The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-10-29
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Canada claims to be larger by 500,
900 square miles than the United States,
including Alaska.
The corporators of London has made
a contract for supplying electric lights
to large portion of the city.
1t is said that coyotes have killed
more than six hundred lambs on one
ranch near Napa, Cal, since last fall.
Partisan dandies now wear pink
blue, or red shirts in the evening,
with regular low-cut evening waist
coats.
James Yates killed an owl on Hawk
Mountain, Ca, which measured four
feet seven inches from tip to tip OF
wings.
Texas has double-headed cat. 1t is
perfect in form except the two heads.
1t has four eyes, four ears and two
mouths.
A typewriter manufacturer says that
there are $4,000 women in this coun-
try who make living by running. the
machines.
The mormons are gaining a foot
hold in the Canadian northwest, and it
is believed will make trouble for the
government.
Hollyhocks and ferns make popular
table decorations, and other old-fash-
ianed flowers have been taken into
fashionable favor.
Georgia beats the world in babies.
The wife of viii Lennon, painter, in
Macon. has given birth to child weigh
ing forty pounds.
Silk from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, with about two-thirds
the strength of ordinary silk and about
the same elasticity.
A summer charity in Philadelphia
has given a days pleasure to nearly
10000 people, mostly children and
babies. in thirteen years.
A luminous buoy has been invented,
the light for which is produced by
phosphuret of calcium, and is visible
two and half miles away.
Electrically deposited copper is SO
ductile that it can be drawn down un-
til it resembles the finest hair, and
this too, without annealing.
The tombstone of the late Mrs. Ann
l.
following lines cut in marble:
Some have children and some have none,
But here lies the mother of twenty-one.
The form of real estate deeds has
been reduced from three pages to one
in New York and the cost Of record
ing from $r75 to so cents and 81
each.
1t is proposed at Vienna to span the
Danube Canal with bridge lined with
shops like the famous Ponte Rialto at
Venice and the Arno bridge at Flor
ence.
The electric battery has superseded
the hose and cold water treatment for
tanning refractory prisoners in the Ohio
penitentiary. 1t is reported to be very
eficacious.
Rhode Island is afraid of being over
crowded, since it has been learned
through the census that the population
has increased about 67, 734 during the
past decade.
The sentence Pack my box with
five dozen liquor jugs has been found
to contain all the letters of the al
phabet as we'll as important instruc-
tions to the servants.
A Cairo bachelor, who, the ad. said,
rich," has received 250 applications
from ladies willing to be his wife-and
risk his dying pretty soon.
The western busy bee has not been
making honey this year. In Iowa
there has been total failure of the
honey crop, owing to the fact that
there has been no honey in the flowers.
The Oxford County AduertiseY.'s
Bethel correspondent recently saw
several leading citizens of that town
flying kites on the common. among
them being prominent physician and
justice of the Supreme bench.
Vegetable or fruit sandwiches are
recommended as new delicacies for pic
MICS. The newest dainty sandwich is
made of nasturtium leaf, sprinkled
with a little salt, and set between two
round slices of biscuit and butter.
There appeared one week recentlyin
the obituary columns of the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger notices of the death
of twenty-one persons, sixteen men and
five women, who had lived to or be-
yond the advanced age of eighty years.
A man was brought to the hospital
at Eastburn, London, who had driven
four nails into his skull three or four
inches deep. He suffered from severe
headache, and took that means to cure
it. The nails were extracted with diff
ficulty.
The day of paper car-wheels for
railroad cars is passing. The chief
reason is alleged to be that the iron
wheels last not only longer than the
paper ones, but are cheaper as well,
costing about one-sixth as much as the
paper wheels.
In Cowlitz County, Washington,
which has been settled for forty years
and has 1000 inhabitants. is section
covering several townships that has
never been trodden by the foot of
white man. 1t is dense, unpene-
trated wilderness.
The amount of water the sun raises
from the earth is estimated at the
enormous weight of 81, 900, 600, 600 tons
o minute; the quantity of coal required
to produce heat in any way equiva-
lent to the sun is calculated to be H.
600, ZOO, 600, 900, 600 tons.
A lady of Bremen, Me-, has parrot
and also a cat named Shag. She
has taught the parrot to spell cat
cat, dog, dog, and few such words
and the other day Polly electrified the
household by spelling very Loudly and
plainly ''c-a-t' and then pronouncing
it ''Shag." Perhaps Polly can't think.
Lunacy is rapidly increasing in En-
gland. Last year the lunacy commits
sioners had on their books the names
of 81, $40 insane persons. This year
they began with S6,087, an increase of
1,727. The great majority of the in
sane are found among the lower classes,
77,257 of the patients being hopeless
paupers.
Philo Penfield, of Shelby, N. Y,
when he went to the war a beardless
boy sent his best girl picture of him.
self, but it was lost. He recently saw
his name in list of letters accumu-
lated in the dead letter office during
the war. He sent for the parcel, and
to the now old man the young picture
brings flood of memories of other
days.
As the law of Aberdeen requires it, a
pab driver. tor.osaoutod