The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-08-26
MISSING LINKS.
A LITTLE sEAMSTREss.

Can't you find me one doll, no matter how |
small. who will wear out her gownT
Mary E.Wllkins, in ST. Nicholas for August.
Near Cannelton, Pa, the ground |
heaves and pulsates just like the human
breast.
Eggs are said to be cheaper and more
plentiful this year than at any time
since 1860.
A solid bed of alum 500 feet thick has
been discovered in Graham County,
Arizona.
The discovery has been made that
beetle, common in Southern Europe. is
a never-failing antidote in cases OF hy-
drophobia.
The San Francisco Bulletin reports
that lady at San Diego, aged 20 years,
gave birth to daughter July II. The
husbands age is IS years.
Rose Leslie, whose immense size made
her famous as circus attraction, has
died in Lowell, Mass. aged 25 years.
She weighed 615 pounds, and measured
five feet three inches in hight.
! The elms of Flushing, l.. l., are suf-
fering for the third year from the raw
ages of the larvae of the saw-fy, an i'm
port from Germany, which, very Curl
sously in its native country. confines its
ravages to the pine forests.
/. Salicylic suet is used in the German
army as remedy for footsores. ETC.. in
stead of the salicylic powder formerly
employed. 1t is composed of two parts
of pure salicylic acid and ninety-eight
parts of the best mutton suet-
The popular superstition concerning
the unluckiness of spilling salt probably
originated in Leonardo da Vinci's pict-
ure of 1.-The Last Supper" where Judas
is represented as overturning the salt
Some people always throw pinch of
the spilled salt over their right shoulder,
hoping thereby to prevent misfortune
Merritt Kanoff, of Creston, Iowa, re-
Gently met with a novel though distress
ing accident. He was carrying a pen
holder behind his ear. and as he threw
his head to one side the holder fell to his
shoulder, sticking in his shirt As he
Strengthened up the end of the holder
entered his ear and punctured the
drum, destroying the hearing.
Lightning struck an oak in Tippeca-
noe County. Indiana, and tore it into
splinters. 1t is said that each years
TO have been separated from the other
and split into strips about half an inch
wide. After completing its work on
fhe oak the lightning ran thirty rods
along wire fence, melting the wire in
many places and tearing each post out
of the ground.
Queen Victoria once being at an i'm
portant ceremony in North of England
City, paper was brought to her for her
signature. OF course she inscribed it
as usual: Victoria, r. ct J." Then her
favorite daughters signature was de-
sired and was duly written: Beatrice. :"
Finally the wife of the Mayor was call
ed to sign the paper, and, not to be out
done by any mere royalties, she unhesi-
tatingly wrote: ''Mary."
A well-known comedian for the past
two years has carefully clipped and
pasted in scrap books all the reported
msdeeds of clergymen that he saw.
Now when he hears of a sermon on the
inlmoralily of the stage he at once sends
the preacher letter filled with statistics
as to the number of preachers in Jail,
the number that he thinks ought to be
i'm Jail, the nature of their sins and
crimes, and like pleasing facts.
In some of the more primitive settle.
ments of Canada they are ready to laugh
lat any joke, however old. A humorous
lecturer recently appeared in u small
back town in Ontario, and in the course
of his remarks said that no piano is
needed in house where there is male
infant. because ''there is always music
lin the heir" The laughter that follow
cd IoSta6 ton ,,,inuta- hv tob
and one young man was taken out in
sconvulsions.
Work on the Broadway underground
railway will be commenced in the fall
and completed in two or three years A
new road will be constructed under
Broadway, from curb to curb. A brick
wall, with iron pillars on each side, will
be the only wall of separation between
the front cellars and the new road. anc
a correspondent thinks it will not take
long for the owner of a corner store a
lone of the underground stations to se'
that store there will pay him bettel
than a coal cellar.
The first written speech read in thu
United States Senate was by Isaac Hill
of New Hampshire, firm supporter o
General Jackson. When about hal
way through he suddenly lost the threat
'of the discourse, and stopped. evidently
embarrassed. His wife, who sat in th'
gallery almost directly over him, com
pretended the situation, and said in
voice heard all over the Senate cham
ber: .Mr. Hill, you've turned over two
leaves at once" He immediately cor
rected his mistake and proceeded witt
his remarks, amid roar of laughter.
Gen. Sheridan says he is delighted
with his new experience as suburban
farmer. Instead of sending his wifi
and children to crowded seaside hote
or fashionable resort this year he rentet
% thirty-acre farm near Washington
where he picks his own peas, digs hi
potatoes, and enjoys freedom from in
trusion which has to be endured good
naturedly at watering-places. The Gen
eral drives to town every morning ant
returns in the afternoon. The enjoy
meut of seeing his children loving Moth
er Earth. he says, is far more happines
TO him than he has ever experienced a
iall the fashionable resorts.
the bread-fruit tree grows everywher
in Southern Central America, and is
veritable forest king. 1t attains i'm
mense proportions, the trunk often be
ing from 10 to II feet in girth, and tn
branches reach out SO far as to cover
circumference of perhaps 100 and 15
feet Its leaves are very large and thick
of a rich dark green color on one sid
land silvery tint on the other. Ii
shape they somewhat resemble 4 broa
vase or flower pot y or Is inches loni
and 10 wide. The fruit, with whic
one tree will supply whole neighbol
hood, looks like small, oblOng water
melon with a rough rind, and takes
,yellowish tint when ripe.
'Around the shapely twenty-eight
inch waist was pink satin belt SUP
porting red white-and-blu sasf
From right shoulder to left hip was
garland of marigolds twined with gree
ribbon ending in an elaborate boy
largely mixed with lavender silk
Around the neck was cascade of blac
chenille, while the hat. swathed in pin
null, had four red feathers droopin
limply in the 80 degrees of weather
Coarse brown-and-whte stockings an
clumsy slippers with red bows and gi
buckles graced her not diminutive feet.
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