The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-02-25
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many charming melouleS. mas fenOunceu
his nationality as Austrian and become
naturalized in Saxony. Family reasons
have occasioned this step.
In the duel scene in Mr. Irving's
theatre electric appliances are provided
SO that at every touch of the swords of
Mephistopheles and Valentine brilliant
stream of sparks is thrown off.
DR. Hartwell, of Johns Hopkins Uni
Sersity, says that German soldier can
scale a twenty-foot wall with his arms
and accoutrements. or jump an IRON
spiked fence without getting caught.
Gymnastics are compulsory in the Ger
man schools.
Lieut.. Greely's numerous Washington
friends note with equal surprise and
satisfaction that he IS immensely i'm
proved in health and is growing fairly
robust, but he is getting better dinners
lately and more Of 'em than he did IN
the Arctic regions.
Princess Isabeau, who recently in
herited 81 100000 from her mother,
keeps twenty dogs and twenty cats in
her Partisan palace. who, being fed to
She is going to found home for the
aged and INDECENT of both races.
Lord Kingsdale has peculiar privi-
Iege, which he exercised in 1859. At
the queens levee he approached her
majesty with his hat on, took it off when
passing the queen, and then put it on
again and remained covered. 1t is
Family privilege, which has been many
times asserted and admitted in former
reigns.
An old autograph-album in Washing
ton contains the following letter from
Gen. Winfield Scott, dated Washington,
June 15, 1860, to the proprietors of the
Girard House, Philadelphia: ''Gentle-
men: Expect me at the Girard House to-
morrow night at IL o'clock, and give
nle bed at least six feet six inches in
length or one without a footboard.''
The great Burmese river, the IRA
waddy, is much like our Upper Missouri
in respect to its sand bars. These often
accumulate or shift across the channel
in single night, and steamers caught
on them have sometimes to stay there
month. A new pilot is needed about
every ten miles, which is all the space
he can keep himself informed upon from
day to day.
The people of Atlanta have sunk $780,
900 in digging an artesian well 1000
feet deep. No stream having been found
that would come to the surface, Pro-
fessor White, of the State University,
was called in, and he decided that as
Atlanta stood on granite rock-the bed
rock of the continent-the only way to
get an artesian we'll would be to start
on the surface and bore up into the at
mosphere.
A great many surmises have been
made as to the cause of Theodore
Thomas hasty retreat from the conduc-
TORS chair of the American opera when
the ballet comes on; and it has at last
leaked out that this is not a musical
matter at all, but a matter of sensibility.
The American school of opera, with its
Eernal legs and summer faces, is too
much for the experience and austere
maestro-Nel0 York World.
William Henry Brown, a Pittsburg
GO ored man, has received the bequest
pf a Shenandoah Valley farm of $50
acres from Virginian named. James
81 angler, who played with Brown when
both were boys, and who was badly
wounded in the Confederate service at
Fort Harrison and captured. Brown,
who was serving in the Union army,
saw that Spangler received kind treat
ment as wounded prisoner.
One of the officers of the British force
in Burmah concludes that stomachache
is widely prevalent malady in that re-
gion. At Koonlah he found an idol
which effects a miraculous cure when
sufferer plasters fake of gold leaf
upon the part corresponding to the seat
of his own disorder; and the abdomen
of the idol had been caused to protrude
to most extraordinary degree by the
plastered offerings of health seekers.
James Keene. the California million
aire, who came to New York in a palace
car q few years ago, has just been tell
ing in court how much money he hasn't
got now. He declared under oath that
in place of his former millions he has
now neither property nor income. He
is able to wear Il good cravat and other
articles of wearing apparel to match,
and presents well-fed appearance for
a man so poverty-stricken, all of which
he claims is owing to the generosity of
his wife.
Dogs doomed to die in London do not
suffer half as much as men who pay the
extreme penalty. In the chemical death
chamber of unclaimed ours at Battersea,
the dogs trot into the tempting room,
vile down, curl themselves round and
round, fall asleep" and SO go to that
bourne whence no four-footed traveller
returns. This lethal chamber is filled
with narcotic vapor produced by pass
sng carbonlc oxide over surface OF
ansesthetic miXture-compOsed of chlo-
roform and bisulphide carbon.
Mr.. John B. Cough reappeared on the
lecture platform at Melrose, Mass, q
few evenings ago and introduced him.
self by explaining the cause of his long
silence. 81 appear tonight" he said,
'for the first time in three months, and
for the first time in my life with set of
erocl1ery in my mouth. have dreaded
greatly appearing before the public. not
nnder false pretenses, but under false
teeth" Reports say that Mr.. Cough
spoke with all of his old eloguence
and vigor."
Writing from Mexico correspondent
says: mo Mexican kennel is complete
without two or three pelon or hairless
dogs. They are of dirty blue color,
have sharp, pointed ears, and do moth
ing but roll in the sun or crouch before
~ ho ShlfCAluS Will Colu. tlOH is n
Mexicanism meaning gift, and they
probably called these hairless creatures
pelon dogs because you have to give
man something to take one as present.
They are ill-natured, mean, arrant
thieves, and with not single good trait
in their character
Five Mile Beach Island, near Cape
May, has an unique and beautiful fea-
ture in its holly groves, which stretch
for four miles along the island. Many
of them are very aged trees. Their
trunks are more than foot in diameter
at half their height The light gray
bark, with tints of pale green and
patches of brown, bring together the
hoariness of age and the tenderness of
youth. The moss hangs from the
branches as if the forest were Southern,
while the evergreen leaves and the
bright red berries keep up the illusion of
summer in the drearier days of frost.
The Empress of China has caused a