The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-10-11
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England is that British grown tobacco i
cannot be made to pay.
An order to an encampment OF |
British volunteers is, ''allhair to be cut
quite short. and where possible the
mustache only is to be worm"
Colonel Tuitt, of Georgia. has not
seen the bottom of his corn crib for
more than twenty years. and is now
selling sound grain grown in 1876.
A Kansas ranchman predicts that
cheap beef and mutton OF the future
will come from the immense grassy
plains of Brazil and the Argentine Re
public.
There is likely to be large migra
ton of colored people from Florida TO
Nicaragua soon. Some who are now
there send back very encouraging re-
ports.
A bismuth mine with ore asSaying
80 per cent metal has just been dis
covered at lingo. Colo, and as the stuff
is worth 81 4 pound it is find by no
means to be despised.
One of Disracli's fayorite peacocks
has recently died, and Ralph Disraeh
has had the tail feathers made into
fire screen and has given it to the
Queen, much to her qualification.
New York's hotels are small city in
themselves. There were only nineteen
of them in 1870, hnt now there are
sixty-two. with six more to follow, and
they will accommodate 10000 people
A remarkably attractive lobster was
caught at Norwich a few days ago.
The upper parts were OF the delicate
: IA l. nl,1 Nd
beneath the color was beautiful
blush white.
just because Mrs. Moore, of Texas,
had not $50 in hand with which to pay
a discharged laburrr he went into her
field and shot seven mules and a horse
chat were blowing there, and easily
worth 81, ,2U0.
A masseuse who has practiced her
profession largely among families of
wealth says that i'll many years she
mas administered to only one woman
whose ribs had not been displaced by
corset-wearing.
A lady in Norwich, Conn.,, it is said,
has constructed Il scarecrow so lady
like and thoroughly fetching that
every man who goes by tries lu get up
a Irritation with il. 1t is taken III the
house rainy days.
Arpad Haraszthy, the great Hun
garlan-California fruit grower. is re-
ported 10 have said that pure Cali
fornia wine can be laid down i'll New
York as cheap as beer. He and others
estimate the California wine crop OF
this year at SO. 900 gallons.
The Mexicans are hard at work on
the banks of the Rio Grande opposite
FL Paso, Tex, building wing dams and
willow mattresses to prevent their
territory from being washed away by
the turbulent river. They have lost
much in past years in this manner.
A new glass recently invented in
Sweden is said to be capable, when
made into a lens Tor a microscopic,
of ''enabling us 10 distinguish the 2O4,
zO0,000th part of an inch" 1t is also
said that there is great promise of this
glass producing wonderfully powerful
Telescope lenses and new departure
in astronomy.
. 1t is proposed to celebrate the two
hundredth anniversary OF the birth of
Alexander Pope by Il commemorate
festival at Twickenham, when there
will be water pageant illustrative of
the times of Pope, and a temporary
loan exhibition of editions of the poets
works, and a collection of autographs,
portraits, and relies of his busy life.
Kansas is anxious to annex the strip
of land called mo Mans Land" adj
Joining the state. Not, the newspapers
say, ''for boom purposes" but for pro-
lection. Every thief and murderer
Eho commits crime in Western and
Southern Kansas makes break foi
No Mans Land, where he is as safe a
the manslayer of old in the city OF
refuge.
Speaking of the curiosity of great
men, a Philadelphian says that he has
seen Austin Corbin stand in crowded
thoroughfare and watch the mani pu-
1ation of a street fakir who was trying
TO call attention to something new in
ltooth POWDER while at another time
Ehe saw Senator Quay gaze for a long
Itime with interest upon lineman
climbing telegraph pole.
Excursionists do not realize some
times that they bring with them the
hurry and rush noticed on excursion
days at popular seaside hotels. On a
very large excursion a particularly
Tcritical visitor surveyed the hotel, the
shore and the water with superciiious
sglances. When asked how he liked the
splace he replied. with 4 motion to the
crowd: 81 couldn't stand this sort of
thing every day
The roaring gas well back of Canons-
Burg, Pa, lis said to have the greatest
fegistered pressure of any in the world.
The gas looks like a solid piece of
blue steel for some distance after it
comes out of the pipe. Solid masonry
twelve feet thick surrounds the well to
shold the cap on. When in drilling the
gas was struck. tools and rope weigh
ing 5000 pounds were thrown out as
though they were feathers.
Rudeness is Justly considered as a
social crime. The ill-bred person has
no place in the social fabric, and he
should be as much excluded from
polite life as should the criminal from
fhe business transactions of honest
;1nen. Beautiful manners are the fine
inti0reseence of all forms of art Noble
sculpture, beautiful paintings. the har-
mony of music. the charm of intellect
uai gifts, all find their highest and
most potent expression in manner.
A Coroner's jury at Macleod, in the
SanaQlan Northwest, has brought IN q
curious verdict to the effect that an
Indian woman who had suddenly died
had come to her death "either from
eating sour beans or drinking some
fluid from bottle given to her by
CONSTABLE Simons.n 1t appears that
ithe fluid in the bottle was iodine, and
fConstable Simons has been arrested,
but it still remains to be determined
whether death was caused by the fluid
Or the beans.
The contractor who undertook to
bore series of artesian wells 20 sup
ply the Galveston waterworks, for
which he is to receive $4,000 if sue
cessful, recently struck his first well at
"a depth of 747 feet. Boring was at
once suspended. and preparations are
in progress to sink ten-inch strainer
the entire length of the water-bearing
strata of sand. 1t is given out that
when this is done. and the well
thoroughly developed, it will probably
yield from 10000 to $4,000 gallons
daily.