The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-04-01
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Philadelphia, and. furthermore, is
shareholder in the Keely motor.
A sewing machine, which is held in
the hand and worked like pair of
scissors" is made at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
the factory employing seventy-five
people.
A prominent citizen of Baltimore has
been at work on the subject of nervous
diseases in children. He finds that in
somnia and neuralgia are frequent
among children, anu traces them direct
ly to mental overpressure.
The oldest person in West Virginia is
o colored woman near Charleston,
named Clara Brown, who claims to re-
member the outbreak of the Revolu-
tiOnary war, and to have seen General
Washington in Richmond.
"A scientific journal gives an account
of a pianoforte made in Paris in which
paper was made to take the place of
wood. the whole case being made from
paper so compressed that it was ena-
bled to receive hard surface, which
cream white The tone of this instru-
ment is reported to be not loud, but
very sweet. The short, broken charac-
ter of the sound emitted by ordinary
pianofortes is replaced by soft, full,
quasi-continuous sound. resembling
somewhat that of the organ. 1t has
been suggested that the evenness of
texture of the compressed paper may
have some influence in effecting this
modification of sound.
A Minnesota correspondent of the
Country Gentleman writes: A neighbor
kov ror.H 10 a Of
horses, twelve and thirteen years old,
had them shod at that age for the first
time. But they handled their feet SO
awkwardly that he had the shoes re-
moved inside of two weeks. Horses
"ball up" much worse with shoes on,
and when great Jumps of snow and ice
are on their feet they are more likely to
slip than when the feet are bare. And
when it comes to wading through large
drifts of snow, the bare-footed team
comes out ahead every time. They can
leap through the drifts like foxes, with
no danger of calking themselves.
A Fiji Prince has been paying short
visit to London. Many jealous Christ
tians were in hopes that he would be
converted to Christianity ere he left the
first Christian city of the world; but in
that they were disappointed. Instead
of going to Westminster Abbey and pay
ing the vergers sixpence to talk about
old tombStones, he went to the diZziest
theatres he could find. More than that,
he fell in love with fair actress and
proposed marriage to her. When, to
his great astonishment, she refused him,
he offered as an inducement to kill off
his other four wives as soon as he got
home. But the Anglo-Saxon soubret
still refused him, and he went back to
his princely home sad and lonely
man.
Two nice young Maine persons are in
state of mind, and all on account of
the careless business manager of an
Au, ,usta newspaper. One of the young
persons wrote to the other directing her
letter to the newspaper office where he
worked, and the business manager, not
noticing the address. tore open the en-
veiope and turned it over to the editor,
who clapped it in the Young Folks
Column as communication, the name
of the sender and sendee of the letter
both appearing. The young man, who
had been awaiting some word from the
lady, first learned of the course the let
ter had taken when he saw it in the pa
per. Their feelings are much easier
imagined than described.
Says New York letter to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer: Ex-senator Tabor
of Colorado still fingers in New York.
He has been negotiating a $50O,OOo
mortgage loan on the property he owns
on Lower Broadway. The Tabor Opera
House at Denver is included in the Sc
curity. Tabor watches speculative
&c s Iox 60 \
l am told that he intends to use his
$500, 200 loan as a big stake to retrieve
his fortunes. He has lost considerable
money in the last five years. but is still
wealthy if he would husband his proper
ty: ! saw him the other day in a brok-
er's Office pocketing $3.50 which he had
told he takes little flyers daily in pork,
oil, and even in stocks, by means of
which he is getting his hand in for a
bigger play
Here is something for the boys-a
simple travelling top. The ingenious
toy consists simply of a perforated disk,
which can be easily whitfield out of a
piece of thin board, and piece of
strong cord of such length that when
the ends are tied together it will form
loop, through which the legs can be
passed. At opposite points on the edge
of the disk are cut two small notches to
receive the cord. The performer passes
his legs through the loop, inserts the two
lengths of cord in the notches of the
disk. and then tightly twists up the
cord. He now lets go of the disk, and
suddenly forces his legs apart The un-
twisting of the cord rapidly revolves
the disk, which will drop to the ground
and run away for fifty or one hundred
yards. according to the strength and
skill of the manipulation.
A Washington letter says: miss Love
having been heralded through the coun-
try SO unpleasantly as the fiancee of the
President, every one has been most anx-
ious to meet and see her. Miss Love is
to all appearances well past 40, with
wavy yellow hair, drawn at either side
of her forehead. Her eyes are blue
gray, and her features rather good. She
is tall; and at the german wore white
lbrocade and satin, with much lace, She
manages fan gracefully and is clever
and quick in conversation. She is a
woman of Independent means, and has
travelled and gone at her will, and those
who know her secuted the idea of her
marrying any man when the papers
rang with gossip about her year ago.
Her picture reached public print through
the perfidy of a friend, who sold her
photographs to publishers for good
round sum-"
Blk. Jamison. the Philadelphia bank
er, recently said: Ibid ever tell you
about my first financial transaction of
Importance No? Well, it took place in
my native town in Indiana County.
was little shaver of about 5, and one
day l importuned my father for some
money with which to buy candy. He
was talking with a gentleman at the
time, but he put his hand in his pocket
and pulled out dime, giving it to me
with the injunction to spend but half
OF it and to bring the other half home.
took the money, but how to obey puz-
zled me. 1 walked along cogitating
over the matter until 1 arrived in front
of tinsmith's, when bright idea