The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-19
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York advertised: ssThis is the time to |
die. Funerals half-price to-day"
A club-room in portland, Me-, is said |
to be paved with So. 400 worth of old |
lottery tickets, not one of which ever |
drew cent.
Editor Abel of the Baltimore Sun is
probable the richest newspaper man in
the world. His fortune is estimated
at $40, ,000, 900.
tits asserted by those who profess to
know that the entire surface of Raleigh
County, West Virginia, is underlaid
with coal from to feet in thickness.
The largest horse in the Uniteo
States is owned by Mark Thode, of
Mattoon, Ill. He is only three years
old, measures nineteen hands high.
has gained 250 pounds in the last i've
weeks, and is still growing.
Some enterprising farmers drained
a lake. 500 acres in extent, in How
land, Me-, few years ago, and now
they have rich hay field. from which
n crop worth several thousands OF
dollars is harvested annually.
japanese theatrical audiences are
said to show their appreciation of the
4kCsOk5 NY RA0NSo SA-O-~
clothing, hats, coats, and sashes. etc..
ON the stage. At the close of the play
4hey redeem these articles at fixed
prices, the proceeds going to the for
Hunate actor.
1t is said that Brooklyn has only one
Toller skating rink in active operation;
Boston has abandoned all her once
popular Kinks to other purposes.
-%T Al fatsfu
out of use than roller skating, and yet
1t was prominent feature OF social
aife only two or three years ago.
Moritz Saphir, the witty Austrian,
was once standing in crowded
aheater Some one leaned on his
Back, thrusting his head over his
shoulder. Saphir drew out his hand
Rerchief and wiped the mans nose
violently. The latter started back,
-.Oh, beg your pardon, said Saphir;
81 thought it was mine."
Rev. w. Whistler, of Hastings. En-
gland, gave it out that he had made
pp his mind to be buried in coffin
made from an oak of his own planting.
He planted the oak, and it grew into "A
stately tree, but for some reason it sud
denly "up and died. long before Mr..
Whistler was ready, and he was forced
to give up his pet scheme.
Previous to the death of Mrs. Esther
Potter, OF Burlington, Me-, she prayed
that her seventeen-months-o1d baby
smieht die with her. The child, who
but an hour or two before was as well
as usual, playing about the room. inn
mediatelY after receiving q kiss from
ats diving mother closed its eyes, and
i'm five minutes or less was dead.
A pine tree was cut recently in
Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, which
measured feet inches in diameter
at the butt and was cut into fourteen
logs, which scaled an aggregate of 49,
179. Eighty-four feet from the butt
was a branch measuring 33 inches in
diameter; 93 feet from the butt a
second branch measured 25 inches in
diameter.
Who would think of calling deaf
men by beating drump Yet this is
exactly what is done in the Institute
for the Deaf and Dumb at Flint, Mich.
With the drum resting on the floor and
beaten in the usual way, everybody in
the building is awakened in the morn
ING. 1t is also used to call the boys
from the Fairgrounds. The teachers
state that those who cannot hear at all
feel the vibrations and answer the sum
imons.
The engineer on Georgia railroad
while running at the rate of twenty
i've miles an hour was startled by a
noise made by something ON the pilot
of his engine. On reaching. the next
stopping place he found cozilv nesting
= A6<r l0A old hoa dcd6 1say.f
which had been carried distance OF
zen miles. 1t was then taken off by
fhe train force and le. loose. 1t walk
ed away as though nothing had hap
pened.
A family living on Butte Creek,
Oregon, is very superstitious: AL
seem to be possessed of the idea.that the
devil is after them. This is bad enough,
sbut lately they have taken to hunting
his SATANIC majesty with shotguns,
and their neighbors object. Several
persons have been fired upon while rid
ing along the road about their own
business, and very naturally they dis.
like being mistaken for the old Nick ol
his imps.
There is mule ON the Hudson Cana
awho knows every inch of the route
&rom Eddyville, N. Y, to Honesdale
PA. He has been thrown into the
canal innumerable times, but has al
ways escaped by swimming. Little
Solomon" for that is his name, vii
strain every muscle to kick grown peo
ple, but he has never been known tt
offer any hurt to children, however
much they may annoy him. It is saie
also that he can unite knot in cana
rope as well as his driver.
Inspector Byrnes. of the New Yorl
police, states that number of oul
NOTED cracksmen have of late beel
reaping. a golden harvest across tn
water. Two well-knoWn thieves h.
says. recently went through England
France and Belgium and returned witt
NEARLY 800. 900 in cash. He assert
Hhat the business is laid out for then
Before they go across, and that bein.
unknown to the European police, the,
run over and do their work and ge
away before detection can be had. !.
M. Perrotin, astronomer of Nice
corroborates the Italian Schiaparelli'
announcement of the existence O
mhat seem to be canals on the plane
Mars. He has mapped and measures
these great works. most of which Ii
in the equatorial regions of the planet
and, supposing the diameter of Mar
TO be. as is generally believed, abou
4,200 miles at the equator. some G
these canals are, he says, nearly 200
miles long. M. Herrotin has, more
pver, gone far toward establishin
that the planet really has an atmos
phere not very different from that t
(which we are accustomed.
A venerable Englishman name
Heaps, maker of violins, had a p:
friotic desire to make violin for Nj
Gladstone out of the wood from tire
chopped by the ex-Premier's ow
hands. After considerable effort M
Heaper was invited to Hawarde
no select the tree for Mr.. Glat
stone to fell. A sycamore ws
chosen, and log big enough to mai
"a dozen instruments was forwarded
the makers house, The old man (