The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-23
GEEANIN8S.
David Davis despises rolling-skating.

The desire for Egyptian curiosities |
has assumed the proportions of craze 7
in London.
Miss Lulu Hurst has made $4,000
within year out of her wonderful !
magnetism. !
Brooklyn is said to contain more |
gambling houses than any other city in
the country.
The city OF Berlin budget will this
year cover $l5. .00O,00 1t is the high
est on record.
The twenty-fifth child has been born
to a man and wife in Dillon township.
Tazewell county, Ill.
Gen. Phil Sheridan has recipe for
curing n cold. 1t is 'sStav at home and
sit in front of the lire.
A mule owned by farmer in Terrell
County, Ga. has been actively At work
for the past thiriy-four years.
Silver and gold hoop bracelets are
again worn outside the glove. Three
or four are often worn on one arm.
1t was discovered after his death that
Signor Brignoli had barely enough
money to huy the necessities of the sick
roOR.
The new treasurer of Habersham
County, Georgia. has given his bond
for Sl6 900. There is just $50 in the
treasury.
Cameron, the correspondent who was
killed in the Soudan. was unmarried.
but his aged mother was dependent up
on him for support. The London Sfa'a-
ddrd, for which he was working. has
granted her handsome life pension.
One of the funny bills in the Califor-
MIA Assembly is one which gives 10 any
Young man under twenty-One years of
age, who learns a trade by serving an
apprenticeship for three years and is a
moral young man, $3.50 out of the State
Treasury.
The latest thing in stockings does
away with garters or supporters from
above. The hosiery is kept in its place
by lacing from under the knee to the
upper bulge of the calf. Thus the cir
cliation of the blood in the limbs is not
impaired.
Detroit keeps his face clean shaven and
his hair clipped close by singeing, and
his cheeks, chin and upper lips are
marked with many scars where they
have been scared by the red-hot plate
or steel with which he plays the bar
ber.
During lifetime of fifty years man
on the average spends 5000 days in
sleeping and the same amount in work
ing: 1000 days in eating. 800 in walk
ing, is i'll 500 days. and the remainder
of the half century-nearly nine years
is frittered away in recreation and
amusement.
In one of George Eliot's letters. to be
found in the third volume OF Mr.. Cross
biography. she refers TO q remark which
Prof. Huxley made on those good peo-
pie of London who have pursued him
with false witness in their anti-vivisec-
tion zeal He declares himself to be
especially yexed with the 'profiigate
lying of yirln0ns women.
The oldest apple trees West of the
Missouri River are said to be those on
the AlpowaN. Some of them are over
foot in diameter. The seeds were
brought over by Rev. Mr. Spaulding.
the missionary who was stationed al
Lapwai many years ago. and father oi
Mrs. Eliza Warren. the first white child
born on the Pacific slope.
BY the recent decision of Maine
Judge all ponds in that State contain
ing more than ten acres are publg;
ponds. and the right to cut ice upon
them free to all In this particular the
owners of the shores hss..-saA@- So : ., :.
F4gHfs fhan other persons who can
reach the ponds without trespassing
upon the land of others.
London women and girls who make
up fashionable society have entirely
abandoned the bang and all meihndS
of wearing the hair down on the fore
head. They brush their hair straight
back, showing the whole of the fore
head and temples. knot it carelessly on
the very top of the head. and wear it
without the faintest suspicion OF curl
or erimp. .
The fellow who threatened to make
up faces at the other fellows sister had
better beware if the bill defining AS
ssults is passed by the Legislature. 1t
provides that whoever annoys another
by looks or gestures is guilty of assault.
1t is a question whether. under such a
law. the carryingof an extremely home
~ eountenance wouldn't t be actionable.
Belfast fMe.) } Age.
Superintendent Bennett, of Piqua.
Ohio. has been investigating the extent
to which tobacco is used by boys i'll city
schools. He finds that in two grades
OF IS boys from twelve to fifteen years
8 old. 81 habitually smoked cigarettes.
and only could say they never had
smoked. OF 80 boys from ten to twelve
there were IS smokers, and in the A Is
Z class many had begun the practice.
Prof. +. C. Marshall says: have
had occasion lately to read up in French
everything that could find on the SUBJ
ject OF bridges discover that the
French have more suspension bridges
than any nation on the globe. Their
engineers are putting up suspension
bridges everywhere, and at least one of
the structures approximates to the size
of the Brooklyn bridge. So numerous
are such bridges in France that it is
impossible to secure an accurate list of
them on this side of the water.
A company has been organized to
build an artificial lake at Northtield,
Staten Island, to cover 1000 acres of
: land and hold 10.0GO.0OO gallons of wa
ter. Hundreds of brooks and springs
will empty into the lake, and it will
Adt6 ltu ulilCS VI WOOuldllu IOE a. WIZ
ter shed. The dam will be 4,400 feet
long and twelve feet high. 1t is pro-
posed to convey drinking water to New
Jersey by means of iron aqueducts laid
across Staten Island Sound. -N"w York
JOnrndt.
A Calhoun county man, during a re-
cent visit to prohibition town, ran up
on what is known as .'blind tiger.
The '.blind tiger is house where the
people can get whisky but do not
know from whom they buy it, There
is hole in the side of the house with
printed Instructions above it. You
place your bottle and money in the
hole and both disappear, but in a few
minutes your bottle returns full OF
whisky. No word is spoken and not a
sound is heard except the rolling of tho
bottle. CaMonna (Ga.) Times.
A recently opened silver mine in
Montana Territory has struck seem
ingly bottomless fissure. Stones thrown
into it seemed to fall and keep falling
without any end nc wlS shown nv CON.