The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-07-25
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E. L. Messimer, of Pottstown, while
plowing on Sunday, turned up Q Hp-
peny-bit of 1878 almost as bright %
new.
The wreck of our war vessels In the
Samoan harbor of Apia entaiied .
loss to the United States of over a.
100000.
A young doctor in Camden, n. J.,
is courting an undertaker's daughter.
1t will be good thing for the under
taker.
Constable Ike Smith, of Birming-
ham, Ala, has cat which has devel-
oped material affection for litter Of
orphaned puppies.
Mr.. McMackin, of Ell Verando, Cal,
raised beet that weighed 112 pounds.
Three COWS fed on it for four days and
then didn't eat it all.
The elephant is sharing the fate of
the buffalo. 1t is predicted that
twenty years hence not a single wild
elephant will be found on the globe.
In divorce case at Pittsburg, Pa,
woman testified that soon after mar
riage her husband laid down a rule
that she was not to eat meat, butter,
eggs OF lard.
An electric fire engine is a new in
vention. 1t can be started at full
speed, is much lighter than the steam
fire engine, and possesses various other
advantages.
From Harmon station. a small place
in Louisiana, ], ,240 bushels of straw
berries were shipped in six days.
Some of the berries were four inches
in diameter.
An Ithaca woman, who is only
twenty-eight years old, has been mar
ried four times. One husband is dead,
one is in state prison, one is divorced,
and she lives with the fourth.
A Tacoma (W. I'd paper says that
place is being blessed with a perfect
cloud-burst of babies. 1t reports the
birth of twenty baby boys and dainty
girls in different parts of the town.
John Shane had his red mustachs
dyed beautiful black in Cincinnati
barber shop two months ago, but now
he has none Mt all. His lips were
poisoned and are slowly being eaten
away.
At Franklin, Ind. two sisters, in
dignant because young man deserted
one of their family whom he had been
courting, followed him to his new
girls house, and there on the doorstep
gave him good thrashing.
Captain A. S. Allen, of Zebulon, Ga,
set out mulberry tree fifty-tive years
ago. 1t was then about as large as Q
walking stick. Now it is eighteen feet
in circumference, and is the largest
tree of its kind in the state.
A New York bootblack of an enter
prising turn of mind sends out his
business cards with the inscription:
''Shoes sh ined by week or month at
your residence daily, or other job work
done. Send for me by mail.
A ghost has appeared near Akron.
Ala, at point on the railroad where
q man was run over and killed last
summer. A ghostly figure in white.
with arms extended, was seen riding
there by young couple who were Out
riding the other evening. Both were
badly scared, and so was the horse.
The widest guesses have been made
in Paris and other parts of France az
to the range of vision from the Eiffei
tower. The real limit, according to
in Fontainebleau, Nantes and Pom
toise, while even this area can only
be viewed in exceptional clear weather.
There was dearth of hyacinths in
London this year, on account of COM
mercial reasons. Previous large sales
of the flower has reduced the price Of
the root, so that the Dutch growers
will not permit the blooms to be eol-
lected. They are allowed to die upon
the ground and then are carted off in
heaps.
The oldest war horse is not dead,
after all. 1t is alive at the age OF
thirty-four and is owned by A. w.
Barrett, of StewartsviIle, Ind This
animal is a mare. known as '.Old Fly"
She went into the war in July, 1861,
and served until September, 1864. She
was in several big battles and numer.
Gus skirmishes.
G. A. Sala tells that the Maoris are
great in oratory. On one occasion he
was being welcomed to a Maori town.
''May your boots" said the orator Of
the day, ''be lovely on the hills" in
which G. A. S. dimly recognized re.
vised version of How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings.
A story of Won Bulow, told by the
Pail Mall Gazette, illustrates his peeu-
liarity: mot long ago Won Bulow
was conducting one of Beethoven's
concertos. In the pause before the
dead march, which constitutes the
second movement, the conductor, in
Difference to the funeral music, was
Hn off rxhi
gloves and substitute pair of fault
less black kids, which disappeared
again as soon as the dead march was
played"
There is grim humor about some
of Judge Lynch's executions. A bank
president in southwest Texas made
away with all the funds under his
charge and then posted on the door OF
his Institution, Bank Suspended
That night he was interviewed by a
number of depositors, who left him
hanging to tree with this notice
pinned to his breast: Bank President
Suspended" Bank suspensions win
not occur very frequently in that 10
cality.
A Pittsburg doctor says he can die
agnose ailments by examining single
hair of the patient. Two young men,
as joke. took him a hair from a bay
horse. The doctor gravely wrote
prescription, and said his fee was $s5,
as the case was preearious. They were
staggered, but paid the fee, and after
they got out laughed all the way to
the apothecary's. The latter took the
! prescription and read in amazement:
Zone bushel of oats. four quarts of
water, stir we'll, and give three times
day-and turn the animal out to
grassP'' Then the jokers stopped
laughing.
A dispatch from Pueblo, Col, to the
New York World says the discovery Of
a town of cliff dwellers has just been
made on Santa Clara Creek, ten miles
from Espanola, near the north line of
New Mexico. A regularly walled viii
lage or house was discovered in the
form of an exact circle 500 yards in
circumference. 1t is built of bricks OF
| light material like pumice stone. The
apartments are about twenty feet