The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-05-31
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the cost on one side has already reach
ed half million dollars.
A New York physician says he is con-
tinually surprised by the increase OF
wealth and power among the Jews.
A ton of ropes made from the hair
of Japanese women are used in build
ing a $3,0O0,O00 Buddhist temple at
Kioto.
A German paper says that company
has been formed to manufacture watch
es to be run by electricity instead OF
spring.
Gen. Boulanger. whom Zola calls the
peoples savior, has in conspicuous po-
sitions in his Office busts of Bismarck
and Won Moltke.
Lightning entered house at Eagle
Point, Pa, and stripped the shoes from
the feet of young girl Her feet were
severely burned.
The little town of Kliningen. in Ba-
varia, is a perfect example of social
istic community, all the land being the
property of the citizens in common.
Walter Besant finds that there are SO,-
600 more women than men in the Brit.
ish Kingdom, therefore that number OF
girls and women must go without nus
bands.
The Parisians are so dissatisfied with
the weight of the English high hatthat
their hatters have invented a silk hat
weighing little more than an ounce and
half.
A Mount Vernon, N, Y, man, who
has made the trial, asserts that any
man of ordinary intelligence can mas
ter Volapuk so as to write and speak 1t
correctly in a months time.
A Catholic pastor of Albany testities
to legislative committee, "Beer has
extended drunkenness to women, ana
men ask me to save their homes when
their wives are wrecking.
There is natural rock house in
Swain county. says the Mount Any
Nevs, which is used as church. Seats
have been placed in it by citizens OF the
vicinity, and regular services conducted.
A sharp Maine constable opened a
cement barrel the other day on suspi-
cion. He found it packed solidly with
sand, wet down, and in the middle OF
the barrel was twenty-galion keg OF
whisky.
A man named Findley is wheeling =
barrow from Glasgow to Rome by way
of Paris. He proposes to walk iron
Italy back to Glasgow. His motive fol
undertaking the walk was want OF em
ployment.
This is strange" remarked Billy
Blivins thoughtfully after he had TASTED
the contents of his buttsr-dish. ''Strangt
indeed" '.What is stranger" Tha
such delicate, pale butter, should turr
ont to be so robust. Merchant IrdCete''
According to Rev. DR.. de Costa, eth
commander of the Pinkerton force cal
gather in a days notice a larger mum
Der of armed men either in New York
Pittsburg, OF Chicago than the genera
commanding the army of the United
States"
The w. C. T. U. vice president TO
Burn1ah, Ruth Quamsey, Baptist mis-
sionarv, has forwarded from Rangool
10000 Burmese signatures to j petition
pleading for the liberation from the liq
nor traffic and the better protection O
women.
Black and muddy rain fell at Maple
recently. Professor Palmieri, OF tn
Vesuyio Observatory, says that th
strong winds from Africa raise into tn
air any amount of dust, and the rain
passing through those clouds of dus1
falls down blackish, colored by it.
Professor W. Mattieu Williams OF
fers as a better explanation than tn
old one of the zig-Zag course OF light
ming, that owing to variations OF moist
ure the conducting power of differer
portions of air is variable, and the eleC
trio discharge follows the course c
least resistance.
A physician in the american Mage
zine, illustrating the evil custom c
talking to an invalid about his pain.
says that once he requested a mothe
to mark stroke upon paper eac
time that she asked a daughter boy
she was. The next day to her incredr
lous astOnishment, she made III
strokes! A three months visit ava
from home was recommended.
At Bournemouth, England. the street
are sprinkled very successfully wit
salt water, which is conducted fror
the ocean to certain hydrants. The sa
water is found particularly advantage
Gus for macadamiZed roads, as it seem
to make the immediate surface nor
compact. 1t is further found that th
surface holds the moisture about thre
times as long as when watered wit
fresh water.
A Sioux City man who had been bal
for years was surprised lately to disco'
er patch of fiery red hair about the si2
of silver dollar growing from tn
crown of his head. 1t came forth wit
surprising rapidity. and in few day
was several inches in length. The quet
thing about it is thatw what little hair
had before was jet black. and the re
lock covers only small part of ii
bald place. 1t is so funny that
scarcely dares take his hat off.
The New York San finds that I'll
proportion of women murdered in Ne
York within the past few months hs
been abnormal. In accounting for tt
frequency of woman murder the Sai
remarks: ''Unfortunately, the murdel
er of a woman comes to receive gre;
deal of gushing sympathy from oth'
women, to get from them testimor
calculated to relieve him from punisl
ment, and to enjoy distinction {
which he would be deprived if his VII
tim had been man.
The shooting of big dog by FrenG
custom house officer in the North
France the other day has given rise
some queer dog stories in the FrenC
papers. The officer shot the dog b
= cause he was suspiciously fat. The po
mortem examination revealed the ia
that the dog wore leather coat mac
to look like his own skin, and skilful
fastened at the shoulder and haunch,
in such way as to completely conce
the ends of the hair. Ia this coat I'll
dog carried several hundred cigars.
A remarkable photograph was take
in Shelbyville, ILL.,, recently. The pi
ture represents a group of five gener
tions, from the aged great-great-gran
mother to the little child of but a fe
months. The parties to this remark
BILE sitting were Grandma Catherwoo
aged eighty-six; DR.. I. L. Catherwoo
her son, aged sixty-one; Mrs. Magg
Hoxey, her granddaughter, aged thi
ty-eight; her great-granddaughter. MI
Eva Corrington, aged nineteen, al
little Harry Newton Corrington. h
great-great-grandson, aged 8 month