The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-12-24

New York has expended $9,000,000
in buying land for new parks.
The Princess of Wales has long.
narrow foot, and it requires a No. 6
boot to fit it.
A mountain of alabaster is sup po sed
to have been discovered $50 miles
north of Denver, Col.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has received
subscriptions for $4,000 copies of her
husbands life to appear shortly.
An artesian we'll near Alvarado,
Cal, throws stream of water twenty
feet above the orifce. 1t taps stream
of water.
Lady Adelaide, wife of the Hon.
Frederick Cadogan, who died recently,
was one of the eight young ladies who
bore the train of Victoria at her coro-
uation.
Italy is at last beginning to econo-
mize in her military and naval eXpendi-
lures. She promises to spend Sc, OOO,-
600 less the coming year on her army
and navy.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, who was a
few years ago regarded as one of the
greatest men in France, is now a brok-
en- down old man, socially, financially
and physically.
A wit, who was asked what he would
rather be during the three stages of
live, replied: Till thirty, a pretty
woman; till fifty, successful general;
the rest of my life, Il priest"
Experts say that the buried city of
Pompeii has not yet yielded up third
of its artistic treasure that at the pres
ent rate of progress seventy years will
elapse before it is thoroughly unearth-
ed.
The curator of the Brooklyn Insti-
tute told reporter the other day that
one beautiful butterfly in the collec-
ton of the institute is valued at 81, 900,
that sum having recently been paid
for duplicate.
French politeness has never sur
passed that of the criminal who, being
placed on the guillotine recently, put
his head in the nalf moon and, smiling
at the executioner, said: ''Cut away,
if you please, sir!''
. Some dudes, who were annoying a
Chinaman at Sedalia, Mo-, were aston
ished when he suddenly mounted one
of their bicycles and rode away, his
queue streaming straight out behind
him, as if Old Nick were after him.
DR.. Schweininger, the famous anti
fat physician of Bismarck, has gone on
an extended tour of Europe with the
object of increasing his weight. He
has grown as thin as rail, and his
nervous system is thoroughly pros
trated.
A negro living at Newman, Ga, is
ninety years of age, has had three
wives, is the father of forty-one chill
dren and has nearly four hundred
grand and great-grandchildre He
is capable of doing a fair days work
on the farm.
The Penobscot River, the largest in
Maine, drains 7,400 square miles, a
region as large as the State of Massa-
chusetts. From Old Town to Bangor,
a distance of twelve miles, the river
falls more than ninety feet, giving sew
eral of the finest water powers in the
world.
Mother Bennett lives hear Green
vile. Mass, and her age, by the best
of witnesses, the family Bible, is lis
years. She did not unite with any
church until in her 112th year, and
was then immersed according to the
Baptist rites by young minister
scarcely % years of age.
Russell Sage says that Jay Gould is
the heaviest owner of securities in the
world, his income from dividends alone
being 81. .000,00 year and his other
income five or six times as great. If
this is true Mr.. Gould makes $12,
600 year, and his wealth must be far
more than it has usually been estima-
ted.
Brunswick, Georgia, claims tough
somnambulist. The story is that while
asleep he walked out of a second-story
window and fell to the street below.
The fall did not wake him, and he
walked back into the house and went
to bed again. His wounds were not
serious. though quite painful, when he
finally awoke.
Nine. PATHS voice has undergone
distinct impairment as to its fleXibili-
ty, and has lost something of its once
dazzling purity and freshness, but she
is engaged this season for st. Peters
burg and Moscow at higher salary
than has heretofore been publicly
stated, So, 260 for each performance.
Her respective notes increase in inverse
ratio.