The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-05-09

voted for Abraham Lincoln, is still
alive and vigorous.
Col. B. j. Jordan and Mrs. M. J.
Read were married the other day in
Rockbridge County, Virginia. The
groom is 75 and the bride 20.
Mr.. Charles johnson, aged %, son
OF Kansas City grain-dealer, has
been offered situation as artist for
Rarper's Weekly at salary of $4,000
year.
A man at Walla Walla, w. T., eats
an egg for each year of his life on
every birthday. Hewas recently forty
two, and ate that number of eggs on
that day.
A Connecticut newspaper, speaking
of American ladies who have married
British noblemen, refers to 1.-THE
duchess of Marlborough, nee Widow
Hammersley."
! While the church members of San
Jose, Cal, were raising $1,000 rs an
inducement for certain revivalist to
start q revival in the town q poor,
Aard-working man died of starvation.
An oyster recently dredged up in
English waters measured inches in
aCBklu3 tuC SLillC III DIcdoLu, duo &O4
5nehes around the outside edge. and
weighed three and a half pounds.
An Irishman named Casey died re-
Gently in Albuquerque very wealthy.
BY his will he left to General j. A.
Williamson, of Iowa, nearly $500, 200
for favor to Casey long ago forgot
ten.
Mrs. Martha Yoakley of Sullivan
County, Tennessee, celebrated her
1I3th birthday Jan, 1, 1889. Her hus-
band committed suicide at the advanc-
ed age of SO some years since. but the
old lady never married again.
A duck was killed in Spottsylvania
County, Virginia, which had a nail
zwo inches long protruding through
fbe gizzard into the entrails. 1t seemed
to cause the duck no Inconvenience,
as it was as lively as cricket before
it was killed.
Mormons of the conservative type
complain that converts are being made
too fast, and that the character of the
women in particular, is not up to the
mark. Some of them even show tenn
per toward their liege lords, thing
strictly forbidden by mormon rules.
Mime. Patti, while in Paris recently,
formally adopted as her own child the
only daughter of her husband by his
divorced and dead wife. This girl,
who is about 16 years of age, is said
10 be possessed of rare beauty. She
is now installed in the diva's castle in
Wales.
James Whitcomb Riley is authority
for the statement that Private Secreta-
ry Elijah Halford was never known to
whistle in his life. MIR. Riley and MIR.
Halford were brought up together in
the same newspaper Office, and it may,
therefore, be assumed that MIR. Riley
knows whereof he speaks.
Vaccination is compulsory in Eng
land and optional in France. In the
large cities of France the number of
deaths from smallpox was 1856, or
OBJ per 1000 of the living population.
In the large cities of England during
the same period the number of deaths
was 332, or 0.04 per 1000.
Jacob Cover of Chambersburo, Pa.
has in his possession II copper badge
worn at Washington inauguration,
100 years ago. In the ccntre is eu-
graved an eagle W ith outstretched
wings, above the head of which is a
star. Around the edge is inscribed,
"March the Fourth, 1889. Memorable
Era"
A correspondent recommends tar
smoke for diptheria cure. His treat.
ment is to put few drops of tar, like
that used in shipyards, on a warm
stove lid and to require the patient to
inhale and swallow the smoke ten times
a day for five minutes each time. He
has been. invariably successful in his
experiments.
The ballet pantomime, "The Belle
Sofia" now being produced at Cassel,
pictures Bulgaria and introduces the
emperors of Austria and Russia, the
sultan, the kings of Greece and Italy
and Bismarck. In the final scene the
emperor of Germany sits on his throne,
surrounded by dancing beauties, with
Bismarck by his side.
An English gentleman who has been
making tour of New Zealand, saws:
i once saw a Maori that / knew walk |
1ng up and down the veranda of a |
hotel, and looking very much disguised |
about something. On my asking him |
what was the matter, he told me that |
ne had had thirteen glasses of whisky |
and couldn't get drunk.
Mrs. Mckee, the Presidents Young
married daughter, is, according to |
the Albany Journal, the Mrs. Cleve-
land of the new Administration. She
has, it is said, the happy faculty of
making every person she meets for
the first time believe that she has a
particular interest in his or her well
fare and acquaintance.
The athletic culture fad, which orig
mated in Boston. and has been steadily
spreading, has now reached Milwau-
kee. where young women are evincing
a lively interest in it. A new feature
of the fad is the craze for fencing and
boxing-two masculine accomplish
ments, which, for some reason, are yerv
dear to the feminine mind.
The state telegraphs in England still
fail to meet expenses. The outlay last
year exceeded the receipts by more
than six thousand pounds, and there
was still interest to pay upon loan of
f1O, O,S80.571. The total deficiency
therefore. to no less sum
than 4332, sol: Since 1872 the coun-
try has paid in taxation towards the !
working of the telegraphs the enorm-
OuS SuuI VI 1O,OOl ,fuO. SIS
The Ironwood (Mich.) Times relates
that the other day freight brakeman
on the Lake Shore Road was ordered
to get the number of eight ore cars in
the train taken on at Wakefield. He
stood ON the platform as the cars
passed by at moderate rate of speed
and read the numbers, all of which
we're in the ten thousands. Without
writing them down he went to the con-
ductor and reported the numbers. 1t
was afterwards ascertained that all
we're correct.
With all their affection and frank
,ess, the Maori children seem to have
40 idea of obedience. The babies are
carried slung on the backs of the moth
,rs in shawls, like the papooses of our
indians. The women have their ears
pierced for wearing ornaments, of
which the sharks tooth is a favorte:
,ut some, with an inventiveness not
oun6 amonO fhair nivili1ad ,;nt..r |