The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-16
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II is estimated that about one hundred
thousand species of towering plants are
now known to botanists.
A medical writer in Harpc5's declares
that life is but Il temporary victor o7cf
the causes that produce death.
A Sydney paper AYERS that the Prince
of Wales gives To ladies diamond latch
keys which are worn us Il sort of decora-
ton.
An amateur once asked Lj$zt how to
play the piano with soul. The gcnla.
master replied: on must first OF all
have a soul.
A English syndicate Is negotiating
for the purchase of $1,000 acres OF land
in Tehama county. California, for graz
ing purposes.
A Philadelphia optician says that
there are more people wearing glasses
in that city that in Boston and New
York combined.
Mark Walton died 213 years ago. and
the fishing clubs of london are taking
steps 10 set mp 4 statue of him in VIM
chester Cathedral.
A well-known oculist who has exam
incl the eyes of 1000 persons who work
by the incandescent electric !igiIt found
in no case any particularly iniufi",;r Ell
fects.
A Burlington, VT, man :akeS railroad
rails, has them painted black and the
fiange bored for wires. and then uses
them for fence posts. The effect is SAID
to be unique and striking.
The typewriter now in such common
use. dates back to 17i4, when Henry
Mill got Il patent for it in England, but
it was not really made practica bic until
1867. 1t now seems Indispensable.
Skunk meat is great dclicacy for The
Cinnamon and Siwashcs indians near
False creek. British Columbia. The
animals are very plentiful in that re-
great eagerness.
John McGregor, California coach
man. has by the death of an uncle in
England fallen heir to fortune OF 800.
OOO This is better than running away
with the daughter of 4 millionaire with
an irasciDfe temper.
The earth is supposed to lose time at
the rate of half Il second in century.
Therefore, says the Boston Journal,
if the earth ever ceases to revolve on its
axis it will be more than 6,000. 900, 900
years before it Will stop.
An oak that was cut before Shak-
spearc's day furnished bit OF timber
now in use as bench in an Englis h
farmers kitchen. The timber did duty
as roof beam in q church for 364 wears
1t is still as sound as can be.
Albert Fink. the famous Commissioner
of the trunk-line pool. and the most
potential railway official in the United
States, is German by birth, 81 years
OF age. and a widower with one daugh-
ter in her teens, to whom he is passion
ately devoted.
Statistics, more or less accurate, show
that John Bull is by no means the beef
eater that ne is cracked up to be. En-
gtShmen eat but an average OF forty
h,s pounds year, while the Australians
average l50 pounds, and citizens of the
United Safes l3O poun IS.
George Hartman, New York boy
l3 years Old, is II professional cracks
man, rel Diccs in an alias, and has b.rn
several times arrested. SIX years a"o,
tant of Il noted burglar, employed TO
conceal himself in stores and open the
doors at night.
The president of the PittShur~. Pa.
WindowGlass Workers federation has
a gavcl which has been used in open
ing knights of Labor meetings ut Read
ing, Pa, in 1873; Philadelphia. 1875;
St. Louis, 1879; Chicago 1879; New
York, 1882; Cincinnati, 1873; Philadel-
phia, 1854; Hamilton, Canada. 1885;
Cleveland, 1856, and ST Hcien's, En-
gland, 1886.
A correspondent in Mexico explains
why the Mexican calls the American II
fGrlngo. She says that when the
American army invaded Mexico u fa-
vorite song in the camps was Burns
''Green Grow the Rashcs, O." The
Mexlcans heard 1t repeated over and
over, and finally began TO call the
Americans by the first Two words. which
they pronounced grin 60" Hence
"Gringo."
The four Acken brothers of Middlesex
County, New Jersey, are fine men. Will
liam Is clght-three years old, six feet
three inches in height, and weighs 250
pounds; Henry is eighty-onc, six feet
four, and eighs 270; Samuel is seventy
nine, SIX feet five, and weighs 30;
Theodore is seventy-thrce. six feet six
and weighs $50 pounds. They are in
excellent health, and vigorous beyond
their years.
Sunset Cox and his wife one day ask
ed Constantinnple lady of high birth
70 h~.N II, "A Il,
sented. As soon. however, us they
drove on to the street the driver was ar
rested and the carriage ordered back
by the police. This was owing to the
existence of 4 law in ConStantinople
that no native woman of noble family
shall be seen driving in public with for
eigners or persons not of the Moslem
faith.
The mother of Paganini is said to
have seen wohdrous vision respecting
the future of her marvellous son. She
related her dream to him in these terms:
My son, you will be Il great musician!
For an angel, radiant with beauty, ap-
peared to me in the night and said that
any request l might make should be
granted. So asked that You might be-
come the greatest of all violinists. and
the angel promised that my request
should be fulfilled"
Walter Gordon of Atlanta is said to
have made three snug fortunes in six
years. In Georgia Pacific he and his
brother, Z. G. Gordon, drew out S167,-
900 each in clear cash. one-fourth of
which Walter Gordon invested in plan
tations. In Sheffield they cleared $780,
900 each, AMI hold large blocks of the
stock, now six for one and rising. Just
before leaving for New York they
cleared $l20.0O0 by the sale of their
Tennessee Railroad 10 the Louisville IL
Nashville system.
There is Il valley in Chautauqua coun-
ty. New York, called 'No-God hollow"
and this is the way it came by its name:
An evangelist went into the valley and
worked very earnestly for some weeks.
and apparently without any good re-
suits. One day in speaking TO one of
the residents of the place he said: Il .
do not believe there is Il God i'll Che
mango valley" This was picked up,
and since then the place has been known,
as 'No-God hollow"
.'Rosooe Conkling." said Maiden
lane jeweler the other day. "has Il broad
mind. He is not only II great lawyer,
nut his 0pDnra1 information i. ,r,.o,t