The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-09-23
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Roller skates are being turned into
buttons.
A New York professor tattoos 5000
persons every year
There are said to be 800 opium smo-
kers in the city of Boston.
Dime museums are springing into
popularity in Massachusetts towns.
A seventeen-year-Old boy in Bibb
county, Alabama, Is feet and inches
high.
Ah Irish setter at Moncton, Canada,
is said to have travelled forty miles in
three hours.
Tombstone, Arizona, merchants re-
fuse to accept Mexican money in pay
ment for their goods.
A Virginia City, New, man offers to
plant the American flag on the north
pole in eighteen months.
1t is claimed that within a radius of
100 miles around Ashville, n. C., every
known mineral can be found.
''Chestnuts" are now called '.Haw.
thornes," in Boston. graceful allu-
sion-to the title of that authors short
A new mineral just found in Missou-
ri cuts steel, yet keeps its edge 1t has
been given an outlandlsh name-adam-
scobite.
A deacon of Greenville, Pa, church
has string of buttons half a yard long.
They have been taken out of the collec-
tions during the past few years.
The English war department has
succeeded in making a cannon which
cost $I,0OO.0OO and uses 900 worth
of ammunition every time it is fired.
The most modest girl in the world
resides at Syracuse. 1t is said of her
that when a pupil at Vassar she re-
fused to work upon improper frac-
ftions.
Persons who wish to avoid drowning
are advised by an Eastern physician to
lock the hands behind the back,
fully initiate the lungs, and close the
mouth.
M. j. Smith, reporter on the Pueb-
10 Press is deaf mute. He'says that
he has no trouble in getting news. be-
caues the people all know him and help
him out.
The night-school at Sing Sing prison
for the benefit of the prisoners, which
was started by Warden Brush IN jan
uary, 1884, is said to have accomplished
excellent results.
A tale mine has been discovered on
the Merced River, California. The
material is far superior to the foreign
article for the manufacture of CHINA
ware, fire-proof brick, etc.
A Detroit woman had a green water
snake two feet and half long taken
from ller stomach last week. She is said
to have swallowed it ten years ago.
when it and she were small.
Physical examinations are deadly to
the aspirations of the small boy to be
. come II seaman. Hundreds of lads are
rejected yearly because of their inability
to pass the tests successfully.
A mining company with a capital ol
$S,OOO,OO0 has been formed at Ho
Springs. Arkansas. The syndicate owns
several fine mines in that vicinity
and will commence work upon them n
once.
In answer to the question: who was
Sir Walter Scott?" on one of the en-
trance examination papers, Parkhill
Canada, boy wrote: "A celebrated
Scottish novelist, who was killed by
Riel"
According to a Hebrew journal, tn,
first jew to visit this country was one o
Columbus sailors. His name was Loui.
de Parrcs, and he and Roderigo d.
Gerez were the first men Americas dis
cOverer sent ashore.
The unhappness that the possession
of a secret frequently entails on its pos
SCISSOR is thus illustrated by the New
Orleans Picdyune: "a man knows h,
is great man; no one else knows il
and he is miserable in consequence"
The Acacia club, Buffalo, N. Y, is tho
largest social organization formed
through the avenues of Masonry in the
world Its members must be M. Ms
in good standing, and even with this
qualification the ballot-box is the ulti.
mate test.
A Pittsburg builder of cheap houses
uses matched flooring instead of .latl
and plaster On this cotton cloth is
glued, and on the cloth wall paper i.
pasted. This he claims is better anC
cheaper than plaster, and thus houses
can be built safely in cold weather.
The Concord School of Philosophy
struck snag in a paper forwarded by
Texas professor. 1t was called 'Tht
Platonian Idea," and after an earnes
and hopeless search for the idea, the
school returned the paper to the profes
sor with the simple Interrogation: ''Why
don't you sign the pledgeP"
The steamers OH the Pacific are all
manned by Chinese. who make very
good, wiling, sturdy, good natureC
sailors SO long as they are we'll officer
ed. These vessels are built for freight
not passenger service, and, consequent
1y, the speed and equipment are diff
ferent from those of the Atlantic gray
hounds"
John Talbot, respectable citizen oi
Cleveland, O., entered the station-house
one day recently and astonIshed the mar
in charge by asking that his own houss
be raided as disorderlY resort. He haC
unconsciously rented the building to an
unsavory tribe of females, and, unlike
many men of local prominence, wish
ed to drive them out by pulling
them. -
Carlyle once gave up smoking because
his doctor told him that it was moi
agreeing with him. A few weeks after
ward he was walking in a wood wher
he saw Il pipe, a tobacco pouch, and 6
box of lights lying together at the foot
this was providential, filled the pipe anC
lighted it, and became smoker from
that hour. 1
A husband reading, while his wife
near him sat embroidering a pair OF
slippers, remarked: What surprises
there are in statistics. A German ply.
sician affirms and proves by figures
that half of the female sex are touched
with INSANITY" He is right" replied
the wife, dryly. 'for more than haf
the women prove it by getting mar
ried."
The practice of the law, Observes the
Philadelphia Record, broadens the
minds of some men and narrows the
minds of others. Those who study and
appreciate the principles upon which
laws are based belong to the first cate
CORY. Those who rely upon precedent
belong to the second. One tries tc
make the case tit the law, the other trie.
to make the law fit the case
A Birmingham, Conn, man has hit
tDOn q novel plan for the destination nj