The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25
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In the last century from 150,000,0O0 to
S20.000,00
During the last thirty years the ex-
port of beer from Germany to France
has constantly increased.
According to the latest official statis-
tics the number of working women in
England and Wales is 7,706,545.
The word ''environment," now so
popular, was introduced into our lam
guage by Thomas Carlyle, who bor-
rowed it from the French, they having
used it for two centuries.
John Russell Young is good listener
Nature made him reticent; but when
pressed, and he finds it is his turn to
talk, he becomes most pleasing and
entertaining conversationalist. Like all |
good takers, he has a wonderful |
memory.
The Chinese and japanese govern |
ments are translating and publishing at |
a cheap rate many Of the best English
text books. Most of Professor TyndalPs
works, for instance, have been trans
lated and printed in Chinese, and are
issued at a merely nominal sum.
In Norway it is believed that wolves
are frightened away by telegraph lines.
1t is said that however hungry wolf
may be he will never go into spot that
is inclosed by ropes stretched on posts.
Since the first telegraphic line was estab-
lished, twenty years ago, wolves have
never appeared in its neighborhood
.'There is a good deal of religion in
nature" solemnly remarked a young
Aberdeen clergyman calling upon
1,I1 - hic tinra 1aoonflu
There is,' was the quiet reply. 1--WE
mon in every blade of grass" ''Quite
true. We should also remember that
grass is cut very short sometimes"
Oscar Wiley, of Davenport, Iowa, is
the possessor of horse of excellent
build and good gait. with five legs, and
every time it is shod five shoes are re-
quired. The horse is six years old, and
was raised on farm near Moline, Ill.
1t runs as well as a four-legged animal,
and to all appearances finds no incon-
venience in using the fifth member.
The latest newspaper advices from
South Africa appear to indicate the ex-
istence of ''boom," really honest and
trustworthy this time, in Transvaal gold
mining enterprise. The Kaap gold
fields, it is reported, are now thriving,
and the yield of the old and new fields
together for the last year amounts to at
least E100,000-one journal, indeed,
estimates it at between 100000 and
f150,00O.
81 see it stated" says Mr.. Labouchere,
.'that, whilst Engllshmen drink five
times as much tea as coffee, Americans
drink eight times as much coffee as tea.
This, in great measure, is due to the
coffee sold in the United States being
less ,adulterated than ours. To GER
tain extent it may also be accounted for
by the fact that Americans are richer
than we are, for there are a good many
more cups in a shilling's worth of tea
than in shilling's worth of Coffee
A remarkable story about Mr.. Glad
stone was told by DR.. Theodore L. Guy
Ter in a recent address to Yale students.
He said: with my own eyes l have
ses Mr.. Gladstone kneel by the side of
common street sweeper and pray for
th3 salvation of his soul. know of no
grlnder sight than the premier of Eng
Ia ID and the leading statesman of the
world kneeling by the side of a common
street sweeper and pouring forth his
eloquent appeal to God in behalf of his
humble brother"
Another story of feeling in an ampu-
tated limb comes from Byron, n. Y.
-Four weeks ago DR.. Townsend ampu-
tated Mrs. William Goodliff's leg Just
below the knee. The leg was buried,
and the patient was getting well all
right, except that she constantly COM
planned that corn ON her departed foot
panied her excessively. After three
weeks of this kind of suffering, her hus-
band dug up the buried member, and
found that bandage remained bound
tightly about the toes, on one of which
was the corn. He removed the band
age, buried the member in an easy and
comfortable position, and since then
Mrs. Goodliff has had no trouble with
that foot OF corn.
DIR. Wyman, of Sitka, Alaska, has sent
to his brother in Detroit pack of play
ing cards such as are made and used by
the Tinklet Indians in Alaska. The
cards are bits of bamboo trifie over
four inches in length, the surface OF
each cylinder is very smooth and even,
and on the surface are carved variety
of odd designs-faces, figures, animals,
birds and other hieroglyphics. In their
general character the signs have feat
ures strongly resembling both japanese
and Egyptian designs. The method Of
playing with these carved sticks is
known only to the Indians, but it is
known that private seals, made in the
same way and of the same material, are
also used by the Indians. The impres.
sion of the characters on the cylinders is
made by rolling the cylinders ovel
melted wax or by filling the carved
lines of the designs with ink and then
rolling it over paper or parchment.
Count Munster, lately German Am
bassador in London. once at a Bucking
ham Palace reception engaged in an
lundertone conversation with another
diplomatic officer, when up came 8
'superserviceable court functionary,
slapped him smartly on the shoulder
and informed him that '.people were
not supposed to come to the palace to
talk" The Ambassador pulverized the
official with a naughty Bismarckian
stare and replied: 81 did not come
here, sir, to receive lessons in manners, y
and he at once summoned his attache
quilted the throne-room in high dudgeon
and drove direct to the Foreign Office
where he lodged a formal complaint
against the court functionary for insult
ing impertinence, announced that un
less he received full and ample apology
he would lay the matter before his gov,
eminent. The case was laid before the
Queen. who ordered that proper letter
should be written to the Count by the
fussy court official, which was done a
once.
It has been generally imagined thai
there was only one picture in existence
which was painted by Gen. Grant, and
that one was in possession of the Borit
family. Another production has beer
brought to light belonging to w. E
Rotheray of Camden, n. j., who ha.
been offered, and who has refused te
take, $1,000 for it. The picture is al
ordinary-looking water-color landscape
Close inspection shows in the left-hant
corner the name ~. HI. Grant" The
initials stand for Ulysses Hiram Grant
baptismal name. Mr.. Rotheray got tbs
picture from. his mother, resident o
New York State who in her pirlhood