The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-03-12
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Joseph jefferson received $12, 600 for

Ouida, it is said, has made more
money by her labors than any woman
of the century except Patti.
One of the leading members of the
Maryland Senate is Mr.. Poe, a relative
of the late Edgar Allan Poe.
The Russian Imperial Academy of
Fine Arts have decided that Jews shall
no longer be admitted among its men,
bers.
Nine. Carnot, wife of the President
of France, is said to be the best-dress-
ed and most charitable woman in
Paris.
Rev. Thomas r. Bacon, son of the
late Leonard Bacon, has become a
Professor in the University of Cali
fornia
Mrs. Langtry's property in Salt Lake
County, Utah, consisting of 139 acres
of land, is to be sold for taxes. The
amount due is only $57.
The Albany, N. Y, school board has
contracted with local liyeryman for
conveyances to carry children living in
the outskirts to the nearest school.
There was 800, 100000 worth of
jewelry worn at the New York New
which says much for the honesty of the
1,400
1t is told of a Carbon county Penn
sylvanian that he has worn the same
hat for twenty-three years, and he
says it has come into style nineteen
times.
The Empress Frederick has directed
her castle at Crombur9 put in tele-
phonic connection with the opera house
at Frankfort, SO that she may hear the
music.
California's receipts from the sale of
dried fruits, raisins and honey last year
were fully $4,000, 600, and the prospects
for the business this year are very flat
tering.
Lieutenant James D. Gay, who was
the first man to bring mail North from
Washington at the outbreak of the. re-
bellion, has petitioned Congress for a
pension.
For the first time in its history the
British navy has to hunt for stokers.
They have established regular re-
cruiting party similar to that used for
the army.
William E. Gladstone has been offer
ed $25, 600 year by an American pub
Usher for the exclusive use of his liter
ary output. Literature pays better than
wood-chopping.
A Michigan man, true to his ruling
passion, beat down the trader from
whom he bought pistol with which he
committed suicide. He got 25 cents off
from the price.
The glass works at Kokomo, Ind,
claim to have cast the largest sheet of
plate glass ever produced in the United
States. 1t covers 175 square feet and
weighs 582 IL pounds.
A tenor singer named Eichorn, in
Cologne, was obliged to undergo a
throat operation, and, while it was sue
cessful, it was found upon his recovery
that his voice had changed to a bari
tone.
DR.. Frederick Bramann, who per-
formed tracheotomy on Emperor Fred
erick in 1888, has now become Extra
ordinary Professor of Surgery in the
University of Berlin. He was gradu-
ated in medicine and surgery barely
ten years ago.
Mr.. II. F. De Bardeleben is the rich
est man in Alabama. He is the leading
man in the state in iron manufactur-
ing, and is president of the company
which bears his name. He is worth
from $3, 600, 600 to So, 900, 900, and has
made it all in and around Birming-
ham.
Governor Bracket, of Massachusetts,,
is very fond of the theatre. He attends
every noted performance in Boston.
He assumes an air of statues9ue repose
in his box, but is very generous in his
applause. Those who know him well
say that he is not good critic, being
too easily pleased.
Miss Landor, who recently died at
the old-fashioned seat of Tachbrook,
Warwickshire, Eng, was niece of
the poet Walter Savage Landor. Her
house was filed with curious old Byzan-
tine and pre-Raphaelite pictures which
Landor bought in Italy before the in
vasion of that country by Napoleon 1.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith of the Woman's
Industrial League has organized cru
sade against the admittance of improp-
'er women into the ladies' reception
room at the east side of the House wing,
and the suppression of the visits of like
persons to the corridors and waiting
rooms about the Capitol at Washing
ton.
A family in Henry county, Ca, con-
slsts Of three mothers, three sons, two
grandmothers, three grandsons, one
great-grandmother, one daughter-in-
law, one husband, one granddaughter
in-law, two brothers, one daughter, two
great-grandsons, one wife, two widows,
one grandmother-in-law and there are
only six in the family.
Mr.. and Mrs. ObeistroA of Denison,
Tex, recently celebrated their seventy
fifth anniversary of married life. They
have seventeen children living who
were present on the occasion. The
Oldest is 20 years of age Mr.. and
Mrs. Obeistrom are aged respectively
81 and "a. They are believed to be
the Oldest married couple in the state.
Old Marshal MacMahon, ex-Presi-
dent of France, has completed his me-
moirs, but they will not be given to the
public. He intends to have only six
copies printed-one for himself, one for
his wife, one for each of his three sons
and one for his daughter. He has re-
ceived f1attering offers from publishers,
but refuses to allow his work to receive
general circulation.
Emperor William of Germany has a
man-servant who comes in for his mas
ter's cast-of clothes. Recently the valet
ventured to suggest that certain coat
which was still in active service belong
ed to him by reason of his age. What
is its market value?n asked the Emper-
or. 'Three dollars" replied the valet.
Il like the coat" replied the Emperor.
Here, take $3 and leave me the gar
ment."
At a recent meeting of the Society of
Aerostation in Berlin Professor Griese
entertained the assembly with a de-
scription of an invention of his, bv
means of which a man with his own
muscular power only may leap up into
the air and fly for short time. The
machine is called Sprungfugel. Sew
eral scientific men have become con-
vinced that Herr Griese's invention is
serious, and that it will aid considera-
bly, in solving the problem of navigat-
ing the air.
A beggar who for thirty years has