The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-07-08
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duTet years IOr WdHt Vi WdlCI
Miss Rose Kingsley, the daughter of
Charles Kingsley, is to become one of
the editors of Il new English magazine
for young people.
e Dom Pedro Jr. is quite lion among
the New Orleans ladies. He is aprince-
ly fellow, with a Brazilian's admiration
for beautiful faces.
In January, 1885, his big scholars
gave Wilson County school teacher a
1ucking. He has just received $4,000
damages. This was in Kansas.
Edmund Russell, the Boston aesthetic.
wears great turn down collar. hideous
meek ornaments. and yellow vest, and
spiketail. His beard is very thin.
The French ministry of war has ended
the beard controversy by issuing a per-
emptory order for all soldiers and otfi-
GERS to raise boards Immediately.
The testimony of woman before
Salt Lake court the other day in po-
aygamy case was in substance that ''she
didn't know whether her husband had
another wife or not; it wasn't of suf-
hfcient Importance to talk about"
The latest travellers yarn is of a tree
in the northeastern part of New Guinea,
which is said to consist almost wholly
of amorphous carbon, and to possess the
properties of an electric battery to such
an extent that when its discoverer touch
ed it he was knocked to the ground
Sunfowers are grown in Wyoming
Territory for fuel The stalks, when
dry, are as hard as maplewood and
make hot fire, and the seed, heads
with the seed in, are said to burn better
than the best hard coal An acre of
suntiowers will furnish fuel for one stove
for a year.
Circus business must be more profit
able than running newspaper. We
Judge from the fact that Col. Hall, the
proprietor of the little arrangement
now in our. city, appeared yesterday
supporting diamond collar button, a
diamond cross diamond stud button,
two diamond cluster rings, and dia-
mond solitaire ring.-Lds Vegas en-
MY Gazette.
Sir David Baird, man of notoriously
violent temper. was one of the prisoners
taken by Hyder Ali. The Oriental de-
spot chained his prisoners two and two
and flung them into the subterranean
dungeons of the fortress. The news OF
this cruel incarceration. when it reach
ed England, sent a thrill of horror
through the land; but the sole comment
on it made by Baird's stole mother was;
,..God help the puir chiel that's chained
wi oor Davyr'
The legend connected with the birth
of the Prince Imperial is brought up
again in Paris with the rumor, men
toned in cable dispatch, that beau
4iful young girl bearing striking re-
semblance to the ex-Empress Eugene is
about to bring legal proceedings in Paris
..to have herself recognized as the
daughter and heir of that unhappy
lady" There are many people who still
believe that Gilbertian change of babies
was really effected at the Tuileries.
The story comes from Wurtsboro, Sui
1ivan County, that a farmer stopped at
the house of a friend, unhitched his team
and visited three hours, leaving the
wagon standing in the barnyard. When
he went out to hitch up nothing remain
ed of the wagon but the ironwork. There
had been some straw, two horse blank
cts and a milk can in the wagon, and
the conclusion was that the bright milk
can had focused the rays of the hot sun
until they set fire to the straw.
In answer to the question: do &c
tresses experience any emotion in kiss
ing or being kissed by men on the
stageP' Rhea replies: ''At first they do.
They are embarrassed, and shrink from
the necessity of it, and the result is that
they act with constraint and awkward
ness, and hence unnaturally. But that
wears off with the course of time, and
we become SO Indifferent to it that it is
like kissing so much wood. | have
reached that point that can look upon
the man have to embrace on the stage
as part of the furniture-a mere lay fly
ure."
A correspondent of the Sanitary En-
gineer writes: "A few weeks since
when in St. Augustine 1 took stroll
outside the town, and in small grave
yard in a lonely place l noticed 8
shinge stuck into a heap of sand thai
? appeared to be Il grave. On examining
it found on it in lead-pencil that r. c.
CaldecOtt the artist, whose illustrations
have delighted so many young people
and who died last winter. was buried
there. Should the remains of such 8
man lie in practically an unknown
gravep"
In Vienna the goose is skinned before
it is sent to the market, and the skin
garnished with its down is sold as
swans skin or down. 1t is thus effected
the skin of the back is slit, and the
whole drawn over the head like shirt
with the greatest care, so as not to in
jure the breast. Such skin sells for :
or francs, but the value of the bird is
lessened one-iifth. The carcasses are
sent to Paris, and are eagerly bought III
by the work-people and tavern-keepers.
At Poitiers there are two houses which
prepare annually 10000 to $4,000 swan
downs, England and America being the
chief markets.
If President Cleveland complied with
all requests for lock of his hair his
head would be as bare as billiard-bal
in less than a week. One lady from
Indianapolis has written that she is
poor, and asks the President to instruct
his barber to forward to her all the hai1
cut from the executive head. She pro.
poses to make this hair into Cleveland
charms and then sell them to gentlemen
to wear on their watch chains. Anoth-
er person in Richmond, Va, wants the
same hair to stuff a pincushion made OF
silk taken from an old United States
flag. This cushion she will rattle at a
church fair for the benefit of needy
Methodist congregation.
Two drummers driving from Grayson
to Pawnee, Kan, lost their way, and
finally came to a shanty. In it were
two beds; on one lay woman who
looked like a living skeleton; on the
other were the dead bodies of a man
and five children. The woman could
talk, and told this story: MY husband,
Howard Ballnger, had been sick long
time. Five weeks ago we were very
nearly out of provisions, and sent my
son, twenty-five years of age, to Gray
son to get some provisions. We waited
and waited for his return, but he did
not come. After awhile the children
got sick. and one by one the little ones
died. My husband was the last one to
60, he dying last night" The drum
mers had a lunch, with them and, Civ
ing it to the woman, went out to find
help. Several people from Grayson said
that they saw young Ballinger in town,