The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-05-10
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A Philadelphia oculist declares that
the use of opera glasses strains the op-
tic nerve and Injuries the eye sight.
John Quincy Adams, of Washington,
Ga, says that he has come into pos
session of various love letters written
by Edgar Allan Poe.
Isaac Taylor. of Cadiz, Ohio isnine-
ty-four and his wife is eighty-eight,
and they have been members OF the
M. E. Church for seventy years
Nearly a quarter of million acres
of yellow pine lands in lower Alabama
and Northern Florida have been bought
by capitalists from the Northwest re-
Gently.
Engineers on the Great Northern
Railway. England, are given at least
nine hours rest between one days
labor, and another, as IL precautlon
against accidents.
The Rev, L. Dewitt Talmage is
great walker, and thinks nothing ofan
early morning spin of eight OF nine
miles into the suburbs, toppled of with
brisk run of half a mile.
The wealthest woman in the North
west is probably Mrs. Sarah A. David
son, of st. Paul. the widow OF Commo-
dore w. F. Davidson. She is estlma-
ted to be worth about $1,500,000
The deepest we'll drilled in the Uni
ted States is that of George Westing-
house, at Homewood, near Pittsburg,
which reached a depth of 4.61S feet,
when the tools were lost and the drill
ing ceased.
The new museum of religion at Paris,
which is being erected near the TrocO-
dero, will cost 5000. 1000. 1t will be a
repository of idols. paintings and other
objects accessory to the worship of
various peoples.
An Arapahoe Indian of full blood.
now taking postgraduate course at
Hobart College, is a regularly ord:ln-
ed clergyman of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church. He is known as Rev.
Sherman Coolidge.
Neb., was recently ordained in Kan
nomination. She is the first woman
ever ordained in that city and one OF
the first west of the Mississippi.
Marion Hartranft, a New York girl
who is the possessor of suit of fiery
red HAIR, has applied for an injunction
to restrain 4 publisher from printing
or selling a song-sheet entitled "Red-
headed Girl and White Horse Song
ster"
A brace of famous duelling pistols,
exhibited recently in bar-room in
Sumter, S. c., were owned by General
E. w. Morse, and have been in use in
. dozen or more duels, including the
famous Cash-Shannon meeting, when
Colonel Shannon was killed.
Mrs. Amanda Ewlambs, of Atlanta,
whose fortune is estimated at $400. .00C
is perhaps the richest colored woman
in the South. Mrs. H. White, of Mo-
bile, a colored woman, is worth $40,-
600, and there are several other rich
colored women in the South.
1t is a curious fact that while Queen
Victoria speaks German in her own
home circle, the present German En-
press disregards it in hers and uses
English as much as possible. English
is The fireside tongue of the Greek,
Danish and Russian royal families.
A French bachelor advertised for a
wife. A typographical error changed
his age from 81 to 81, but it made no
difference. for he received 250 applica-
tions from ladies ranging from the age
of 16 to 60, and all promising love and
devotion to the rest of his existence.
Herr Zang, the Vienna journalist
who died recently leaving a fortune o.
$4,000, 900, had a theory that every line
in a newspaper ought to be pail for
and predicted that Queen Victoria
would eventually have to pay for the
publication of her speeches to parlia.
ment.
Miss Smiley PRESLEY was recently
married to james Spttle, of Mathews
N. c. The bride is not quite twelve
years old, and her mother consented
to the marriage only on condition thai
the bridegroom must continue to send
her to school. OF course, he agreed tC
this, and the child became q wife.
At Jonesboro, Georgia, a man en-
tered store the other day and wanted
to pay for suit of clothes which he
had purchased there twenty-eighl
years before. The merchant didn
remember the man and had no ac.
count against any person of his name
but the stranger insisted that he owed
the bill and paid it with interest.
Mr.. Joshua Jones, who died recently
in New York. was the largest stock
holder in the Chemical National Bank
and was worth st. .000. 600, all of which
goes to distant relatives. 1t is related
of him that when not long ago his
mother died and left him 81 900, OOC
he mourned it as burden and mis-
fortune, but he brayely bore it alone.
Albert Flint. of Birmingham, Eng
land, was sentenced to only three
months Imprisonment at hard labor
for throwing his child, eleven months
old, into the fireplace, and. when il
was rescued from there, throwing it on
the floor, kicking it, and trying TO
jump on it, having previously offered a
sovereign to the child's nurse to make
away with it.
Letters written by Napoleon and by
various kings of France and auto.
graphs of almost every great man III
French literature are to be sold in
Paris. There is an interesting letter
by Sir Walter Scott, written in 1914
and one from the Duke of Wellington
i(1817 about an incognito journey
through the North of France which
the King of Prussia was then about to
undertake.
A Griffin, Ga, man, who believes in
the OLD saying OF "See pin pick 1t uI
and all the day you'll have good luck,
saw pin in front of the postoffice the
other day and while STOPPING to cap
ture it his hat fell off and rolled out
into the street, two suspenders gave
way in the rear, his collar split open
and his store teeth, which cost him $1s
when lew, fell out and broke on the
walk. He picked up the pin, how.
ever.
Mrs. Sallie Moss, who lives nine
miles south of Hopkinsville, KY, is now
in her ninetieth year.She is the mother
of twelve sons and five daughters fif.
teen of whom she raised and saw mar
ried; thirteen of those are now living
ten sons and three daughters. She
is the grandmother of 126 children, los
of whom are still living; the great
grandmother of 240, 210 of whom art
still living; the great, great grand
mother of ninetv-Six and SayentV-fiVe