The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-30
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enormous success IN London. AS the
English say, it has fetched the town.
The oak planted by the Prince of
Wales in Central Park is dying, though
every effort has been made to save the
tree.
Farmers down in Jersey are about
instituting ''bug days. wherein con-
certed effort will be made to extermi-
nate the insects that just now are play
ing havoc with fruits and vegetables.
A strange new insect, somewhat on
the lines of the lady bug, has appeared
by millions in the oat fields of Dutch
cess County, New York, and threatens
to make the harvest light and chaffy
one.
John Toole, of New Haven, who for
thirteen years has been mourned as one
of the unidentified victims of the Ash |
tabula Railroad horror, walked in upon |
his friends the other day alive. hearty |
and prosperous-out in California
A dentist of alleged skill and reputa-
ton, former president of the state
dental association. was recently sued /
by New Bedford man for pulling the
wrong tooth aud piece of jaw with it,
and the jury gave the plaintiff 500
damages.
Henry Price, ''the father of Masonry
in America" died in Townshend,
Mass, in $780, Now, rather tardily,
monument has been erected over his
grave The location is prominent and
0verlooks the farm where Price spent
his last hours.
Thirty years ago insanity was al
most unknown among the Southern
I.raf no hnI. thnS
affected in North Carolina alone is esti-
mated at 900. and the asylum for
their treatment at Goldsboro' has just
been enlarged.
A st. Louis minister says that the
greatest feat of baptism in the history
Of the Baptist Church in modern times
was that performed in July, 1878, by
J. C. Clongh, missionary. who with
the,assistance of live native preachers,
immersed 2, 222 converted brethren
within six hours.
During a recent funeral at St.
Etienne, France, some one suddenly
produced AIRED flag. which preeipitated
a row In which men and women
struggled with one another about the
tomb in ndisgracefui fashion. The Conn.
munist faction was finally defeated and
driven away and the burial was COM
pleted.
John Roll residing at Redmon, Ill. is
the owner of horse that is twenty
hands high, weighs $500 pounds and
is said to be the largest horse in the
world 1t is five years old, never was
off Rolls farm. never has been broken,
and has never been shod. The black
smith at Redmon is afraid to shoe the
horse.
"Walking Day" is the odd and APP
propriate term of holiday IN War
rington, England, when children and
teachers march in procession and
large numbers of people take excur-
sions to various points of interest.
MANY of our holidays are walking
days, although they do not receive that
designation.
William Barber. South Georgia
railroad man, must have place among
curious criminals. Some time ago he
EMPLOYED negro near the railroad on
which he was employed to present sys
tematically claims for stock destroyed
by it, and when the company forward
ed the money for settlement the two
divided the pile.
The Salvation Army are having grea
success in India according to all re
ports. They are said to live on Y
cents week per capita, and subml
ito great privations uncomplainingly
and IL is also said that Commissioner
Tucker their leader, recently resigned
a government place worth $4,000 {
wear to join the army.
The first decision of the status of 1
life insurance policy, where the wife
for whose benefit it was taken out
died before the husband, has just beer
made by Judge Seddon in St. Louis
He holds that where man insures hi
life for the benefit of his wife and the
survives her, the policy will inure t
the benefit of the children, independ
emily of the insured's creditors.
The horribly brutal speeches to in
valids that are made by visitors M
parently friendly and apparently san
are inexcusable. Some of them are $
horrible that one must laugh at th
very remembrance of them. To
dear old gentleman who had been con
fined to the house for some time wa
put the cheerful inquiry. '.Does tn
grave look pleasant to you, Mr.?
Rebecca Nourse. ''the pious witch G
1892" was remembered the other day
when some forty-three of her descend
ants met and picnicked in her honor a
Danvers Centre. Mass. They visite
the old house of the witch and he
grave, and then subscribed 5000 wit
which to buy a tablet on which. .sha
ibe inscribed the names of the fort
friends who defended her at her trial.
An, East Mahoning. Pa. farmer
few days ago noticed six-weeks' oil
chicken tackle young house snak
about ten inches long with the ev
dent intention of making meal of i
and he thought he would watch how th
matter ended. The snake fought ga
lantly, bat after repeated efforts tn
chick at last suceeeeded in its designs
and gave its bill satisfactory wipe o
the ground and walked off as uncor
cerned as you please.
Miss Fambrough, of Scull Shoals, Fla
is a young woman of nerve an
presence of mind. The other day he
fathers Jersey bull attacked him, an
was in a fair way to kill him. Hi
wife saw him fall and ran toward hin
but the daughter. more thoughtfu
first got the ak. and running up hit tn
bull such a tremendous whack that
stunned him, SO that the father had
chance to get up, grab the AK, an
bury its head in the skull of the brut'
The Duke of Wellington was able I
accomplish great deal of hard wor
even when over eighty years of ag'
Witness this memorandum: "WeI
to morning prayers. Gave away tw
brides. Transacted business at tn
Horse Guards. Took usual ride;
Was present at a council and drawing
room. Looked in at two exhibition
Entertained forty guests at dinner
Gave ball. Escorted the last fa
dancer to her carriage and saluted he
at sunrise"
The British Consul at Ningpo call
the attention of British manufacturer
to spinning machines used in his di
trict that were imported from Japal
and which he thinks will eventually
adopted in eotton-producinv countrie