The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-07-26
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THE order of Sons of Veterans now

STARK COUNTY has seventeen news
papers, i've of which are published
daily.
A SCHOONER recently brought to
Boston fish Weighing 175 pounds.
caught in deep sea fishing, that no one
can name. 1t is almost as broad as
long, bright red, and covered with sill
Yer spots.
THE total number of stamped envel
opes made at the United States envel.
ops agency at Hartford, Conn.,. during
the year ending June 30th, was 4SS,-
629 900.
SEVEN hundred tn Ousand acres Of
forest have already been planted In
Nebraska; the cottonwood and the
willow first, and then the soft naples
and the hard woods.
SINCE the death of their only child.
Mrs. McKinley's health has failed
completely, 1t is said and her husband,
Representative Mckinley, has to nurse
her constantly.
EBEN E. Rex ford, of Appleton, Wis.,,
who became celebrated by his "Silver
Threads Among the Gold," and On
" a Pansy Blossom" and who was
years ago prolific verse writer, in his
green old age is stranger to the mus
es, seldom writing.
BISHOP PERRY, of Iowa, at present
in England, has received the degree of
sd. ID. Oxon from the University of
Oxford. He shares this honor with
but one other living American, Rev.
Phillips Brooks, of Boston.
BELLE HAMLIN, the bay mare, on
the 18th inst. trotted trial half mile
heat at the Buffalo Driving Park in
1:O21, a 2:O8 gait. This beats the world,
Maud 8. included.
N. Y. TIMES: The passage of the
Mills bill complete a record upon
which the supporters of the President
can go to the country with confidence
that they deserve success, which ought
of itself to go far toward commanding
success.
CINCINNATI VOLKsFREUND Now
that slavery is abolished, we are sur
prised that it lasted so long. This
will also be the case with the war tax
which at present is mentioned under
the deceitful name of protection.
HAVING declared for free whisky
the Republicans naturally want free
sugar to put into it. With these they
expect the workingman to drown hii
sorrows, and render him insensible t.
the shame of having to wear ragged
clothes on Sunday.
AMONG President Cleyeland's callers
the other day was John Winchell, o.
Detroit, aged 81, who had come per
sonally to urge the passage of bill tG
pay him arrears of pension granted in
1884, for wounds received in 1914 al
Lundy's Lane.
A NEW insect has appeared in some
parts of the Western Reserve and il
doing great damage to oats. It IL Z
little red louise, which burrows at thu
roots of the kernel, sucks the juice
and causes the kernel to wither anC
turn white. Medina county fields arr
suffering from it.
The Republican press end leaders
In continually parading free trade,
rs applied to q measure of tariff reform
in the matter of an average of sever
per cent. reduction, are conveniently
Oblivious to the fact that the Republi
can Tariff Commissioner of 1882 rec
commended reduction of 2l per cent
N. Y. WORLD: A protectionist or
gan insists that . Free wool means an
actual beginning of absolute fre,
trade" Did free hides mean the act
nal beginning of absolute free trade
And has that policy destroyed the
cattle raising industry? On the con
frary, has it not added largely to oul
tanning business. and to the manufac
ture and export of leather goods?
IT is told of Dr. Boswell, the new
editor of the Nashville Christian Ad
vocate, that early in his ministry hs
met q pair of eloping lovers on whom
the angry father was gaining rapidly
and married them while the horses O.
all three were at full gsllop, and there
by won pardon of the old man, wht
SLOWED to see things done that dashins
way
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard Col
1ege, says he is not mugwump. III.
says, ann Democrat, and intenG
to vote the party ticket" The prin
cipal educators of the country anG
those enlightened on industrial anG
governmental economy, as a rule, are
like Presidsnt Eliot, in accord with
the Democratic party on the tariff
question.
TRAMP-"I know it, ma'am Tn
always out of work, but it's all my
cussed luck" Woman-"How is that
Door man?" Tramp" It's this way
ma'am. In the winter I feel like NOW
ing lawns, and ia the summer / jus
actually crave to shovel snow. and ma
4ure continually balks me. Have yoI
such thing as pie in the house P
THarper's Bazaar.
COLUMBUS G. A. r. have appointed
a press committee of leading newspa
per men, and invitations will be sen
10 625 daily papers, including IA in
Ohio. Representatives of these are t.
be entertained by the committee. con
sisting of 80 members of the encamp
ment. who will be on duty twenty fou
bours Of each day.