The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-30
GEN. sHER1nAN's life was insured

GEN. SHERIDAN's life was insured
for $4,000.
GIRLS are employed as shingle pack.
ers in the mills at Bay City, Mich.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY. California, rails
ed 2,600, 900 pounds of honey last year.
A MINNEAPOLIS architect proposes to
erect in that city a building twenty
eight stories b gh.
CHICAGO claims the biggest map
factory in the world. The annual out
put is one million per week.
THERE is only one Hebrew daily pa
per in the United States-the Jewish
Gazette, of New York city.
A NECKLACE of human knuckle.
bones was the recent gift received by
q missions.y from a partial chief.
AT Coshocton, o., two men recently
paid $1,000 each for killing fish in the
Walhondoping river with dynamite.
LOGAN, a son of Speaker Carlisle,
ia going to Maine, to actively engage
in the political canvass as a speaker.
RoBERT LINCOLN says that the only
protection he found in Europe was his
umbrella, as it rained five days in ev
cry week.
One MILLION dollars in counterfeit
coin and notes will be destroyed by
the Treasury Department within q
few days.
A CROP REPORT of the Pioneer Press
places the wheat crop of Minnesota
and Dakota at between 10000, 900 and
1O0, ,O00, ,0UJ bushels.
CoNTRIBU rIoN to Table Philosophy
w. S. Gilbert: ut is not what is
on the table but what is on the chairs
that consider"
THERE is at least one Dig volcano in
1his colntry-Mount Wrangel, Alas
ka. Sometimes the smoke rises 500, 900
feet above its crater.
A CITIZEN of Winneconne, Wis,
has succeeded in tempering brass. and
has exhibited brass knives aud axes
that will cut seasoned hemlOck knots
without turning the edge.
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Some of
the richest men in England owe all
their wealth to beer. And some of
the poorest men there owe all their
poverty to beer.
BLAINE, while in Congress wanted
coal, lumber and salt put on the free
list. Wherein has salt lost its SAVIOR,
or lumber and coal their economic of
fees, that they should not be admitted
free now?
FARMERS of Crawford county, ILL.,,
have notified the State Department
that they will raise no wheat, barley
or rye for the ensuing three years, to
achieve, if possible, the extinction of
the chinch bug
1T is estimated that $4,000 mocking
birds are caught monthly in the inn.
mediate vicinity of New Orleans. 1t
is thought that their wholesale cap
ture will soon result in their extinction
In Louisiana.
PHoToGRAPHERs at the Adrien-
dacks keep on hand large strings of
fine trout. Tourists come along and
have themselves photographed with
these trout in their hands, as trophies
of their skill in angling.
ANGRY SUBSCRIBER Ito Editor)-"I
am mad all the way through, and
want my paper stopped" Editor
Z" Yes, sir; do you want your bill made
Out?" Angry Subscriber" No, 1 am
not mad enough for that. my. Sun.
JOHN DUKE, of N. Y, one of the
men who laid the first stone in the
of the Tombs prison, and
its first occupant for misdemeanor, af-
tar completion, is in st. Francis Hos
pital in that city his life slowly ebbing
out, from old age.
BEN. BUTTERwoRTH was nomina-
ted for Congress, by reclamation, by
he 1st (CincinnatD district in conven-
ion the 23d inst. On the same date
Judge Caldwell was placed in nemina.
ion by the Republicans in the End
district.
WITH a tariff on wool, we imported
AS. 600 900 worth of woolen goods last
year. With free wool, all these goods
IAN be manufactured in this country,
With consequent additional employ.
nent at increased wages.