The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-20
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Dench Wnle the lawyers aro mdk1uS
their pleas.
At a fair in an eastern Ohio town
lady invested 10 cents in a ticket and
drew pig.
A dog and hawk were seen in fierce
combat near Norristown recently. The
bird was victor.
A Lancaster youth of twelve years
has built toy engine. Two men at
tempted to test it and got badly
scalded.
Peat fiber is coming into considerable
use in the manufacture of brown paper,
being about so per cent cheaper tEan
wood pulp.
The grade of the cogged-track rail-
way which is being built at Pixies Peak,
Col, will be twenty-five feet to the one
hundred, or 1920 feet to the mile.
Natural gas is becoming scarce in the
Ohio Valley. and the majority of the
largest manufacturers at Pittsburg are
gradually resuming the use of coal.
Among the aged domestic animals
owned by Farmer Brown, of Tuscar-
awas County, Ohio, are dog sixteen
years of age, a cat that is nearly seven
teen, rooster of thirteen summers
and cow of twenty-five.
People who object to shutting up
shop fifty-two days in the year would
not make good citizens of Servia, as it
is stated that law, rigidly enforced,
compels all business to stop on Sundays
and holy days, which count up l8O in
the year.
A Young farmer and his best girl liv-
ing in Tyler County, West Virginia,
have established a code of signals
whereby they communicate with one
another when they are both at home.
Their abodes are on opposite hilltops
nearly two mile]apart.
Charles P. Houpt, of Germantown,
recently sold an old Bible for $125. 1t
was Bradbury edition, published in
Philadelphia, and one of the first pub
lished in this country. Very few cop
les are now in existence. The pur-
chaser was a descendant of the pub
Usher.
The managing director of a big tea
dealing firm in London stated that he
once saw leading broker in Mincing
lane have sixty teas ranging within l
penny per pound in value, weighed up
in duplicate, the 120 pots numbered
and mixed up, he then picking out the
sixty duplicates without q single mis-
take.
The State Horticultural Society of
California has decided that the fig
culture promises most of all the
branches of fruit planting in the coun-
try. 1t recommends also the more eX-
tensive cultivation of apricots and
prunes. The grating of the Japan
plum has produced remarkable results
in California.
A German scientist wishes to deter
mine, by means of photography, if the
moon is inhabited, and it is said that
the King of Wurtenburg has decided,
in order to solve the interesting prob
lem, to cause to be made, in the best
possible condition, photographs of the
moon; then to enlarge the negative
100000 times.
One of the notable men in Pulaski
County, Virginia, is William Craig.
He is eighty-five years old and the
father of twenty-one children, the
youngest being twenty-nine years OF
age and the oldest sixty-five. His wife
is eighty-four. He works on his farm
every day and says he feels as young
as when only forty.
We do not wonder at the strike in
the public schools in Scotland, fol
pupils all through the United Kingdom
are beginning to understand that brutal
treatment is nowhere else practiccd in
schools as in the British Isles. If 6
teacher were to use cane in an Amer
lean school as it is used by Englisl
masters, he would be assaulted by the
indignant parents.
A letter from Paris says that at :
Buffalo Bills show popcorn is sold be
tween the first and second parts, and il
is added: ''It was fun to see the peo
pie when they first tasted after smell.
ing it. A single grain was cautiously
put between the lips and masticated
A look of delighted surprise spread
over the face as the novice exclaimed
why, it's maize and honey; Peanuts
were being roasted and sold under 8
fine name-Algerian almonds"
The work of William Duncan among
the Indians of the Northwest coast has
received such commendation recently
from Bostonians, that Mr.. Ballou's
testimony may be added as interesting
corroboration from a traveller. In his
new book upon Alaska Mr.. Ballou say.
of the missionary: by his individual
effort, with almost miraculous success
he raised from the depths of barbarous
life, law-abiding, religious, industri
Gus and self-supporting community
who justly consider him their mora
and physical savior"
A curious industry of North Dakota,
which will decrease in time, is buffalo
bone picking. The vast herds of buf.
falo have been slaughtered and theil
skins sold, and now the pioneers make
merchandise of the bones scattered
over the prairies. The bones are ship
ped to st. Louis or Chicago and turned
into glue and fertilizers. Kansas, Col
orado, Nebraska and even older states
have all been the scene of this strange
contribution to wealth, and no one
knows how many thousands of car
loads have thus been CLEANED after the
slaughter of the American bison.
An eastern Tennessee woman who
went out to Utah as Il mormon con-
vert, came back disguised some tim,
since, and made her report to her ole
neighbors. The consequence is tina
the white Caps" took some visiting
mOTulOH elueIS III naQu ana let then
off with a warning. TIE elders disap
peared, but returned few davs since
and We're seen amorg the people whom
they had been trying to proselyte
Thereupon the white Caps warned
every person living in the district no
to allow the elders to darken thei
doors, and since then there have beel
no more conversions to mormonism.
An eccentric character who had ac
quired a fortune in Australia recentl,
died in England. He spent his none,
very freely. He purchased valuabl
articles and invariably destroyed them
A gold watch was smashed up the mo
ment it was bought, the back of si
yer watch was wrenched off so as to b
more convenient for winding up, th
straw was taken out of a new nattres
for pig bedding springs taken out of
new easy chair, shelves out of tn
house for fire-wood. clocks broken u
and thrown away, bread burned dali
in the fire, legs of mutton and sides G
bacon were buried in the garden, valu
able plants and trees were bought an