The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-05-04


dag, and earning days wages in each
Of thosescities.
The hosting of safe is one of the
most fascinating of street sights to idlers.
In Providence the expectant crowd saw
the mass of metal, weighing four tons,
fall on workman and crush him to
death.
The Zunis visited newspaper office
in Boston, and were greatly struck by
the mysteries of the machinery. When
the presses were set agoing, one put the
query, ssIs this all talk?" That was
cruel center-shot.
Sophronia: "Can Senator David Dav-
is, as President of the Senate, if drawn
as Juror, be compelled to sit on a jury"
We don't know. If he can, we wouldn't
like to be one of the jury that he would
sit on. +SonerUilLe Journal.
Modesty: Do you pretend to have as
good Judgment as have?" exclaimed
an enraged wife to her husband. 'Wel,
no." he replied slowly, ''our choice OF
partners for life shows that my Judgment
is not to be compared with yours"
The poetical and the practical-Senti-
mental diner: Eat lark! Partake of one
of the quiring songsters at heavens gate!
/ would as soon eat a hymnn' Practical
friend: ''Ya-as, never touch small birds
they all feed on worms"
At the Whitehouse glass works of At
terbury d Co., a new trade is about to
be opened up. They are about to manu-
facture glass shingles, ornamented and
of different colors, for houses. In strength
they are to be superior TO any slate now
in use.
The execution of two Indian murder
ers by shooting instead of hanging, in
the Indian territory, was done on the
urgent plea of the doomed men. They
had an awful dread of the moose, but
professed fearlessness as to death by the
rifle.
Scene in the auditorium of theater:
Actor (who has appeared in the first
piecc): Good evening. May talNe the
seat next you?' Lady: Certainly; but
don't YOU appear any more to-night?"
Actor: mo" Lady: F'Oh, | am so glad.
Pray sit down"
Someone SAYS: ''Bread and butter is
the dress Of this world; love and kind
ness its trimming" Wen bet 800 tho
man who wrote that isn't married.
ANY married man knows that the trim
mings always cost four times rs much
as the dress.
Prairie and wood fires have been rag
inc in sout hern Arizona and southwest
ern New Mexico recently The terri
4ory burned over is reported to covef
forty miles square, and the damage dons
rs immense. The origin of the fire is at
trtbutnd to the Indians, either domestic
or renegade, who roam at will through
out the country, except on ration-day.
''How are you getting along?" asked
a widow of her late husband, who APP
pearcd to her as a ghost. Ghost: Every
well, indced-much better than during
my twenty years married life on earth"
Widow (delighted): "Then you are in
heaven?'' ''Oh, no."
The emigration from Switzerland last
year was the greatest on record. the
number of emigrants who left the coun-
try in 1881 having been 10,935, against
1885 in 1880, and 1928 in 1879. BY far
the greater proportion of them were
from German Switzerland.
The Russian bath is said to have or
iginated with Peter the Great. 1t is re-
corded that when he was advised by
foreigners to introduce hospitals and
dispensaries into Russia he was wont to
reply that "While Russians had baths
they needed nothing else as a health
giving remedy against mortal ills"
Lord Cranbourne, an elder brother of
the present Marquis of Salisbury, who
died before his father, was stone blind,
but he could distinguish colors by the
touch as accurately as others can by
the sight. He could also tell by sound
the extent and hight of any room he en-
tered.
A Rochester street-car horse shot out
with his heels the other day and hit the
driver with one and the cash-box with
the other, and an investigation showed
that he had kicked Sc into the drivers
Overcoat pocket. Such wonderful sa-
gacity on the part of the horse caused the
discharge of the driver.
Miss Lillian Taylor, daughter of Bay
ard Taylor, studying art in New York,
says her father never wrote up place
without making careful study of it,
which studies were the origin of the
hundred and fifty sketches lately exhibit
ed, which were u surprise to those who
did not know Bayard Taylor painted
with any other pencil than his glowing
words.
A mulberry tree at Griffin, Ga, acted
in very curious manner the other day,
emitting what seemed to be puffs of
smoke at short intervals from all por-
tons of the tree. The smoke, or what
ever it was, was light and thin, like Gig
ar-smoke, and scarcely visible TO the
casual observer. 1t was n phenomenon
that nobody could account for.
Bands of music are forbidden to play
on most of the large iron bridges of the
world. This is due to the well-known
phenomenon that q constant succession
of sound-waves, especially such as come
from the playing of a good band, will
excite the wire vibrations. AT first these
vibrations are very slight, but they in
crease as the sound-waves continue to
come.
The receding of he'Ocean at Atlantic
CITY, N. j., for many years past, has
left much fresh land above high water,
and litigation with regard to ownership
is threatened. The lot-owpers claim
riparian rights, but the Land company
that sold the property claim that the
new lots should belong to the company.
The property in dispute is valued at
$150,U00.
Three hundred and forty convicts OF
the New Jersey Penitentiary are let out
to contractors in the branches of indus
try described as shoes, laundry, shirts,
collars, boxes and whips, at an average
of Little more than fifty cents day,
and the authorities are grumbling that
the law limiting the number at each
trade to 100 compels the state to sup
port more than 200 able bodied men in
absolute idleness.
George Washington Greene, the friend
of LOngfellow, who is to write his bio
grapIly, lives in an old-fashioned house
on hill overlooking the Village OF
Greenwich, r. l. From its upper win
dows there is view of long stretches OF
cultivated country and of the waters OF
Cowesett Bay, an arm of the Narragan-
sett. Several years ago Prof. Greene
had an old windmill, which stood in
an adjoining field, moved up to his
house and fitted as library. In this
old house have been entertained Wash
:.r.to, ofovatta TonUfnllOw and q