The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-09-20
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American plays. actors and actresses
in England are getting good share
of attention.
Jury trials in the cases of anarchists
in Austria and Hungary have been sus-
pended for one year.
One of the richest men in st. Paul,
who owns block after block of real es-
tate, lives on less than $500 year.
Memphis is the greatest inland cot
ton market in the world, receiving |
from 10000 to 1000, 900 bales yearly |
A club has just been organized in
Mexico composed of journalists who
have been imprisoned for political Of
fences.
The contingent of recruits for the
Russian army this year will be 25o,ooo
against 235,00 men called out last
year, it is understood.
Senator Chace. of Rhode Island. has
never had his picture taken, although
photographers have often'tried to en-
trap him into a sitting.
OF three eggs laid by Georgia hen
one is as big as Il goose egg, one as
small as partridge egg, and the third
about as big as rifle ball.
The Municipal Council of Paris has
granted ground upon which to con-
struct the Jovis balloon, in which he
proposes to cross the Atlantic.
One of the saws in North Carolina
mill was knocked galley west by lot
of grape shot imbeddedin log that had
evidently grown upon some held OF
battle.
A negro farmer in Dougherty Coun-
4v. Georgia, has succeeded in making
excellent syrup from watermelons, and
thus a new use is devised for the sur
plus crop.
. A woman in Jersey City has been
arrested forty-eight times for weaving
male attire, and has been discharged
each time because there is no law
against it.
According to recently published
italian pamphlet there are now on
Mount Athos 20 different m0nasteries:
IL Greek, Russian, l Seryian and l
Bulgarian.
The Comptroller of Tennessee esti-
mates That the increase of valuation in
taxable property over the entire state
over 1897 will be between $75, ,OOO,OOO
and $lUO,UUO,OO0.
Sculptors' clay is something that
does not '.grow wild" everywhere, and
it is said that the best now in use
byAmerican artists comes from Federal
Hill, near Baltimore.
A fact not very well known is that
in theatres lighted by electricity the
managers are by law required to keep
gas always in first-class order and
oil lamps ready for immediate lighting.
Some high dignitaries of the Chinese
Empire who were lately detected in
selling tafalse decorations and creden-
tials," like Wilson, President Grevy's
son-in-law. were condemned to be be-
headed.
A land grabber in Modoc County,
Cal. had nearly completed solid
stone wall around Al 900 acres, when
two special agents of the Government
Land Department ordered him to re-
move it.
Huge mirrors, mounted as screens in
the dining-room of the Clifton House,
Niagara, reflect the falls in the most
graphic and realistic manner, so that
one may dine and view one of the
;greatestof natural wonders simultan-
eously.
i Ruin by rabbits and ire
parable ruin-has overtaken several OF
the ranchmen in New Zealand. where
the sheep died of starvation on wide
ranges of pasture, everything green and
succulent having been deyoured by the
lrahhits.
The death of an aged resident of In
dianapolis. sign painter by trade, re
wives story that one of the first piece
lof work he ever did was for cabinet
maker named Caleb Scudder, who's
sign he made to read: ''Kalob Skoddel
Kabbinet Maker"
The new ceiling of the Assembl
room in the capitol at Albany will b
fiat, instead of arched like the presen
one, and is expected to cost $50. .000
This is about one-ifth of the cost of tn
magnificent stone canopy which i
crumbling to pieces. The pictures O
Holman Hunt on the present ceilin,
cannot be saved.
In the last two installments of Muir
tFay's new English Dictionary, extend
dng from bra to cass, the Boston jour
s7sGt is quoted as one of the authorize
for the use of the following words
Brick batter. bucket shop, buffal,
<robe), burglarize, cabinet-making Gl
politics), campaign Gin politics1, can
idy-pull, cant-dog.
The cynical bachelor is at it again
Now he says he can prove. by statistic
that two wives elope to one husband
that three widows remary to on
lwidower, and that seven-tenths of tn
engagements which are broken ar
Ebroken by women. Now let us hea
from a aUYliaal OLD pn.,ib IN tbaSa ap<
other questions.
Russia imports annually $50, ,OO0,00l
pounds of cotton, chiefly from Americi
and Egypt, but it is believed that re
cent acquisitions of the Car in Cen
Aral Asia are excellently adapted fo
cotton raising. Some has already beef
grown in Khiva and Bokhara, and al
extensive system of irrigation is beine
created to develop other land for thi
crop.
A new route for the Nicaragua Cana
has been discovered which is mucl
more favorable than the line laid ou
in 1885. By the new route it is sai6
4hat the total length of the excavation
from Ochoa to Greytown will not ex
ceed nineteen miles, and will consist o
several short embankments instead OF
one long one. The cost will be great,
reduced
Interesting experiments are being
made at Toulon with military balloons
The problem to be solved is whether {
captive balloon can be usefully EN-
plOyed on board ship as means O.
ascertaining the presence of an enemy
at long distance. A telephone is
connected with the balloon, SO that tn,
observer can communicate with those
on the ship.
Christian work among railroad men
receives large share of attention il
England. The report of the Railway
Mission (of which the Earl of Aber
deem is president) for the year ending
April 80 says there are SO branches il
London, 185 in the provinces, 12 il
Wales, 21 in Scotland and 10 in Ireland
making 264 in all, of which "a have
been formed during the year.
A Jersey cow down in Gaoruia xuas