The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-07-29
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An Austrian Princess is now serving
as waitress in a Vienna cafe.


statute practically abolishes the pension
fund for the New York police
Senator German usually carries an
unlighted cigar in his mouth, but is said
not 10 have smoked one for years.
Mrs. Mcclellan, the widow of Gen.
Mcclellan, has arranged to pass the
summer at Schwalbach, Germany.
Senator Cameron likes Arizona so
well that he is going to return to his
ranch in that territory as soon as con-
gress adjourns.
The seasons seal hunt of Newfound-
land was failure. Owing to promis-
cuous hunting the animals are rapidly
decreasing in numbers.
Bishop Whipple of Minnesota, dur
ing the past year has officiated in 100
different places, scattered all the way
from Montana to Florida
Judge Stovall, of McDuffie. Ca, was
a delegate to the whig national conven-
ton OF 1910, and still wears his 'Harri-
son and Tyler campaign badge.
Coils P. Huntington was once
farmers boy in Connecticut Now he
is worth S40,O00,00O. He is 65 years
old. and has pleasant but rather bluff
manner.
Mr.. Abbey, now southwark of the
earth's equatorial girdle, gave assurance
lust before he left Paris that the Mary
Anderson season of thirty-one weeks in
America netted 1887 900.
young salesman in New York City
within few weeks has received very
large order in his line from manufact-
urer on whom he called forty-one times,
and was repulsed on every occasion but
the last
A well-known ballet dancer of ire
proachable character, when asked if
changing her short skirts and tights for
the long robes of Katisha in a Mikado
ballet did not annoy her in dancing,
answered: mo. not that way, but l
felt awfully ashamed when l first ap-
peared in il"
Prof Won Ranke's seventh volume of
his universal History has been found
to be complete. 1t terminates with the
German Emperor Henry ", who dice.
1I25. The material and manuscripts of
most of the remainder of the proposed
work are in sufficiently completed
condition to be prepared for publica-
ton.
Rev. MIR. Spurgeon, the noted London
preacher, mas preached nineteen hun
dred sermons. He could now legitimate
ly turn the barrel upside down and be-
gin over again with number one. 1t is
said that this practice is not altogether
unknown TO some good clergymen
whose discourses do not reach one-tenth
the number of Mr.. SpurgeOn's.
William Aimison of Nashville, the
Al. - ~
graphical Union, was twice elected TO
the Legislature while setting type upon
a Nashville paper. He is about 80 years
old. Ills father was a Frenchman, his
mother Greek, and he was born at
Marseilles.
A London newspaper-man recently
dressed himself in blue and gold livery,
with a pair of green spectacles, and APP
peared with the clown at circus per-
formance given before the Queen. He
wanted TO report to his paper how her
Majesty looked when the clown got off
one of his chestnuts.
Ex-Marshal Bazaine, '.the Man of
Metz" is now IS years old, white-hair.
ed. bloated, and decrepit He never
grows weary of cursing Marshal Mac
A1ahon and throwing upon that gallant
soldier the blame for all the reverses of
the terrible year" His wife is now in
Mexico, trying to rake together some re-
mains of his former property there.
A Buffalo lady says that Mrs. Folsom
made the following statement to her:
-.My daughter made an excellent choice,
and it is really love match. They love
each other devotejly, and cannot fail to
be very happy. Frances has no lido
syncrasicS; she is well-educated wo-
man of good Judgment and if | were a
man she is the kind of wife l would
like"
The Princess Louise of England.
who is to marry Prince Oscar,
does not understand the Swedish Ian
guage. 1t thus happens that when the
Princess undertakes to give her royal
spouse curtain lecture he will think
she is ladling out tatfy in the approved
English style. But. it won't taRe him
dong to discover his mistake. Married
men learn the symptoms pretty quick.
Hts part of their business.
LIE Grand Larew, who owns a cattle
ranch in Kansas. is visiting his parents
near Elmira. N. Y. He is six feet high,
and wears a beard which drags foot
upon the floor when he stands erect.
His mustache is said to be five feet six
inches in length by actual measurement
He says that he has it dressed but once
in three months and that it takes three
days to perform the job.
Eugene Richter, Bismarck's principal
opponent in the reichstag, is described
as resem bling Emile Zola in appearance.
He is of medium size. stout, has pale
face, with a full, coarse beard and black.
hair carefully smoothed down. His
savage accusations of the government
are delivered in very quiet and pleas
ant way, and in voice which is de-
scribed as delightful tenor
Modjeska and her husband have been
doing the Yosemite valley, being the
first party of the season to reach the
falls, and sleeping in a tent during the
tour. The actress is now recuperating
at Monterey, and spends much of her
time in seabathng, of which she is pas
sionately fond. She swims in deep
water for half an hour at time easily,
and finds the exercise very beneficial.
The poem ''Ieonamie," written many
years ago by the .'Hoosier Poet" james
Nhitcomb Riley. and recently resusci-
tated as an unpublished poem of Edgar
A. Poe, has been translated into the
language of Dante. Petrarch and Ariosto,
and the Italian journals contain long
articles on the discovery" to the de-
light of the Italian iterati, who prefer
Poe TO amy other American poet
Little Bobbie Phelan. aged 13, son of
Capt. Phean of Kansas City, distin-
guished himself the other day by plung-
ing into the water and saving Il boy
from drowning, ut the imminent risk of
his own life. Bobbie is the same boy who
went TO New York ut the time of Capt
Phelan's difficulty with the Rosa crowd,
armed himself with huge revolver, and
announced his intention To kill the first
man who attempted to hurt his father.
The eminent Kentucky states man,
Gen. Wolford, attended the presidents
reception, and speaks as follows of the
bride. ''She is first-rate looking young
!. woman. She is heap prettier than he