The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-12-20
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0LEANINGS.


A Denver boy sued his father for
money loaned him and got a judgment.
One of the former mayors of Milwau-
kee, Wis, says he would not take the
Office again for $4,000.
The next General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church will meet
In Philadelphia next May.
The mayor of Rochester, N. z, has
put bis veto on street electric lights.
lie did it on the ground of economy.
Bill Lucas, of Logan county, Illinois,
has nine children, and SAYS his tobacco
costs as much as his flour
People in Alabama are enthusiastic
over the great "boom" which the
state will have when the railroads, now
building, open up the coal-tields there.
In northern Ohio town twelve
year-old boy, while blowing a tin horn
burst a blood-vessel, and died in Il few
hours.
The Mansfield (Ohio) Shield md Ban
neT has a subscriber who has read and
paid for the paper continuously for 90
years.
A traveller who made q tour of Kan
sas says that the only thing conspicu-
ous about that state is the youthfulness
of the railroad conductors.
well, think women have about as
much power and influence now as is
good for them or for us. 4 don't think
: 1t would be wise to give them the bal
1ot. "-HorGtio Seymour.
There is clock in good running or
der in the postoilice in Monmouth, Ore
gon, which was brought across the
plains in 1882 and has been running
over forty years.
IL is said mixture of four parts
tincture of capsicum to one part spirits
,of turpentine, applied to the hand and
wrist once or twice day, will cure
writer's cramps.
Maine has 21,000 miles of wilder
nesses, and the whole state of Massa-
chusetts could be set down in the mid
die of them and not be able to find it5e
way out.
General Washington and General
Sherman, by curious historical coin
.cidence, issued their farewell orders to
the army on the same day century
apart-Nov. l, USELESS.
Nashville will give an exposition and
"A musical festival next year. The busi-
ness men have taken hold of the mat
ter in earnest. A brick building to cost
$150,000, will be erected.
A distinguished botanist has found
that by simply soaking the stems of
cut flowers in weak dye solution their
colors can be altered at will without
the perfume and freshness being de-
stroyed.
The first cotton factory in California
is to be erected in Alameda county.
The company's capital is 5000, 200.
Most of the cotton is to be transported
from Texas, but ultimately Southern
California will, it is expected, supply
all the cotton needed.
s'The economy of French cooks, )"
says LippincotrS, S, sis something TO open
American eyes. Not a drop OF the
water in which vegetables are boiled
ever drains away wasted, but with a
dash of milk and little pork fat or
butter is made good soup-vehicle
by which to consume dry bread"
Thousands of young American swells
are said by fashionable tailor to wear
nothing of American make. Their
measures are sent to London tailors,
hatters and furnishers, who provide
the articles ordered very promptly. 1t
is true that garments thus obtained are
liable to prove poor fits, but there are
. English tailors here also whose sole
employment is to complete imported
suits in Il manner to make them tit
Large fortunes are rare in Switzer-
land, and the salaries of public func-
tionaries are very modest. The presi-
dent of the confederation receives for
his services only $1,000 a year; few
Judges receive more than 81 ,250, and
there is probably no bank manager in
the country with salary of more than
twice that amount A man with an in
come of $4,000 is considered very we'll
off indeed, and to have $1,000 year is
passing rich.
A room underground, II by.18 feet
square, was discovered in the Jail yard
of Vickcburg. 1t contained the bones
of dead man, but no clew to its his
tory has yet been discovered. 1t had
been white-washed, contained various
articles of Union clothing, and had evil
IDENTIFY been inhabited. The mystery
of its ORIGIN is exciting the curiosity
and investigation of the oldest inhabi-
tants.
''The buying mania" is the disease
that hoor-walkcr in u large New
York store has found to afiiict women.
He says that while suffering from it
they buy quantities of goods that they
have no more need for than they do for
an extra pair OF hands. One husband
that he knew of cured his wife of the
disease by telling her yarn about
woman who became so crazy that she
WIS sent 10 an insane asylum.
1t has been decided for the second
time recently that in England '.there is
no copyright in the title. of u book. "
The case came up in court as to the
title of q novel called might and Day."
by MIR. Lewis Morris. Mr. Allingham
had copyrighted the title some time
before, but that fact done him no good,
and the case went against him. Fortu-
nately for American authors, the law
is not the same in this country.
What is called newspaper geogra-
ply" is said to have been introduced
in some of the schools of New Haven,
Conn. The pupils are required to trace
out on the map the places referred to
III the columns of the daily newspaper.
They appear to take much interest in
this new method OF studying geogra-
ply. 1t might prove valuable il sup
plemented with interesting information
from the teacher.
Names supply of pine timber, once
considered almost ineXhaustible, is
now, thanks to continued cutting with
no provision for tile future in the shape
of tree-planting, almost wholly gone.
\ good illustration of the effects of
this suicidal policy is the fact that all
the timbers used in tho Couburn Clas-
sical Institute, large and fine educa-
1ional building now constructing at
Watervile, II town near the center of
the state, are Of pine brought from the
south.
1.-The worst use that man can make
of wealth" says Henry Ward Beecher,
lis to hoard it. Riches that are simply
laid up and that are never used are
squandered. Money is like powder, no
good till it goes off. A man who has
II large amount OF property and does
not spend it, does not enjoy it. He is
nothing out watcllman of his proper
ty. Now, hold that Il man does not
spend his money seifishly who makes
himself an object of admiration and al
fection in the community. | hold that