The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-05-14
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ufacture of chewing gum.
A medal has been struck in COM
memoration of the fiftieth anniversary
in England of penny postage.
Fifty shillings an ounce was the price
paid in England for an Irish toilet SER
vice of the time of William and Mary.
1t was not very highly ornamental, but
it sold for So, $50.
While sinking well in the Santa
Lucia range, San Luis Obispo county,
Mr.. Anderson eXhumed the fossil
vertebrae of a whale. His we'll is O.
900 feet above sea level.
Since the Inauguration of new sys-
tenn of postal wagons for emptying the
mail boxes in Berlin an ordinary city
letter reaches it's destination in an hour
after leaving the hands of the sender.
The great contest between tea and
coffee, as to which is to be the univer-
sal beverage, is gradually leaning to
tea. As long back as the memory of
man goes ''cold tea" has always had
the call.
Miss Olaf Krarer, an Esquimaux, is
the first woman of her race to come
forward as public lecturer. She
speaks English with remarkable ac-
curacy. Her height is only three feet
four inches.
An enormous growth of ivy has par
TALLY destroyed the wall of Christ
Church. Waterloo, and few days ago
brought section of it tumbling to the
ground. The church has been built
fifty years.
In Kent, England, a farm of 500
acres that has been let for Sc, per
year has Just been re-let to the same
tenant for 50, 500. This is said to be Il
fair illustration of the decline of farm
values in England of late years.
At Buda Pesth recently two men met
to fight duel to the death. The dis
tance was twenty-five PAGES, and each
man was to have six shots. Neither
party managed to hit the other in that
time, and the affair was abandoned in
disgust.
Thunderstorms are more frequent in
Java than in any other part of the
globe. On an average they occur in
the island on ninety-seven days of the
year. In England the average marks
thunderstorms on about seven days in
the year-only half the number record
ed in France.
Paris public schools are overcrowd-
ed. and the authorities propose to help
to remedy the difficulty by forbidding
the attendance at them of children of
foreigners. There are 10000 foreign
children in the city, and at least 5, 600
of them are getting French education
free at the public schools.
Two foreign women noted Tor their
prowess as huntresses are travelling in
this country-namely, Lady Marie Ede
Won Ameline, famous as tiger killer,
and Lady Eva Wyndham Linn, who slew
six man-eaters during visit to her
uncle, the governor of Nepaul. Lady
Ameline killed four tigers in India and
has their claws and skins.
During a storm which recently ragged
in the canton of Neufchatel, Switzer-
land, shower of living caterpillars
fell on the hill of Cretes. They were
in myriads, and of three species-some
yellow, the others black, and varying
in length. Among the caterpillars
were many other insects. The source
from which the gale conveyed them is
unknown.
The number of gondoliers at Venice
has been much diminished since the in
PRODUCTION of steam launches in the
canals which form its thoroughfares.
The few goneoliers left in service,
however, are not complaining, as they
receive better wages through lack OF
competition in their own special line,
and their sculling is much in demand
by visitors.
Education does not seem to make
people any the less superstitious.
About fifteen hundred different kinds
of dream books are in the market and
all of them find buyers, while sales
steadily increase about in proportion
to the increase of people. Nor is the
demand for dream books confined to
the poor. Women with sealskins and
diamonds buy them.
The London Institute of Actuaries
proposes to dispense with the services
of medical men in examining for in
surance in cases where the applicant
prefers to make statement before a
responsible officer. This change is
based upon the idea that thousands of
people in good health will not insure
because they have to pass through the
doctors surveillance.
Recent observations of the waters of
Great Salt Lake prove conclusively
that the statements made that no form
of animal or plant life exists in the
lake are erroneous. No fish or other
large form of animal life has been dis
covered, but the presence of vegetable
organisms in the lake may be consid-
cred fact from the abundance of min
ute animal existences.
A Hartford hardware merchant
named Hill is responsible for the in
vention of the American lawn mower.
He sent number of the clumsy En-
glish mowers TO Philadelphia man
and over-charged him 75 cents for box
ing. The Philadelphia refused to
pay for them, and sat down and in
vented a lawn mower of his own.
which has driven out the English con-
trivance.
The Piccadilly swells appear to have
agreed upon new way of carrying
their canes. Heretofore it has been
the fashion to wear the stick directly
in front of and parallel with the body,
the head of the stick being upward and
pointing forward. But the latest style
is to carry the stick ferrule end up
ward, the head turned toward the body
and the stick held stiffiy at an angle of,
say, 40 degrees.
A soldier was court-martialed last
month al Venice for breach of disci-
pline and condemned to six months i'm
prisonment. When informed by the
court that he could appeal he con-
temptuously tore off his number and
other insignia, threw them on the floor
and shouted: ''Cursed be your army
You are lot of assassins!' For this
he was condemned to seven years
close confinement in prison.
The English countess of Carloty re-
Gently died in Paris at the age of seven.
ty in her room, where she lived alone
and apparently in poverty. She was
found dying in her chair by the jani-
tress, and the police were summoned,
as it was supposed that she was utterly
destitute. In removing her from the
chair bag fell to the floor and in ii
was found $4,000 in gold; $40 900 in
notes was afterward found in drawer
Everybody smokes in Japan. The
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