The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-05-06
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A Connecticut paper enriches the
language with ''recentmost" 1t means
the latest.
There are in Philadelphia eight female
physicians who have an annual practice
of about $4,000 each.
Mr.. Charles Asbury, the postmaster at
Lulu, Ga, has four little daughters,
named Pearl, Diamond, Ruby, and Gar
net.
There is an ex-Confederate soldier in
Athens, Ga, who belonged to nine dif-
ferent regiments during the war and
was never in fight.
A lady in Queen Victoria's service,
who made the mistake of wearing
cherry ribbon during recent term of
court mourning, has been deprived OF
her position for two months.
1t seems that the state Organizer"
of the anti-Chinese party in California
is or was q Baptist minister, and that
he receives 800 a month and expenses
tor organizing opposition to the Chi
nese.
DIR, Sims, missionary on the Congo,
says that the natives are very severe in
their treatment of thieves, often tying
them to trees and allowing them to
perish from hunger and exposure. In
the West horse thieves are often tied to
trees, but they do not suffer for more
than few minutes.
A Boston drummer ordered plate of
his native fodder in Brandon, VT, the
other day, and was charged 25 cents,
He objected to paying Is cents more
than the Boston price, but without
avail. The next day the bean seller
received a telegram saying: Don't you
think that was too much for those
beansp" The restaurant man paid 25
cents for the message and swore.
Just before the outbreak of the war
Stonewall jackson, then professor in
tho Virginia Military Institute at Lex
ington, organized Sunday school for
colored children, which is still sustained
by leading citizens there. The Sunday
school has now set on foot subscription
for monument to Jackson, which is
meeting with lively response among
the people, black and white, of the
South.
Aleck Culberson was on trial at La
fa9ette, Ga, for assault with intent to
murder. When he got up to make his
statement to the jnry he determined to
use an argument that in these hard
times would fall with telling effect. He
said: "Gemmen, don't want to 60 to
the chain-gang. l owe MIR. George
Clements lots of money, and 1 want you
to let me stay here so / can work and
pay him what l owe him." He got
clear.
Herring, says correspondent of No
tssre, Jump out of the water when fright
ened. He says that he has observed
whole shoals of this fish, in their anxiety
to escape when pursued by whales,
piled up above the surface of the sea to
Ia height of from three to six feet. On
one occasion the fish formed mass even
with the top of mast of a fishing boat,
viz, about fifteen feet, and had part of
this mass fallen into the boat it would
doubtless have sunk.
In the distribution of slang American
phrases do tell'' and 81 want to know
are confined to New England. ais that
So" heightened ''indeed," is to the
unrefined American what $50" is to the
German 1t is capable of conveying a
dozen different meanings. 1t was also
in New England that 'budge' was Sc
ducej from its good old Saxon meaning
and conveyed into synonym OF ''intl-
mate" ..Budge" was never a pretty
word, and when it appeared in such
sent, nee as ..She and your sister are
quite budge," it sounded more unWleld'
1y than ever. 1t has still another slang
meaning when a gentleman is intoxi-
Gated it is delicately said of him that he
is full of bulge"
A remarkable feat in book renovation
has just been completed by French
man named Lahonton. He had sent
him a copy of Coverdale's Bible that
was completely saturated with fat, and
had been badly eaten by mice. His pro-
cess was to treat each leaf to judicious
course of chlorine in solution and am
monia, while the dirt was removed by
some process only known to himself.
y He then supplied the defective portions
OF paper of the requisite texture and
shade. The missing letter press was fac
SMILED The whole was then sized and
afterward appropriately bound by one
of the best Partisan binders, the whole
cost of this treatment being $500.
The extensive scale on which the
Western cattle companies conduct busi-
ness is illustrated BY a project of the
About 5000 acres of land, including
chased. on which the company will
erect feeding barns, elevator cribs, meal
houses, offices etc. The main building,
or feeding barn, will be 682x204 feet,
and will contain 5000 stalls, where each
steer will stand alone and united The
elevator will be of 10000 bushels capac-
ity, with cribs attached to hold 10000
bushels of corn in the ear. The works
will be run by sixty-horse power
engine The establishment will turn
out 5000 to 10000 beeves per annum.
Maj. Gen. Alfred H. Terry, United
States army, who has Just been pro-
NOTED to fill the position made vacant
by Gen. Hancock's death, was intro
duced not long ago somewhere in the
northwest to the cultured wife of cap
tain in the 10th United States infantry.
81 am glad" said the lady ito meet the
hero of Fort Fisher" Gen. Terry re-
piled: MADAM, the real hero of Fort
Fisher is the commander of your hus-
bands regiment. If it had not been for
him there would have been no hero OF
Fort Fisher to congratulate. The Off
Ger referred to by Gen, Terry was Gen.
G. Pennypacker, who led brigade at
Fort Fisher, and who now, at the age Of
73, is living in Philadelphia in suck re-
tirement that the new democratic post
Office authorities the other day adver-
tised that letter directed to him re-
manned in the Philadelphia Office.
An ornithologist who recently rode in
Madison avenue car, New York City,
tells Science that ''The car contained
thirteen women, of whom eleven wore
birds, as follows: QD heads and wings
of three European starlings; (2) an
entire bird (species unknown) of foreign
origin; (3) seven warblers, representing
four species; (D a large tern; (O the
heads and wings of three shore-1arks
(6) the wings Of seven shore-larks and
grass-fnches; O one-half of gallinule
(s) small tern; 90 a turtle dove; QO)
vireo and a yellow-breasted chat;
GD ostrich plumes." In a short time
there will not be pIumage bird left
alive in North America. or perhaps
Europe; and their determination must
be charged to women's wicked vanity
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