The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-02-04
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wild pink.
Senators Blair and Frye are said to be
the only members of the upper house of
congress who are teetotalers.
Charles F. Brush, the electric light
man. has just finished in Cleveland the
finest private residence in Ohio.
Tiffany, of New York, recently, pur-
chased vase twenty-five inches high
that took three years to complete.
Abraham Hendricks, grandfather of
the late vice-president, was justice of
the peace at Lancaster Pennsylvania,
in 1904.
All the fruit and other trees in Santa
Barbara, Cal, are being dug up and
English walnuts planted in their stead.
The craze is rapidly spreading.
The inhabitants of the Laos country.
in Siam, are the LATEST people in the
world. They are so indolent that they
do little more than collect rice enough
to keep them alive.
A clock that was removed for safety
from house in Lexington at the time
of the battle there in 1875 has Just been
purchased by Boston man for SllS. 1t
Is in good running order.
The new ballet. Amor" which is
about to be produced at Milan, requires
$50 danseuses and $500 costumes, be-
sides an elephant, IA horses. 20 dogs,
and quite menagerie of monkeys and
| bears.
Miss Laura Don, the actress. has gone
to her old home at Greenwich. Wash
ington county. n. Y. and her physi-
clans think she will never leave it. She
is suffering from consumption of the
lungs.
!, Two wagon-loadS of opossumS We're
! offered for sale at Tslladega. Ala. last
week. The news spread, and now the
roads are literally lined with colored
| gentlemen making pilgrimages in search
of ''possum.'
1t is said that if person bitten by a
mad dog will go into Turkish bath
and stay there for seven days he will
recover. The poison in the blood. it is
said, will be eliminated by vigorous
aud steady perspiration.
A Boston man has written an elabo-
rate article TO prove that before the
close of the next century all OF North
America. including the British posses
| sions. Mexico and Central America will
| belong TO the United States.
An alleged doctor in Georgia. 10 re-
| lieve the earache. inserted bunch OF
cotton saturated with hot glue in a
Young mans ear. The glue got cold.
| and it became necessary TO call in real
| physician to extract the cotton.
Ex-Chief Justice Agnew. of Pennsyl-
vania, still lives in Beaver. famous
| town in that State. quite hale and vigor-
| Gus in mind and body. though over 50
| years of age. He was opposed 10 rail
road domination and was not renomi-
| mated.
A lake, comprising l25 acres, near
the village OF 'Riverhesd, Long Island,
| has been drained, and the bottom,
| which is found TO be sandy, is being
leveled and stumps pulled up aud holes
| filled, for the purpose OF establishing an
| immense cranberry marsh.
The private theatrical performances
before the King of Bavaria have been
resumed at Munich, in spite of the We
| hement remonstrances of his Majesty S
disguised Ministers, who find it utterly
| hopeless to attempt to place the civil list
expenses on better footing.
| lf. OCIO f1IlScl Tic 6ctlilstu cNplOItI
of New Guinea. denOunces the reported
discovery of gold on the Fly river in
that conntry as fabrication. A jour-
ney of 1000 miles along the north coast
| has convinced him that the Island is
we'll adapted for colonization by Euro
peans.
Though electricity. says Mr.. Proctor,
might be obtained by utilizing the heat
of water applied to the junction of two
metals. yet the current produced by a
temperature of $50 degrees Fahrenheit
at one junction, and say 60 degrees at
the other, would be too small to be sue
cessful.
Old Seth Kinman, the famous Cali
fornia hunter, who presented unique
chairs to Presidents Buchanan, Lincoln,
johnson and Hayes, will next spring
honor President Cleveland in similar
manner. The chair is made of elk
horns, and is curiously and elaborately
constructed.
Bismarck is afraid of dentists. He
has lately suffered much from neuralgia
pains in the face, and according to Prof.
Frerichs of the Berlin University, these
are due to two decaved teeth which the
chancellor has not the courage to have
removed. Bismarck's wife also is said
to be far from well.
In an oratorical journey through the
canons of Colorado with few hundred
school-teachers. Prof. Bickmore said.
quite prettily, that the whole region was
grand highway provided by nature for
men to learn her innermost secrets; "a
great book containing the history of the
earth for anv one who wished TO turn
its leaves and read
Two of the toes of nv buried leg
overlap each other and pain me dread
fully" said the wife of Jacob Berean, OF
Marlboro. Mass. The leg had been am
putated and buried one month. The
husband, unknown to the wife. had the
leg exhumed and the toes straightened
out, and she said she knew by the re-
lief that followed the exact moment the
act was performed.
Prof Eaton. of Yale College, in re-
cent lecture TO the students. told them
that it was not certain Eve tempted
Adam with an apple i'll the Garden OF
| Eden. He thinks probably it was a
ounce. because the apple OF the pres
ent day was propa gated from the crab
apple, and it is not at all likely Adam
would have been taken in by such a
pucEery little bait
One OF the largest manufacturers OF
gloves III England recently issued .
circular to the fashionable dealers in
London pointing out that the habit ol
attempting to wear gloves too small has
grown TO such an extent that it has
seriously affected the reputation of the
factory, and urging the dealers To exer-
else their influence against this expen-
pensiye manifestation of vanity.
Wild fox grapes in the Allegheny
Mountains in West Virginia are made
into jelly and sold by the residents in
those poor cabins to the keepers of the
crossroads stores for 10 cents a pound
the pay to be lin trade" The jelly is
of two kinds, one dark blue, the other
pale green, and both are said to sur.