The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
MISSING LINKS.
Sir Charles Tupper still goes fishir

won't drop off. says a florist.
A school history of Ohio will be COM
piled by Columbus professor.
Mary Howett, the well-known En-
glish religious writer, has entered the.
Roman Catholic Church.
The lumbermen of Fairfield. Me, are
preparing to cut upward of 25,O00,O0
feet of lumber next winter.
Lieutenant Hem, the owner of the
British yacht Galatea, is an Irishman of
a distinguished old Ulster family.
A Canadian great-grandfather recent
tly was present at the christening of his
one hundred and seventeenth descend
ant
! Miss Jessie Watson, of Australia, was
recently naturalized in California, so
thatshe might take up homestead in
that State.
A Fresno, Cal, horticulturist recently
pic ked jag pounds of apricots from a
single tree. grown on land that five
years ago was desert.
Henry Bircher, of Ducks Prairie, ILL.,, ,
owns mule which eats ducks. chick
ems, fish, cheese, meat and bread, pre-
ferring the latter when thickly spread
with jelly.
Ward Lannon's life of Lincoln is said
ito owe much of its literary finish to the
If;.cile and eloquent pen of Chauncey +.
Black, democratic candidate for COVER
NOR of Pennsylvania.
Tie queen of Spain is said to be suf-
fering from pulmonary disease, which
is making alarming progress. The af-
;fectionis similar to that which caused
the death of King Alfonso.
Mrs. Gen. W. S. Hancock has been
engaged during the summer in writing
u vo.ume of "reminiscences of her late
husband. 1t is now about completed,
aud will be published this winter.
Charles Monckey, inventor of the
| Monckey wrench Ggnorantly called the
nonkey-wrench), is living in poverty in
Brooklyn. He sold the patent for 50.
600, and now millions are made annual
ly out of the invention.
Mr. Webb. of the London & North
western Railway, England. stated in a
recent speech in London that a new To-
comotive is placed on that road on the
average every five days. to repair the
. loss caused by ordinary depreciation.
! Indian bellies of Alaska wear thick
coating of oil and SCOT on their faces
when not in full toilet. This is said tO
preserve the complexion, which. after 4
thorough scrubbing, looks as fair and
smooth as good article of soft soap.
There are good many queer people
in this world. just at present Balti-
more contains as odd parsonage as
ChaTles Dickens MIR. Dick. He is a
bookkeeper who runs his house by
, xules. which he has printed and hung
in the rooms and halls.
The Indians of Morelos, Mexico, are
said to be quite original in the art of
exchanging wives. When one of the
bartered females is considered more
valuable than the other by the contract
ing parties, cat, dog, or couple OF
pigeons are given to equalize the bar.
gain.
The extinction of starlight" in the
daylight is not due to the vapors in the
atmosphere, but to the stronger" vi
brations Of sunlight. which prevent our
eyes perceiving lne weaker vibrations
of starlight, exactly as stronger sound
say cannon shot-prevents US from
hearing n smaller noise.
Mr. David McWilliams, a merchant
of Dwight, ILL.,, has an original photo
graph of Abraham Lincoln, which was
taken ut Springfield six weeks before his
nomination for president in 1860. 1t
is~a perfect representation. 1t looks
precisely as MFR. Lincoln appeared at
that period, as those of his old friends
Uhn have soon If testify
The Worcester (Mass) Spy pleads
for change of Thanksgiving Day
from the-cold and discomfort of the last
Thursday in November to an earlier
date. sit ought to be-" says the Spy,
''in the splendid days of October, when
the world is brilliant, when outdoor
games are luxury, and there is moon
to make the night almost as light as
day"
A mammoth well is being dug on
Breaker Island, near Albany, N. Y. 1t
Is over twenty feet in diameter and will
be sunk below the bed of the river a
distance of several hundred feet. so that
the water will be of the purest quality
that can he secured. About four mill
ion gallons will be consumed on the
island every day when the blast fur
naces are in operation.
A Bostonian, seeking to be free-and-
easy and to keep cool, thrust his cellu.
loid cuffs into his coat pocket and
spread the coat upon a bench that the
coat might serve as a cushion. But in
thus sitting he rubbed a match that
happened to be in the same pocket
against the cuffs, which took fire.
When he got up he got up in a hurry.
1t was his best coat, and now he is
without so much as scrap of bes!
coat.
Ambrose Dawson, of Washin gton
township, Indiana, has two grown sons
and daughter. He also had on his
farm one lot in which were a number oi
stumps. '1ll give you a thousand dol
lars apiece if you'll have family re
union at home, and bring along some
dynamite and blow up them stumps, u
ne said to his children. The reunion
was held, the stumps were blown up
and each offspring got a check fol
$1,000.
An old rat-catcher says it's regular
thing for a swarm of ship rats to .'climl
up the hawsers an riggin' an get on tt
the docks. There they'll bunch them
selves together, and by squeakin' O.
some other moans draw out all tn,
neighborin' land and dock rats onto th.
dock an 90 for 'em. 1t don't matte
how many or how few there are, you'll
always find the dead bodies of the lane
rats left on the field after the fight ,
Ship rats will not live on land. Whel
driven from one ship they lmmediatel,
seek another.
Mrs. Hem, wife of the master of Gal
atea, is little dark-haired woman, VIII,
dresses only to suit herself. She Is ap
to appear in the morning with littl
worsted togue on her head, blacl
waist, and-a red skirt. Her Jewels ar
beautiful. and utterly unlike any worl
by any other lady in the city. Thos
who know her have the impression tina
if her husband should say to her, IN
dear, how soon can you get ready to g
to Iceland?" she would reply: LET m
get my hat and I'll be all ready" Tn
lieutenant and his wife are just as fon,
of one another as if they had but jus
got married.
On the farm of Mr. W. G. Marrow. il
the county of Warwick. there lives al
old war horse that seems to yet re
member the days when the shot ant
shell flew thick and fast. The hors
was the property of Maj. Marrow, sol