The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-01
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Modesty is regarded as chic in Paris

now, ana dresses are worn long.
Four girls in one family at Atlanta,
Ga, have one after the other eloped to
get married.
There are 1000 tleaters in the
United States. and 81 100000 day is |
paid for amusements.
The Empress of Austria. having |
been forced to give up hunting, mas |
taken up fencing for exercise.
Miss Agnes Mcclellan is the young |
est newspaper man" in Nebraska |
She is but Is, and is local editor of the
Seward Democrat.
At Halifax recently perfectly
formed egg. shell and all. about the
size of robins egg, was found in the
yolk of hens egg.
Fleehettes, new in or out door
game, has taken Paris by stocm. 1t
consists in throwing feathered darts,
like javelins, at a target.
A whole train of twenty-five cars
loaded with dressed turkeys and geese
left Ottawa, Canada, for Boston. Inc
value of the poultry was over 1000.
Montana territory has paid bounties
for the destruction of 109.o42 squirrels,
165, ,276 prairie dogs, 1867 coyotes,
4.O >.
Recently in the Suburbs of New Or
leans woman was attacked IN her
own ward by an enraged sow, and was
so seriously injured that death ensued.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts is about to
establish workshops, equipped with
sewing machines, where poor seam
stresses can 90 and use them at low
charge
Emma Abbott is said to have for
tune of $500. 900. all of which she has
accumulated within the last ten years
by her sweet little voice and her
paroxysmal stage kiss.
Mrs John P Hale widow of the ia
nous New Hamps ,ire Senator. who
lives at Dover, recently sustained
slight stroke of paralysis. Her daugh-
ter is the wife of Senator Chandler.
Elopemcnts are treated serioualV in
Russia A young woman has been
sent to prison for four months and viii
lose her share in the family property
because she married without the pa
ternal consent.
Tomah-Witch is the oldest member
of the Passamaquaddy tribe. He is
1O7 wears old. He worked last season.
raised good crop, and in the fall
trapped and hunted. This winter he
is very feeble.
Miss Meuk Meyer, grandnieee OF
Anton Rubinstein and pupil OF L'szt.
is the musical prodigy of Vienna.
She is not vet eighteen years old, but
she has composed the music and WRIT
ten the libretto of an opera.
Mrs. Martha j. Lamb in recent
number of the Magazine Of american
History says that George Washington 3
hand was .simmeasurably large.
There is room for suspicion that this
statement is slightly exaggerated.
The average salary of the ministers
of the Southern Presbyterian Church
last year was only 1862, and the aver
age contributions per member foi
ministerial support only $4.0S. In
West Virginia the average salary was
$443.
A woman of Applegate. Ore, recent
ly found in the interior of a goose thai
she was preparing for table piecc o
gold worth so cents. She is Wonder
ing whether if the goose had lived il
might not have in time begun to lay
golden eggs.
Arthur Orton, the famous Tichbornt
claimant, announces that in shor
time his lawyer will "shake all Eng
land" by beginning the battle ovel
again with plenty of new evidence tt
establish his identity. The claiman
is now employed in Brooklyn cafe
and weighs $50 pounds.
Dr.. Mason, Professor of Englisl
Literature in the Edinburg University
takes little stock in the story tina
Bacon wrote Shakespeare. He speak
of Ignatius Donnelly's cipher as ..mis
cradle drivel, ending in tissue O.
arithmetical conundrums which woulG
be Kissed even in Bedlam."
Mrs. Louisa Fries of Cincinnati {,
afflicted in q peculiar and unusua
manner. She cannot remember hel
own name or residence. and is otter
placed in embarrassing positions wher
going about alone. The medical term
for the disease is amnesic aphasia, and
1t is caused by arterial hemorrhage.
A new fashion in bookbinding is t6
have large sets bound in leather ol
different colors. A Boston man has
just had Dickens bound in orange,
light and dark blue, lemon, fawn, ma
room and black Each novel was
bound in an individual hue, the only
duplication occurring WREN a story
came in two volumes.
An octogenarian living at Buda-
Pesth, who for the last few wears has
been existing as beggar on the aims
OF the charitable, tried to drown him.
self in the Danube because. according
TO his statement, he was no longer
able to support his parents, who are
respectively one hundred and fifteen
and one hundred and ten years old.
A lake in the county seat of the
Emperor of Austria, near Vienna, is
used as skating park, and the other
DAY viennese went skating there
with an ink bottle attached to the back
OF his skate, the neck adjusted so as to
allow the ink to flow out in a regular
stream. With that writing apparatus
he sketched the name of the Grown
Princess in lines that writing master
might envy.
M. Peyre in his new book, "Napo-
leon l. ct Son Temps" proves by
documentary evidence to his own sats-
faction that the great Frenchman was
in origin German. The Cadolingers,
German family in Genoa, became
members of the Good party (Buona
Parte) in Ghibeline times, and finally
settled in Corsica, where they adopted
the party nickname as their surname,
and the first Napoleon was one of
them.
Marcus Aurelius Smith, the new
Delegate in Congress from Arizona, is
more than six feet in height, with hair
somewhat unkempt, mustache that
droops over his chin and shrt-collar,
and the general air of rustler from
away back. He is native of Ken
lucky, was Prosecuting Attorney of
fIOQhI9o fhau fh \,
made things so hot for the tough ele-
ments that they sent him to Congress
to get rid of him.
Benjamin Franklin of the Second
Minnesota Volunteers is the only man
on the Government pension rolls who
sacrificed both hands and feet in the
late Civil Wat. and as tho,.c l. ~ .,.,l.