The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-01-01

machine exhibited the other day in the
Place de la Republique. You brought
with you penny and a cup
You parted with your penny, dropping
it into the accustomed slot, and your
cup was full of steaming black coffee,
judiciously sugared.
In Holland lady is expected to re-
tire Immediately if she should enter
store or restaurant where men are con-
gregated. She waits till they have
left before re-entering. Ladies seldom
arise in Spain to receive male visitor,
and they rarely accompany him to the
door. A gentleman does not offer to
shake Spanish lady's hand.
The town of Leipsig has produced
boy whose precocity in crime has led
him, at the age of thirteen, to kill his
mother with an ak while she lay in bed
asleep, because she had boxed his ears.
A girl of fourteen has also been arrest
ed by the police for administering pins
and needles and oil paint to the infant
in her charge in order to get rid of it.
The oldest union soldier in Indiana
is William Lee, who resides on Indian
Creek, near Columbus, Ind. He is
ninety-two years of age and is still hale
and hearty. He was recently granted
a pension with $1,000 back pay. He
has been in Strengthened circumstan-
ces for several years, but this sum will
enable him to live in comfort during
the remainder of his days.
The Hotchkiss cannon used in light
draft steam launches has been making
mighty havoc among the Tonquin pi-
rates, who were becoming source of
great danger and damage to the French
colonial commerce. The French pa
pers guardedly announce that 1.-The
resistance of the pirates was feeble, :"
but it is understood that there was a
great slaughter of the Chinese braves.
On reaching depth of 45O feet the
contractors on an artesian well at Cor
dele, Iowa, struck what was seemingly
stratum of quicksand. Leaving the
pipes in the well over night, they found
them heavily charged with magnetism
the next morning. The magnetic cur
rent is so strong that the power of the
engine, together with all the prizes they
have been able to put on the piping,
will not draw it from the well.
A remarkable case of hallucination is
noted from Red Bank, near the High
lands, on the Hudson, where Christian
Grimm. an aged man, broke into a
house at night for the purpose of kill
ing woman, who was his tenant, on
the ground that she had bewitched him
with the evil eye, presumably. The
old man is very wealthy and fancied
that the woman was blasting him with
her look in order to secure his money.
In instructing her how to handle the
weekly wash a Germantown lady told
her servant, from Castle Garden, to
take the horse to the kitchen and hang
the clothes on it to dry. The follow
ing morning the household were arous-
ed by the noise, and investigation
showed that Bridget had backed the
family horse from the stable into the
wet clothes, but the animal objected to
the treatment.
Each arrondissement of Paris will
henceforth be provided with NOR
tuary depot to meet cases of which the
following is a type. A man died re-
Gently in cab and the body, upon be-
ing brought to his furnished lodgings,
was refused admittance by the proprie-
tor. 1t was next conveyed to the hos
pital, which declined on the ground
that only living people were received.
When transported to the morgue the
remains were also refused, the morgue
being only for the unknown dead.
The Japanese minister to America,
Mr.. Mutsu, has just received the decor
alton of the order of the crown, con-
ferred upon him by the emperor in
recognition of his recent conclusion of
treaty with Mexico and other services
for the state. Mr.. Mutsu had previous
ly been decorated by the emperor with
the order of the rising sun. The order
was inclosed in the hollow of a bam-
boo stick, method which prevails in
Japan. Mr.. Mutsu is not nobleman,
but belongs to class in Japan analo-
gous to that of the gentry in England.