The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-27
GEEANINGS.

Sunday theatricals are tolerated by
law in five of the principal cities OF the
United States. They are San Francisco.
Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans and
Chicago.
Workers in bleacheries where chlo-
rine is largely used are singularly ex-
empt from alhgerm diseases. but suf-
fer from special ailments induced by In
haling the gas.
The looms used in the State of New
Jersey for the manufacture of home
made silk are almost fac-similes of those
employed in China and India for the
same purpose.
The Boston Commonwealth says that
there are now larger number of Young
persons from all parts of the country
studying music in that city than has
ever been known before.
English papers are wanting to know,
you know. who is responsible for the
waste of 50. 10000 on the war ship
Thunder, which has turned out nearly
worthless and clumsy. S
Professor Mach. a scientific inyesti-s
gator of Prague, is reported to have
carried the art of instantaneous photo
graphs of bullet in its Hight.
Roswell Smith. editor of the Century,
says he doesn't know who wrote "The
Bread-winners. The man paid for 1t
saws he didn't write it. The Atlantic
had first chance at the story and reject
ed it. &C
The clam is gradually propagating
himself all along the California shore.
1t is only ten years since this shell-hsh
became common on the shores of San
Francisco Bay, and now it is; heard OF
as far down the coast of Santa Barbara.
As an Illustration of the numerous
difficulties attending the making OF
large lenses it is stated there have thus
far been nineteen failures to cast the
thirty-six-inch glass for the great Lick
telescope to be mounted in California.
What is said to be the largest stock
ranch in the world is located at the;
| head of the Red River in Texas, and is
owned by Charles Goodnight. II, com
prises 700, 900 acres, and has i256 miles
Of fence, which incloses 0.0OO head of
cattle. .- Ft 51
A BROOKLYN brewer makes temper
ance beer" which is ''unintoxicating,2 =
but cannot be distinguished from ordin-
ary lager in color. taste, body. bead. or
smell. 1t is largely sold in townswhere
no licenses are granted by Excise Com
missioners.
The highest price ever paid for a
work of art, previous to the recent pur-
chase of the Blenheim ''Madonna," by
Raphael, which sold for $350,000, was
| S156. .OO0, which was given inlS52 for a
picture Of the Virgin, from theshahd' of
the great Spanish artist, Murillo.
| A wonderful chasm has recently been
discovered in San Luis, Obispo County.
| California. An adventurous explorer
was lowered into it to the depth OF
1000 feet without finding any bottom.
The sides of the chasm are covered with
magnificent cream-colored stalactites.
In the e,rotunda at Raleigh, N. c., is
| located a stone called Center Rock,
upon which. if man sqnarely stands,
his words, become inarticulate to those
about him. This is upon the authority
of the Raleigh NeWs, which adds that
several gentlemen, in experimenting re-
Gently with this peculiar stone, all ex-
perienccd its curious effect.
Natural gas has no odor, and that pc
euliar quality makes it dangerous for
| household use. In Pittsburg it is pro-
posed t, use double sets of pipes for
| safetv-one pipe within another. West
inghouse, who got rich'out OF the auto
matte brake. is working on burner de-
signed to make the natural gas useful
as an illuminant as well as fuel.
Mr.. Morrison tells this incident in the
late Mark Pattison's life: .'On one oe-
casiOn, when | was speaking of the
mistakes we are apt to commit in esti-
mating our importance in the world,
he answered with his characteristics EN-.
pllasis, 'Yesi Take Your worst opinion
of yourself when you are in most de-
pressed mood. Extract the cube ToOt
of that, and You will be getting near
the common opinion of yOnr merits. :
Mr.. Hamerton says of Emerson in
his forthcoming volume: ITO me he
tanghttwo great lessons. The first
was to rely confidently in that order OF
| the universe which makes it really
worth while TO do our best. even though
the reward may not beSiSible; and the
second was to have self-reliance enough
to trust our own convictions and our
own gifts, such as they are. or such as
they may become, without echoing the
opinions or desiring the more brilliant
gifts of Others
The sad refrain of 1.-The Song of the
Shirt is still echoed to-day with all the
dreary sadifess that it had in the days
of Hood. A working girl in this city
was recently paid 10 cents for making
one dozen undershirts at cost of -four
hours labor. At that rate, the simple
arithmetic of poverty and pain shows a
grand total of 373 cents for ten hours
work. The fields for missionary and
philanthropic labor in this city are am
pie for those whose impulses and con-
victions prompt them to put their time
and money where they can do the most
good.-NcW York Commercial Adrer.
Gscr.
With the gradual dying out of the
military titles '.Majah." Colonel, y
'Gineral'' and the like, Tennessee has
had wonderful up-springing of civilian
titles, and doctor and 'jedge" are
the commonest of distinctions. with
a more extensive judicial family saws
the Memphis Ardldnche, ..taan any
other state, her courts are probably be
hind those of any other state in the dis
patch of business. The placid land
leisurcly elegance of her Supreme
Court. with its referee satellites revolv'
ing dizzily like the moons of Jupiter. il
the browning charm of the system, tht
ornamental bang upon the forehead. ,
A new and delicate mode of advertis
ing is coming into vogue in London
Take Fleet street for example. A small
haberdasher in that thoroughfare ex
hibits in his window the riding habi
worn by the wife of Colonel Thornton
when she rode the great race agains
, Mr. Flint at York, in August, 1904. A
tobacconist shows Sir Isaac Newton'l
, tobacco pipe and stopper, and the stumI
of the cigar Marshal Moreau smoked
, when they sawed off his limb at Leip
sic. A shoemaker exhibits the riding
i boots of Claude Duval, the gentleman
| highwayman, and, by way of contrast
the pumps worn by Beau Nash during
his reign as master of the ceremonies