The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-29
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A woman in New York makes her
living preparing calf's-foot jelly for
the sick.
the salt district near Norwich, Eng
land.
A walking-stick the crutch- handle
of which is an ear-trampet is the latest
convenience for deaf men.
The diamond tiara presented by the
Duke of Aosta to his bride cost $685.
GEO. 1t contains 1,150 stones.
The baton used by conductors of
concerts in said to have been intro
duced into England by Spohr in 1920.
An East Portland, Ore., fruit-grow-
er raised peach that measured eleven
aud three-fourths inches in circum-
ference.
A hired man struck because he had
worked thirty days for farmer and
had been served with ninety meals of
griddle-cakes during that time.
A bronze statue of General Gordon,
lately unveiled in London, weighs two
tons, and it took two hours to hoist 1t
into place by means of a huge three
legged crane.
Living in India seems to be attended
with difficulties. According to the la
test official returns 24,841 persons were
killed by wild beasts in that country
last year; %, 1874 were killed by snakes
alone.
It has been found that goose can
stand the weather until the thermo-
meter goes to 81 below zero. Then
her feathers won't save. Wild ducks
can go twelve degrees lower and come
out on top.
Bob Ledberry. of Waco, Tex, tells
story about colored child, four years
of age, that goes every afternoon to
bride over a gutter and calls snake,
which comes out and feeds from the
child's hand.
J. P. LindIey. of Bridgeport, Conn,
has the reputation of being the oldest
travelling man in length of time
enty-six years of age, and started out
wears ago with notion wagon, selling
to dealers.
A Brooklyn man intends to start a
goat farm, which he thinks will bring
him $1O.80 per day. He will stock it
with seventy-tive goats, and as the ordi-
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day he calculates opon ninety quarts
per day at IL to 10 cents quart.
An imperial mandate has been exc
cuted in China directing the president
of the academy to translate Shakespeare
into Chinese for the benefit of the
young prince. The New Orleans Picdy-
upe thinks that if they ever get Ham
let into Chinese theatre he will never
come out alive.
1t is said that Boston barber, after
sixty years of steady work at his trade,
has retired from business. In his long
and useful career he has shaved about
5O0,0O men, cut the hair of over 2O0,-
600 and has probably made 1927, ,OO0.-
600, 100000, 600 statements pertaining
to the weather, prize fights, and base
ball.
The leading minds of France have
come to the conclusion that The ma
tional system of education is defective
on its physical side, and efforts are
now being made to acclimatize cricket,
football. rowing and American base
ball in French schools. The Minister
of Education has issued Il paper in IA
vor of athletic exercises.
A woman in Meriden, Conn.,, has a
pet snake. The reptile is very tame
and spends whole hours in plying with
the cat, with which it is on the best
terms. They say it is immensely fun
ny to watch the two animals, especial.
,4Y the kitten, which is still little shy
of her strange acquaintance and very
careful not to step on him or otherwise
arouse his anger.
A very odd dining organization in
Philadelphia is known rs the Ishmael-
ties. The apartment in which the
feast is held is always decorated in the
Oriental fashion, some of the features
introduced being very luxurious and
striking. During each season there is
a Muezzin who presides and rules the
feast and who also delivers mock
prayer and has a peculiar song All
wear turbans or fez caps, with long
robes and ornaments around their
necks.
The Skeena Indians are described as
OF low stature and degraded morals.
They are all heathens and sturdily re-
fuse to embrace Christianity. They
are wild and lawless, with no more
motion of fairness than a wolf, whose
character they exactly parallel, mas
much as when they come to the store
alone they are almost vexatiously meek
and lowly, but when they collect in
numbers they are loud-mouthed and
menacing. Their faces consist MAIN
~ of mouth and cheek-bones, with
small, flat noses.
1t is asserted in London paper that
the discovery made by Mr.. Hewett in
the artificial manufacture of quinine
Will result in the reduction of the
price of that article to few cents per
pound, The Importance of this dis
eovery is rendered greater by the fact
that, while hitherto dependence has
been on the cultivation of the cinchona
tree for quinine, the bark yielding only
about per cent of the same, the new
process admits of the substance being
produced without limit from an article
which can always be got in abundance
in part of the world.
A missionary who settled in the
Province of Sz-Chuan, Central China.
and visited the great Buddhist peak,
Mount Omel, describes the temples as
still showing many wonderful works
of art, Notwithstanding gconfiagrations,i
devastating wars and rebellions. Near
the foot of the mountain is a pagoda
of bronze, thirty feet high, in fifteen
stories, covered with an immense num-
Der of figures delicately cast. OF fig
nres of Buddha there are no less than
400, some of which have bee mutila-
ted by collectors of relics.
American capital and enterprise have
taken such hold in the development of
Mexico that New York syndicate
will in February open bank in the
City of Mexico with capital of $3,-
100000. 1t will be called The Interna-
tional and Mortgage Bank of Mexico.
This is an important step if directed
Alright. What is chiefly wanted now is
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