The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-06-18
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Eureka, Kas., is Ananias.
Walter Besant intends to visit this
country next Summer. He will go as
far west as San Francisco.
Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts will pay
$12, 500 for the use of Lord Spencer's
London house during the season.
The Princess of Wales takes a lively
interest in hammered brasswork. an
art which is taught at her school in
Sandringham.
A quantity conceived brooch is an
enameled squirrel holding little nut,
which is represented as closely as pos
sible by colored pearls.
The table upon which Cromwell
wrote when he affixed his signature to
the warrant for the execution of Charles
l. was recently sold in England for
1920.
A citizen of Ebert county, Ga, has
a well in which he frequently catches
different kinds of fish. He thinks it
connects with creek half mile dis
tant.
Prince Bismarck is still to be adj
dressed as Serene Highness." This is
reasonable. Bismarck is feet inches
in height and as serene as q midsummer
afternoon.
Justin Mccarthy sees Arthur Bal
four, Sir William Harcourt, Henry Lab
ouchere John Morley, Sir Charles Rus
sell, and Henry Fowler as the coming
men in English politics.
The Emperor of Germany and Crown
Prince Rudolph of Austria were the two
widest boys in Germanland when they
were boys. They once had serious
quarrel over an opera-singer.
Jaloquin Happole Patagonian, has
not been heard of Il great deal but not
because he has not been around a good
while. He is 1913 years old and can see
to chew tobacco and smoke without
spectacles.
The Alnaanach de GothG is over a
century and a quarter old. When it
was first issued there were only three
republics, Switzerland, San Marino and
Andorra, while to-day there are twen-
ty-six republics.
The largest vessel ever built in
France La Touraine, of 1900 horse
power and more than five hundred and
thirty feet long, will be added to the
fleet plying between Havre and New
York this season.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is 6S
years old. His face and figure are thin
ner than they ever were. and his splen-
did constitution is beginning to show
signs of age. He has been one of the
hardest workers in Congress.
Hamilton Hurlbut, of Salem, Ore,
claims to have discovered Il process OF
tempering copper so that it will peck
stone, cut cold steel equal to the best
east steel, jack knives will cut sour APP
pies without coloring the blades
There is movement in England
against the employment of barmaids
although it is felt that the reform will
not be accomplished until the far fu
ture, and that all that can be done al
present will be limiting the hours O
labor.
Emperor William of Germany is 6
hearty eater. He gets away with foul
meals day in royal style. He eat.
ham and eggs for breakfast, game ant
salads for luncheon, soups, fish, anC
roasts for dinner, and hot sausages anC
beer for supper. He has grown flesh,
of late.
! Bears have become so thick in tht
mountains of Isere, bordering on Sa
voy. in France, that the inhabitant
have organized bear drives, but these
have been so unsuccessful that the,
have almost concluded that their onl,
salvation is in advertising for foreign
sportsmen.
In England women patentees are ia
more numerous than they are here
As rule the inventions OF our womel
} are for the attire of women. A dozel
or more patents for garters of an i'm
proved fashion, for instance, have beef
granted from time to time by our owI
patent office.
Robert Williams, farmer in Wood
county, Ohio. was told not TO 90 down
into an old well without lowering
candle to see If there was foul gas there
As it was his wife who warned him h
threw Il club at her. told her to mint
her own business and went down, to b
hauled up a corpse.
Count Andrassy had asplendid ncrv
at the card table, and when he playet
at all called for very high stakes. HI
once played three rubbers of whis
with the late Count Darn, Prince Petel
Schouwaloff and Baron Kolisch-al
tirst-rate whist players-for 1000 franz
points and 10000 francs on the rub.
Hans Won Bulow, the celebrated plan
ist, is known in public as the mos
quick-tempered conductor that evel
welded baton. and in private as the
most genial, cultured, and urbane o
men. His memory is enormous, anC
: he can conduct complicated Chopin
concert without once looking at tht
score.
The order of st. Andrews, first in
stituted in England in 7S7. disused af
terward and re-established in 1850
is the oldest of the royal and imperia
orders in the world, which with
prodigious assortment of collars
crosses, and other fancy insignia, SOW
ereigns crafty the ambition of theil
subjects.
Thirty-seven French soldiers, unde1
command of captain, a lieutenan
and a sub-lieutenant are said to have
marched from their barracks at Vanne
to raj road station twelve miles dis
tant in hour and 80 minutes to ST.
lutte general whose train was to stol
at the station. Not a man fell out OF
the march.
Tushkuroff, the Russian traveller anC
ethnologist, points out in recently pub
lished statistics that there are in tht
Russian army 400, 900 heatbens ant
so, coo mohamedans, the latter forming
20 per cent of the Russian Cossack reg
iments. He also states that Christian
ity is rapidly decreasing in the south
eastern parts of the empire.
In 1901 there were thirty-tive trans
lations of the scriptures in existence