The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-15
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MIS-. DOOefC WllIidnlS, OI 1fcstOu
County, West Virginia, although but
fifty-two years old, is the mother OF
twenty-five children.
Improved sanitation in England has
led to diminution of the death rate.
Since 1881 the rate has fallen from 20.5
to 1873 per thousand.
The coolest town in the world is
Werchoiansk. in Siberia, where the
mercury has sometimes recorded q tenn
perature of SO below zero.
Nearly all the old black .'mammies"
in New Orleans are expert nurses in
yellow fever and the city is said to owe
its low mortality in epidemics to their
care.
Recent experiments in England are
held to be favorable to the use of loco
motives for towing boats on canals.
The idea is not new, although the ways
of applying it may be.
A Philadelphia dancing master, who
Ehas just returned from an extended
"trip abroad, says that everywhere on
the continent of Europe Americans
are considered the best dancers in the
world.
1t may be worth knowing that water
an which three OF four onions have been
boiled, applied with gliding brush to
the frames of pictures and chimney
glasses will prevent flies from lighting
on them.
There are efforts in progress for re-
vision of the divorce laws, and for the
framing of a law that will be national
Many noted New York people have
signed memorial to Congress to that
effect.
British shipping is enjoying a season
of marked prosperity. The demand
for vessels is so great that there is no
idle tonnage in any important branch
of trade, while in some directions there
is scarcity.
Eli Wright, of Youngstown, Ohio,
has received a transcript from the re-
cords at Washington that shows him
to have been the youngest Union
soldier in the late war. He enlisted
when twelve years and one month old.
London dressmakers aud milliners
are heavily fined if they allow girls To
work over hours in their sinps. One
OF the best known and most patrohi2ed
dealers in mourning goods i'll that city
was recently up in the police court oh
a charge of this kind.
Real estate reaches higher and higher
figures in Lower Broadway, New York.
A lot containing little more than an
eighth of an acre has just been sold for
1915, 500. Allowing proportionate
price for the buildings, the price of
the land is at the rate of IS 200, 900 an
acre.
French capitalists have formed
company to purchase large and fertile
Russian territories for farming and cat
tie breeding. Another great company.
is proposed, with Russian and foreign
capital, to export beef, mutton, and
pork to England by fast steamers from
Iibau.
The railway department in Switzer-
land has issued an order compelling
all engines travelling more than forty
five kilometers per hour to use an in
dicator, which must mark correctly
the variations of speed. A good mar
ket is open to whoever can furnish the
best article.
The safety insured by interlocking
signal apparatus may be shown by the
fact that about three million trains
have passed over the Chatham Square
crossing of the New York Elevated
Railway with but one collision, which
was owing to an engine driver passing
the danger signal.
DR.. Donald c. Hood has collected
many facts relating to the use of
salicylic acid for rheumatism. OF 728
patients treated with salicylates 523
were relieved of their pains within
seven days, whereas 612 patients treat
ed by other methods. only 140 were re-
Aieved within the same time.
DIR. W. L. Candee, of Milwaukee,
Wis, who is nearing the century mark
Bin life, saw the first steamboat ascend
the Hudson and rode upon the first
railroad built in the United States
between Albany and Schenectady. He
was intimately acquainted with Robert
Fulton, the inventor of steamboats,.
The handmade time pieces of the
Swiss and French, who have so long
held the supremacy as clockmakers.
are not now regarded as superior to
those Of American machine make.
The American machine-made watch is
AS finished and accurate as its foreign
Icompetitor, and is, of course, vastly
cheaper.
AS an example of the rapidity of
hhe processes of American artisans the
recent feat of Georgia paper-maker-
is noteworthy. A tree in the forest
near Augusta was cut down at 8 o'clock
In the morning. Before night it had
been converted into newspapers, which
people were reading at in the eve
ming.
A fakir in the West is advertising a
recipe which will tell you how to
make your horse an artist. When you
forward him 81, not necessarily for
publication, but as an evidence of good
faith, you receive by return mail a
neatly printed cardbearing the words:
i-'Give your horse drawing exercises
and he will get there. Ta,ta.''
A liking for candy when it. is satis-
fed by an unlimited supply is found to
last just one week. A new girl at
candy store, who has received per-
mission to eat as much as she likes,
does not eat half as much the second
day as she does the first; on the third
she devours even less. and at the end
of a week her appetite for candy is ex-
hausted.
The pug dog as pet had an inter-
esting origin. He was first imported
from China and Japan and came into
fashion in the reign of William III.
1t is stated that the king believed his
life to have been saved by dog of this
breed awakening him to his danger
when a murderons attack was about to
be made on the prince.
At the recent meeting of the British
Association the professor of pathology
at Cambridge read a paper in which he
claimed that 1.-THE slight pressure in
Tolved in wearing stays has a bene-
fetal effect, and reasonable lacing in
creases mental and physical activity"
Several medical gentlemen opposed
this view, but a lady member defended
it.
The arc lamp in the ST. Catharine's
Lighthouse. on the Isle of Wight, ia
said to be the most powerful electric
Eight in the world, and equal to $4,000
candles. The carbon pencils have a
diameter of two and one-half inches,
and the electric arc bridges a space of
about one-half inch between the car
bon joints. The lamp is of the Serrin-