The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-08-13
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day.
Gen, Buffers hitherto crooked eye is
said to be now perfectly straight. and
some people believe he has it on '92.
A German photographer picturing
the flight of cannon ball moving l.,
500 feet second exposed his plate the
10, 000th part of a second.
It is reported that 71,000 negroes
have left North Carolina in the last
fifteen months. The estimate is said to
be based on careful investigation.
Two monuments to Mazzini are to
be inaugurated this year in Italy, one in
Genoa, his birthplace, and the other
in Rome, his burial place, on the JAN
iculum Hill.
Erastus Wiman says it Is the 80, 600
or 10000 Canadians who annually come
over into New England, in spite of the
law, that enables the farmers of that
region to till all their land.
The Louisville Courier-Joursal thinks
the best way to redeem Eastern Ken
lucky from its perverse lawlessness is
to give it two normal schools. The
State Legislature has the proposition
in hand.
Henry Warren of New Haven, who
sells papers on Connecticut railroad
trains, is doubtless the Nestor of news
boys. He is in his 82d year, and has
the further distinction of third set of
teeth, now well through.
County Andrassy in his will declared
in an introductory passage that it was
his conviction that the maintenance of
great landed estates is essential to the
continued prosperity of the country.
For this reason he entailed his estates.
President Dwight, of Yale, says the
permanent fund of the university must
be increased $500, 600 if the institution
is to subserye her mission and the
needs of the times. The total amount
of gifts for the last calendar year was
$716. 600.
The Roumanian Queen, Carmen Syl-
va, is an illustrious epicure. She has
invented several dishes, and sometimes
cooks one for the King with her own
hands. She tries them on her royal
lord and if he survives she knows they
are all right.
=l;Le-vehicle comfort
-ab4y trundlfng over the smooth pave
ments of Washington are called the
herdic. For years the herdic has been
q well-patronized form of conveyance
in that city. 1t is so called from its in-
yentor. Peter Herdic, Pennsylvania
Dutchman.
Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, G.
G. B., to whom the Captain of the
American Chesapeake surrendered off
Boston Harbor June 1, 1918, is still
living and senior Admiral of the fleet.
Admiral Wallis was born in Halifax, N.
s., April IL, 1871, and is therefore in
his Tooth year.
Secretary Blaine owns farm of 400
acres near Elizabeth, Pa. He also
owns the coal under 1, 100 acres of sur
rounding land. Mr.. Blaine purchased
part of this land over twenty years ago.
He has not mined any coal there since
1875. He seldom visits his farm, and
it is said that he would like to sell it.
Senator Blackburn of ofKentucky says:
"A dude is simply the creation of
peculiar conditions of society, and he
may belong to any locality and be Diff
ferently disguised. For instance, I
know places in Kentucky where a man
who would put on $40 suit of store
clothes and white shirt would be re-
garded as bowling swell" ;"
Here is a little Bible silhouette done
by that nlaster-hand Sam Jones: my
ideal of man is John the Baptist, who
jumped on king and stomped the
very feathers out of him. When he
was put in jail he said he would stay
there until the ants carried him out
through the keyhole before he would
modify anything that he had said"
The Helena journal announces that
it will publish serially the early history
of the Flathead Indians and of the ear.
ly missions in the Flathead country and
Bitter Root Valley. The material ol
the history is from notes, transmitted
through De Smit, by young English
adventurer named Cox, who visited the
Northwest in the ship Beaver, fitted oui
in 1911 by John Jacob Astor.
President Glover of the Kansas Farm.
ers' Alliance, says: What we need
now is some statesmen of the George
Washington, Abe Lincoln, Ben Wade.
Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jack
son style. Mouth legislation and tele.
scope farming is what has brought the
country to its present condition.
.Brigadier' skins are the thinnest cloth
inga shivering family was ever wrapped
up in.n
The lecture field is to be recruited
by talker on theme no less National
than the interior of the Washington
Capitol. The man is Jake Kennedy,
for the last few years the most success
ful guide in that great building. He
was formerly Wall street broker. He
knows every story that ever found
place in the Capital, and when he hasn't
story wherewith to amuse his patrons
he invents one.
To free and above-board country
like this, the secrecy observed in the
war and navy departments of foreign
powers is to say the least quite inter-
esting. For instance, Russia is about
to spend 81, 600, 900 on a long desired
naval station in the Baltic. To keep
Germany from knowing the plans,
strategic and otherwise, not German
will be employed in the works nor be
allowed to visit the locality.
DIR. William Moon of Brighton, Eng
land, the wonderful blind man whose
affiiction has been the cause of incal-
culable good to the blind all the world
over. through his promoting the cir
culation of books-printed in embossed
type, was recently presented with a
handsome Ginning clock. check for
$l,250, and testimonial. The occa-
sion was the fiftieth anniversary of his
work on behalf of the blind.
A very curious store is the ..Alexan-
drite." called SO in honor of Alexander
of Russia. who was very fond of them.
In the daytime they resemble an emer-
aid, except that they are somewhat
darker; but at night they are deep
purplish red. The color is SO peculiar
that they would attract attention
among any number of Jewels. They
are found in India, and, like all rare
stones, vary much in their qualities.
Recent investigation has shown that
the people of Great Britain swallow
over 5, 500, 900 pills daily, or one pill a
week for every person in the popula-
tion. The pill consumption for one
year would weigh 17S tons, and would
fill thirty-six freight cars, which it
would take two powerful locomotives