The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-08
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Z Birch and lockwood spoons to the
number of 126, 600. 900 are made in Rus
sia annually.
Seventy-ive thousand acres of timber
lapd in the Sierra have been purchased
by Michigan capitalists.
A Stockton. Cal, girl, now engaged
In breach of promise suit, wrote in
one of her letters that she would rath-
er marry a yellow dog than the defend
ant.
A man who lives on Indian farm,
Lewis County, West Virginia, is but
seventeen years old, and his bare feet
measure thirteen and half inches in
length.
Some girls in Brooklyn have organ
ized an unmarried woman's associa-
ton. They pledge themselves never to
marry and never to allow themselves
TO listen to an offer of marriage.
About half the rowers on Lake
George are young women, who handle
the oar in graceful style and enjoy
themselves while. taking one of the
best and most healthful of exercises.
California papers report the discov-
cry of 8 new wine-peach wine. made
from the juice of soft ripe peaches. 1t
is said to be the finest favored and
most delicious wine ever discovered.
Boston's famous lawyer. Sidney
Rartlett, is 86 years old and estimated
worth $12, ,00O. 900, chiefly derived from
excellent railroad speculation, despite
half million put into Connotton Val
ley bonds.
The Portland Oregonidn admits that
.'the Chinese question as q political is
sue is about worked out in California,"
and adds that 1.-The tide which SO long
set against John Chinaman is now
turning in his favor"
There are in the world 397 institu-
tions for the education of deaf mutes.
Germany has 80 of these, France 81,
Great Britain 46 and the United States
38. Recent careful estimates place the
number of these unfortunates at $780,
600.
The duchess of Edinburgh is most
curious eater. Her appetite is simply
.ravenous, and when she dimes out she
eats SO much more than everyone else
that she is always the last, only that
people pretend to go ON and humbug
with the food on their plates till she is
done.
The popular newspaper in Madrid
has no managing editor. A dozen re-
porters secure the news and drop their
manuscripts in a bag, where they stay
until the foreman wants copy. He
pulls ont, indiscriminately, enough to
I'LL up, and with the matter fixed in the
forms in the most convenient way the
paper goes to press.
Professor Pfuger, the celebrated
Swiss oculist, it is asserted, has lately
given sight to lad of sixteen, who had
been blind from birth. This is the
first case of the kind with any person
above the age of infancy. 1t will be q
long time before the patient will have
an idea of forms, colors or distances.
The town of Tiverton, England, is
noted for peculiar sweet confection
called .'Tiverton humbugs;" and the
proper thing to do, as one hands q
package to some fair recipient, is to
. whisper:
Other humbugs. my girl, may fatter or tease
But these Tiverton humbugs will perish to
= 2 please you.
Ida Lewis, the Newport harbor hero
inc mourns the loss of her former in-
separable companion-a big black
Newfoundland dog. Il remember well
long ago." says one of her acquaint-
ances. ''her putting her arms around
the big affectionate fellow and saying,
Men have not been good to me, and I
love dogs better Her matrimonial
venture was most disastrous, and this
dog was her only protector.
A very clever invention has just been
brought out for the use of theatrical
managers. By simply turning the
handle of a machine q sound is pro-
duced resembling the clapping Of n
number of hands. The applause, by
means of large funnel, is projected
into the front of the house. 1t is be-
ieved that great many free passes to
shows will be saved by means of this
ingenious contrivance.
The city of Minneapolis has curious
provision in its law relating to the fia-
nor traffic. Besides charging license
of $500. the law marks out certain pa
troll limits, including the business core
Of the city. within which all the saloons
there are must be established, and
where they can be kept under close po-
ice inspection. As to the rest of the
city. including all the main residence
portions of the city, where probably
niee-tenfhs OF the inhabitants have
their homes, absolute saloon prohibi-
zion prevails, and is rigidly enforced.
A St Louis undertaken, who claims
to have been one of those in charge of
President Lincoln's remains, relates
Tor the first time the following con-
corning them: SAT Chicago. when we
opened the box that held the remains,
the face Of Lincoln was as black as my
hat. The New York undertakers who
accompanied the remains were dis
mayed. They did not know what to
do. 1t would be impossible to allow
the public to view tho body under those
conditions. went to drug store
and bought a camePs hair brush, some
rouge, whitening, and lampblack.
made q sort of paint of the whitening
and went over the face with the brush.
Then put on some rouge. colored
the cheeks and the lips. and, taking
the lampblack, fixed up the eyebrows
and whiskers Then the body was
placed on view, and thousands of peo-
pie looked at it. OF course. it was an
unsightly object, but the paint was de-
tected by few
There was no complete Bible printed
in English until 1888, date much
later than the appearance of the first
complete Bible in German. The first
printed English Bible was that of
William Tyndale. the Wickliffe Bible,
upon which nearly all later versions
have in great part depended, having
been in manuscript only. The first
authorized version in English, that of
1888, was printed in Paris by a printer
who then furnished all of the Church's
books. The King James translation
was founded upon the Bishops Bible,
which, from 1868 to 1911, was the one
most generally used. King James l.,
while residing at Hampton Court, in
1904, himself drew up the plan to be
followed by his translators, stipulating
In his own handwriting, in document
which is now preserved in the British
Museum, that the forms of speech, as
We now have them, should be retained
wherever possible. When the transla-
tion was completed, in 1911, he author
lied its use by the church.
There seems to be a wide difference
OF opinion concerning the cost of tha