The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-01-22
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The Squirrel Club of Galway, Sara
toga county, N. Y, has killed 500
squirrels this season.
One of the remarkable things in Utah
is mountain near Salt Lake City COM
pletely covered by oyster shells.
A green mail agent on the Reading
Railroad hung out the mailbag catcher
and hooked reel of hose from water
tank.
Recent statistics show that 5000, 900
Germans reside outside of Fatherland,
OF whom 1000, 600 are to be found in
the United States.
Henry M. Stanley, who is now in the
heart of Africa is under bond to de-
liver series of lectures in this coun-
try for the season of 1S90-91.
Minnie Wallace Walkup, who was
tried at Emporia, Kas., for poisoning
her husband, has obtained pension
because of his services in the army.
Rosa Bonheur has given to Buffalo
Bill line pair of mustangs, which she
had been unable to break. His cow
boys quickly brought them to time.
John D. Rockefeller is 50 years old.
He began making millions only few
years ago, and already he can number
more millions of dollars than years.
The actresses in Lionel Brough's
company in South Africa. having found
husbands among the diamond diggers,
Mr. Brough has telegraphed to London
for fresh supply.
A little weazened Scotchman, of Aus
tralia, named Mclean, has probably
the largest 13-year-old boy in the world.
He is six feet six inches in height, and
weighs about 220 pounds.
A pamphlet has just been published
in which it is attempted to show that
the first inventor of the phonograph
was not Mr.. Edison, but Frenchman,
the late M. Charles Cros.
Inventor Edison's 16-year-old daugh-
ter is said to be almost marvelously
bright. She is described as a fair
musician, a good draughtsman, and
she speaks four languages.
The widow of the late King Luis of
Portugal receives yearly allowance of
If she lives abroad. Of course she has
decided to remain in Lisbon.
The Mining and Engineering Journal
says that only two pounds of tin have
been discovered in Dakota, yet 50, OOO,-
600 of capital has been raised for the
purpose of working the mines.
Sam Jones delivered sermon re-
Gently in Virginia in which he said:
John the Baptist was the bravest type
of Christian know of. He jumped on
Herod and paved his feathers out"
After mature deliberation the Johns
Hopkins University boys have decided
not to become dude imitators of the
English university students They
have resolved not to adopt caps and
gowns.
John j. Astor who is reported en-
gagged to Mrs. Bowler, a Cincinnati
widow, is 68 years old, but is said to be
still handsome and vigorous. How
could he be otherwise when he is worth
$3.50, 100000?
The Rev. DR.. Barring Gould, who is
a musician as well as author, has Or
ganized a company of amateurs, who
have had great success in singing old
Cornish and Dewey ballads through
those counties.
w. W. Gilbert, the hbrettist, is get
ting to be great social favorite, al
though he does not court society. His
conversation has whimsical turn,
like his operas and his ballads--in
short, it is ''Gilbertian."
In Houlton, Me-, lives lady who
never wore an article of jewelry,
piece of lace nor collar, even in the
days of courtship, which experience
she has passed through more than once,
having married twice.
There is in the Paris hospital called
the Hotel-Dieu woman who can see
two different sets of objects at one and
the same time. While one eye is gaz-
ing at given point the other remains
perfectly still, and vice versa.
Gen Daniel Butterfeld, who saw in
Norway the ship of the Vikings that
has been excavated and set up, says it
is of black oak, about seventy-five feet
in length, and in lines quite equal to
anything constructed in these days.
The Duke of Northumberland re-
Gently presented to the Astor Library
four volumes of the annals of his an
cestors, one of whom. Lord Percy,
served in the attack on Bunker Hill and
the storming of Washington Heights.
There is report at Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, that Krupp. the great German
gun-maker, contemplates setting up
an establishment in Pennsylvania, so
that in case of war in Europe he can
supply guns to any nation that wants
them.
People in West Gloucester, Me-, say
that the spirit of hermit who lived on
the shores of Sabbath Day Point thirty
i.
ters, still fingers about the lake, where
its hoarse laugh may occasionally be
heard.
Mrs. Crawford, the well-known Paris
correspondent of the London Daily
Neacs and Mr.. Labouchere's Truth. is
the only lady member of the celebrated
Golden Club, and one of the most
prominent characters of contemporary
Partisan history.
The late ex-Gov. Dewey of Wisconsin
left with his will a sketch in which he
traced his ancestry back to 1858, when
Thomas Due arrived in Massachusetts,
from Dover, England. Thus do we
see how the family got more than its
Due in the matter of name.
An individual who was clerk in the
India House with Charles Lamb and
John Stuart Mill. has just died at Vent
nor, England, after having enjoyed
handsome pension for fifty-four years.
He had been allowed to retire, 'tin con-
sequence of broken health" in 1885.
A number of princes received prizes
at the Paris exposition. The due d.
Aumale obtained his for the Zucco
wine which he makes on his land in
Scilly; the king of Holland received a
prize for his beer from the Royal brew
cry, and Cardinal Lavigerie won great
pr wine.
Assaults by privaceS upon their SUI
perior officers are said to be on the in
crease in the British army. At Ports
mouth in one week there were no few
er than four cases of the sort tried
by district court-martial. Three of
the cases occurred abroad, the prison.
ers being brought home with their reg
iments.
The salt industry in southern Kansas
is assuminp majestic nrODOrtiOnS Tt