The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-02-05
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years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tibbels, of Cincinnati,
have baby that was born with two
molar teeth in its upper jaw.
jeff Davis death leaves James Camp
bell of Philadelphia the sole survivor of
the Cabinet of President Pierce.
A large tract of tea land in the neigh
borhood of Canton this year yielded
per acre 81 900 in tea leaves of the fin
est quality.
Iowa's corn crop of 336, 900, 900 busn-
els is worth $75, 900, 900, and would fill
train of cars 500 miles in length. 1t
would give five bushels to every man,
woman and child in the United States.
Electric lights have been adopted to
such an extent in the cities and towns
of Guatemala that the importation of
mineral oils has largely fallen off. At
the capital the use of oil has diminished
one-half.
The latest figures set down the popu-
lation of Berlin at 1,173, 1858, and of
Vienna at /, 1,110, 764, a steady advance
being made by both capitals through
additions from small towns throughout
the two empires.
The bastinado is still in use in Hun
gary to make refractory peasants testi-
fly about accomplices or as to their own
misdeeds. and the Hungarian press has
recently engaged in a campaign against
this relic of barbarism.
The discussion of the advisabilitv of
colonizing Vermont and New Hamp-
shire with Scandinavian immigrants
has directed attention to the fact that
Maine made a successful venture of this
kind twenty years ago
Letterkenny, Pa, farmer who lives
near the mountain, says he can always
tell when hard storm is coming, as
the crows then fly to the better pro-
tected hooks for shelter, sometimes a
day before the storm reaches here.
Wilkie Collins will directed that he
should be buried at cost not exceed
ing $125, and that plain stone cross
over his grave should bear only the
simply inscription that he had prepared
for the purpose.
Chief Justice Fuller has presented,
through the Hon. w. L. Putnam, fine
portrait of himself to the Cumberland
(Me.) bar. 1t will be given place in
the attorneys Office at the City Build
ing at Portland
Thomas A. Edison is discussing with
capitalists project of utilizing the
water power of Niagara Falls. Mr..
Edison's friends say that he has recent
ly thought out plan which will make
that vast power possible to utilize.
A somewhat new departure in build
ing practice has been successfully made
in Germany. This is the wholesale
manufacture of mortar of the best
quality to be sold to small builders and
private individuals. Some 1000, 900
barrels were thus sold in Berlin last
year.
From 18O to 200 bottle-nosed whales
were driven ashore below Barnstanker-
ness, Scotland, the other evening.
About twenty boats took part in the
exciting chase, and the finish was wit
messed by a large number of people.
Some of the whales were unusually
large.
An exchange says: Pour one table
spoonful of clear solution of tannin Ga
heaped teaspoonful of tannin to a gill
of rainwater) into tumbler full of
the suspected water. If no turbidity
occurs within five hours the water is
good; if turbidity occur within one
hour the water is decidedly unwhole
some.
In Japan there are thirty-one schools
of medicine, one of dentistry and two
of veterinary surgery. The University
of Toxic (the imperial university, has
over twelve hundred students, and an
average of 100 medical studenss gradu-
ate yearly. In Toxic alone there are
numerous active medical societies and
over twenty hospitals.
The new official report of the condi-
ton of the English beer-brewing indus
try shows that Great Britain's 13, Cos
breweries produced %, GA, 600 barrels
of beer in the last fiscal year. Eight
breweries produced between 100, 600
and 250,000 barrels, seven between
250,000 and 500, 900 barrels. three be-
tween 100000 and 100000 barrels,
and one more than 1000, 900 barrels.
The Philatelisten Club of Vienna is
arranging for an international postage
stamp exposition there next year. The
year 1890 was chosen because it will
then be just fifty years since postage
stamps were introduced, forty years
since they came into use in Austria. and
ten years since the club was founded.
The exhibition will take place in the
Austrian Industrial Museum. A COM
mittee of five is organizing it.
The French professor of chemistry,
De Millefieurs, recently exhibited be-
fore meeting of Partisan scientists
several bricks of petroleum, which he
has discovered how to solidify by an
original process. The petroleum
bricks were hard enough to be handled
without Inconvenience, yet soft enough
to be cut with a stout knife. They
burned slowly when touched with a
lighted match Millefeurs SAYS they
are non-explosive and inexpensive.
This account of Mississippi ball ap-
pears in Memphis paper: 1.-The ball
given by the young men of Benoit was
universally scored a success by all in
attendance. The heavenly spheres
shone forth in their transcendent beau
ty on this Thursday night, seeming in
perfect harmony with the brilliancy of
the event, and through mud and mire
from Greenville to Rosedale the creme
de la creme of the Mississippi Delta
came to participate in the terpsichorean
fete.n
A Washington dentist recently ad-
vertised that he would give 500 for a
perfect front tooth of healthy young
white man. The doctor stated that
the advertisement was no catch, but
that he would pay 800 for front
tooth that would answer his purpose,
and that is to replace one which he
wishes to extract. This is frequently
done, the doctor says, but is very
difficult operation. Sometimes as many
as 200 applicants who wish to dispose
of a tooth will be examined before the
exact kind will be found, and when the
right one is selected it is extracted and
planted in the jaw of the other party at
the same operation.
Prince Oscar Bernadotte, the second
son of the King of Sweden, who u
couple of years ago renounced the rank
and privileges of his royal birth to
marry Miss Ebba Munck, performed an
act of gallantry last week which will
go far to increase his popularity
throughout his fathers dominions A
small boat with three men had capsized
near the head of the pier at KarlSkrona,