The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-02-26
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A dog lives twenty years; wolf
twenty; fox fourteen to sixteen years.
A swan has attained the age of two
hundred years; pelicans are long lived
Pigs have been known to live to the
age of thirty years; the rhinoceros to
twenty.
A horse has been known to live to
the age of sixty-two, but averages from
twenty to thirty.
Insects, as a general rule, are short
lived, though there are q great many
exceptions to the rule.
Sir Walter Scott's dairy of the later
years of his life is soon to be printed by
an Edinburg publisher.
A Wheeling inventor is at work upon
a watch which is expected to run a
month without winding.
The largest ourang-outang yet shot
in Borneo stood feet and 10 inches
high. The average is about feet 6
inches.
The Russian minister of the interior
is preparing scheme to check the in
creasing immigration into Russia, es-
pecially of Germans.
George Augustus Sala, it is announc-
ed, has retired from journalism with a
view to entering Parliament. 1t would
be quite appropriate to have the famil
lar e. A. S. there.
Coningsby Disraeli, nephew and heir
of Lord Beaconsield, shares his quar-
ters at Oxford with a member of Glad
stones family, who is his most intimate
friend and chum.
Henry Smith, an eccentric individual
who died at Kansas City, left directions
that his funeral should not cost more
than $50, and that his body should be
consumed by shaking lime. His wishes
were complied with.
When the visiting Amesbury military
company marched to the Biddeford,
Me-, depot the other day, an old lady
leaned out of window in the ''Blarney
Block" and called out, "Good-by, boys
Good bless you all, and don't come
back again till you free Ireland"
Z, One of the most interesting features
of modern Greek life is the fact that
the inhabitants are above receiving
gratuities. Indeed, there is no word
in the Romaic language which is the
synonym for the English tip" the
French ''pourboir, % the German
''trinkgeld,' and the Turkish ''back-
sheesh.n
William Allingham, the Irish poet,
who died recently, was friend of
Carlyle, but the old fellow used to sit
on him heavily from time to time, and
once he did it in this wise: ''Allingham,
ye're no bad fellow, but I'd just have
- /,
in word of sense for your everlasting
jabbering."
The Prince of Wales is noted for the
enormous quantity of luggage which he
causes to be sent with him on his Jour-
neys. He takes whole boxes of hats
and huge trunks of dress suits, morn
ing coats, and other charges. He
makes a point when visiting anywhere
of not being seen twice in the same
coat, and the variety of his garments
is as astonishing as the tailor's bill for
them must be long.
Prince Bismarck is constantly i'm
proving his estates and adding to the
income which he receives from them.
His distilleries at Varzin, the dairies in
Schoenhausen, and the paper and street
pavement factories make him already
one of the greatest tradesmen in the
Empire and show his industrial and
business talents. He has recently adj
ded to this list large brickyard,
which he has built in the forests of
Louenberg.
Mr.. Oscar Dickson, the Gothenburg
merchant, already famous as gener-
GUS patron of Arctic exploration, offers
to defray the expenses of new expedi-
ton to the North Pole if DR.. Frithjof
Nansen, who commanded the recent
Greenland expedition, will accept the
leadership. DR.. Nansen is willing to
take command of polar expedition,
but as he is an officer of the Norwegian
Government he desires that Norway
shall defray the expenses.
There are thirteen opium refining
factories at present in operation in
Victoria, B. c. The quantity of crude
opium imported last year would pro-
duce so, 200 pounds of the refined arti-
ticle. Five thousand pounds, says a
Canadian customs officer, would Sup
ply all demands for home consump-
tion, and the remainder would have to
be disposed of in the United States,
into which one country of course it
comes without going through the GUS
tom house.
Few good wives, says the N, Y. Su7a,
will object to their husbands going to
the Audubon Club of Detroit. Who
ever smokes in that club must bring
his own cigar to the house, and who
ever wants drink there must have
brought it along with him-a dreadful
condition that has not yet been known
in the club. The aim of the club is to
provide rooms for reading and card
playing, but no playing for money is
permitted, and at 10 o'clock every
night the club-rooms are closed.
A Baltimore justice, before whom
policeman was brought on the charge
of profane swearing on the public
street. dismissed the case, as the officer
had said only ''damn." The justice
explained that the mere use of that
word was not more significant than
the word ''durn.n Damn as defined
by Webster and Worcester and the en-
cyclopedia, when used by itself, is not
profane language. If, he said, the
prisoner had used it in connection with
the name of God, then l should have
found him guilty and punished him Sc
verely.
Adam P. Hopkins, of West Bridge
water. Pa, has filed caveat upon an
Improvement" in the form of posts
and railroad ties made of burnt fire
clay. The posts will be burnt very
hard and will have the railing secured
by means of nails driven into holes
made in the posts when soft, at an
angle that will bring the heads together
and hold the railing firmly in place.
Holes through the ties upon either side
of the rail will admit bolts, the upper
ends of which will have washers and |
nuts bearing upon the rail and holding
it firmly in position.
King Humbert, of Italy, alth oueh !
only 45, is already quite gray. The
fact worries his beautiful Queen and |
she recently gave him box of the ia
nous French hair-coloring material
and anxiously awaited the effects of its
But she was disappoint-
ed. Instead of more youthful look
ing King she found her favorite lap
dog dyed an ugly green the following
When she asked for an ex-
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