The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-22
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An apparatus is being perfected by
which telephoning can be carried on
between ships at sea, the water being |
utilized as sound conyeyof.
1t has been found that the poppy |
fiourishes in Florida, and some are |
predicting that some day the produc-
industries of the State.
About 1900 species of insects. on an |
average, have been discovered yearly |
during the last century. One is al |
most excusable for thinking that the
work of creation is still in progress
Robert Browning has nothing poet
.ieal in his personal appearance. He
is short and stout, with red face. Tie
is great diner-out. and enjoys his
roast beef and port wine like the most
commonplace Englishman.
Mr. and Mrs. James .. Robinson
are solid citizens of Chariestown.
Mass They have been married fifty
years. He weighs 2l8 pounds and mis-
wife 228, and of their seven living
children none weigh less than 200
pounds.
Mrs. Langhorne. a Virginia lady
whose husband made great fortune
in tobacco, wears the finest sohtaire
diamonds in Washington. These
stones are valued at 1000 each, and
she has a necklace to match which
cost $4,000
Two Dubuque 'ladies." both smitten
with the same dude. quarreled about
the possession or his photograph. One
OF them, fearing to lose il in the seram-
bile. chucked it into her mouth. .chewed
il into wad and blew it into her
rivals face.
Millard F. Brown, aged weeks, is
on exhibition in Boston. His wrists
measure one inch in circumference
and his feet are one one and one-qnar-
ter inches long. The infant is wrapped
I'm cotton batting and lies in cradle
gust IA inches long.
1t has been estimated that the sun
cannot be relied upon to furnish us
light and heat for more than Il, 900, 600
wears more Mr.. keeiey will have to
hurry up with his motor if he expects
to make anything from il before every
thing goes to smash.
A farmer near Dayton, Ohio, drove
some hunters off his land; one OF the
men saw the farmer in town offering
dead gray squirrels for sale. had him
arrested, and he was iined $33 under
the law forbidding the killing of this
game between Jan. l aud June l.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Gouger admits that
she did say ,.Rats," and under similar
circumstances would say it again. She
also declares that ''Helf' Is good
strong English word, and if she could
make point she would not be afraid
- I.,,k sV,o
William Shakespeare and Anne Hath
away were recently married in Holy
Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-
Avon. 1t is said to have been a love
match, in which respect it differed
from the couple who figured under the
same names in the parish register Boo
years ago.
The Duke of Westminster is reputed
tc have larger income than any Other
subject of Great Britain. He owns
row upon row of tenement houses anc
possesses many square miles OF farm
ing land. He receives $50 minute
the year round, or $1,000 an hour. ol
$4,000 day.
It seems as though tea grown il
Canada would possess extraordinary
puckering powers, like unto greer
persimmon. Nevertheless Prof. st
Andrews, of the Central Experiments
Farm, Of Canada, proposes trying
some experiments with hardy variet.
grown in Japan.
The Yankee propensity to swap ap
pears to have found root In Florida
A farmer of Sumter county. that State
snapped his homestead of 100 acres
for fve acres of land, 20 bushels of po-
tatoes, one SOW, four pigs, five gallons
of syrup, four hens, two eggs. and q
huge chew uf tobacco.
Anthony Chabot, philanthropist OF
Oakland, Cal. who endowed many
charities, declined to establish home
for INDECENT old men. upon the ground
that man generally owed his indi'
genee to laziness or bad habits. He
generously enriched charities for wom'
en- and children, however.
In the south, in counties where pro-
bibition really prohibits, it is said that
Jamaica ginger drunkenness" is
alarmingly on the increase. Half a
pint of that mixture is said to put q
mans brain in very noticeable con
fiition of .'fuddle" Jacksonville. Ga.
has prohibited the sale of Jamaica gin
ger.
A Georgia negress has given birtl
TO 16-pound child whose fingers ant
toes are webhed to their full length
One of her neighbors brought into tht
world a still more wonderful being.
ITS two eyeballs were in one socket,
and in place of Il nose it had two
and-a-half-inch trunk. resembling that
of an elephant.
On Feb. %, according TO Spanisf
custom, the girls may properly exer
else the greatest freedom in showing
their affection for their favored swains
To hug and kiss them even is consid
cred good form. American boys hay,
not manifested any repugnanee at thu
thought of the custom becoming pre-
Ealent in this country.
Gen. Dan Sickles says that tue Con
gress of 1S60-'61 lived on cocktails anG
fusel-oil animosities, and that whisky
really brought about the Rebellion
He adds that ''if the French Assembl,
were to drink some morning one-hal
the whisky consumed in one day b,
the Congress of 1860, France would de
clare war against Germany in 20 min
ntes.
Congressman Tilman of South Car
Dina, has the same prejudice against
overeoats which characterizes Hanni-
bal Hamlin. The eoldest day in VIM
ter the Palmetto State Representative
walks about Washington in much the
same garb which he wears in summer.
He says that the overcoat is a North
ern luxury unworthy Of a man with
blood in his veins.
Swinburne, the erotic English poet.
is scarcely five feet in height, bis face
is ghastly pale, and bis immense head
is covered with great masses of wild,
nnkempt hair. while his mouth is small,
almost girlish in Its expression. He
10 shy Of women, but he is fond of the
society of artists and men Of letters.
He has perfect horror of the brain
less dancing girls who Gil the fashion
able drawlng-rooms of London.
Max ORell is writing book about
the United States upon the general