The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-22
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The campaign in Tonquin cost the
French 500, 900, GOO.
In Ohio there is one divorce for every
twenty marriages.
The American humming-bird can
whip the English sparrow.
Ninety out of every hundred predic-
tions made by the French weather bu-
reau last year proved true to dot.
Last year there were 1900 suicides
In Francs, an increase of about one
thousand on an average, over the pre-
ceding decade.
A cigar tester in New York says that
simple way to ease heartburn from
smoking is 10 touch some OF the ashes
TO the tongue.
Scrap iron shipped from Portland.
Ore, to Hong Kong, is turned into lit
tie razors, with which the Chinese
shave their scalps.
Miss Adelaide Rudolph. of Cleveland,
O., has been elected Latin Professor in
the State University of Kansas. Sheis
q niece of Mrs. Garfield.
A New Jersey man has gone to
Florida and established cocoanut
farm. 1t comprises $500 acres, and
has 100000 cocoanut trees.
The newest thing in musical instru-
ments is ''duplex strung VIOLIN" by
which. it is claimed, tone is produced
equal to two ordinary instruments.
Tho deserted mansion of Bancroft
Davis, near Marlborough. N. Y, which
cost 100000. now stands empty and
idle. and is prey of bats and rats.
moth and rust
Tho production of cottonseed oil in
the United States each year is about
equal to 200. 900 tierces of lard. The
quantity might easily be doubled If
there was an adequate demand for 1t.
In Paris the people are asked to
give their sous in aid of project to
bore a big hole far down into the earth
to see what is going on inside this mys-
terious planet, upon the unscratched
crust of which we live.
There can be no lightning without
thunder and rain. The lightning seen
Of summer evening, sometimes called
heat lightning, is an accompaniment
of distant storm. The lightning can
be seen much further than the thunder
can be heard.
Bombay's ice is provided from i'm
mcnse machines, in which the ice is
Manufactured daily. Recently the
water supply gave out, and for three
days no ice was to be had. During
this time the death rate of the city
more than doubled.
A French scientist predicts very So
we're volcanic disturbances for 1856, 10
occur at time when the attractive in
fiuence of the other members of the So
lar system is most strongly felt upon
our planets, or, rather. when that in
fiucnce is most unevenly distributed
during near approach of the great
attractive bodies.
Winoosi claims the inevitable dis
tinction of being the worst governed
town in Vermont, according to reports
from that State. The hoodlums burn
and rob rs they please, in spite of the
efforts of the law and order league.
Two houses belonging to members of
the league have been burned recently,
and mill where many members work
ed.
The late Dean Buckland is said 10
have been SO intimately acquainted
with the properties of all the geologic
al formations of England that being
one night belated, and not knowing
where he was. he alighted from his
horse, took up clod of earth, and ex-
amined it. He Immediately exclaimed
"Uxbridge!" and proceeded on his
Journey.
When Emperor Napoleon signed the
declaration of war against Prussia he
recalled by wire his cousin, who had
sailed for the north pole with Renan.
After Prince Napoleon read the dis
patch he ordered the captain of his
yacht to fire up. "Where are we GO
ing, prince?" asked the officer. ITO
Charenton" q. e.. the lunatic asylum,)
shouted the prince in thunder0us
torres.
/, Among the odd German ideas is one
for universal language, and there are
now ffty-two associations for learning
and extending it To give an example
the word to think is tik, and is declined
fikob, l think; tikol, thou thinkest;
tikom, he thinks; tikobs, we think;
tikols, you think; tikoms. they think.
And it appears these practical people
nkoa1s that the world will adopt this
and the tower of Babel be forgotten.
From a Michigan Supreme Court
decision in the case of sharpers who
had swindled countryman by ia
mifiar card trick: 1--WE do not think
it profitable to draw overnicc meta
physical distinction to save thieves
from punishment If rogues conspire
90 get away O mans money by such
tricks As those which were played here,
1t is not going beyond the settled rules
0flaw to hold that the fraud amounts
tostealing."
In Garfield county there are 737 sim
gle men and only sixty-eight unmarried
women. The Glenwood Echo says,
I'VE want girls in Garfield county
blondes, brunets, tall, short, fat, lean,
jolly girls-girls who can ride in car
riages. play the piano. make crazy
quilts, sew, wash, iron, aud cook for
us. We are 669 girls short here, and
We want all the girls to know it,
Denver Tribune.
The growth of the female population
in the large cities is q remarkable fea-
Eure of the census of the time. New
York has surplus of about 25, 600 Wo-
men, Boston of $4,000, Baltimore of
1900, and so on through the whole
list of cities in the East Fifty years
ago the women stayed at home, while
the men came to the city to pursue
their careers; now. both in Europe aud
America, the women are crowding to
the business centers.
In many towns of Scotland where
street railways are in operation. in
stead of charging d stated fare without
regard to the distance the passenger
travels, the ronte is laid off into dis
tficts. When a man gets on car he
pays one penny. and continues at each
new district until the terminus of the
line is reached. By this means a pass
enger only pays for the distance he
rides, and is thus encouraged to enter
the cars when he has but short dis
tance to go.
Captain Lloyd has been travelling
in Scandinavia, where wolves are
abundant. The animals are very fond
of pork, and his plan of enticing them
in order to shoot them was to keep a
live pig in his sledge, and to pinch him
in the night time. In order to further
deceive the wolves, he fastened bum
die of straw, covered with a black