The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-01
GLBAEINgs.

Arom wnom ne stole 30 cents.
The boss pension agent has turned
mp in Natchez. He secured a negro
widow pension of 81 900, and handed
over $3.50, taking the remaining $3.50
for his fec.
1t is said that Flipper, the negro
West Pointer, who was cashiered for
alleged stealing, and who Joined the
Mexican army, is now a brigadier gen.
eral in that service.
The pupils in Philadelphia institu-
ton for feeble-nlinded children gave
performance of ..Pinafore," and, it Is
said, ..proyed equal to the require
ments. s
The greater part of cargo of sound
cocoanuts shipped from the West Indies
were found, upon arrival at Philadel-
phia, to be worthless. Rats had gnaw-
ed out the eyes, drank the milk. and
thus ruined the meat of the nut.
OF the large number of persons
whose names appear in the Philadel-
phia Directory, fifteen are Large, six
Bigger, fifty-five Small. and one hum
dred and thirty-two Little, but there
are only two Littleboys.
1t struck Colorado Springs corre-
spondent of the Springfield Republican
as q little singular that the man who
described the place as ga paradise for
inva!idsn was making living by bury
ing the invalids who died there.
Railway travelling is safer in Norway
and Sweden than elsewhere in Europe,
wear often passing without a single
fatal accident in either. In England
and France one is killed out of every
100000 passengers. Spain and
America have the worst record.
An original idea is that of the Mis-
souri apiarist, who took carload of
hived bees to Florida. He expects
them to make honey all winter, and
hopes to return TO his Missouri home in
thespring at least 1000 richer than
Lord Melbourne. on being pressed to
do something for a Journalist, on the
ground that he always supported his
lordshiP, when, in the right. retorted:
That's just when / don twant his help.
Give me q fellow who will stick by me
when am in the wrong" ,eE -
An Ohio editor who is down among
the orange groves of Florida, describing
his visit to one of them, says that '.ap-
petite seemed to feed upon inexhausti-
be supplies, and the sweet succuleuce
OF the golden bulbs spurted in shining
sprays from pressing lips pouting with
pulpy fragrance
Ten years ago, George A. Gordon,
nineteen years of age, went from a lit
tie town in Maine to learn trade in
Boston. Somehow or other he was in
duced to take-to the ministry, studied,
and in 1875 graduated and begun to
preach. He has just accepted an $S,-
000-a-year-a -house-rent call from the
famous Old South Church, of Boston.
A western cattle-breeder reports that
the greatest profit is made in the first
year of an animals growth. This is in
creased, but in less proportion the sec
ond year. If kept a year longer not
only is therejno profit, but all the clear
gain of the second year is wasted. This
is striking commentary on the advan-
tage Of early maturity. 81
A four-valve speculum has Just been
found in Pompeii, where two-valve and
three valve specula had been before dis
covered. The last of these ingenious
instruments for looking into orifices of
the body in surgery is said to be of
construction SO uniform and well pro-
portioned. admitting the expansion of
valves, as to-be superior to modern con-
structioD.
The Rev. r. W. Hill, who has been in
Alaska, draws a gloomy picture of the
intemperance of the natives. ''The In
dians will give away wife and children"
he says, ''to obtain liquor, and their
carousals are so fierce and reckless that
murder and suicides are frequent results.
He believes that if the progress of ruin
is not stayed the end of the Alaska In
dian is not far off.
Several broad columns of large type
with conspicuous head lines were re-
Gently devoted by the Pail Mall Gazette
to an account of the Mollie Maguires of
Pennsylvania, being for the most part
narrative based upon Mr.. Devices book.
Old and getting TO be forgotten as this
story is here, it was never before made
fully known in England, and the OBJ
ject for making it fally known now is
declared to be s.its bearing on the
gangs who are now again ut work in
Dublin" which is very evident and ex-
tremely interesting" iit4-1
The importation of Sumatran tobacco
into the United States has increased
from, 50 pounds in 1880 tok7S3, 1853 !
pounds in 1882. The Oriental kind is
used exclusively for wrappers, and for
that purpose brings a very much higher
price than any native sort. The tobac-
co-growers in this country, especially
those of the Connecticut valley, who
feel the competition most keenly, are
greatly disturbed by the rapid increase
in the employment of the Stranger
During the last years of his life
Thurlow Weed took great interest in
the controversies over the supposed con-
flict between science and religion.
Shortly before his final illness he left
this final record of the result of his
meditations upon the subject of future
life: 81 cannot believe, and cannot be
brought to believe. that the purpose of
our creation is fulfilled by our short
existence here. To me the existence of
another world is a necessary supple
ment of this, to adjust its inequalities
and imbue it with moral significance.
The japanese language has nc. good
equivalent for hell, and the translators
of the New Testament are perp'exed.
One of them discusses the difficulty in
an article: as Jigoku help" Jigollu
CObotoO VI W ClS3lb AiuLlCuSO llOI nCkis
ranging one beneath the other in tiers.
Each of these hells has sixteen addition
al bells outside its gates, like so many
antecharnbers, SO that there are in all
1876 hot hells (2) There are eight large
cold hells, and (3) there are the same
number of hells of utter darkness"
The translator concludes that Jigoau
will stand for hell.
Mr.. Samuel Sinclair, Lake Winnie
peg trader, stated that one day lately he
diverged from the trail to visit Diem
Lake. a shall sheet of water north of
Lake Winnepeg. When coasting along
the shore he came to q ledge of rock
which jutted out into the water,
strange looking projection. The end of
the ledge attracted his attention, and
he ventured out to see what it was To
his surprise he found it to be the skele-
ton of large animal, somewhat resem-
bling buffalo, petrified. The form of
the animal is almost as perfect, Mr..
Sinclair says, as if it were alive. Mr..
Sinclair has marked the suot. and in