The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-02-07
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ton. died recently at Keyport, N. j.,
aged 81. He was the oldest resident
of the place.
A talking piano, operated by num-
erous keys and producing words of all
kinds, is one of the curiosities of
New York museum.
The experiment of rice cultivation
has been successfully tried in Cali
fornia. There arc large tracts of land
adapted to this grain.
Two-wheeled vehicles are growing
in popularity. In some places market
mems carts aud carts for pleasure
driving 90 upon two wheels.
The Emperor of Austria has learned
the American game of poker, and the
edict against that game which IS now
in force in Austria is to be rescinded.
Charles Jackson, Virginian. has
spent thirty-lwo years looking for Il
buried treasure, and is not discouraged
yet. He says all things come to him
who waits,
Susan Julia Malinda Maria Savan-
nah Sophia Elizabeth Lady-Bug Tow
ers is the brief and captivating title of
poor little colored girl in De Kalb
county, Georgia.
The rare ruby once presented by
King Louis of Bavaria to Lola Montez
and valued at $40. 600, is now the prop
erty of Mrs. j. B. Haggin, wife OF the
California turfman.
Wild ducks are hunted so persist
emily on the SusGuehanna flats that
they are diminishing in number. The
'canvas-back" is destined to become u
greater luxury than ever.
Small loss would Esq" be if Amer
leans discarded it. 1t is absolutely
without meaning in its current use,
and does nothing to compensate for
the time il takes to write it.
In answer to the question, ''What
becomes of all the cracked and used
up billiard balls?" New York con-
temporary says that those of real ivory
are bought up and cut into dice and
other small articles.
Emperor William is having Pull
man car bui.t which will cost $50, 100.
The Emperor always pays the expenses
of his railway travel. He pays l 1-2
marks CSC cents) per mile for the loco
motive and y pfennigs mile for each
pair of wheels.
The disuse of bobtail cars in New
York must be considered the result of
agitation. The entire stock of tiftv-
two discarded bob-tail cars on one
road was recently trundled away for
transportation, much to the pleasure
of their New York patrons.
William Black, the novelist, is de-
scribed as tightly built, 1.-the of limb.
strong in the arm, capable of great
physical endurance, below the medium
height, with short black hair, thick
brown mustachc, dark hazel ewes, a
firm mouth, and Il square forehead.
Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, the author,
lives in a bright and cheerful old house
in PittsIield, Mass. She is very fond
of antique furniture and relics, and her
home contains many choice pieces of
old mahogany. In her cupboard is an
ancestral dinner set of rare old loves
toft china.
George W. Childs, of Philadelphia.
possesses the original manuscript of
Dickens 'Our Mutual Friend" 1t is
the only manuscript of Dickens, with
the exception of II few short stories,
outside of the South Kensington Mus
cum. Mr.. Childs has refused $4,000
for. it.
The Austrian military bill is quite as
severe as the German one The age of
conscription is raised from twenty to
twenty-one, a grave interference with
mans work; and the duration of SER
vice is fixed at ten years. three Of them
in the barracks and seven with The
regular reserves.
Bishop Vladimer of The Greek church
IN America has the largest diocese in
the world. 1t includes all of North
America TO BuenoS Avres in South
America. The Bishop lives in Sitka,
but spends Il good deal of his time in
San Francisco. He is now visiting his
North American diocese.
There is n bootoIack in the New
York City Hall who is quite curlosi-
ty. He has one arm off below the ell
bow, and wears wooden limb strap
ped tightly to the stump. To this
wooden arm is fastened a brush, and
he uses it as ardentlv as the one held
iii the hand he has remaining.
Lady Herbert of Lea is said to have
encountered the other day in New
York, in the garb of Il Little Sister of
the Poor, young lady who was, "a
few years ago, one of the wealthiest
and most songht-after bellies of Lon
don, relinquishing that station to ac-
cept the humber one in which she now
moves.
Paddy Lane, the author of the Irish |
bull that he would rather be "a coward |
for five minutes Than dead man all |
the rest of his life,' - has recently per-
petrated another. Speaking of his as !
sallant, Kavanagh, he said, II won't |
say anything hard of him. If he has |
done wrong | leave it to his own con-
science and God to play the devil with |
him."
Queen Victoria is said to be greatly |
angered by some of the published |
passages in the memoirs of the Duke |
of Saxe-Goburg-Gotha. Among these
are certain private letters of the late |
Prince Consort, especially the one at
lacking Lord Palmerston.- She is also |
displeased by the reference to Napol- |
con III. and the Empress Eugene,
who is numbered among her most in
innate personal friends.
The Princess of Wales inherits her
unfortunate deafness from her mother
and not from her father, says the Pail |
Mall Gazette. But the Queen of Den
mark makes up, like her daughter, for
weakness in her ears by exceptional |
brilliance in her eyes. 1t is from her
mother, too, that the Princess inherits
her gift of perennial youth, for the |
Queen. though now we'll stricken in
years, looks ut least ten or fifteen years
Younger than she is.
Mrs. Amelia Rives-C -Chanler was op-
posed to the publication of her novel,
.'Ihe Quick or the Deads' in book
form. She is anxious to have the story
forgotten by the public as soon as pos
sible, but her publishers insisted in
bringing out the book in permanent
form. Mrs. Chanler feels that she has
1T in her to write something of value
some day. and she does not care to
have the literary errors of her youth
forever staring her in the face.
A tremendously large gun of some
Two hundred tons is being built at the
Woolwich arsenal. Its projectile is to
weigh two tons, and when it is mount
ed on some point of the English coast.