The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-07-19
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toners.
Swarms of Chinese are landing in
British Columbia and stealing across
the border into the United States.
One of the wonders of Paris is well
1859 feet in depth. Hot water rushes
out of this we'll in stream ia feet
high.
1t is said to be English to never wash
strawberries, but to roll them care
fully in a towel until 1.-The grit" dis
appears.
John Fitzpatrick. of Clifton, Me-,
killed three bears the past spring, max
ing a total of tifty-four he has slain IN
twenty-five years.
Cardinal Mazzofanti, the linguist.
who is said to have known hundred
languages, declared that he never for
got a word he had once learned.
Scientists say there is no plant that
does not serve as food for some animal,
but the only article used as food from
the mineral kingdom is common salt.
Florida promises to become large
producer of opium. Sixteen plants
poppies will yield $1,000 worth OF
opium.
The soup served in dining cars is
made in a manufactory, which fills cans
at the rate of 5000 a day with mock
turtle, chicken. tomato, and all other
kinds of palatable soup.
An achievement in American manu-
facture was the construction of a class
A anthracite locomotive, weighing no.
600 pounds, in Sixteen hours and fifty
five minutes, at Altoona, Pa.
Senator Hiscoek is reader of cur
rent fiction. He was recently seen in
a comfortable position in drawing
room car, apparently deeply absorbed
in THE Quick or the Dead" by Amelie
Rives.
The monster timber ship at the
Fingerboard, Nova Scotia, is about
tWo-thiris built There are 1000
pieces already in the ship, and, it is
expected 1000 more will be required to
finish it.
The original estimate of the cost of
the Congressional Library Building at
Washington was $3 1000, 600, but under
the present plans an expenditure of
$1,000, 600 to $40, 900, 900 will be required
to finish it.
The longest flight of homing pigeon
in this country was that of hen
named Alabama, which in 1885 made
the 1,O4O miles from Montgomery, Ala,
to Fall River, Mass, between Aug, 81
and Sept. II.
Mr.. Sato, secretary of the japanese
legation at Washington, is not a
stranger to this country He was edu-
Gated at a college in India, and is not
in the least oriental in his speech or
mode of thought.
A resident of Sorrento, Fla, who re-
Gently recovered from a severe illness,
has since refused to eat meat unless it
is raw He frequently kills chicken
or a rabbit and devours it almost be-
fore it becomes cold.
Less than one-half of the Senators in
office were born in the states which
they represent. Americans seldom
emigrate out of the country, but they
do good deal of emigrating about
in their own land.
Sir Morell Mackenzie, it is rumored,
is likely to be made a Baronet by
Queen Victoria as an additional mark
of gratitude for his services to her
daughter, the Empress, and her son-in-
law, the late German Emperor.
The Rev. DR.. w. F. Nichols who has
just been elected assistant bishop of
p Ohio, has been for short time rector
of st. James's church, Philadelphia.
DR.. Nichols is not yet 40 years of age.
From 1877 to 1887 he was rector of
Christ church, Hartford, Conn.
During the first year of his law.
practice Senator John Sherman made
81 900, and of this sum he saved $500
He has made it principle of his life
to live we'll within his income, and the
consequence is that he has several
hundred thousand dollars stored away
for rainy day.
Mrs. John Oakley, medical student.
and wife of Brooklyn lawyer, is the
owner of the first lady's bicycle that
has appeared in Prospect park. Mrs.
Oakley belongs to tricycle. club, but
she prefers the bicycle, which she says
is as easy to run as sewing g-machine
and much more healthful.
Mr.. w. H. Smith, the leader of the
House OF Commons, receives annually
large sum as royalty for the use Of
his name by the news company with
which he was formerly. connected
Yet there are a great many Smiths who
receive no perquisites for the use of theil
names, often unjustly assumed.
When the father of Mrs. Palmer
wife of the Michigan senator, died, he
left $6, 100000 and his will covered
four lines of foolscap paper This for.
tune was equally divided between his
daughter and her husband, so that
both the senator and his wife are
secured from want for the rest of theil
days.
Miss Artie Cody, Buffalo Bills
daughter. sets the style at North
Platte, Neb., now that she has returned
from her trip to Europe. She had the
disappointment OF not being presented
at court, but was the recipient of many
other social honors, which are said
not in the least to have turned heI
head.
jay Gould has in his conservatory al
Iryington not fewer than 400 varieties
of palms and tree ferns. besides vast
collection of smaller plants. The rose.
house, which is perhaps the most de-
ightful part of the conservatory, is
filled with the finest summer and win
ter roses to be found in the United
States.
George A. Crocker, the California
millionaire. who has recently made
New York his home, has just bought
the old Eggleston house at Lenox. This
house was builtin 1890. by one of the Egg.
gleston family for his son-in-law, Gen.
Patterson, and it has since been owned
by Judge Bishop and Edwards Pierre
pont. and later by Thomas Eggleston,
a grandson of the builder.
Speaking of j. III. Blackburne, the
famous chess-player, who will make a
tour of this country next season, Vanity
Fair, of London says: HE is the
quietest and most unassuming of men.
Every one who knows him likes him,
and no one ever said an unkind word
of him. While at the board his diet is
coffee and tobacco. and he takes lit
tie whisky before going to bed"
Alfred NJ Horton of fMiddletown, N.
Y, has been blind since he was IA
years old, and he is now 60. He was q
successful farmer until recently, when
he sold his farm and moved into town,