The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-23
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into window weights.
Boston has S04 electric lamps, eacl
costing 65 cents night. displacins
three gas lamps, and costing as mucl
as ten.
A writer in the Toledo BLADE says hi:
method of catching hawks, when the,
get troublesome, is to set steel trap OIL
the top of post, near a wire cage il
which are chickens.
The semi-annual report on Maine
savings banks shows that the total de
posts are $50, LAT, 703. .73-an increas,
of nearly 81, ZOO, 600 since the last state
ment
A Pittsburgh physician says that ALE
gheny river water lacks lime, and tha
people who habitually drink it are like
ly to be afflicted with white decay OIL
crumbling teeth. ,-,..
Train men on New England railroads
stop at the car steps lady passengers
who hug to their bosoms their dear lit
tie ours. mo dogs in arms admitted,
madam! Please put him in the bag.
gage-car."
Complaint is made that there is no
more game to speak of in the Adiron-
dacks, and that guns and dogs are as
useless up there as fan in cyclone.
This is one of the results of the march
of civilization.
Memphis has raised the old question
of lager beers intoxicating quality. The
witnesses range, as usual. from the Ger
man who can drink hundred glasses
in a day without staggering to the
Yankee whom ten make drunk. 3
There are no longer any individual
diggers for diamonds in South Africa.
Companies of capitalists have bought
the claims, and not much is being done
even by them. owing TO the low prices
that the stones now command.
A wonderful deposit of whole trees
impregnated with silica and covering
two square miles has been found in
eastern Arizona. BY breaking the stone
like wood beautiful specimens are OBJ
tanned. which look like jasper and ag-
ate.
The first ice cream ever. seen in St.
Louis was on the occasion of the mar
riage of Miss Louise Choteau to Gabriel
Paul, ffty-nine years ago. Itwas serv-
ed by New Orleans caterer. and ore
ated q sensation. E. 8-sE
The German Minister at Washingto
has invited President Arthur to send
one or more officers to Coblentz, where
there will be sham fight in October.
lasting fourteen days. The probabil-
tiles are that the invitation win be ac-
eepted. tIt fF t'-t
A pond called "Big Red Lime Sink"
near Dooly, Ca, which local tradition
calls unfathomable, suddenly sank 100
feet recently, with tremendous thud
and rumbling sound. 1t is supposed
that the bottom of the pond was the
roof of great cave.
The New York World started the cir
culating story that one of the active ed
itors of the st. Louis Republicans is nine
ty-eight years old. The Baltimore Sun
tells us that its youngest western cor
respondent is stationed at San Francis
co, and is past eighty.
George Augustus Sala objects 70
''public feeds, sitting for hours at a
crowded tavern table surrounded by vi
ands you do not wish to eat and liquors
Won do not wish to drink" This is q
little ungrateful from a man who for
years has been among the most habitu-
al diners in London.
Female clerks in music stores in New
York who can play the piano are con-
sidered worth $40 more week than
those who are unable to play. Many
customers are unable to judge of the
music by reading it; they must hear it
played before they buy it. The playing
tttracts other customers, and thus an
immense amount of music is sold. :.
Keepers of carrier-pigeons in Ger
many have learned from the Chinese an
ingenious method of protecting their
messengers from birds of prey. They
fasten to the tail feathers compact
arrangement of small reeds, eight or
ten in number, weighing only frac-
ton of an ounce, which in the pigeons
swift flight emits whistling sound
shrill enough to scare pursuers.
1t appears that the importation of
Russian Jews has proved sorry fail
ure. About a fifth of the 10000 who
came have been sent back. The mana
ger of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Soci-
ETY. in New York saws Russian jew,
owing to early marriage and hardship,
is an old man at thirtv-five and forty.
He comes over here with big family
hanging to him, is dull, and it is next
to impossible to wake him up and get
him to learn or do anything.
The opera-going portion of the Swed-
ish population must be exceedingly
honest, for visitor to a Gothenburg
opera house says that every one hung
up his hat and coat in the lobby, with
out apparently any watchful eye over
them. No tickets were taken, and those
who chose to take the fresh air or any
thing else between the acts passed in
and out without return checks or any
heed being paid to their movements,
and this in house packed by 1880
persons.
Not long before his assassination,
Czar Alexander II, expressed desire
TO meet the Comte de Chambord, and
sent him by distinguished messenger,
? an autograph letter to that effect, say
ing: II am Emperor and you are King.
Each of us may advance half way to
meet the other" The Comte dc Cham
bord read the letter thoughtfully, then
rose and said to the envoy who had
brought it: "H his Majesty, the Emper-
or, comes to see me in my house he will
be cordially and royalty entertained;
but cannot go out of my house to
meet him. 1t would,' he added, re-
Stunning his seat, .sbe against tradition
for King of France to go out of his
way for any other sovereign"
A correspondent from Daytona, Fla,
says. "Daytona is the prettiest laid out
town have seen. the streets being 100
feet wide and crossing each other at
right angles. Thirty feet of the center
is devoted to roadway, twenty-five feet
either side to the native forest trees,
which are left for shade, and ten feet
ON the outer sides for sidewalks. 1t
only lacks a fair park to make the ar
rangement complete. OF course the
development of these latter is in the fu-
ture. only a beginning having been
made. There are three tiers of village
lots from east to west. 10 by 500, each
containing one acre. Next come gar
den hammocks in three-acre lots. then
farming lands in twelve and one-half
acre lots. The present average price
of front lots is 81, 800 to 81, 800; second
tier, $1,000; third tier, $500; back lots.
.S65 to $40 per acre. The population is
about 800 with about 100 registered
yOtarg "