The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-16
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Nearly one nuuClfeu " peWIIIc1o diC
in the census bureau at
Washington at salaries averaging about
$15 week.
Pilgrims are not numerous in Jeru-
salem this year, but all the hotels ars
crowded with tourists, chiefly English
and American.
The Canadian labor unions have re-
commended the government to estab-
lish a scheme of compulsory insurance
fer the working classes.
AIgernon Charles Swinburne never
which is not red. He likes brilliant
coloring both in attire and literature.
Lieutenant Wordsworth, of the
British Army, who has disappeared |
and is believed to have committed sui
eide, a grandson OF the great English |
poet.
Professor Tyndall, although bitterly |
opposed politically to Mr.. Gladstone,
has said that he would cheerfully risk |
his own life to save Gladstone's at any
time.
Acting Governor Taggart, of New
Hampshire, was born in 1853 and gradu
ated from Harvard in 1873. He will
be the youngest Chief Executive in the
country.
An aged negro, who is believed to
have been over 10 years old, died near
Iberia, La, recently. He was born in
Carencro, La, and left sixty-nine
descendants.
A woman in Ohio not long since lost
a child through diphtheria, and forced
her other children to kiss the dead
body. They all grew sick with the
same disease and died.
The oldest man ever applying for
marriage license in West Virginia was
Reuben Shinn, aged ninety-six, who was
given a license at Sisterville to marry
woman fifty years of age.
New York BARRIERS are removing the
clocks from their shops because custom
ers get nervous by Watching them
while being shaved and the employees
can't do their work properly.
Mr.. Dunsford, an attache of the
British eastern consular service. who is
now in this country, says the English
| civil service examinations are far more
severe than are those in the United
| States.
An Opelousas, La, gander has learned
| to turn the faucet of cistern with his
| bill, and when the water begins to flow
he sits down under the stream, flaps
his wings, takes a bath and has a good
time generally.
Mrs. Catherine Sharp of Philadel-
phia is reliably vouched for as being
112 years old and of well-preserved
faculties. When little girl she sold
milk to Gen. Washington and staff
from her fathers farm.
DR.. King, physician-in-ordinary to a
distinguished statesman of China, is an
American woman. She has an exten-
sive practice in Shanghai and her sur
gical operations have attracted wide
attention. She can write a prescrip.
ton without adding postscript to IT.
A number of public-spirited women
in Brooklyn have Incorporated them,
selves under the laws ofthe state under
the name of the Women's Health Pro
tective Association, for the purpose o-
seeing that the streets of the city are
kept clean, a thing which the male
citizens have not been able to accom-.
pliSh.
! IL OINCl W give q lllGS OiIlOH Il l)IGdS
ant recollection of his visit to Berlin
while attending the recent Labor Con
gress, Kaiser William presented hin
with "a collection of the musical works
of my ancestor, Frederick the Great
and these appear to consist of twenty.
five sonatas and four minor pieces fol
the flute.
Mrs, Wanamaker, it is stated, ha:
introduced new fad in Washington
and has a class of young ladies NEE
at her residence twice a week, where {
professor of physical grace from
abroad teaches them how to walk, tc
go up and down stairs, to bow, to smile
to make eyes, and to dispose of the
hands.
Opticians and oculists say that belfry
and steeple clocks are absolutely use.
less to at least third of those fol
whose benefit they are set up. In
many instances such defect of the eyes
is unsuspected in children, and proba.
bly, hundreds of children earn at school
regulations for stupidity when not the
intellect but the eye is at fault.
Joseph Biggar, shortly after his con-
version to Catholicism, attended a
church service and fell asleep, to dream,
doubtless, of obstruction at Westmin.
ster. When he awoke the service was
over and almost all others had left the
church, whereupon, glaring at the
empty benches, he exclaimed: MIR.
Speaker! l move that the House be
counted.n
A valuable horse, while in play,
kicked at one of the half-grown colts
in a Georgia field. Unfortunately for
the mare her heels missed their mark
and flew out into space, wrenching her
spinal column in such manner as to
render her useless. The animal linger-
ed in torture for day or two, when
death ended her suffering. The mare
was valued at $500.
Lorin G. Parmelee, of Boston, Il we'll
| known collector of coins, has accu-
| mulated remarkable miscellany, of
which the colonial and American de-
| partment is said to be unequaled. He
| made large fortune as a purveyOr of
baked beans at the Hub, and began his
| collection with the curious pennies that
came to the cash drawer. Many OF his
coins are so valuable that they are kept
in safe deposit vaults.
The oldest proposition made for a
long time is that of man at Big Sandy
| Gap, in the widest part of kentcEy.
| A railroad is building in that country
| and one Peter Kidd offers 5000 cash for
the privilege of covering the first
engine and cars that get into that place
| with a canvas for twenty-four hours
and of charging % cents admission to
the mountaineers and their families
for entering the tent.
EX-Congressman Scott is drinking
buttermilll for his dyspepsia, and says
he has gained eight pounds in two
weeks. This is his method: You
put the buttermilk in pan, which is
set in hot water. The milk is brought
to the boiling point but not allowed to
boil. Then the heavy part is skinned
off. The whey which remains is set