The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-12-20
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Barnes of New York" have been sold
in this country.
just think of it! The women of Amer
lea expend 100000 /. annually for
paint and powder for their faces.
1t is reported that much of the cod
liver oil of Russia is adulterated with
liquid paraffine, in some cases as much
as 90 per cent.
A sort of Knights of Labor has been
started in London called the Amalga-
mated Society of General Laborers. It
is composed of every description of Ia
borers in the metropolis.
Emperor William is said to be an in
veterate smoker of cigarettes, smek-
ing even atmeals, between the courses.
he Gates but little and seldom drinks
wine. but takes quantities of tea.
The name of the White House Is de-
rived from the fact of the Virginia
freestone, of which it is built, being
painted white to conceal the discoior-
alton caused by smoke and weather.
Twenty-one apples picked by New
Holland, Pa, farmer completely flied
a half-bushel measure. The smallest
weighed exactly one pound, and the
largest one pound five ounces. The
entire lot tipped the scales at twen-
ty-four pounds.
A Chester policeman who UNDER
took to contiscate a flock of geese
which he found running at large was
iercely attacked by one of the number
"a gander-and finally fled, leaving
the pugnacious bird and its eompan-
ions to roam at will.
An ingenious inventor has devised q
new screw-half nail and half screw;
two blows of the hammer, two turns Of
the screw-driver, and it is in. Its
holding power in white pine is said to
be 332 pounds, against 298 pounds, the
holding power of the present screw.
Bierstadt, the artist, in his New
York studio is putting the finishing
touches to q mammoth canvas on
which no figures appear except abort
gines and buffalOes. 1t is a picture Of
a hunt, and is said to contain the forms
of thousands of the American bison.
The German military authorities
have experimental successfully with
night attacks by the aid of electric
light. The beam of the light is re-
fiected from q mirror 200 yards dis
tant from the lamp, so that that tho
enemy cannot tell where the battery
is.
The longest through car service Of
any railroad line in the world. is said
to be on the Southern Pacific Road,
between New Orleans and San Fran
cisco, 2, 495 miles. The fastest through
train on this road Is timed at 113 hours.
25 minutes, or at the rate of twenty
one miles an hour.
A Sheboygan county, Michigan, girl
made a leap year call on her lover. a
tender on draw-bridge, local paper
states. and. after bidding him final
good night, she left him. Before she
got off the bridge it began to close and
she was caught and squeezed. Her
only recorded exclamation was: mot
another one, Bob"
A curious ferryboatis building for the
River Clyde at Glasgow. Instead Of
requiring movable landing stages or
bridges to meet the rise and fall Of ths
tide, the deck of the boat itself will be
movable, carried on six hydraulic ele-
vators, by which it can be raised or
lowered. The boat will be a double
ender, 100 feet long, of fifty-five feet
beam and twelve feet six inches
draught
David Jennings is the latest perpet-
ual motion lunatic. He lives in Lyons,
N. Y, and commenced with youth,
health and fortune twenty years ago
to develop his insane idea. He has
spent his intellect, his youth and $780,
600, and is precisely as near making
something out of nothing as he was
when he started. He finds it easy to
come very near it, as the boy did to
finding his hat
A suit at law at Moscow, and various
investigations, disclose that tea is be-
ing shamefully adulterated. OF forty
four samples which were officially an
alyzed, four consisted of a mixture of
tea and a certain kind af grass. four OF
the grass alone, and five Of tea which
had already once been used. In Mos
COW the police have found a number
of barrels OF sweepings intended fog
admixture with tea.
A NewOrleans lady sent half dozen
designs to one of the big cotton print
mills at Fall River for approval, and
some weeks later they were sent back
to her refused. Shortly afterward she
saw the identical designs on some cali
leo just received in New Orleans from
the mill, and wrote an indignant let
ter to the mill owners demanding an
explanation. In return shesrcceived o
handsome check for her work.
Joseph Jefferson's winter home in
Louisiana, Jefferson island, is a superb
hill crowned with great forest trees ly.
ing on a trembling prairie Of semi-
marsh and with a fine lake, called Lake
Peynier for its outer margin. On this
island. which contains 1000 acres OF
land, was formerly an orchard of fine
oranges. Here Mr.. Jefferson plays as
raising fine cattle. He has something
over two thousand head and q few
blooded horses.
There is well-known lady in this
county who has enjoyed perfect health
since the earthquake of two years ago,
says the Washington Gazette. For
several years up to that time her health
had been declining, and she was quite
feeble. The physicians said that the
trouble was that she never perspired.
When the great earthquake occurred
she was considerably frightened. and
in few moments the perspiration
came freely from every pore. She be-
gan to improve from that moment, and
soon entirely regained her health.
Colonel Whittenmore, the comman-
dant of the Watervliet Arsenal at West
Troy. is quoted as saying that the gun
foundry will be ready for work on the
heavy cannon called for by the fortiti-
cation bill a year from next summer.
Five hundred men will be employed in
making twelve eight-inch guns, seven
ten-inch, and five twelve-inch guns.
At present twenty-eight men are em-
ployed in the foundry, and in II year
make two heavy sea coast guns and
twenty-five field pieces. Before the
foundry can make the new guns in
numbers buildings must be enlarged
and new machinery put in.
Three hundred miles an hour is tire
proposed speed for the electric posta-
railroad of the future. An EXPERT
mental line has been erected at Lau-
rel. twenty miles from Baltimore. A
compromise between the pneumatic
fubo and fha ordinary railroad carries