The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-08-28
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yOmln9 is proud OF one OF It's quail
ifications for Statehood OF it's adult
population only 2 6-10 per cent are
Illiterates.
A Michigan undertaken has invent
ed coffin lid fastener, and is willing
to bet that nobody can unfasten it
from the inside.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont is en-
gagged in writing the biography of old
Kit Carson, General Fremonts favor
ite scout of pioneer days.
What an Ohio farmer plowed up
and took to be the bones of an ancient
ten feet in height turned out to be the
skeletons of two five-foot men.
Yeijiri Ono, sou of poor Japanese
parents. was one of the twelve students
out of 109 vino took the highest hon.
Ors at the Ann Arbor University.
A Methodist church near Joanna
Furnace, Berks county, Pa, was struck
with a lightning bolt which is describ-
ed as ''a ball of lire as large as a spit
toon."
The flood dumped fully 5000, 600
worth of lumber, which could not be
identified. on farms near Milton, Pa.
Many poor men have thus been en-
riched.
Three of the richest merchants in
the country are comparatively young
men. Wanamaker is fifty-one, Mar
shall Field, tifty-three, and Phil Ar
mour. fifty-fve.
Two one-armed men had a desper-
ate fight in Oglethorpe, Ga, the other
day, and were getting in some telling
blows when one-armed man ran be-
tween and separated them.
The Sepoys of India kicked up a
great rebellion about hogs grease, but
their tastes have changed in the last
five years and they now eat American
ham and bacon with as much gusto as
a European.
A Connecticut murderer has been
arrested. lie gave himself up to the
authorities, aud they are Dragging
about it as being one of the sharpcst
| pieces of detective work done in the
State for many years.
A boy in Meriden, Conn.,, broke the
handle off tea-cup belonging to a
neighbor, and the trifie has not only
made enemies of dozen people but
led to several assault and battery
cases and three lawsuits.
Marcellus Pope, Secretary Mobiles
| private secretary, is Il son of Gen.
| John Pope of St Louis. He is a Young
attorney who was recently graduated
from Harvard University, and is a per-
sonal friend of Gen. Noble.
As Henry Wright,a young man aged
25 years, residing near Maud, Mo-,
was passing from his house to his
barn he was stung on each ear by
bee-the two bees stinging him at the
same time. He died in twenty min
utes.
Carl Stekellmann of Columbus, Ind.
the young African explorer and trader,
is about to start on another business
venture to the west coast. He will
take back with him the young African
Prince and return him to his native
| tribe.
A Georgia farmer prevents his cows
from jumping fence by cutting off
their lower eye-lashes-make them
think the fence is three times as high
as it really is. If you cut the upper
lashes, reverse delusion will result,
he says.
Rev. Theodore Dwight-W ooley, ex-
President of Yale College, is 81 years
| VI anu SIIll tuOu2u GO
walk out without any assistance. His
form is bent, and he is evidently very
feeble, but his mental powers are as
vigorous as ever.
An Australian who was hanging to
the beam of bridge and realized that
he must fall made verbal will to a
companion, disposing of about $50, GOO
worth of property, and the courts sus-
tanned it. Once in while the courts
do sensible thing
The market gardens near Boston
have profitable record that cannot
be surpassed by western farms. A
little hot house of cucumbers produc-
ed 500 cucumbers day, and earned
most of the season about three hum
dred dollars week.
A company has been formed in
Gloversville with a capital stock OF
$4,000 for the purchase and sale of
eggs. separating the yolk from the
white. and preparing the same for
commercial purposes, and drying eggs
for domestic and culinary uses.
More onions were raised in t',is
country last year than ever before in a
season. They were such a drug in
several states that farmers hauled thou
sands of bushels out to the woods and
flung them out. That's the one vege-
table that the canneries don't take hold
Of
The Countess de Casa Miranda
(Christine Nilsson) expects to spend
{ the summer quietly in London. She
i is quoted as saying that she has prac-
4 tically retired from the operate stage,
| Al 3 hr1a1 a1u1
, although she may sing in concert
again.
4 According to a Southern exchange
r the negroes of Tiptonville. Tenn., have
Q a novel but effective way of disposing
+ of gamblers. When one of them had
won all-their money on Sunday they
choked him to make him disgorge,
and when he wouldn't they hanged
him for good.
Grand Duke Alexis, the brother of
the Gar, who visited the United States
r several years ago, has been removed
q from his position as Lord High Ad'
4 miral of the Russian feet and sent tC
;. Siberia in disgrace. His conduct to-
= ward the sister of the late Gen. Skobe-
left is the cause.
Lord Archibald Douglas is about tC
undertake a remarkable crusade IL
Scotland. He has hired a caravan
r which he will fit up with all the ac
i cessories for Worship and for his owl
@ residence, and he will travel about th'
n country in his four-wheeled chapel
Q preaching to the scattered population
= whom ho meets with.
. Father Mollinger, of whose pow Ell
as healer the newspapers have latel
been publishing accounts. is a mativ
of Belgium, and labored in the wesl
- ern part of Pennsylvania when he frs
q % came to this country, twenty-five year
ago. He is not faith curer. Ii
70 n gives prescriptions Che was educate
70 for the medical profession). to be file
a =, at a druggists, but enjoins penance
70 prayer and abstinence. Father MolliH
- - ger is said to be of noble parentage
"a ~ and is in receipt of a large incom
y. from estates in Germany.