The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18
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Edinburg, Scotland. is to have line
Of street-cars propelled by cable.

turbing his eyeglasses when they are
on his nose.
A Justice of the Peace in Harrison
County. Mississippi, presides with coat
and shoes of.
Laura Sanborn has taught a school |
for fortythree years in Alexandria, n. |
H., and adjoining towns.
An English surgeon says that shaving |
is deadly practice. and if steadily in
dnlged in shortens life by several years.
The London Economist says that the
loss of the British farmers in selling
wheat at the present prices is SO an
acre.
Idaho claims population OF $4,000
and untold wealth. and she wants tc
know il that isn't enough to entitle her
TO Statehood.
candles and kerosene lamps are still
considered articles of luxury. while res
iuous torches are to be had gratis.
Professor Tyndall the scientists.
smokes q pipe and wears Cat-skin
lined night-gown. Science is all very
well. but comfort is the professor 3
weakness.
A Pennsylvania village debating So
ciety has decided that single life IL
preferable 10 married bliss. A MAORI
" of the debaters are believed TO have
been married men.
The free text book experiment in
Massachusetts is said to he a success.
1t has resulted in Il larger attendance
in the schools. and it is more economi-
cal than the old system.
Passengers on the Red Sea steamers
to India, were exposed, last summer TO
a maximum heat of l05 degrees: the
winter temperature on these steamers
is never below 80 degrees.
A student of the university of Geor-
gia was given this simple sum: If the
third of six be three what would the
fourth of twenty be? This bright STU
dent after figuring for half an hour,
gave it up.
Mrs. Frelinghuysen is described as
ga dear old lady in black, with full
puffs of soft gray hair on either side OF
a motherly face, beaming smile,
pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses and
gentle voice.
The bridge on. the Baltimore and
Ohio Road spanning the Susquehanna
river will be one of the largest and
most remarkable structures of its class
in the world. 1t will be 6,S46 feet in
length, and built of steel.
In an address just delivered Profess
sor Tyndall says that high German
authority told him that the cry of Ger
man soldiers in entering battle during
1901 was not ''We must conquer,
but 1--WE must do our duty"
The school population of the United
States is 16, COO, 900. OF this 10, 900, 900
are enrolled in the public schools. The
public school system of the country
spends more than $91, 900, 900 year,
and employs 290, 900 teachers.
An umbrella loan society has been or
ranized in Berlin. Offices will soon be
opened in various parts of the city,
where members of the society, ''for a
moderate deposit and a trifing fee,n
may procure an umbrella at any time.
The price of natural gas has been re-
duced in Pittsburg from 40 cent to so
cents per thousand feet. with a rebate
of 10 cents for prompt payment. This
reduction is said to make the cost about
equal to the cheapest coal that can be
bought.
A benevolent society called a Mouth
full of Bread" has been started in Par
is Its object is to render temporary
assistance to those who are out of
work. A lump of bread and glass of
water favored with vinegar are given
to all who ask for relief.
In the old records of the town OF
Clinton, Mass, certain little thor
pughfare was called .'Cat alley In
the present book of tax registration the
-, 10, 49,,
nue." and it is supposed that the next
step will be Feline boulevard.
For several years the London street
cars, which run on more than 400 routes
and carry 75, U00, 600 of people year,
have had texts of Scripture neatly post
ed up in them at an annual cost of
81. 80 each. This is the work of an as
sociation formed Tor that purpose.
The signal officer ON the summit of
Pixies Peak says the highest velocity of
the wind ever recorded there was ITO
miles per hour. when the instruments
broke and cordwood began flying down
the mountain. The guide adds that
seventy-tive miles per hour would lift a
mule out of the trail.
One of the South American fruits
which are to be tried in Southern Cali
fornia next year is the melon shrub. Ii
is described as an evergreen. with q
beautiful purple and white flower. and
bears fruit Ike rified cannon shell.
about four inches long by from two to
three inches in diameter.
The greatest depth so far discovered
in the ocean is $3.50, five miles. or
about 1900 feet less than the height of
the worlds loftiest mountain peak,
Mount Everest, one of the Himalaya
chain, which is found TO he not less,
and apparently little more. than 80
600 feet above the sea level.
Twenty-four years ago the United
States had in them only 10000, 600 peo-
900 people. Nowwe are grown to over
81. 200, 600. In 1860 we only had 14l
cities of over 5000 inhabitants, now
there are over 800 such cities. The total
population of this class of cities was
100000, now it is over 100000.
tits an error to suppose that an ordi-
nary mind is the best administrator of
small duties, for this impression is,
alas! too strongly contradicted by the
fact that the many daily grievances,
the myriad of petty cares and details of
family arrangements prove quite too
much for the generalship of feeble
minds.
There lives near Dahlonega family
Of people who have eyes scarcely larger
than pea, and SO small is the opening
between the lids that person a few
feet off can't detect whether they are
open or closed 1t is stated that they
can't see at all at night. They are
known far and near as the little-eyed
Howards. Constitution.
Preparations are being made at the
observatory ON Mount Hamilton, fifty
miles southeast of San Francisco, for
the reception of the great Lick refrac-
ting telescope. The refractor will have
a clear aperture of three feet, the great
flint glass disc for the lens is SO. Is
inches across, and eight tons of coal
were consumed in casting the vast mass
of flawless crystal which cost $4,000.
A letter from Ascunscion, the capital
of Paraguay, gives the surprising infor-