The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
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According to the naturalists waSps
remember the locality of their nests
lust ninety-six hours.
A striped bass weighing fifty-three
pounds was caught at the mouth of the
Croton river the other day.
Nearly four hundred people have
been killed on railroad grade crossings
in Philadelphia since 1873.
A circular is abundantly signed by
the oldest sons of peers asking for
reformation in the house of lords.
California parties are locating fac
tory for manufacturing soap from clay
containing soap properties discovered
near Cotton.
Alabama boasts of nineteen cotton
mills, representing an investment OF
nearly s., 600, 600, and an annual pro-
duction of over 81, ,500,000
The New York Chamber OF Com
merce is the most prosperous institu-
ton of the kind in the United States.
1t has now nearly one thousand men,
bers.
Among the curious names found in
a list of noted contemporary base ball
professionals are Tibeau, Niau, Maui,
Seery, Werrick, Sowders, McGeachy,
and Bastian.
The New York Club has a member
ship of 625 residents and about two
hundred nen-residents, and its new
quarters at Fifth avenue and Thirty
fifth street, cost $450,0OO.
Ishmael Weaver, colored man who
died at Barnesville, Ga, recently, was
the father of seventy-two children, OF
whom fifty-two were able-bodied farm
hands when he died.
Mime. Romero. wife of the Mexican
minister to the United States, was Miss
Lucretia Allen of Philadelphia, and she
is one of the handsomest young mat
rons in the diplomatic corps.
A locomotive that was stolen by the
federal raiders at Big Shanty, Ga, in
April, 1862, is still in service, being
used in their road construction by the
Etowah Iron and Manganon Co.
Major E. A. Burke of New Orleans,
expects, it is said. to realize about ten
million dollars out of his land speeula-
tions at Bessemer, Ala, a town which
had no existence two years ago
Gen. August v Kautz, the famous
cavalry leader of the war, has struck
it rich in the northwest. In 1880 he
bought lots in Tacoma for $25 each for
which he was recently offered and re-
fused $1,000 apiece.
Mrs J. A. Ansley of Decatur, Ca,
has pair of Indian moceasins donat-
ed to her grandfather by Gen. Andrew
Jackson, who obtained them in Florida
during some of the earlier conflicts of
the government with the Seminole In
dians.
Gen. E. C. Walthal, the Mississippi
senator, is said to look like a cavalier
who has Just stepped out of one of Sir
Peter Lely's canyases. He is six feet
tall, erect, symmetrical, with fine
head of dark hair that falls in curls
about his neck.
1t is not an uncommon thing for inn
migrants to land at Castle Garden with
families of nine or ten children, and
recently husband and wife, with thir-
ty-two children, disembarked there. 1t
is only fair to mention, however, that
the woman was the mans third wife.
A New England man has beaten the
green goods sawdust men at their own
game. He got one of their circulars,
and in reply asked for a sample OF
their goods. They sent him a genuine
81 bill, and the gentleman of New En-
gland stopped the correspondence then
and there.
Mrs. Greeley, the wife of the Arctic
hero, is tall, willowy, graceful bru-
nette, who is a prominent figure in the
social circles of the capital. She was
Miss Henrietta Nesmith, the daughter
of an old New York merchant, and
married General Greedy when he was a
lieutenant of cavalry stationed on the
frontier
A young man at San Francisco who
secured an estate worth about $1,000
by getting will broken, has been call
ed upon by the lawyers employed to
pay them sums which will leave him
only about 500. He has employed
another lawyer to fight the claims, and
will probably be bankrupt when he
gets through.
Mr.. Brudenel Carter, an Englishman,
said in a recent address before med
1cal college that every case of fever
cost the community. on an average,
$40, and that the annual cost of scar
let fever in England was about g., 900, :
600. We have no fever in this country
costing so much as this, excepting pos
sibly the presidential.
A brother of one of the lady teach
ers who perished during a blizzard in
Dakota recently visited that section for
the purpose of removing the remains
60 the old home in the east. In settling
np with the school directors where she
had been teaching they made him dis
count her bin u per cent because she
had not finished the term.
Joel Chandler Harris, the charming
= dialect writer whom everybody knows
as ''Uncle Remus.' wears trousers bag
gy at the knees and coat that always
lacks button. He has, moreover, red
hair and he wears red cravats. Never
theless, the state of Georgia can boast
of no citizen more distinguished or
more worthy of his fame.
John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia
merchant, did his first work in cloth
ing store for $3.50 week. He gave
his salary to his mother and by little
extra hustling earned enough to buy
his two-cent dinner, consisting of a
piece of pie and glass of milk Each
year his salary was increased, and at
the time he was twenty he had saved
5000.
Four years ago the body of S. o.
Gillette was buried in the city cemete-
ry of Augusta, Georgia. The other
day it was disinterred to be placed in
another part of the cemetery Then
it was found that the body had been
completely petritied. The face was a
trifie sunken and shade or so darker
than in life, and when one of the
workmen accidentally struck it, it
gave out metallic sound.
The sultan has always been capri
cious with his musicians. His pet vio-
linist, Wondra, wished to leave the
court and go to Paris to study there
with the best masters. A petition was
accordingly presented to his imperial
majesty, who abruptly tore it up, flung
the pieces at the messenger, and said:
-'Why should he study? Is it to earn
money? If he wants that, my treasu-
Ty is open; let him help himself, and
stop here: | wish it." So, willy-nilly,
Wondra had to stay.
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