The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-22


hitched to buggy like horse, and the
animal goes first rate.
Nevada has only two Indian tribes,
the Flutes and Shoshones, who number
about 1911 combined.
The stock of the Wesson Cotton Mills,
of Mississippi, is worth 800, and pays an
annual dividend of 26 per cent.
Thirty-one murders have been COM
mitted in Pittsylvania county, Va, since
July 1, 1875, and only one man hung
From the discovery of gold in Cali
fOrnia until the present time mining has
paid Is per cent. on the money invested.
Emerson was almost as sparing of
words as Lander, of whom Sidney Smith
said, ellis language does not clothe his
tlioughts.a'
There are 452 Indian children attend
ing the Government schools at Carlisle,
Pa, at Hampton, Va, and Forest
Grove, Ore.
Girard College is to have complete
machine shop. with workbench, forge
and gas-cngine for each, of the ninety
pupils in practical mechanics.
THe siik-works at Allentown, Pa, en-
plpysen. thesgirls over 16 years of age
in that town who want work, and is
compelled TO advertise for more.
That is . bon-ton family, indeed, on
Fifth avenue, New York, who call the
servant who washes and takes care of
the dishes, "Our Minister to China"
Mrs Carlyle said she was never in
love with her husband; she married him
for ambition and was more than graft
iied;3 but her life was. most miserable.
Gladstone is credulous enough to be-
lieyeE that, because the revenues from
tire sale of beer and liquors have fallen
Oft, the English people are becoming So
her.
An Oregon man fell on the icy walk
and broke his nose, and when he came
to '5ne for damages the jury held that
his'iooSs had been improved 30per cent.
He therefore got nothing. trrs s-.
a San Francisco jury last week award
ed a book agent S120 for an assault COM
miaesl :on him by . man who didn't like
his book, and the book agent wants to
find more men who don't like it.
st. Louis boasts of an abandoned ar
teSian well which was sunk at great ex-
pense TO the depth of 3, $50 feet, when,
as salt water was the best which could
be produced, the well was abandoned in
disgust, sz...s.-s.-.. .,s-s.
It,iS stated that experiments at Messrs.
KrupA'sy great shooting grounds near
Meppen have afforded a practical solu-
tion of the problem how to construct
missiles which after piercing the object
aimed at, shau explode with torpedo
like effect.
The marble statue of Ex-Governor
Buckingham, which is to adorn Connec-
ticut's State Capitol, will be carved by
Oliver L. Warner, of New York. Two
years time has been allowed for the
completiontof the work.
Nine. Nilsson has resumed her own
name. and when visitors ask for Nine.
Rouzaud the servant says, ''You mean
Mmes Nilsson. do you not?'' She says
she determined on this course shortly
after her husbands death.
In the course of its work in fine lock-
making q Rochester firm uses many
hundreds of screws so small that the
thread can not be distinguished by the
naked eye, and the shoulder can hardly
be seen. They cost SO and 81 gross,
and Il man can take 500 worth into his
mouth ut once.
Henry James, Jr., the young man
who ''wcgrets the thirkumstance that he
was born in America, but weally couldn't
help it,zyon. see, as be wasn't consulted
about the matter, you know" has re-
written ''Roderick Hudson" which had
some merits he was always sorry for
and had doubtless cut out.-Nca0 York
Star.
.. c. Burroughs, of Oneida, N. Y,
while digging in his garden near the
bank of Oneida creek, found one of the
original copper cents bearing the motto,
"Mind Your Own Business" coined in
New Haven in 1887. The cent is valua-
bic. as but few were coined.
Sportsmen along the Hudson are try
ing to revive the use of the hawk in
hunting and have offered fabulous prices
for eggs. Men along the Susquehanna
valley are said to have secured $40
apiece for some which they obtained by
letting themselves over the side of
cliff
1t is said that the children of wealthy
parentsii in San Francisco are not only
abstIfdly. y.ovcrdressed, but are also pow
dored and painted. The children enter
into ahe2spiI5t of the thing as little CO.
QUOTES and fops, arrayed in rivalry, and
are alJout'as hateful a set of young ones
as can be found,
bHring her recent sojourn at Mentone,
(treen Victoria visited all the pictu-
reSqls1 spots in the neighborhood and is
said iolAaye wandered on foot through
the quaint streets of the town and to
have entered the potterer's where vases
and fancy articles are made By
shaded path she was able to walk from
heg chAlet 10 the hotel where Prince
Leopold WAS living, and during the i'll
n.',s of sthel Prince she made this jour
Ecy several times a day.
A new Sind of bomb has been invent
ed at the Krnpp cannon foundry. The
explosion uf these new missiles, it is
said, owing to their mechanical arrange
ments ard he materials which they con
tain, wiiibe equal to torpedoes AT the
same works new cannon has been
tested Ii is mounted upon apivot pro-
videfwith machinery which absolutely
dOcsAway with the rebound or kick
ing The cannon, moreover, is so
fashioned that, notwithstanding it's
heavy calibre, it can be mounted upon
the smallest gunboats.
Marie Henriette, queen of the Bel
gians, is a eomely, middle-aged woman;
more sad than joyous, though she takes
an interestin many things. She thinks
n good deal about her two grandchil-
dren, and writes every day to one or
other Of her married daughters. Her
greenhouses, which are the finest, per-
haps, on the continent, afford daily oc-
cupation, and her horses and ponies and
her dogs are under her direct supervi-
sion. One of the latter she long carried
in her arms on all state occasions, and
it was always drapcd in the color of her
mistress dress.
A project for constructing third rail-
way tunnel beneath the Alps under
Mont Blame already meets with consid-
cradle opposition, particularly on scien-
titic grounds. Herr Helm, Swiss sa-
want, Of the polytechnicum of Zurich,
contends that the piercing of Mont Blanc
would be q work of immense difficulty.
In one part of the tunnel would have to
be cut through Attenuation of anhydrous