The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-08-05
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hced in Connecticut.
Onions from Egypt are now hawked
in the streets of Boston.
A man in Mattoon. ILL.,, has Peony
plait over sixty years old.
In some places in Arizona there has
been no rain in three years
1t cost the Dominion S4.451, ,5S4 to
put down the Riel rebellion
II is a rose of clear green that the Pa
fisian florists now talk about.
The camp meeting fever in Iowa is
more vigorous this summer than ever
The daily newspapers published in
the United States now. number over
1.200.
There is more undeveloped land in
the State of Maine than in any western
State.
The New York girl elopes with the
coachman; the Boston girl prefers
detective.
Maud Miller's romance is over, and
she and her husband are dragging out
weary existence at a Bowery variety
theatre.
c. NJ Neil, of Pine Bluff, Ark, is
reckoned the largest cotton-planter in
the south. He is worth about $3,500,-
600 and has about $4,000 acres in eulti-
walton.
1t was a German critic who remarked
that '.in order to prove the absurd IL
Tegularities of English pronunciation it
will suffice to state that the word Boz is
pronounced Dickens"
A large ball to the thumb in bad
hand promises a leaning to all sorts OF
self-indulgence; but in an artists hand
it indicates love of color and gifts of
expression by means of color alone.
Enoch Pratt, who gave Baltimore its
fine free library, is thought to be worth
$4,000, 900 or 81 100000, all self-made.
He is past 20, understood, and very thin,
though he is still quite hale and agile.
r. NJ T. Hunter, ex-member of ex-
Jefferson Davis ex-Cabinet, is very old
and said to be very poor, and his South
ern friends propose subscription to
supplement the little 800 office which
President Cleveland gave him.
Harper's Weekly says financial re-
porter on the staff of New York daily
Journal got into the councils of a ring
of spectators and cleared $120,000 in a
single transaction. In another trans
action few days later he lost every
cent of it.
Among the wonderful products of art
in the French Crystal Palace was shown
n lock which admitted of 3,647. 1856 COM
binatons. Heuret passed 120 nights
an locking it. Fichet was four months
in unlocking it; afterward they could
neither shut nor open it.
Gov. Hill of New York does not
smoke and does not drink. He says:
Fl cannot see any sense in drinking. Ii
does not meet any want that have. As
for smoking. tried it once-smoked
through a whole campaign-but it did
not agree with me. so quit it !"
A darky did big business selling
eggs in Osborne the other day at 60
cents a Dozen He was able to sell a
good many at this figure by offering as
am inducement to buy the privilege to
the buyer of throwing them at his head
thrust through a hole in a canvas.
Several wild horses have been cap
tnred in Roop County, Cal, where they
have been running for years. Among
them was magnificent stallion that for
eight years defied the efforts of the most
skillful vaqueros. The horses are the
descendants of some fine stock belong
ing to a former owner of the range.
Won Ranke dying in harness at 80
and Bancroft actively working at sc
prove that the writing of history is not
necessarily an unhealthful occupation;
while, us for making of it, look at Glad
stone, aged II. and Bismarck, tender
youth of II, and the Autocrat Holmes,
of II, is over there hobnobbing with
them.
Names and devices can be easily
etched upon knife blades and other
steel surfaces. Clean thoroughly OF
grease, and then spread thin coatn Q
of beeswax or paratfine on the surface.
With sharp needle-point write through
the wax to the steel Paint over with a
mixture of nitri3 and muriatic acid in
the proportion of six to one respectively
and when bubbles cease to rise the work
is done Wash in strong soda water.
There is one honest boy in Wichita,
Kan. and he is bootblack. The
other day he blacked the boots of a
gentleman at a hotel, who gave him, as
he supposed, five copper cents. An
hour later the boy returned, hunted uE
the gentleman, and handed him So
gold piece, which he had given as a
cent The gentleman was equal to the
occasion, for he at once took the boy to
a clothing store and bought him $15
suit
The citizens of Collettsville. N c..
have discovered an excellent and easy
way to catch suckers when they run up
the Johns river. There is dam al
Eona4Icvrtll<l Il fbn
attempts to climb the waterfall. Bas-
so that they viii hang just under the
water, and the suckers, falling in their
efforts to climb the falls, drop back into
the baskets Four hundred were thus
caught one morning recently.
OF the 408 senator's, members and
territorial delegates who compose con.
gress. seventy are Methodists, sixty
three Baptists, forty-one Episcopalians,
thirty-seven Presbyterians, thirty-siS
Catholics, fifteen Unitarlans, eight
Lutheraus, ten Christians Campbell
ites), and two Quakers, making total
of 2S3 who are actively connected with
some church organization. This leaves
125 who either never belonged to any
church or have drifted out of such asso-
cations
The German ship Auguste. belonging
to Bremerhaven, and bound for Hong
Kong, narrowly escaped falling prey
to some $50 pirates When not far from
her destination she was hailed by a
junk, all of whose crew seemed to be
unarmed, and were persistent in tneil
efforts to trade with the ship, which
had slackened her pace by the wine
falling. Presently Il number of armed
junks swarmed up and began to attack
the Auguste. The German crew had te
defend themselves vigorously. Five Of
the pirates were killed and severa
wounded. A smart breeze sprang NJ
and the German vessel got away with
out loss.
An animal whose identity is at pres
ent unknown, was landed in San Fran
cisco lately from the interior of Japan
where it first saw the light of day. A
a glance the curiosity might be taker
for either dog or Il monkey. 1t is
shaped like the former about the head
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