The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-09-13
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A new cradle on the top of a new
coffin was seen a few days ago in a
wagon leaving Atlanta, Ga. Life had
come at the price of life.
Among the miscellaneous articles in
vented for the promotion of beauty are
artificial veins, the wrinkle effacer and
the Circassienne, which imparts o
brilliancy to the eye.
A new Catholic high school, with ca
paeity fof 900 pupils, is nearly com.
pleted in Philadelphia. The funds for
its construction came from the estate
of the late Thomas Cahill.
Thomas b. Barry, of the general ex-
ecutive board of the Knights of Labor,
says the country was never so free
from strikes as at the present time.
The board has no strikes to settle at
ALL
Nicholas Murphy, watchman on the
Boston tea wharf, was presented the
other day with gold-headed cane by
his employers for his bravery in having
saved 100 persons from drowning dur
ing the past i've years.
No other nation boasts of so many
grades and varieties of sweetmeats as
the Chinese. Over ninety varieties of
sugar-cured fruits are on their bill of
fare, the most valuable of these being
their preserved gingers and apricots.
GUYS Hospital, the richest of the en-
dowed charities of London, has been
obliged to ask for a share of the hos
pital Sunday fund. The agricultural
depression is the cause. The endow-
ments of the hospital consist chiefly of
landed property.
The value of the real and personal
property of California this year. as re-
turned by the local assessors, is 81 ,0S3,-
333, 328, which shows an increase of
$175. 213,84S over last year. This is ex-
elusive of the railroads, which foot up
about. $50, 10000
One of the most successful farmers
of Cuthbert, Ga, is Hebrew. He be-
gan business there as a baker, then be-
came merchant, and finally took to
agriculture, which is very unusual for
a Jew. In all his undertaking he has
been prosperous.
Mile. Esmeralda, snake charmer,
while performing at New Brighton,
England. was attacked by a large CO.
bra. which eoiled around her body and
badly bit her. the blood tiowimg in
theiess finished the performance.
An English woman who has made
special study of deer says that the
chief use of their antlers is not so much
for fighting as for facilitating the pro-
gress of the animal through the woods.
By throwing up the head, thereby
placing the horns along the back, they
are enabled to go forward with great
rapidity.
The grand reception room in Mrs
Secretary Whitney's Washington house
is said to remind one of the salons of
Versailles and Fontainebleau. The
walls are covered with brocaded silk,
made in France to order, after the
styles of Louis XVI. and old masters,
and there is an abundance of Gobelin
tapestry hung about.
A survey lhts lately been made in the
North of Ireland aud on the Null of
kintyre for the purpose of securing
data for an estimate of the cost of a
tunnel across the narrow strait
which separates Ireland from Scotland.
The result reached was that tunnel
would cost eight millions sterling, or
about a million per nautical mile.
Prairie chickens, like other natives
of the wilds, are opposed to civiliza-
lion, and are being pushed back to-
ward the frontier with the advance of
the immigrant. During the last ten
years they have been moving west so
last that they are no longer seen in
Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, and
now flock in Western Nebraska or Da-
kota.
One of the jewels owned by Mrs.
Robert johnson. of San Francisco, is a
pecklace of diamonds that forms an
exact counterfeit of a snake 1t is
composed of solitaires set in illumin-
ated gold, the plates of which, over
tapping each other like those in chain
armOr, render the necklace perfectly
pliable and increase the resemblance
10 the snakelike sinuosity
Considerable excitement is going on
concerning the actions of men and
women at Bog Hill, near Belfast, Me-,
who have been digging up the hills and
pastures for some time. The seekers
are strangers, and the men retire when
approached, while the women only an
swer questions with a blank stare.
There is an old theory that Captain
Kidd buried treasure there.
Professor George Davidson, who re-
Gently examined the great Lick tele-
scope on Mount Hamilton, Cal, says
that when the astronomers in charge
make public theirdiscoyeries the whole
world will be astonished. Some of the
discoveries they have made are, in
fact, SO novel and wonderful that Pro-
fessor Holden and his assistants are
timid about announcing them for fear
the world will consider them illusions.
The youngest grandfather in the
United States has been discovered in
Augusta, Ga. His name is James
Lindsay and he will be thirty y-five years
old this month. Mr.. Lindsay married
in 1870, when but seventeen years old,
and year after his son William was
born. William resolved to follow the
paternal example, and in June, 1887,
eloped with young girl nineteen
years of age, aud on the first of this
month Mr.. Lindlay became grand
father. M
An instrument called the autograph
Ometer, which records automatically
the topography and difference of level
of all places over which it passes, is
new French invention, the utility of
which cannot certainly be questioned
if it realizes the results claimed for it.
It is carried about on light vehicle.
aud those who wish to use it have moth
ing to do but to drag it, or have it
dragged, over the ground of which they
desire to obtain plan.
Rev. DIR. j. B. Simmons will proba-
bly not hear the last of these words for
some time. They were spoken in an
address before the Baptist Publication
Society: Beautiful as woman was
when God-created her, we cannot de-
ny that, in morals and religion, she
was deplorable failure. From the
day she turned her back upon God and
Gods word (both of which things she
did without any influence from Adam),
she became a heather. Heathenism
originated in her heart"
According to Maine paper wicked
Dover grocer played a trick on
-fussy" woman of that vicinity recent
ly. She had just bought of him bar
rel of flour that was not of her favor
ito brand Tho Hour didn't emit t.