The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-04-27
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Rev. Thaddeus Mathers, the first negro
ever admitted to holy orders in the epis-
copal church, has been ordained In st.
Marks church Charleston, S. Q.
A man out in Denver has started
weekly paper which he calls Hello. All
the people who patronize the telephone
advertise for him.
San Francisco Cinnamon are far
enough advanced in the science of bur
glary to be expert chicken-thieves The
capacious blouse often covers multi
tude of hens.
A man was afflicted with consumption
and his wife took him to Florida, where
he tpermanently recovered. The wife,
however, contracted the disease there
and died.
A New York man took 920 grains of
bromide and 412 grains of chlorsl in
seventy-two hours to get rid of the effects
: of protracted spree, and suffered no
inconyeaieht results.
The students of Havard College have
organized cooperative society for the
purpose of supplying themselves at
moderate prices with books, furniture,
stationary, coal, wood and various other
articles.
A Georgia planter hires negroes who
play the banjo. He says that negro
riding on the plow, while playing and
smoking, will do more work with two
mules than three men who do not play,
but who have three mules.
The Princess Zenaide YOusopoff, now
engaged to Prince Soumarokow, is re-
puted to be the richest heiress in Russia,
being worth 100000 rubles. Her
father refused his consent to her mar
riage with the Prince of Bulgaria.
Finley McKenny, supposed to be very
poor, was dying at Morgantown, Ky.
With his last breath he told his wife to
break an old jug that had long stood in
the CRIME of the smoke-house. She did
so, and 81, 200 in gold and silver rolled
out.
Twenty-Five hundred games of crib
bage have been played at Albany, NY,
in a recorded match, with result of l.
251 and /, ,249 games to the respective
players; and it is said that during the
entire contest not hand that was dealt
counted to exceed twenty-four.
A young imitator of Buffalo Bill went
into photograph gallery at brownsville,
KY, to have his picture taken in border
The weapon accidentally went off just as
he had been heroically posed, and made
hole through his shoulder.
In various parts of California reports
of the depredations by geese continue to
be heard. In many places whole fields
of sprouting grain have been completely
destroyed, rendering resolving necessary.
Several of the farmers have poisoned a
large number.
On the International train that left
one day for San Antonio there was a
negro who kept sticking his head out of
the car window. ''Keep your head in
SIDE" said the conductor, angrily.
''Whaffor?" ''For fear you will damage
some of the iron-work of the bridge,
you fool"
A member of the New York Legisla-
ture returned his railroad passes. Hold
On-don't applaud. They were made
out in the name of his brother, and he
returned them to be corrected.
As the outlook for grant of govern
ment or village aid to the Niagara Falls
worlds fair in 1883 is not rs bright as
expected, The commissioners are making
an effort to organize stock company
TO carry out the scheme. AS vet the
number Of shares and the amount of
capital have not been decided upon.
deaf and dumb lunatic recently en-
tered L church n-tI.4. 4i.++--Irift, ;rt
Rome, and going up to the altar COM
menced eating the sacred waters out of
the ciborium. The people who were ut
prayers shrieled for the police, and the
mailman WAS manacled. He had been
fasting forty-eight hours.
Capt. Percival, a Cape Cod mariner
OF the old school, was once awakened in
his bunk by shipmate, with the an
nouncement that the vessel was going
to eternity. ''Well," replied the captain,
'rve got ten friends over there to one
in this world: let her 60" And he turned
over and went to sleep again.
''Whdt time is it, nay dear?' asked a
wife Of her husband, whom she suspect
ed of being drunk, ttIt who was doing
his best 10 look sober. "Well, my dar-
ling, can't tell, cause, you see, there
are two hands on my watch, and each
points to a different figure, and don't
know which to believe'
The Alder gulch, in Montana, has
been steadily producing placer gold for
twenty years, and is now worked out as
high as water can be carried on its sides
The amount of gold taken out is esti-
mated at over $50, 900, 900 More than
dozen gold-bearing quartz claims are
now being worked at the head of the
gulch.
lsabelade Bourbon, eX-queen of Spain,
is still royal, writes a correspondent, in
her extravaganza and generosity AS an
example of the degree to which she eX-
prpiSnS ha 1affo,. 4 -, co;I
that she recently allowed an American.
painter in Paris to make sketches of the |
white mules in her stables for his next |
Salon picture, without charging him
cent for it!
1t is said of the horse-riding Empress
of Austria: ''She does not paint; she |
does not dye her beautiful hair, but she |
insists on having her habits made so
tight that her imitators wonder how she |
can breathe at full gallop. They can
not, and are obliged either to moderate
their pace or let out their corsets and |
habit-bodies."
Count Won Moltke, Germany's great
est military strategist, thinks the inva-
sion of England through the proposed
Channel tunnel a sheer impossiblity.
You might as WELL" he exclaimed to a |
distinguished Prussian officer who had |
mentioned the subject, pointing to his
library door-''you might as well talk
OF invading her through that doorway"
1t is said that half of the silver half
dollars in circulation in Montana are
bogus. They are made by Chinese in
San Francisco. They are exactly the
weight of genuine ones, they are one
thirty-second part of an inch larger in
diameter. They contain only 16 cents
worth of silver, which is all on the sur
face.
The transmountain section of Western
North Carolina, comprising an area of
$50 miles long, and IS to 125 miles wide,
owing to the want of railroad transpor-
tation, has been cut off from the outside
world. Since the sale of the Western
North Carolina railroad to the Richmond
and Danville syndicate they have been
making rapid progress, completing the
Paint Rock branch to the Tennessee line,
and are now concentrating their entire