The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-17

t is stated, and Mr.. Gladstone figures at
% some extent in a character named
Grandson. til
Parties at Buffalo have started a
new enterprise They will press, clean B
and repair mems clothing, calling for
and delivering the same. The charge
is $1.50 month. Il
There is family in France named
B, one in Belgium named o, a river in q
Holland called t, a village in Sweden
named A, while the most valued bird C
in the Sandwich Islands is the 90.
The greatest production of the
modern loom. the Alteration of the .
Magi,n designed by Burne Jones and +
worked out by William Morris, is to be ,
presented to the chapel of Exeter Col
tege, Oxford.
Out in Nevada telegraph poles in
low places, where water stands in win
ter, are said to have taken root and are
covered with foliage. The poles are
cottonwood and were planted with the
bark on them.
A Towering plant has never been
found within the antarctic circle; but
in the arctic region there are 1852 kinds
of flowers. Their colors, however, are
not so bright and varied as those of
warmer regions.
The Princess Louise, Marchioness of |
Lorne, is making a statue which will |
be a reminiscence of the dim and dis
tant past, inasmuch as it is to be a
marble presentment of Queen Victoria
as she looked in girlhood.
A diver, who was working at the
foundation of railroad bridge near
Boise City, Idaho, gave a signal to be
hoisted quickly. When he got to the
surface he held fast sixty-five-pound
salmon that he had caught by the gills.
The annual profits from the Passion
| Play'' amount to about $50, 900 marks,
which sum has to be divided among
700 persons. The question of abolish
ing the play has never, contrary to the
| published report arisen at Oberamm er-
| gau.
After two Brooklyn pugilists had
fought five rounds and were both
s.badlv used up" the mother of one of
them ESQ it is stately appeared on the
scene, knocked down a few specta-
tors with club and scattered the
Others"
To shrink woolen goods: 1. After
pulling treat the goods on a
perforated table with superheated
steam. 2 Pass through bath of alum
of 1.O7 spirit grains for half an hour,
; wiring and dry; wash, soap, wash oil
and dry.
Jacob Disheart, of Washington, Ind.
who is said to be one hundred and
seven years old, is still well preserved,
and though bent with age walks about
unaided. He has walked five miles or
more daily this year. He was born IN
Virginia.
Count Charles Dillon, who died in
. Paris recently, was one of the four sur
vivors of the Court of Charles X, to
t whom he was page of honor during the
IL last four years of his reign. The Count
had lived in England and spoke En-
. glish fluently.
ct Cardinal Manning's aversion tt
strong drink in every form is so grea
le that twice in articulo mortis he has re
h fused stimulants, and he allude
oe triumphantly to the fact that he go
e well each time as proof that stimulant
as are not necessary.
~ Overhead electric wires should never
:" says Herr Siemens, have more thai
"a 500 volts pressure; underground con
ductors, with transformers no NOR
u, than 1000 volts. The transformer
@ as and conductors should, however, b
no tested up to 5000 volts.
John and Jacob Weber are still
as teaching a school which they opened i
,r- New Orleans in May, 1910, at whic
lr- they have taught continuously, with
ed out vacation and with only fftee
las days intermission in fifty years to pei
cd NIT of the repair of the building.
ne m Hiram Lukens went to work on tn
w w Doylestown Pa.) Lntelljgenaeer in June
un ~ 1882, as printers devil and has bee
on continuously employed on that pape
ever since, celebrating his tifty-eight
If anniversary in the office this year. H
is compositor and works every da
of at his case.
'ed At the eighteenth commencement {
RS; Swathmore, the Quaker college, tt
nd audience of 9 900 or more is describe
by as fashionable one, though there wei
nd a few of the older friends in broaC
~ brimmed hats and plain bonnets. Th
MS garb of the man or woman no longt
ie !eT proclaims the Quaker.
tn. A Scranton Pa.) jury recently, fine
EN- ing that the defendant in the case w;
vas guiltless and that the prosecution was
ed senseless one, asked the court If tt
wo costs could not be put upon the lay
on- yers. The court, of course, ruled th
md lawyers could not thus be made r
,on sponsible for their blunders.
srs' Judge J. P. Smith of Fort Wort
No. walked from Kentucky to Texas in tt
10 old Sam Houston days. He Wake
10y because he didn't have any money
% spend to pay his passage. He doesn
need to walk now unless he wants t
NJ. for he is about the wealthiest man
NV Fort Worth, and is reported to have
ma million.
yer Nine-tenths of the dolls sold in tn
/ in country are said to come from &c
not many, and the principal seat of man
ldi- factnre there is Sonnebero. in Thu
son inoen, town of about 10000 inhabi
ants. Dollmaking is almost the enti
e to industry of the place. 1t is not 7
tne munerative, as the people are We
osI, ~ poor. owing to the low wages paid.
e is Experiments made in Sweden by
rom Sandberg on the strength of iron RAJ
,me during winter have shown that ste
in rails containing over per cent OF ca
of bon are apt to break in cold WeatEe
Jug In fact, the result of his investigation
points to the use of rails having lie
$ by carbon than this-say 3 per cent
countries as Geld in winter as Norwf
Mr., and Sweden.
'oOt Mrs. Herman Oelrichs received as
@ @lens wedding gift from King Kalakaua
e' SmS yellow wreath which was greatly a
.u .. mired. 1t was made of the feathers
olUp oOse the golden-hued 90, bird high
US Io- priced in Hawaii. There are but tN
of these bright feathers plucked fro
here each bird. The birds are taken on
eeds in a snare, stringent law having be
,end passed against shooting them.
the A novel use of the phonograph is |
ore ing made in Mexico. A great ma
luch natives who wish to communicf
They through the mails can not read
oud write The Government has. the,
fore, introduced system of cor
spondence by phonograph-tha is, t
cher Mexican talks into the Instrument q