The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-10-23
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Mrs. Oscar Wilde is one of the most
popular woman orators in England.
Ben Buffers portrait is to be hung
in the rotunda of the State Capital Of
New Hampshire.
A horse with bogus tail and aglass
eye was sold the other day in Garrett
county, West Virginia, for $3.50.
Mrs. Gen. Logan and Miss Florence
Pullman will spend the rest of the sea-
SON in London. So will Mrs. Gen.
Mcclellan.
The multiplication of 9S7, ,654, 1921 by
45 gives A, ,444, 444,445. Reversing
the order and multiplying 124. .456, ,7S9
by As result equally odd is obtained
-55, ,555, ,555, sos.
Henry Hodges of Lampasas. Tex,
is claimed to be the oldest living Ma
son and Democrat. He is said to be
109 years old, and to have cast his first
vote for Thomas Jefferson.
When pigs in clover fell upon the
London market it cost shilling. A
week afterward it came down to 6
pence, and to-day it is being sold like
wildfire in the streets at penny.
Mr.. Alden, editor of Harper's Maga-
zine, declares that Amelie Rlves-
Chanler is ..the most wonderful liter
ary genius of this century" and that
the next ten years will vindicate his
judgment.
In the painting of him recently pre-
sented to the Boston Medical Library,
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes is repre-
sented sitting in an armchair at a
desk, writing. 1t is said to be an ex-
cellent likeness.
Ezra Murphy of Montpelier, Ind, j,
recently ate four dozen eggs at one
sitting, washed them down with two
drinks of whisky, and wound up his
feast with four large cocoanuts as des-
sert. And he still lives.
Mrs. Catherine Schmidt of Wichita,
Kas., widow with a family of three
children, was found guilty of selling
three glasses of beer and sentenced to
Imprisonment for three months. and q
fine of $500 was imposed.
Bryce Williams, one of the few sur
vivors of Waterloo, died recently at
Perth. He piped to the Seventy-ninth
Highlanders on the field, and also took
part in the entry of the victorious
British army into Paris.
The Sultan will hereafter keep cool
while sitting in state, as a system of
fans, worked by shaft from the rear,
can be set in motion when he desires.
The power behind the throne will be
a muscular Turk, who turns the crank.
Jacob L. Doty, who is to marry
Princess Polona, owes his appointment
as Consul to the Society Islands to a
friendliness ex-Secretary Bayard con-
ceived for him when he was serving
as page in the United States Senate.
The Rev. Peter Havermans of Troy.
N. Y, recently celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of his ordination as a
priest-a length of service that is
claimed to outrank any other in the
try.
Engineer Burke of the British man
of war Calliope, the only vessel which
escaped from Apia Harbor during the
great storm there, has been promoted
to be Fleet Engineer as a reward for
his services in enabling the vessel to
steam out of the harbor.
Capt. "Jake' Vanderbilt, only sur
viving brother of Commodore Wander
bilt, visits New York every day by a
morning boat from st. George fStaten
Island) and returns in time for spin
behind his trotter, s'Boston Boy."
Though over 80 years old, Capt. Van
derbilt is said to look much younger
and to be as hale as though only half
that age.
Editor SIngerly of the Philadelphia
Record began fighting the coal syndi-
cate five years ago by selling coal at
actual cost. When he began the price
was $6.75 ton. In five years Mr..
Singerly has sold 1872. .730 tons of coal.
receiving therefor $721, ,68O.70. and
has forced the present price down to
$3.50 per ton, the lowest figure for
twenty-nine years.
It is queer fact that deaf persons
who can not hear ordinary conversa-
tion anywhere else can hear the most
casual and low-toned remarks when
they are riding in railroad cars. 81
cannot explain it" deaf woman said
in speaking of it, "but the rattle OF
the cars seems to drown the ringing
in my ears, and all my acquaintance
who are deaf notice the same thing"
The wife of Count Tolstoi, the Rus
sian novelist, is, like the wives OF
many literary men, the business mem
ber of the family firm. she has sole
charge of the sale and distribution OF
her husbands books, and is his amanu-
ensis, reviser and translator. Besides
all this, she superintends the bringing
no and education of their thirteen
children, and looks after all domestic
matters.
Fl. Clay King, leading lawyer OF
Memphis and a married man, has
brought suit to recover all his property
which he decided to Mrs. Mary E. Pill.
low, widow of Gen. Gideon j. Pillow.
Mr.. King says that since 1883 Mrs.
Pillow has ''cost him 5000 and all
the property he possessed" She is
now in possession of his entire estate,
even including a ..favorite shotgun
and thoroughbred bull-pup." which
was valued highly. Rather an expen-
sive pillow, even for king.
Prince Bismarck has not a high
opinion of the conversational powers
of Sovereigns and Princes regnant in
general. At the lunch which he gave
to certain Deputies and other distin.
guished visitors in Berlin the other
day he was talking of King Ludwig
II. of Bavaria. HE was a man Of
high intellectual culture" said Bis
marck. 81 once had an interesting
interview with him in 1868. His con.
versation was far superior to that oi
most Princes, which almost always il
like this: How are youP How are
you feelingP Have you ever been
here before2'"
A Philadelphia boy, who gave all he
owned in the world to the flood suffer.
ers-a box of toys-has won the last.
ing admiration of the people of Reno.
vo, to which place the gift was sent by
the Philadelphia Committee. The boz
went to Remove with carload ol
clothing and provisions, and when
unpacked the toys and ascore of fancy
colored cards tumbled out. There
was also this touching letter in a
child's writing: ''This is the best
can do, my dear friend. Pray for me
and God bless you" ''Where is there