paralytic who had been dumb since
his birth created decided sensation in
the hospital at Staunton, Va, recently,
by rising in his bed, exclaiming '.Moth-
or! Oh, motherr' and falling back dead
upon his pillow. Though he was forty
nine years old, he had never before
been known to utter word.
Eastern ladies have very pleasing
and fashionable habit of knitting silk
stockings for their very particular gen.
tlemen friends, and the very particular
gentlemen friends evince very pleas
ing and cheerful alacrity in accepting
them in lieu of the inevitable smoking
cap or embroidered slippers. Christ
mas hint.
A mandate from the supreme court
OF the United States reversing a decree
of the United States district court of
California, and confirming title to five
square leagues in San Bernardino coun-
ty, known rs ''Temescal,n was lately
presented in court at San Francisco.
The decree of the supreme court upon
which the mandate was issued was
made in 1861.
An old monument has been erected
i'll Il cemetery at South Hadley, Mass.
The trunk of n shattered tree is repro
duced in marble, with ivy winding
round it, and an inscribed open book
pegged to the bark. From hole peeks
squirrel, and on branch sits dove
looking down on two eggs in nest.
The lot has posts representing stumps
of small trees.
A steamer that was sunk in eighty
feet of water two years ago in Lake
Huron has been raised, and her cargo,
consisting of 500 barrels of porter, fifty
cases of gin. and 100 cases of brandy,
all imported goods, has been found un-
harmed, and, having lain so long under
water, has escaped duty. The present
owners paid $4,000 for the steamer and
cargo, and $4,000 for the work of rails
ing.
Said Dublin magistrate: From
the experience which have gained in
the police courts, l would advise people
not to get married at all, particularly
females; for, in the number of assault
cases between married people which
have come before me, | have only had
one case in which wife was charged
with assault upon her husband"
1t is proposed to perform an opera