The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-02-21
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An Indiana woman who had no less
than FIVE husbands is now looking
around for a sixth. She was divorced
from the last one.
In Matamoras, Texas. wild geese sell
at 81 cents each, all ready picked and
dressed, aud ducks sell at from three
TO four for 10 cents.
The number OF adherents of the
Roman Catholic Church in America has
Increased during the past century from
IL, 500 to 8.000,000.
Colonel Stewart, of Nevada City, has
provided in his will that his body be
cfemated and the ashes dumped into
the river at midnight.
The Jews Free School ut Spital-
fields, England, is said to be the larg-
est school in the world. 1t numbers
$500 pupils-2250 boys and 1850
girls.
A new dance called the ''chow-chowa
has become very popular in the East.
A portion of it consists of Il waltz in
which you eau hug the four ladies in
rotation.
The Maltese cat in Poughkeepsie,
NY, drug store. suddenly developed
aniappetite for leeches, and while the
druggists back was turned ate thirty
of tuem..
A great Indian cemetery has been
laid bare at Romney, Va, by freshet
ou:a branch of the Potomac. Numer-
ous skeletons and many trinkets have
been found.
A family of five in Dakota subsisted
orIhree weeks on five pounds of pork
aud q bushel of carrots, and there is no
use in any young housekeeper trying
to beat that record.
The sum total of all the counterfeit
money set afioat last year did not
amount to $25, 900, and the ''queer"
men were out of pocket in their trans
actions There IS more profit in steal
ing overcoats.
Strange what qneer languages are
spoken in this country. A Western
paper in a local item recently told
of "a regular old raz0oper, who. hay-
ing got skate on. indalged ina glofi-
oas razzlc-dazzle."
a Piedmont. S. c., clergyman. mar
ricd coaple ami published II: notice
tn That effect before he learned that
the contracting parties wrr.. men. They
wanted to have Il little fun ut the
minister's expense.
..Yes, it's just a. bit lwkwara-just
a bii," observed Charles McGraw. of
Providence, rs seven of his wives
gathered at the jail to interview him.
Had the other four been on hand he
would have been almost broken up
over it.
The citizens of Dion boast that they
a. IL 4,
just how old it is no one knows. 1t is
l22 feet high, forty-iiye feet in cir
conference at the base, aud twenty.
three feet in circumference fifteen feet
from the base.
One of the English regiments is ex-
perimenting with q machine called a
ccntercycle, which has four small
wheels a foot in diameter and one in
the center. ii is said that the inven-
fiou makes climbing a hill rs easy for a
cycler as rolling off a log
Frank Thornton. of Elbertnn, has ia
his possession couple of eggs which
are curiosities. Icy have two shells;
the yolk is inclosed in a small one
and the white around it in the larger.
The eggs are as large as a goose egg,
which they closely resemble.
AS soon as an article becomes un-
common, its value as a work of art
rises to a surprising degree. Buffalo
robes, which have become scarce, are
now fashionable floor rugs. ANY one
possessing buffalo robe should take
it from his sleigh and spread it among
the rugs of Oriental manufacture.
M. Jeane Anbert, whose pictures of
cupids and nymphs find so ready q
sale in this country, married an Ameri-
can woman, for whose death some
four years ago he is still inconsolable.
Her room is left just as it was when
she died, and every day her husband
lays bunch of fresh flowers on her
pillow.
The new American navy, when COM
plotted, will consist of twenty-five
vessels, ranging from the armored
cruiser Maine. carrying HI men. down
10 tirst-class torpedo boat, carrying
four officers and eighteen men. There
will be 5,786 men Oh board the twenty
two vessels-500 officers and 5. .286
sailors and marines.
They are still pegging away at the
Cape Cod Ship Canal, which was be-
gun nine years ago. The contract re-
quires the work to be finished by June
20, 1891, but as there are seven miles
yet to be dug, and as during 1873 there
was only, about seven-eighths of mile
Dpened, the prospects are not good for
the fultllment of the contract.
The Masonic fraternity in New York
State numbers 10000 men and has
$50. 900 in cash, besides large pledges
for construction of Masonic Home.
TA L L. 4 4
ings at Utica on account of the eity's
central position and railroad facilities.
Probably cottages. will erected, with
one or two larger buildings for general
purposes.
Illinois census returns show that out
side of the cities the population is de-
efeasing. The school census of 1888
shows that in July last there were in
the state S43, ,976 males under twenty.
one years of age. In 1880 there were
SSS.676. This is a gain of .54.So0. but
the gain in Cook County was 83,217,
30 that the loss in the rest of the state
was 2S,9l7.
Duluth has had tremendous boom
during the last twelve months. Over
$4,000, 600 has been. spent in improve
ments and 764 new building have been
erected at cost OF 81, 2,S02, 600. The
citizens ofProctor Knott's city are con-
fident that this year is going 10 beat
the last, and say that there will be at
least one thousand i've hundred new
buildings put up.
Says a writer in the Boston fran
eertpt: Il once attended a course of
lectures on the Latin language given
by Professor Everett at the Lowell iu-
stitute, aud at each lecture saw some
body's Irish cook, who probably never
heard of Virgil before, and who eer-
faiply did not know anything about
him after the lectures were over. Some
one had given her a ticket, and she
used 1t eonscientiously."
In the Pine Grove Mines, Esmeralda
County Nevada, there is a blind boy
employed to do errands, tend cars, and
fhe like: He has most remarkable
faculty of finding his way, not onlv
through the intricacies OF tho n,ine