The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-12-18
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A firm of West Chester nurserymen
is growing Japanese chestnuts, which
are quite large and of sweet flavor.
A bunch of celery containing twelve
stalks has Just been gathered at Kala-
mazoo. 1t weighed thirty-five pounds.
The friends meeting house at Woods
: town, N. j., which has been built 104
years, has just received its first coat of
paint.
An Augusta, Me-, lady started out to
collect 1000, 600 postage stamps. She
has accumulated 200, 900, and is ready
to sell out.
Mr.. Montambeau, of Bay City, had
six white mice. six kittens and a like
number of puppies born into his house
hold on one day.
In Belmont County, Ohio, an old
gobbler attacked and killed playful
young puppy because he persisted in
chasing the young turkeys.
William Slaven, of Ravenswood, w.
Va, is ninety-one years of age. He cuts
his own wood, does his own work and
reads the papers without glasses.
A West Virginian got marriage
license and gave the lady's last name
wrong. When notified of his mistake
he said he really didn't know what her
name was.
That Russia is likely to expend seven
ty millions of roubles in improving her
navy is pretty conclusive proof that she
expects to come to blows with England
again one day.
Men working in an old cellar on
Larned street, Detroit, dug out several
cannon balls. The place where they
were found was near the site of a fort
magazine during the war of 1912.
Isaac Heffelfnger, of Schwenksville,
Pa, was walking through his yard an
evening or two since when he collided
with the clothes line. When he came
to his senses he found his jaw broken.
Jacob Shamoray's children, while on
Shade Mountain, Snyder County,
Pennsylvania, few days ago, came
upon dead snake, and beside it lay
china egg which the reptile must have
swallowed and disgorged in dying.
Two New Yorkers who rode across
the continent to San Francisco on
horseback are reported to have said
that stack of gold bars as high as the
Sierras would not induce them to make
the return trip in the same manner.
In Ventura County, Cal, the wild
morning glory fiourishes so luxuriantly
that it threatens to monopolize all the
tillable land. Farmers there have to
put in vigorous work in the glory of
the morning to oust this vigorous floral
pest.
Mop4raoI 1afaotiro corr fbo,,a
seems to be a mania among poorly paid
clerks in that city just now to embezzle
from their employers and leave for the
United States. There have been eight
reports of the kind at one time at one
station within week.
The loss of coupling pins, says the
Albany Journal, is mystery to rail-
road men. Where they all go to no
one appears to be able to conjecture.
Even in yards where the same cars that
come in go out again additional coup
ling pins are called for constantly. At
the West Albany railroad yard the Cen
trail Hudson Railroad uses carload of
new coupling pins months. 1t is safe
to say that ], 100000 pins are supplied
the West Albany yard in year.
One of the remarkable features about
architecture in New York at present is
the rapidity with which buildings are
completed, particularly the great office
buildings in Wall street and elsewhere
down town. Formerly the construc-
ton of such buildings was matter of
years; now they are finished and occu-
pied in few months after the founda-
tions are laid. Nine and ten-story
buildings which were only begun in
June were ready for their occupants
October 1st.
One of the most wonderful manu-
factures of recent growth is that of
catsup. A great number of factories
have originated in the past ten years,
and competing brands are as plentiful
as those in any line of manufactured
articles. Tomato catsup has conquered
the world. In our younger days our
mothers used TO put a supply about this
time every year for winter use, and it
was condiment occasionally served
at the table. Now it has taken its
place with salt and pepper in daily use.
Some people eat it three times a day,
and many millions of gallons are re-
quired to supply the annual demand.
This popularity of the catsup has made
tomatoes as profitable crop as wheat,
and many farmers plant acres of vines
every year just to supply the catsup
factories. At 20 cents bushel an acre
of tomatoes is always profitable. The
farmer simply fills his wagon bed with
the ripe fruit and hauls the load to
town. There is no waste, for the ripper
the fruit the better for catsup. The
old world is now using American cat
sup, and the trade is always on the in
crease.