The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-04-04
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the past season.
The Lord Mayor of London received
$4,000 letters last year. 1t is not
stated how many he wrote.
1t is said that church pews have
averaged 10 per cent higher this year
all over the country in re-renting.
The population of Africa is eighteen
TO the square mile; in Europe there
are elghty-eight to the same space.
Twenty-Five million pies are made
in Boston every year. Dyspepsia aud
culture thus 90 ever hand in hand.
There are over twenty thousand
young women in Great Britain study
ing with the idea of some day bios
soming into stars.
A Pekin newspaper has just finished
a serial story which contained 2.O4O
chapters. You get the worth of your
money in China.
The California legislature has evolved
a new word. 1t is ''ditflequibble,"
meaning flank attack on main ques-
fion by critieisin9 some minor detail.
The heaviest leather belt ever put in
an establishment is 60 inches wide and
140 feet long and weighs 1000 pounds.
1t will drive 1000 horse power ma
chinery.
General Lew Wallace says that he
has seen Il thousand men receive
wounds, and he never knew one to
swear when struck. 1t is like falling
off wharf. The swear comes after
the shock of surprise.
stGentlemen, felt that was respon-
sible to God for that boys future"
said Silas Lapham, a Connecticut farm
er, when on trial for starving and
pounding a poorhOuse boy. He was
lined $50 and the boy taken away.
Fire Company No. 10, of Cincinnati,
owns a dog which is said to have saved
the lives of several tiremen. The ami
NAL is described as a large, handsome
Newfoundland, and is credited with
being able to climb a ladder three
stories high.
South Carolina always hangs muir
derer in public, and she defies any one
to find q spectator of any hanging
who has subsequently taken human
life. She claims that every execution
makes a profound impression of the
vengeance of the law.
A Council Bluffs coroner's jury the
other day brought in the following
verdict: 1--WE find that the deceased
came TO his death by being crushed
under falling sand bank, and we
therefore recommend that an inspector
of sand banks be appointed.
In Cocamonga, Cal, pretty SER
want girl has captured millionaire
aged seventy-nine and named Daniel
Hamilton. He has four children. thir-
teen grandchildren and one great
grandchild, and all objected to the
marriage, but could not stop it,
A Poughkeepsie man, who is suing
for a divorce, stated, among other
reasons for wishing to be rid of his
wife, that she was too stylish. She
used three clean towels in one week in
the house. while he. before marriage
could get along three weeks with only
one.
Stoddard county. Missouri, has a
boy preacher only six years of age.
He never went to school day i'll his
life and can neither read nor write.
1t is said that his sermons are very
able; he is sound reasoner aud deep
thinker, and he breaches like veteran.
He quotes from the Bible from inem-
Ory.
It is proposed to establish an insur-
ance company to guarantee editors
against loss from libel suits. The State
of Minnesota has sensible libel law
which renders all insurance unneces-
sary. 1t provides, in the absence of
malice, that the retraction of the al
legged libelous matter shall be sufficient
atonement.
In Alsace-Lorraine four young girls
have been formally forbidden to teach
French. by the directors of the district,
and are threatened with expulsion if
they transgress the command. Two
others were officially warned on sus-
picion, the teaching of French being
regarded by the authorities as an un-
lawful profession.
A Danbury, Conn.,. man who was
found in a snow bank and pronounced
dead, was taken to the station house.
Half an hour afterward he arose and
attempted to walk off, to the great as
tonishment of the policemen who were
standing about. He explained that
while drunk he fell into the snow and
became unconscious from the cold, re-
Snaining so until thawed out by the
heat in the police quarters.
Rover Best, colored burglar, who
was recently arrested in Brooklyn, has
varied the traditions of his profession
by offering, if released, to divulge the
secret of perpetual life, which he claims
to have discovered, and also to submit
n plan by which midnight burglaries
would become entirely impossible. 1t
is needless TO say that the proposition
of this modern miracle-worker has been
refused.
Americus and Sumter county can
boast of the Oldest horses and mules of
any city or county in the state of Georgia.
There are seven horses whose ages will
aggregate 200 years. and six mules
whose ages will aggregate the same.
Some of them are remarkably young
looking and get about in as lively
manner as if they were only five years
old. One of the horses included in the
estimate was offered for sale ut auction
recently that is known to be thirty
years old.
''There are two evils in relation to the
body of which teachers should speak
freely to their scholars" says Superin-
tendent MacAllister. of the Philadel-
phia schools. First, the use of ci-
garettes; and, secondly, the evils of
tight lacing. The tobacco evil is very
much greater than the drink evil, and
there is no question but that from first
20 last it is certainly injurious to the
mind. The physical and mental pow
ers arc directly affected by tight laciug
and cramped in action and distorted
for all time
The Albany Journal says the stove
manufacturers of that city have been
gradually having more and more of
their stoves made by contract in the
western states until now many of the
largest foundries in the city are closed
wholly or in part, hundreds of skillful
workmen are idle about the streets,
and the threatened loss of it's stove in
dustry stares the city in the face.
The causes of the decline are the
cheapness of labor at the West and
the refusal of Albany workmen to SUBJ
snit to n reduction of wages.
The order of Dominican Nuns, which
Archbishop Corrigan is about to i'm
iroduce into New York, is singularly
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