The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-25
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Miss Bertha Won Hillern is doing
admirable translations of German tales
for the Boston newspapers.
Thirty thousand writer's are reemployed
on the 1,500 daily newspapers pub
lished in the United States.
Alabama physicians say that pneu-
monia is now worse in that State than
ever before within thirty or forty years.
1t is said that there has not been
such a run of shad in the st. Johns
river, Florida, for ten years as during
the present season.
Mrs. Raglan, who lives in the house
whore Lees surrender was signed, says
that not over twelve to fifteen visitors
year come to that noted dwelling.
The latest device for an ornament to
q room is a gilded rolling pin stud
ded with gilt hooks, which is hung up
by bright ribbons. The ornament is
quite useful.
Henry o. Flipper, the colored cadet
who made so much trouble at West
Point, now holds commission in the
Mexican army, and gets along very
well with the ''greasers.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
asserts that 10000 of the people of
that city have never visited the exposi-
ton. But they expect people to travel
1,2O0 or 2, 900 miles to do so!
Chinese doctors induce faith in their
prescriptions by making them of gigan-
tie size. A writer in the Fo7tsch,1h
describes one of them two feet long
and calling for twenty different in
gradients.
A theological discussion about eggs
Is thus told by q religious paper of
Richmond, Va: Ought we to let
our hens lay on Sunday?" a sister
asked me. and ! said: ''Yes. but you
ought to give the Sunday eggs to mis-
sions." and she did it.
The Swiss half Canton Nidwalden
has an exceedingly simple form of gov
ernment. 1t has no bankruptcy law,
no written law of mortgages, NO prop
erty law, no criminal code, and no law
OF criminal procedure The executive
does as it pleases and everybody is sat
isfied.
The returns of the census taken in
1882 give the population of Russia in
Europe as numbering TT.S79, ,511, of
whom 3S. 651, ,977 were males and 49,
227, ga females, making, with the
Grand Duchy of Finland and other
parts of the empire, total of over
1o2, ,000,0
It is a sad fact to be chronicled
against the average Southern farmer
that he will plant cotton, which he 10
compelled to sell at a reduced price
to pay for the provisions he has al
ready consumed, and for which he has
to pay an increased price.-Gri6fa
(Ga.) Nesos.
In connection with a recent bank
failure, it is said that two young ladies,
daughters of the bank officials, advised
their lovers just before the institution
closed its doors to take out their de-
posits. The young men needed the
injunction and thus saved themselves
from financial loss.
John Ruskin has again resigned the
Slade Professorship of Fine Arts at Ok
ford, which he has held for sixteen
years, and will devote himself wholly
to revising his books, in which he il
making SO many alterations that they
are scarcely recognizable when COM
pared with the earlier editions
The Florida travel increases every
year. There are fifteen large hotels in
Jacksonville, which in five months last
season entertained 81, 357 guests, while
during the season just closing they
had So, ,072 visitors. In addition to this
great number it is estimated that tho
boarding houses accommodated as
many more.
The muskrat built his house last au-
tumn in an exceedingly light and I'M
substantial way, and consequently the
arctic weather of March chilled his
brain, bewildered him and made him
an easy prey to the boys who weDe
after his hide. Plainly the muskrat
must abandon his pretensions as a
weather prophet
The purpose of the short apd re-
trousse nose of the bulldog is shown by
9 writer in the Century. who says:
'One OF the leading points is the head,
which should be large and square.
characterized by a short and retrousse
nose, enabling the animal to breathe
freely while holding on to anything for
an indefinite length of time"
/. Al the recent sale of the VINE cellars |
OF the late Earl of Wilton, at Egerton |
Lodge. Melton Mowbray and Grosvenor
Square, London, the prices realized |
may seem rather startling to American
eyes. Some Chateau Laffittes brought
from S41 to $44 dozen bottles and
the Perrier Jouet champagnes of the
vintage of 1874 sold up to 410 shillings.
Ihat 10 equivalent to $102 dozen, or
$3.50 per bottle.
An adjustable mirror has been pat
Snted by an inhabitant of CharlcstoWn.
MASS. This invention covers the use
OF specially contrived frame for hold
Ing the mirror, and in which the mir
ror can be readily adjusted and held in
any desired position, for use of either
tall or short people, or for children sit
ting on the floor, so that mirrors of me-
dium size may be made more useful
snan large mirrors as ordinarily hung
Whether or not one could catch ball
thrown from the top of Washington
Aonument led the catcher of local
base ball club to make a similar trial
recently from the top of the water
works. standpipe in Erie, Pa. The
height was 248 feet, and upon the sew
enth attempt the deed was accom-
plished, but the catcher declared the
sphere weighed ton. The difficulty
Is not In the ball veering to either side,
but In its accelerated velocity.
Some twenty years ago. says the
Reriea0 of Livermore, Cal, "a resident
Of this valley sold his wife for a jug of
whisky. A few days later he was pre-
sented with the wife of man who had
grown tired of her. The first woman
mentioned was afterward traded again
for COW. All hands then settled
down to business, and have lived in
this country ever since. They accu-
mulated nice property, and their de-
scendants are among the most respect
ed people in this county"
The old notion of combating with
medicines such diseases as lung in
dammation has given place to more
views. The system of
the late DR.. Hughes Bennett is de-
scribed as treatment by restora-
lives directed to further the natural
progress OF the disease and supporting
the vital strength" The Lancet states
that the doctor had l05 cases of un-
Inflammation of the lungs