The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-07-15

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university.
! General Phil Sheridan, it is said,
never plays poker, which is considered
remarkable for an army officer.
Coffee, if taken in the morning on an
empty stomach, is said to act as a pre-
Ventive against infectious diseases.
James Gordon Bennett and John
Mackey figure in a London paper at
hand as ''Messrs. Gordon Benet and
MacKay."
! The Fourth Alabama and the Twen-
seventh New York fought one another
at the first Bull Run until the men in
each regiment were literally baptized
with blood.
: A dog caught gray eagle near
Washington, Kan, which measured
seven feet from tip to tip. 1t was a wet,
windy day, and the bird could not get
into the air away from the dog.
{ A Philadelphia gentleman. after be-
ing shown about the city by citizen of
the Hub, said to his chaperone: ..Bos-
ton isn't laid out SO well as Philadel-
phia." NO" replied the latter; ''but
1t will be when it is dead. ."-BostOn
Post.
/ Mrs. Tubbs. of Red Bluff, according
to the George Washington of the local
press, was vaccinated fourteen years
ago, but it never took until week ago,
when the arm became sore and swelled
TO twice its natural size from the effects
of the vaccine matter. francisco
Alta.
The new city magazine in Athens,
Ga, will be built on the most approved
plans. and its capacity will be 10000
kegs of powder. 1t will be so construct
ed that the roof can burn off without
igniting the powder. The site selected
is the center of the old cemetery, out of
reach of all other buildings.
The Moors make extensive use of
spirit prepared from the water in which
comb is boiled in treating beeswax.
The water, being impregnated with
honey, is allowed to ferment, and is
then distilled; the spirit is called ma
lharga. 1t is favored with anise seed
or with naffa-that is, fennel acid.
For many years past California
farmers land was being gradually re-
fGuced in size by the encroachments of
IA river upon which it borders. Re
Gently, however, the stream began to
recede, and at last accounts the soil
.tiller had regained all the lost land and
much more, too, and the waters were
still going out.
All persons travelling in France are
strictly warned that under the provi-
isions of recent French law the follow
ing acts are made offenses punishable
by fine and imprisonment: Making
sketches, drawings OF plans in the vi
cinity of a fortress or naval station,
scaling palisades, entering military in
closures and mounting earthworks or
parapets; also the making of any ques-
tions upon any points concerning the
state defenses.
jenkins Junior quarreled with Jen-
kins Senior in a crowded dining-roOm
i'm frankfort, KY, and the father threw
ia glass at his sons head, whereupon the
son promptly drew his pistol and fired
at his sire. No further harm was done,
but the old man seemed to be rather
proud of his boy. He did right" said
be to friend. He's a jenkins, you
know spirited, high strung. That's
the way he was raised. If man threw
"a glass at my head, suppose I'd have
to kill him. Yes, the boy did right"
A dollar month will keep Bengal
man alive Here is certainly the spot
ion earth where contentment, sutficiency,
paradise should be. A distinguished
Brahmin recently quoted from official
reports the statement that $4,000, 900 OF
the Hindus are always in state OF
semi-starvation; that most OF the dis
eases are the result of hunger; that
100000 or 100000 die every eleventh
year of acute famine. Over large
portion of China famine is chronic.
Only a few years ago 100000 starved
to death in one visitation.
An inhabitant of Stockholm has in
vented fire-proof garment, which wi II
permit the wearer to stand calmly in
the midst of raging fire for an hour
without suffering any inconvenience
so it is alleged. 1t consists of two
parts, or envelopes. The first. next to
the body, is of a rubber material. The
second is of mole-skin. The two parts
are connected by q curious head-piece,
which also protects the face and admits
the necessary air. The space between
the envelopes is filled with fresh water,
which is also admitted at the head-piece,
and prevents burning.
Interview with Gov. Andrew G. Cur
tin: l was disappointed in Martin
Irons He made miserable appear
ance on the witness-stand, bore himself
badly, was the reverse of frank, and
crossed himself an innumerable number
of times. He is evidently a fellow of
no particular brains, and it is mystery
how he holds his position with the
order. The contrast between him and
such a man as Powderly is marked in
the extreme. Powderly is a gentleman
of brains and culture, and reasOner
and thinker in every sense of the word.
He is not to be mentioned in connection
with such a man as Martin Irons.
The whalebone whales differ from
others in their absence of teeth. At an
early stage of their development they
are present, but disappear and are re-
placed in the male by the baleen or
whalebone of commerce. This whale
bone-that in the right whale often
weighs from 1000 to $500 pounds-is a
strainer OF trap by which the animal
ute pelagic animals. jelly fishes. etc.
The whale opens its mouth as it moves
along, and when it is filled closes it,
the water finding its way out between
the plates of whale that serve as a COM
RiCCC u a VI olONC.
A Bordeaux journal describes the
dinner usually provided for workmen
in that city. A large plate of vegetable
soup costs 2 cents; large piece of
bread 2 cents; large plate of red hari-
cot beans costs 2 cents; half a plate of
roast veal 0he quantity being ample
for an ordinary MANI costs A cents; a
plate of rice cent, and half bottle of
vim ordinaire costs cents; so it will be
seen fair dinner was provided, with
half bottle of wine included, for 15
cents What can be made Il successful
business in France, where almost every
article of diet is taxed, can surely be
made to pay here, where food and meat
are cheaper.
One of the strangest communities in
the world lives on the Island of Redon-
da, which is one of the British West
Indies, between Nervis and Montserrat.
1t is very rocky and barren, and contains
no vegetation, but has extensive mines
of phosphate of alumina and iron.
About fifty men work in these mines
they being the only persons on the is
land with the exception of the fore
mans wife. Their provisions have to