The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-06-03
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Durg IN Delaware county, ONO.
The English sparrow is the herdic
among the vehicles of the air.
Seventeen blast furnaces at Sharon,
Pa, have made a contract for the use
of natural gas.
Senator Sabin and wife have perma-
nently taken into their family the two
little orphan girls of the late Delegate
Raymond, of Dakota.
Patrick Ryan, the pugilist, is said to
have double, who travels with him
and personates him to interviewers who
cannot distinguish between the two.
Sarah Bernhardt, high in spirit and
low in funds, is coming to this country
to pay for dead horse. All she can
make won't do more than cover her
debts.
An English clergyman delivered a
sermon in which he warned his hearers
of the speedy end of all things, and
closed with an appeal for liberal con-
tribution to rebuild the church tower.
Miss Anthony, the landladies' rights
woman of Ireland (not our Susan b.
has been given $1,000 by Waterford
grand jury as recompense for injuries
with stones.
Mexicans have passion for mirrors,
and a traveller says that the interior of
some of the city houses look like steam
boat cabins. He remarks, also, that
mirrors are among the commonest arti-
cles in the pawnshops there.
In one Pennsylvania county school
teachers receive $3.50 per month and
are compelled to change their boarding.
places every week. At the end of a
year of "boarding round" in this way
educational ideas must be thoroughly
disseminated through the community.
The Texas & Pacific bridge, over the
Trinity river. at Dallas, Tex, is ninety
feet above the water level. A negro
walking across the bridge was recently
overtaken by train and so scared that
he jumped from the bridge, went plump
down into the water, and after half a
minute arose and swan ashore unhurt
An Italian professor wishing to find
out whether the miasm of malaria ex-
listed in the dew and soil, experimental
on himself by having infusions of dew
and soil collected from unhealthful
places injected under his skin. He ex-
perienced no evil results. He and his
friends made fifty-two similar expert
ments without harm.
The most economical man lives in
southern Georgia. He bought flock of
turkeys, but when he found that he
would be charged ferryage, '.jest tuck
them right back to the settlement and
snapped them for geese. so that he could
git even with that ferryman." The
geese swan the river while the owner
went over in the ferry.
Oil from pine wood is now manu-
featured on considerable scale st tshe
South. The material is subjected to in
tense heat in sealed retorts, and one
cord of it is said to yield fifteen gallons
of turpentine, eighty gallons of pine
wood oil, fifty bushels of charcoal, $50
gallons of wood vinegar, and quantity
of inhammable gas and asphaltum.
Passive resistance in Ireland has some
humor. At Ballysimon. near Limerick,
forty-four head of cattle were advertised
to be sold for non-payment of rent. Pre-
ceded by two donkeys, decorated with
gay ribbons, the cattle were driven into
Limerick, followed by great crowd of
jolly, boisterous people. The auctioneer,
fearing the unmerciful guying of the
multitude, refused to perform his office.
The sheriff was appealed to, and he al
SO declined. Had seller been found it
is morally certain there would have been
no buyers After vain attempt to get
an auctioneer the sale was abandoned,
and the cattle, preceded by their couriers
and followed by the rollicking rabble,
were driven back to the defaulting ten-
ants.
The famous clock at Strasburg is put
completely into the shade by 1.-The great
World Clock, or the 10,000-year time in
dicator." 1t was constructed in Ger
many, during many years labor, by
Christian Martin, clockmaker. The
clock marks the years and leap years,
and will run for a hundred centuries,
when, as the bill frankly admits, its
mechanical works. will have to be
changed. The face of the clock is about
ten feet square, and has large number
of dials and little inches, where 122
little figures have their abiding place.
These latter, as the every-ready bill ex-
plains, are ''to allegorize human life. :"
Every minute sorrowfullooking angel
hits bell with sledge-hammer. And
in like manner the other figures come
out, so that altogether it is quite won-
derful.
There has long been a legendary ira
dition among the people in Concord
Township. in Delaware County, Ohio,
to the effect that more than a century
ago Delaware chief, in some sort of a
raid upon the eastern settlements, be-
came possessed of vast fortune, mostly
in coin of Spain and England. This
money. it was said, was buried in Con-
cord, and that it took thirteen strong
men TO carry the weight of the treasure
MIR. Fleetwood Courtright, a few days
ago, began blowing in field that had
never felt a plowshare before Mixed
with the upheaved earth Mr.. Courtright
noticed something with a bright spot
upon it, and, picking it up. discovered a
silver coin bearing date 100. The re-
collection of the story which he had
heard from childhood came to mind and
encouraged Mr. Courtright to further
. investigation. The result was the find
ing of large amount of similar coin,
declines to state just how many coins
he plowed up.
Mrs. Oliphant publishes with her Ma
JeSty S PERMISSION, IN BtHcEIOO00S S Mag
azine, two letters from Queen Victoria
to the son and the widow of the late
Principal Tulloch. Writing some weeks
ago to the Rev. w. w. Tulloch. the
Queen said: ''Your dear father was so
kind, so wise. and it was such pleas
ure to see him at dear Balmoral! No
more! NeUer again! These dreadful
words I have so often had to repeat
make my heart turn sick. Gods will
be donei mourn with YOU :"
To Mrs. Tullock she wrote a few days
later: My heart bleeds for you-the
dear, worthy companion of that noble,
excellent man, so highly gifted and
large-hearted, and so brave! whose life
is crushed by the greatest loss which
can befall a woman. | am
most anxious to visit you, and trust
that you will allow me to do so quietly
and privately, as one who knew your
dear husband so well, and has gone
through much sorrow, and knows what
you feel and what you suffer-
The origin of the famous melody,
.s,John Browns Body is piyen as fol-