The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-01-15
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invalid-chairS have been mounted on
tricycles in England, with a place for
the driver behind.
Cigarettes are seldom made wholly
of tobacco. The cheaper grades are
made of opium and sawdust.
The Louisville, Ky. city dog-tax is
oae-ninth as much as the saloons pay.
There must be slathers of dogs in Louis
vile.
Of the iS9 White Cross Society ply
sicians who went to Naples to assist in
treating the cholera patients. twenty
have died.
George Washington Childs. of the
Philadelphia Ledger, pensions his Old
employees at their regular salaries when
they retire.
One who pretends to be an authority
says .'fiirts are like tiddles-no good
without the beaux." They are no good
al any me.
The famous shell road of New Or
leans is boulevard OF almost snowy
whiteness. nearly 200 feet in width and
nine miles long.
A West Virginia woman of thirty
five eloped with her adopted son. aged
twenty, to whom she had been 4 moth
er for ten years.
Miss Nettie Carpenter. the American
violiuist and priZe-winner of the Paris
Conservatoire. has recently met with
great success in England.
Not counting Governor Cleveland.
there have been live Presidential wild
overs in the. White House Jefferson.
Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, and Ar
thur.
There is fireman who, except for
short time, has been continuously en-
ployed at the Executive Mansion since
he first went there in Fillmore's ad
ministration.
A Newark maiden attempted to play
on her piano the other day, but could
not sound a note. Investigation show
ed that her small brother had Tiled the
top with molasses.
Enough liquor was consumed in
Great Britain last year to make a lake
mile long, y mile wide. and thirty
five feet deep. What lake OF fire that
would make if lighted
One hundred and fifty pounds of
pure gold and a basket full of rubies
eger Queen of Burmah before she was
removed from power.
Florida has one great advantage as q
winter resort. A man can get drunk
down there and sleep out in the coal
shed or under a sidewalk somewhere
without freezing to death.
It does not constitute marriage en-
Gagement, according to the laws of In
diana, to call a girl your darling blue
bell, even il YOU are squeezing her hand
at the same time. 1t is simply an em-
phatic compliment.
The will of the late Carrie j. Welton,
of Waterbury. Conn, (who left the
bulk of her fortune to Mr.. Bergh's So
ciety), gives $1,000 for horse and
cattle drinking fountain to be built On
the green in that town.
The New York journal says the days
of the street car are numbered. The
time is coming when men will be shot
up town in pneumatic tube. Al
present many of them are only half.
shot in the elevated trains.
The Chinese soldiers uniforms con-
sist of blue tunie and as many more
dads as he feels like getting inside of.
A good MANY of them use their shoes
for breast-plates and stuff cotton in
their ears TO keep from being scared.
The eleaver with which the Earl of
Essex's head was cut of by reason of
Queen EliZabeth's failure TO rec i've the
ring in season is still preserved in the
Tower of London. 1t is 4 savage look
ing instrument and somewhat rusty
with age.
The chief of the Swiss Federal Bu-
reau of Statistics estimates that in the
year 2, 900 the Unifed States will con-
tain a population of 80 ..n10.O 900. Think
of waiting for the election rtturns in
those daYs. We feel real sorry Tor our
posterity.
MIR Harvey IS the smart American
citizen who t'squatted' on the only
land by which the grand canyon of the
Colorado River can be reached. and he
now charges little matter of $i2 TO
visitors for the privilege of looking al
that natural wonder.
Everybody has heard of Nasty
04ocke) of the Toledo Blade. but few
could imagine how he looks. He is the
shaggiest and most uncouth specimen
OF manhood that can we'll be thought
OF. He Is short and very broad, and
his face is red. red sun.
There is an old woman in Boston,
now grinds a hand organ, the TOP Ht
which is decorated with her HUSBAND $
medals. She is said to speak the pur-
est French to be heard in the Hub and
her face res: mbies an English wal
mt.
4 Nevada ranchman has q herd of
hybrid cattle. crossed between the Raais
buffalo and the domestic COW. They
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find their food and thrive where other
cattle would starve. Their beef is said
to be excellent. and yarn has been spun
from their hair.
In the Congo valley there are about
1.0OO European and 5000 Egyptian
firms for carrying ON business. AL
ready railroads are running, telegraph
wires stretch in many directions. and
commerce is extensively carried on.
Sc, also, is the slave. trade, and the
trade in alcohol, the greater curse of
the two
An eagle kept in Vienna. Austria.
died after confinement of ia years.
Swans on the river Thames about the
ages of which there can be no mistake,
Winters Company, under whose keep
ing they have been for five centuries
have been known to survive for $50
years and more.
Some of the silly press reporters in
London persist in calling the two harm
less snakes which Florence St. John
plays with in 1.-The Great Mogul'' CO.
bras. They are only small boa con-
strictors, and child might play with
them without harm. They might as
well call the two white mice that run
up the actress arm Polar bears.
There is man in Ciearlield County,
Pa, that is 40 years old. who boasts of
having one mother, one stepfather,
three brothers, five sisters. three faith
ers-in-law and three mothers-in-law,
twenty-eight brothers-in-law, twenty
one sisters-in-law, liz nieces and
nephews. and he is also the father of
seven children, which make family of