The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-14
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Upward of 100 young women at the
National Capital are habitual riders of
re tricycle.
received $500, 900 clear from his Duchy
of Cornwall last year.
Mr.. Gladstone prides himself on his
.xcellent digestive powers. But he
dares not eat oysters or sweetbreads.
Elias j. Hale is serving his fortieth
year as Town Clerk of Foxcroft, Me.
He has never had in forty elections an
opposing candidate.
Gabriel Salanson, the young French
man who is to marry daughter of the
British Minister in Washington, is of
Hebrew descent and wealthy.
The widow of Ex-Governor Colby, of
New London, Conn, aged ninety-two,
made and contributed handsome tidy
to. the fair lately held by the ladies OF
that place.
Carlotta Patti has been offered by the
Gar professorship of vocal music in
the Imperial Conservatoire at ST.
Petersburg. She prefers to remain in
Paris.
The Princess of Wales most valuable
silver-wedding present was magnifi-
cent necklace of rubies and diamonds
from the Emperor and Empress of
Russia.
An Iowa genius holds the offices of
United States Signal Observer, City
Clerk, Township Clerk, United States
Claim Agent, Township Treasurer and
Adjutant of G. A. R. post.
Miss Helen Blanchard, now resi-
dent of Philadelphia, is a Maine girl,
who has made fortune through the
invention of the simple ''over-and-over''
attachment for sewing machines.
A Woman's School of journalism has
been opened in Detroit, where girls are
taught type-setting, shorthand, proof
reading. revision of manuscript and re-
porting-so far as it can be taught.
A Biddeford, Me-, man advertises for
a wife, and offers to the lady who will
take him an ''active, promising, good
looking young man forty years of age.
a good home and two yoke of oxen"
The men who were young with Gov
ernor Hill, of New York, say he is not
what you might call a woman-hater,
but that since disappointment he had
once, he has no faith in the fair sex.
Col. Edward Summer of San Fran
cisco comes to the front with the claim
that he is the oldest Freemason in the
world. He was born in 1876, and has
been a Mason for seventy-one years.
Two large firms of japanese nursery
men are Introducing into Califoria the
Tushin or dwarf orange tree, and find
many customers for the tree because
it can be grown in very small space.
j. H. Diss De Bar, one of the gang
of adventurers who so successfully
feeced Lawyer Marsh of New York,
originated the State seal of West Vir-
ginia with its motto, ''Montani Semper
Liberi."
Augusta Benedict, of Louisville, KY,
makes good living by posing as a
wax figure at exhibitions and fairs. She
has such command over herself that
she can sit for hours perfectly i'm
movable.
The largest soap manufactory in
Philadelphia, at which 1, 100, ,000pounds
are boxed every week, was founded in
1858 by thrifty German who walked
into the city that year with only $25 in
his pockets.
It has become quito fashionable of
late for men to write a history of their
lives, thereby leaving to their family,
relatives and friends many reminiscent
ces of their lives that would be forgot
ten after death.
Charles Gayarre, who was member
of the United States Senate ffty-three
years ago, is still living in New Orleans.
He was born in that city in 1906, and
is said to be walking encyclopedia of
Louisiana history.
Mrs. Clara Foltz, the lawyer, lecturer,
and editor, is coming East to set be-
fore the people the great climatic and
commercial advantages of San Diego,
the City Council having voted $4,000
for that purpose.
Senator ingalls, has had eleven chill
dren, seven of whom survive. The
names given to his offspring have been
somewhat peculiar: Ellsworth, Ruth,
Ethel, Ralph, Addison, Constance,
Sheffield, Faith, Marion, Muriel, Louise.
Claus Spreckels says that hewill this
year produce 5000 tons of beet sugar
at his refinery in California, and that
the refinery which he is erecting in
Philadelphia at a cost of $4,000, 900
will produce $4,000 tons of sugar a
year.
AAb1bhCn al was HoU
of Edwin Arnold, as has been erron-
eously stated. Edwin Arnold's father
was Robert Coles Arnold, a magistrate.
The father of Matthew Arnold was
Rev. DR.. Thomas Arnold, head master
of Rugby.
Let me be Queen of Prussia for one
single hour and l shall die happy!"
This is an exclamation which is said to
have escaped the present Empress
of Germany twenty-five years ago.
AT the time she was already ailing, and
her days seemed numbered.
Christopher L. Magee. who has been
practically at the head of the Repub-
lican party in Western Pennsylvania for
ten years, is only 30 years old. He has
broad, bright, pleasant face and
massive head, and is a worker and
organizer rather than talker.
A blind horse belonging to an Ohio
farmer was sold last winter to man
seventy-eight miles away. The other
day he turned up at his old stand, in
good spirits, having been two weeks op
the road, but having come along as
safely as if he had two good eyes.
Rev. j. E. Lee, colored minister,
recently elected Justice of the Peace in
Jacksonville Fla, was found to be dis
qualified because his house was just
outside of the city limits. While the
matter was being discussed, Mr.. Lee
hired a force of men and moved his
house into the city.
May Emily Bird, colored woman
who died at Centreville, Tenn, recent
ly, was for long time missionary in
Liberia, Africa, and once received and
entertained the world renowned ex-
plorer, Livingstone, on one of his most
notable exploring expeditions. She
spoke fluently many of the native
languages.
An interesting legal question is like
1y to arise over the finding of jar con-
tanning $1,000 at Holman station, Ind,
by Smith Stewart, on Il farm which he
had rented. The landlord claims the
naon,., on the ground that it had been
buried by his sister, now deceased.
The collection includes some coins over
200 years old.
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