The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-01-12
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A man in West Dover Hundred, DEL.
sold his vote for two pumpkins at
recent election.
bronze statue of Longfellow Is
soon TO be erected in Portland, Me-,
the city of his birth.
The Rev. Morgan Dix has completed
his twenty-fifth year as rector OF
Trinity Church, New York.
Joseph Snyder, residing near Little
York, is the smallest voter in New
Jersey. He is % years old, weighs 73
pounds. and is 80 inches high.
The sultan of Morocco has been tor
mented by revolt in his harem, and
forty of his majesty's ladies have been
distributed among officers of his
guards.
In the seventeenth century. ac-
cording to the records of Done astel. |
England, the proper length OF u pole !
to hold ducking-stool for scolds was
sixteen yards.
A citizen of San Francisco has re-
quested the Chinese government to sup
ply thirty jinrikisha men for the
purpose of opening business i'll jim
rikishas in that city.
Mrs. Mart Holcomber of Brady
Island, Neb.. cleaned out den OF
snakes on her farm recently, killing
forty of the reptiles. The only weapon
she used was stout club.
The registration in Philadelphia
generally largely exceeds that of New
York, although at the last presidential
election New York polled 230, 900 votes
to Philadelphia 10000.
Thomas A. Edison is an inyeterate
pipe-smoker. 1t is said that he has
invented a new kind of pipe which
will make a sensation in the world
of buffers. There is no electricity
about it.
Druggist Flemming of Duquesne,
formerly of Fayette City, boasts the
first baby-boy born in that town.
He calls it Thomas Benton Schnatterly
Boyle Cleveland Genius of Liberty
Flemming.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is said to have
remarked at Macon that she never
from the first believed in the success OF
the Southern Confederacy, but always
told Mr.. Davis that defeat was only
matter of time.
Mrs. johnson Newman, living near
jasper, Tex, heard dogs barking near
were holding large deer at bay in a
fence-corner. She got an ak and
killed the deer.
Charles Dickens was presented to
man in Boston a few days ago who
opened the conversation by the graceful
remark that the son of the famous
novelist is not the man his father
was. The conversation ended just
there.
Workmen digging in a Georgia
iron mine came upon pine stump, or
what had been a pine stump, now con-
yerted into brown iron ore. The stump
showed all the fbers and bark OF the
original pine tree. and resin streaks
were plainly seen in places.
Miss Olive Risley Seward whose
article on "a Diplomatic Episode"
appeared in Scrfbner. is the adopted
daughter of the late Secretary Seward.
who left her $50. 600 on condition that
she should take the name of Seward.
Her home is i'll Washington.
Frank Winnie, Texas negro of
no education is said to be prodigy OF
mechanical genius. He exhibited at
the Dallas fair recently steam engine
of small size but remarkable power
W1llCl, IL 10 PlCdISICo, VIA WIN q
revolution in mechanical ideas.
The Hanover (Mich.) Times
announces that it will take in payment
for subscriptions wheat, potatoes, old
stovepipes, turnips, beets, parsnips,
cast-off clothing, old rubber shoes,
oyster-cans, old iron, and money.
Keeper Judson of the Stratford light
house. near Bridgeport, Conn, has
cocker spaniel dog that has become an
expert fish-catcher. He took up the
sport of his own notion. and pursues
1t regularly and enthusiastically. The
other day he carried to his master a
Ftwo-poundand-a-hal
Joseph Hoffman, the infantile pianist,
rules the whole family, AS prodigies
are very apt to do so. Happening to
take meal on an ocean steamer be-
fore he started, he refused to cross on
that vessel because the cooking did
lnotsuit him, and his father had to
have the baggage carried back to the
pier.
A man with load of hay attempted
to go through toll-gate near Brock
vile. Canada, but the gate was too
marrow. The toll-keeper then pulled
down the fence and the load was taken
through the hole. On being asked to
Ipay the usual toll the driver refused
ON the ground that he had not passed
through the gate.
Lieut.. Foulke of the United States
navy and at one time Acting Minister
ITO Corea, is about to marry a
Japanese girl said to be of unusual in
felligence and culture. Fifteen years
ago another American naval officer
lrenouced wife. home, friends, and
profession for love of japanese lass,
dress and name.
An Omaha paper saws that Union
Pacific freight train was delayed two
hours at Cheyenne the other day be-
cause the engine caller whose duty it is
TO notify conductors and engineers
when their trains are ready, had been
'chased to the top of a remote box car
and kept there by black bear, which
had escaped from cage.
Kentucky papers contain glowing
accounts of the eloquence of Mrs
Lulu Nleld, lecturer, who is arousing
the State to the evils of intemperance
She recently invaded Versailles, the
home of Senator Blackburn; and the
Woodford San says that the dis
ftlnSulSHeu henCucklan cannot hold
candle to her as an orator.
Herne, travelling among the Indians
was asked by friendly chief for
charm against his enemy Hearne
wrote some words and made some
marks on a piece of paper. The
Indian took care that the facts should
come to his enemy's ears, and the
''brayeo in question forthwith sickemed
tand died. having been killed by his
imagination.
A st. Louis man tells as the truth
that he saw large blacksnake catch
"a rabbit and swallow it and then
crawl part way through the fence and
catch another rabbit. Having swal-
lowed the second morsel the snake
could not crawl backward or forward,
the hole in the fence being too small
Ito allow the rabbits to pass. In that