The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-08-27
MISSING LINKS.
One Of the highest students at Cam


leaving assets of nearly $1,50o,000.
A club in Guatemala offers a premi-
um of 81, 600 for the best hymn for the
Central American nation.
The city of Hamburg has surplus
of 81, 250, 600. Of this amount 81, 500,-
900 was from last years receipts.
An aged lady died suddenly in ho-
tel at Birmingham, Ala, and in her
bust 5000 was found secreted.
A G unterfeit dime heavily plated
with pure silver on body of German
silver has appeared in Goshen, Ind. 1t
is dated 1889.
Congregation at Oxford has decided
to include the examination for the de-
gree of bachelor of medicine in exam
nations for women.
A new style of mourning paper drops
the band of black all around the sheet,
and has it drawn diagonally across the
left-hand corner only.
The decline of English beauty is as
serted, of course, with serious regret.
Bad teeth, short sight, and round shoul-
ders are the increasing faults.
The synod of the reformed Presby-
terian church has forbidden the use of
liquors and tobacco by church men,
bers. No one will be admitted to men,
bership who uses either.
There is colored man in Calves
ton who is worth over $3.50, 900. He
has fine house in the most desira-
BILE residential portion of the city and
his wife employs none but white SER
wants.
In 1889 800 elks were shot in the for
ests of Norway. Most of them were
killed by English sportsmen, who, as
Voltaire once intimated, are never
happy unless they are killing some
thing.
Steps have been taken to establish in
st. Petersburg society for the in
surance of crops against climatic mis-
haps. The Agricultural Society of
the metropolis has initiated the move
ment.
A lively opposition to Chinese immi-
grafton has sprung up in Mexico. The
miners and other laborers fear the COM
petition of the pigtail wearers, and the
local newspapers are actively backing
them.
st. Louis claims to manufacture
more wagons that any other city in the
country. The entire South and South
west are supplied from this point, while
fancy wagons and carriages are ship
ped to Europe and Australia.
The Berlin Boersen Courier estimates
that there are $1,000 different kinds of
postage stamps in the world. Last
January the Imperial Postal Museum
possessed 9, 500 sorts, and is now sup
posed to have at least 1000 more.
A new and popular development of
electrical science IS the electrical
hair curler. 1t is said to be equal to
the most exacting demands of the
feminine coiffure, and the beard or
mustache can be curled in any style in
two minutes.
United States Minister Snowden likes
the Government and the people of
Greece, but not the country. As he
luckily represents the United States in
Roumania and Servia, as well as in
Greece, he is enabled to leave Athens
in the hot season and seek a cooler
cline.
There is real floating island in
Norway Lake, Me. 1t has an area of
one and one-eighth acres, formed of a
quagmire made up of a mass of roots,
weeds and fibers and a growth of
small trees. 1t has for years been a
breeding place for hens, ducks and
other birds.
There is very curious stone about
which very little is ever heard. 1t is
called the "Alexandrite, in honor of
Alexander of Russia, who was very fond
of them. In the daytime they resem-
BILE an emerald, except that they are
somewhat darker, but at night they
are deep purplish red.
A young lady of Altoona observed
by the roadside wild rose, upon one
of the branches of which was growing
a small bunch of burrs, healthy and
perfect in every particular, as was
also the rose branch to which they
were singularly attached, freak of
nature which is unexplainable.
1t is reported from Rome that there
are alarming fissures in the dome of
st. Peters. About century ago a
similar state of things was remedied
by encircling the dome with strong
band of metal. The band was heated
and its contraction on cooling was
found to be sufficient to close up the
cracks.
A boy at Plainfeld, N. j., was at
tackled by large eagle and severely
lacerated about the chest. Although
much frightened, he grasped the bird
and choked it, and then throwing it
on the ground broke its wing by jump
ing on it. The eagle was then secured
alive and afterward exhibitedin store
window.
The University of Trinity College,
Toronto, has made considerable SEN
sation in England by claiming the right
by its charter to grant degrees in all
parts of the British empire. There is
an indignant protest in the old country,
and demand that if the Toronto uni
versity has shadow of right to such
power it should be deprived of it i'm
mediately.
The Downerville, Cal, MESSENGER.
has the following: Between this place
and the Red Oak mine is a strip of
about a hundred yards in width of red
snow. On the surface the color is not
so plain as below the surface, but is
plain enough to enable one to trace
the color strip some distance both
ways from where the trail crosses it.
Dig down ten inches and the sides of
the depression appear about the color
of red ink. No cause for this can be
seen."
1t is said that on Cross Island, off
Machias it is daily sight to see five
to fifteen deer feeding on the border of
the forest; these are conceded not to be
wild deer" as no one is allowed to
shoot or fire at them any month in the
year. Anyone who does so is an ont
law. 1t is judged by men who live
most of the time at the life-saving sta
ton that there are $50 deer, maybe
200, on Cross Island, which is one of
the best natural deer parks on the con-
tinent.
The personnel of the Imperial Opera
House in Vienna is little village com.
munity of itself. 1t consists of All
persons-the director, twenty-one make
solo singers, twelve female solo singers.
a chorus director, fifty chorus men and
sixty-seven chorus girls, ten male solo
dancers, sixteen female solo dancers.