The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-02-23
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Ky, &c years of age, took his trst ride
on railroad train recently.
1t is asserted that New Years calls
have had their day in New York, and
that the custom is beyond resuscita-
tion.
A half-breed Normandy horse lately
drew a wagon with two men IS miles
in hours and 81 minutes, including
an hours rest.
1t is now an imperial regulation in
Brazil that persons who die from yell
( low fever shall be cremated, the State
bearing the expense.
Here is bit of Chinese philosophy:
Observe not the stranger in thy mel
on patch too closely. Inattentnn is
often the highest form of civility.
David Six, of Monongahela Town
ship, Green county. Pa, will be one
hundred years old next spring. Mrs:
Atwell. of that county, is one hundred
and three.
During a recent storm at the mouth
of the Columbia river in Oregon the
waves dashed over the topof the light
house, 100 feet above the sea level, and
extinguished the light.
The cultivation of Indian corn is
rapidly increasing in Russia. 1t is
now used for fattening hogs. Large
quantities are likely to be exported to
Western Europe in the near future.
London has o'clock tea school of
art criticism. After an, art lecture the
audience is provided with refresh
ments, over which opinions are ex-
pressed in discussion of the lecture.
Taking of encyclopedias. the acad-
emy at Pekin has got up one of those
treasures of human knowledge which
leaves the Britannica far behind so far
as bulk is concerned, being in 100000
volumes.
OF the twelve men, including Will
liam Lloyd Garrison. who met in Bos-
ton on January 6. 56 years ago. and
signed the constitution OF the Anti
Slavery Society, only one. Oliver Jonn-
son, survives.
President Cleveland has sent his
photograph and So bill to the parents
of Kentucky baby that was named
for him. Babies in other States get
only the picture.
Experiments on the speed of the
electric current prove that if proper
conductor could be wound around the
globe signal parting from it at any
point of it would return to the starting
point in one-half of a second.
Ashes from the volcano of Cotopaxi,
which fell at a distance of 120 miles
from the mountain, was found by an
alysis to consist of quartz. felspar,
maquetite and specular iron ore. Sill
yer was present at the rate of 200
grains per ton.
Mrs. James Longstreet writes to the
Atlanta Constitution declining to be
considered an object of charity, and
says that "the General, though far
from rich, is able with what he owns
to live in comparative comfort the re-
mainder of his life"
prominent society lady in New
York can not 60 to sleep without put
ting her thumb in her mouth. She has
tried in vain to cure herself of the
habit. She got it in childhood and
has kept it in mature years. in spite of
many attempts at cure.
In cutting down an old apple tree in
his orchard Connecticut man found
squirrels nest and in it a watch and
chain which he had lost last summer,
Whether the squirrels had carried it
there or not is the question which he
is now laboring hard to solve.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, who owns the
Victoria Hotel, in New York, was in
her girlhood waiter girl in Lowell
restaurant, while her husband began
life as stable boy. She is now worth
5000, 600, and ner hotel is headguar-
ters for the English aristoeracy in this
country.
St. Petersburg has only one steam
fire engine, and the same precautions
against fire are taken there and at
Moscow as were in use a century ago.
Watehmen are stationed on towers Is
or 100 feet high. and when a fire is dis
covered signal is given and the fire
department turns out.
Pope Leo has conferred upon Mr..
Charles L. Webster. the New York
publisher, the decoration which is worn
by the Knights of the Order of Plus
TX, in recognition of his services in
bringing out the Life of Leo XIII"
The Order of Plus TX. is the highest
order of knighthood under the Roman
Empire.
Mrs. Margaret Conduit of Pittsbure
has just shaken off the shackles of i'm
agination, and for the first time in 2I
years walked like other women. All
these years she has lain helpless upon
her bed, victim of hypochondria,
and when at last she was persuaded to
rise she had to be taught to walk, like
child.
Senator Eyarts. upon seeing the new
moon for the first time, will always
stop and gaze intently at it for few
minutes. He dislikes seeing the moon
over his left shoulder or through a
tree. In this respect he is not unlike
the average woman, who invariably
makes wish upon seeing the cres-
cent. Senator Ingalls, is a victim to
superstition also.
A Montgomery, Ala, groceryman
circulated the report that he had found
81 1,S00 in bills hidden away among the
cobwebs in the corner of his store,
and there was considera BILE interest
around town to know who had left it
there. After several persons had an
nounced themselves as claimants, he
quietly informed them that it was con-
federate money, which is practically
worthless.
A Florida perfumery company has
IL acres of tuberoses in Fairfield and
San Mateo, and expects to plant near
ly 200 acres more. The manager of
the company says that Florida is far
ahead Of Southern France, where the
flowers are raised extensively by irri-
eating at great expense. He asserts
that he has known the flowers from
one acre of land to sell for $1,000 in
one season.
Among the many expenses that Wall
street brokers have to face every year
is the item for flowers with which they
brighten and adorn their offices. Win
ter and summer, spring and fall, huge
punches of expensive posies are kept
on hand in many of the very attractive
offices. 1t is reckoned that the aver
age expense for an Office is $40 day.
At dusk the office boys and lesser
clerks divide the flowers.
Now that Daniel Pratt is dead, Frank
Vincent, Jr., the author of ''The Land
of the White Elephant" may be very
properly called the great American