The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-07-05
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Philadelphia has two base bali clubs
composed of colored women
James a. Harris, the orange king oft
Florida, received S63, 900 net for hiai
orange crop this year.
In Hudson, Columbia county, N. T.:
is the largest apple orchard in the world
so, 600 trees on 800 acres. +
The dressy young man, TO be In tone!
now, must have narrow stripe of braid,
down the side of his pantaloons.
Jeweled bracelets, worn on the Left;
foreleg, are the latest novelty for aristo-;
cratic dogs.
A white squash can't be sold in Boston
and yellow squash can't be sold In
| New York.
Some unpatriotic scoundrel has daub-
ed paint upon the Soldiers Monument
in Saratoga.
Swinging apple trees with a weak
solution of soap and carbolic acid will.
kill lice.
In twenty-three years the wheat acre
age of Colorado has increased from ten
acres to fifty thousand.
Portland. Ore, is TO have this year a
ST, 900, 900, bridge and railroad work.
shops costing $5,000,000.
Princess Sara Winnemucca, of the Pr
utes, thinks that Indian Agents ought to
be army officers.
The returns from Nova Scotia mines
for 1882 show that l, ,365, 81 tons Of coal
were produced, 40, 135 tons of iron, and
IA, 107 ounces of gold.
The eight railroad lines having their
termini in Boston have carried over
forty million passengers the past year,
with only eight fatal accidents. =
From flock of sheep purchased three
years ago for 5000, a Culpepper, Va.
farmer has realized 50, 100, and has on
his farm 200 lambs.
The American Tract Society reports
that it has distributed 77,000,0 900 pages
of evangelical literature in the past
year.
The Importation of cattle from Europe
to this country promises to be more ex-
tensive this year than in previous sea-
| sons.
It Is the belief of the Gentiles in Utah,
| that within the last year plural mar
| riages have been more numerous than
| ever before.
In France and England scafolding
Is erected complete in advance OF tho
buildings practice which much dimin-
ishes the chance of an accident
Mrs. Booth, mother of the actor,
lives in Philadelphia She has kind,
sad face. and she loves to talk to her
birds.
In view Of the immense number
manufactured, the wonder is what be-
comes of all the pins, doctors and law
yers. .,
August Bartholdi, who designed the
statue of Liberty Enlightening the
| World. for New York harbor, is almost
fifty years old. :
&, One of the latest Partisan schemes is
q tunnel between that city and Rouen.
to be over seventy-three miles long and
costing $25,0O0,0O0.
Glass images of Hindoo deities are
manufactured in Birmingham and ship
| ped to India for worship by the devout
idolators of that country.
The two last descendants of Amerigo
| Vespucci are living in poverty in Italy.
They have petitioned the Italian Gov
ernment for q pension of 80 per
month.
A Cincinnati dry-goods man won't ad-
vertlse because so many other dealers
do. He hasn't made dollar for the last
ten years because so many other dealers
have.
You ask what libel suit is. A libel
suit, my son, is where aman pays law
yer $40, 900 in order to get 81 900 out of
another man he thought was fool and
is now sure of it.
The ashes of Geo. Whitfield, the fa-
! nous preacher, repose beneath tho old
South Church, Newburyport, In which
venerable New England edifce he de-
| livered his last sermon.
England has two good agricultural
colleges suited for the education of
the more wealthy class, but beyond the
reach of the great bulk of tenant farm
| ers. !:
Timothy Heating, 80 years of age,
| has been in the employ of gas COM
| pany in Philadelphia forty-seven years,
and in all that time has not lost o
| day.
The discouraged silver-miners of Vir-
ginia City, New, regard the return of q
pair of gray eagles to one of the basalt
cliffs of Mt. Davidson as good omen.
They had been away since 1865.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone has given q
large lot of land in Washington and
$25, 900 in money for the erection and
maintenance of home for needy wild
ows of the Protestant Episcopal Church
New England Baptists propose to
establish Summer watering place at
Crescent Beach, on the shore of Long
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| London.
Washington is not the only city in the
country where men are ruined by poker
| playing. And the ruin is worked in the
! parlors of homes as well as at the club
rooms and at hotels
Herbert Herkomer, the great English
| artist, is described as 50 1.-the young
man, with coal-black whiskers and
smooth black hair, parted in the GEN.
ter"
A colored mother dreamed beneath
the stars of Georgia that she was beat
| ing pone. When she rose next morn
ing she found her baby dead. The cor
oner said that every bone in its body
| was broken.
''Shal we wear silk hat?" was the
subject of lecture by Brooklyn di-
vine recently. That is question
which no man can answer. Every
thing depends on which way the cleo
tions go.
There is not cuspidor in the whole
of the House of Commons, or in any of
the hotels of England" says Joseph
Cook. No wonder Americans return to
their country and say there's no place
like home.
A gentleman's card Is engraved in
small, distinct script with the name in
the center and address in the right hand
corner; member of club may have
the name of tho club engraved in the
left hand corner.
According to the United States Com
missioner of Education, SCI, ,475, 900 has
been given by private individuals for
educational purposes in this country
within ten years. This does not include
the recent gift of Slater and others,
| amounting TO So. 600 900,