The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-10-04

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND signed the
Chinese exclusion bill ON Monday, al
30 sending q message to Congress on
the subject.
The roller-skating craze has just
reached Australia.
A NEBRASKA noodle has wagered
his wife against q Jersey cow on an
election bet.
TIE family of Chief Justice Fuller
have arrived in Washington, prepara-
tory to housekeeping there.
A HORSE, drawing an occupied car
riage. few days since stepped on an
electric light wire at Peekskill, N. Y
and was instantly killed by the shock
BoNNETs wholly made of pheasant
feathers, now ornament the heads of
the dear creatures of fashionable feath-
er.
AT the Kansas State Fair, melon
weighing 88 pounds. and squash OF
"A pounds weight, took the premium
on weight and size.
THE first sheet of plate glass manu-
featured in the United States is still
doing duty in one of the show win
dows of store in New Albany.
A LOCAL paper explains that the
ordinance passed by the city council
of Topeka requiring all street parades
to pay a license of $500, does not in
clude funerals.
THE widow of President Polk is in
her S7th year. She is feeble and ratb'
er forgetful, but she maintains her
cheeriulness and her interest in the
world about her.
A CONNECTICUT girls father and
her lover had fight about the tariff,
in which the latter adopted the Morri
son theory. by making his exit
finaliLy on sliding SCALE"
A GENTLEMAN from Cartersville,
Ca, SAYS that Rev. Sam Jones Is worth
over $4,000, and continues to fasten
upon "the root of all evil" with the
the zest of average mortals.
Col. ROBERT L. CHESTER, who was
born in Carlisle, Pa, in 1893 and NOV
ed in boyhOod to East Tennessee,
where he is now resident, is the reign
ing oldest Mason.
THE oldest newspaper in the world
is published in Pekin, and called The
Capital Sheet. The first issue wac
published A. D. Oil, and since 1861 II
has appeared weekly.
MISS SUSAN WINTER, of Wheat
lands, Montana, has sued local editor
for defamation of character. She Is
engaged to a young man named Spring
and the editor, in ailuding to the fact,
quoted the remark about Winter lin
xering in the lap OF Spring.
In the Ohio Agricultural Expert
zaent Station this year, it has been
found that the Hungarian wheat gave
the largest yield, closely followed by
the German Emperor" The former
welded 4I.6 bushels to the scre, and
the latter 40. The poorest yield was
from the variety known as 'Surpriss,"
which amounted u only Is bushels.
AT the coming election Ohio will
vote for the first lime national ticket
at the same time that state and ceunly
officers are chosen. All The candidates.
national, state and county, will be
placed on one ticket. The Attorney
General of Ohio has decided that it is
not necessary to vote the Pr-siden' :
tiel ticket separate. Is was errOneously
supposed by many.
News comes from Europe that Sen.
ator Stanford, who has been theIo for
some time, is The victim of an extra
ordinary disease. He cannot sleep
when he wants to, and he cannot keep
awake when he wants 10. He can
hardly ever be said to be awake, and
hardly ever asleep, but perpetue ~ os-
cillating between the two conditions.
He does rot sleep more than q minute
or two at q Time (which perhaps may
more properly be termed sOmnambu-
lism). and his eyes do not remain open
or his senses acLive for more than the
same length of lime ut stretch. He
ia never allowed to walk alone, for in
the attempt he would be sure to fall,
the somnolence coming upon him
without q moments notice. Stick.
ing pins in him is of no avail in pre-
venting his somnolent DOING.