The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-04-22
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ing a church festival had this postscript:
mo flirting allowed
I Dan Rice, the one time noted circus
to receive $500 week for his oratorical
ground and lofty tumbling.
Grace Hubbard, a graduate of the
Iowa University, has adopted the pro-
fession of civil engineer and is employed
by the United States government survey
in Montana to make maps.
A revolver in q glass case, surrounded
by pictures of beats and surmounted by
the motto, "Pay or Pray" aids Ne
braska photographer in conducting his
business ON the cash plan.
Ex-senator Bradbury of Maine, who
served with Webster, is 80 years old,
but has firm step and bears few marks
of great age. He was collegemate of
Hawthorne and Longfellow at Bow
doin.
Judge Noah Davis was asked to write
an opinion in favor of a proposed mar
riage-license law. His answer was: 81
believe true public policy requires that
marriage should be made easy and di-
vorce next to impossible"
Hereafter all the Chinese going over
the southern division of the Grand
Trunk Railroad will be passed in bond,
and the conductors will be held respon-
sible to see that none of the Mongolians
are allowed to stop in Canada.
Boston experts criticise Howell's last
story, where he gives carefully elabor-
ated scene in police station, but repre-
sents the captain as asking the young
woman who makes complaint to him
what her age, height and weight are.
The cost of suppressing locusts in Cy-
prus since the British occupation
amounts to over $330,000. But the gov
ernment engineer states that, large as
the expenditure has been, it is certain
that it has already been recovered by
the island many times over in the value
of the crops saved.
A discussion going on in Boston as to
who is the oldest living member of the
Masonic fraternity in New England has
brought forth the names of several who
have belonged to the order for more
than half century, among them David
McDaniels, of Morristown, Vt, who
Joined in 1912, when twenty-one years
old.
The usual story of the remarkable
travels of pin is at hand. This time
the scene is laid in Newton, Iowa, where
thisteen years ago Mrs. Cyrus Gage
dropped pin in her ear. The pin in
course of time dropped into her throat
and was swallowed. The other day a
doctor took it out of her left leg near
the ankle.
One of the most ingenious processes
which has lately come into vogue in the
treatment of iron-an Austrian inven-
tion-is that of giving to the metal a
silver surface, this being effected by
first covering the iron with mercury
and then silver by the galvanic process.
By heating to 800 degrees, c., the mer-
curry evaporates and the silver layer is
fixed.
lord Rowton," says the London
World, .'is very angry about the publ.
cation of Lord Beaconsfield's early let
tiers. He regards it as direct and un-
warantable infringement of his rights
as his late chief literary executor, and
as calculated to diminish the interest OF
the great work which has occupied his
exclusive attention during the last two
years"
A huge California hawk swooped
down on sleeping cat at Santa Rosa
the other day and bore it squalling and
scratching high in the air. When about
500 feet high the hawk lost its grip and
the cat came down with fearful velocity,
but the hawk caught it again just before
it struck the earth and was carrying it
off when suddenly both fell like lead to
the ground. The cat had bitten through
the hawks head, killing it instantly,
and the fall killed the cat.
Pliny Martindale of Kirkland, O., is a
well-to-do, but apparently very lazy, not
to say heartless farmer. He had 800
sheep when winter set in and plenty of
grain and fodder; but the other day an
agent for the humane society found
seventy-one of the sheep dead forty being
piled in the basement of one barn and
tweny-three in another, and others
scattered about the place. They had all
starved to death.
&; Alabama is in luck in her effort to
catch up to Pennsylvania as q producer
iof iron. Her good fortune as to ore and
lime deposits had just begun to attract
attention when Pennsylvania develop
ment of natural-gas wells again re-
newed our former advantages. But the
Alabamians then began to hunt for gas,
and it is now reported that supply
has been found near Birmingham, and
that pipes are to be laid to the mills
without loss of time.-PhitG. Ledger.
The thirteen States of Arkansas, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Della
ware, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire. Oregon, Rhode Island, Ver-
mont and West Virginia, with an ag-
gregate population which does not ex-
ceed that of New York alone, have
twenty-six United States senators to
New York's two. From the five States
of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Massachusetts. and Ohio the govern
ment derives one-half of all its postal
revenues.
Steamboat Frank, a Modoc Indian
who was captured at the time of the
Modoc war, and who is still prisoner
= of the United States, is attending, by
permit of the government, the Oak
Grove Seminary in Maine. He now
calls himself Frank Modoc, and is study
ing for the ministry. He is making e
good progress in his studies, and is ap-
,parently devout Christian. He is
proud of his descent from a long line of
Modoc chieftains, and conducts himself
with true Indian dignity.
Alexander G. Drake, a colored car
penter of Louisville, is coming into
prominence as temperance revivalist.
He is fifty-nine years old, an ex-slave,
and is said to be doing good. His plan
of work is to secure signers to a pledge
which binds them for three months,
year, or for life, as they may elect The
pledge is unique, and reads: Il do sin
cerely hope that if 1 drink beer or whis-
ky (date named here), without being
considered sick, that bad luck may be
mine the remainder of my life, SO help
me God"
Gen. Billot, the new French embassa-
dor to ST. Petersburg. has never before
served in a diplomatic capacity. He is
tactiturn, cold, and circumspect; he
knows how to select those only who
can serve him, and he neglects those
who only seem of no use to him or who
can not be dangerous to his purposes.
He speaks fuently on subjects which he
understands and maintains an imper-
.turable silence when subjects are dis