The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-07-12
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artist, goes about on Sketchlng tours
clad in trousers and a cutaway coat.
Nine. Gerster, in letter to a Phila-
delphia friend, says that she does not
contemplate returning to America.
Isaiah V. Williamson, the rich old
bachelor of Philadelphia has given
$l05, 900 to the House of Refuge in that
city.
Baron de Helm, one of the Chief
Justices of the Austrian Empire has
seventeen children, nine of whom are
girls.
Anton Rubinstein, the pianist, has
accepted an offer of $40, 900 for fifty per-
formances in the United States during
the coming season.
There are in England 347 female
blacksmiths who actually swing heavy
hammers, and 9, ,138 women employed
in nail making.
Senator Salisbury of Delaware still
proudly boasts of the fact that he is the
only bachelorin that unhappy assem-
blage, the United States Senate.
A Brooklyn man has opened hotel
which he calls the Greenhorn House.
1t is, as the name indicates, for the ac-
commodation of those making their
first visit to Brooklyn.
An overseer in one of the mills at
Biddeford, Me-, who is exposed to
strong electrical current, generated by
the rapid motion of the belts near by,
has had his hair changed to a beauti
full bay color.
Gov. Beaver of Pennsylvania is a
hard worker. He spends nine hours
daily in his Office and does not even go
out to lunch, but has a pitcher of
lemonade and some soda biscuits
brought to him at his desk.
Joseph Davis of Wayne County,
West Virginia, has daughter aged 6
years who weighs $50 pounds. This is
believed to be the largest child of its
age in the world. The father weighs
but 130 and the mother 120 pounds.
American enterprise is felt at Herno-
sand, Sweden, which has just been pro-
vided with the most northern electric
light station in the world The lamps
there are lighted at 2:30 o'clock in the
afternoon and put out at l2:15 O'Clock
at night.
Norman Mcdonald of Big Bras dor,
Cape Breton, is dead. His age was
1lO years. He was the last known sur
vivor of Waterloo, having fought in
that battle under Wellington when 81
years of age. He was born in the Isle
of Harris, Scotland, in 1878.
Sir Morell Mackenzie, though not
musical himself. is warmly interested
in vocalization and everything pertain
ing to the human voice. He never ac-
cepts a fee from professional singer,
but doctors free of charge the throats
of all public vocalists who apply to
him.
Charles Thompson, an Atlanta
printer, recently 'sset" $500 ems solid
nonpareil type in three hours, the only
errors being three turned letters, and
offers challenge to the world This
is an average of, ,266 ems, which every
printer will consider it next to i'm
possible to maintain for so long a
time.
In Japanese play some character
istic figures of speech are: His at
tempts at lovemaking are as awkward
as a puppy ON n slant roof" said by
one rival to another; and, 1.-THE sparrow
cannot comprehend the mind of the
eagle" when one character asks
duObucf " cA pam O ACAA@A N AkO AA"5
made.
The Fairfield (Me) Journal tells of q
woman of that town who is equal to
emergencies. She called on her iege
lord the other day for money to buy a
pair of shoes, but he sullenly refused.
She then applied to the Overseef OF
the Poor. There was scene, but she
got her shoes and her husband was
sadly humbled.
Eva Wentz, a 10-year-old girl OF
Baltimore, whose birthday falls the
same day of the year as that of Bis
marck. wrote him letter of congratu-
lation this ear. She has received thu
following autograph reply: ''Fol
your friendly congratulation on the oc
casion of my birthday l return my sin
cere thanks. Won Bismarck"
A Western mining superintendent
says that in 1852 he put up the first tai
hume in California at French Corral
and after taking out few hundre
dollars worth of ore '.salted'' the min
and sold it for 50 900. The tenderfeet
of whose innocence he had taken ad
vantage, were able, however to cleal
mp 100000 out OF it within a fe,
months.
A German professor has discovers
. new opiate, which he calls ''sulfonal.
1t belongs to the group of the so-calle
di-sulphates. 1t has the property G
inducing sleep in invalids, particular
in nervous people and those affecte
with heart disease, but not in health,
subjects. 1t is declared to be harm
less and certain means of causin
slumber.
Scranton hens thrive ON strychnine
A druggist of that city placed
quantity of poison in meat, which h
scattered, near the chicken house a
bait for rats, with which the place wa
infested. The hens immediately at
the meat, strychnine and all, and tn
next day were as lively as crickets, al
though they had partaken poisol
enough to kill hundred rats.
A lot of Indian bones were unearthe
in a field in Baldwin County, Georgia
few days ago, that has been in cult
walton over fifty years. They had bee
placed in a pot, which was broken t
pieces. The bones were much wasted
owing to the long time they had bee
buried. Among them was jaw bone
with several teeth in it. There wa
also in the lot stone pipe, which wa
much worn.
The latest style of cane is owned b
a Portland physician who uses it fo
three purposes, as a cane, as a pre-
tector and for professional purposes
1t consists of bamboo rod, int,
which fits a long steel receptacle
shaped like half tube, in the concav
side of which are springs holding plac
small walls of ammonia, morphine, an,
needles and surgeons thread, and i
fact all antidotes and surgical appl
ances necessary in cases of emergency
In 1879 Frank Benson, clerk in
commission house in Macon, Ga.
scrawled few words in pencil on tn
cover of box of eggs that was packe'
for shipment to a distant village i
Georgia, remote from the railroads
He is now in business for himself, an
last week, in removing the lid from
box of eggs received from anothe
part of the state, he was surprised t
see on the reverse side the identics
words he had written nine years ago.