The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-04-23
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glne that is a success.
Ebon I. Marshall, of Rincon, Cal.
suffered so from corns on his little toes
that he had the toes cut off.
Eight horses and three calves were
killed in one night recently near Ban
ming, California, by mountain lions.
A Scranton landlord has ordered all
the girl walters at the hotel to wear
slippers, so they will make less noise
while moving about
The census bill about to be intro
duced by the English government will
provide that hereafter the census be
taken every five years.
Philip Kick, who died recently near
Mount Vernon, Ohio, was the father
of nineteen children. His widow and
seventeen of the children survive.
The Supreme Court of California has
decided that colored children cannot
be excluded from the public schools of
that state on account of their color.
The prince of Naples, heir to the
throne of Italy, is not quite twenty
one, but his royal father lately APP
pointed him to be a senator to the
kingdom.
A first-class machinist in Connecti-
cut is said to be pretty girl Nellie
Patterson. of Mount Carmel. She
learned the trade thoroughly. and gets
mans wages.
A monument has been erected to the
Gar Nicholas, on the banks of the
Danube, just at the spot where the
Russian army crossed the river in 1926
,, to fight Turkey.
Hydraulic power at a pressure of
$50 pounds to the square inch is now
being conveyed about beneath the
streets of London as steam is conveyed
in this country.
A Butler County, Ohio man, whose
entire property is assessed at $S5, is
the owner of five dogs, on which he
will have to pay $3.50 tax. His prop
erty tax is $2.75.
| A sheet of paper made from the web
of the white spider in Hong Kong,
China, is in the possession of George
West, of Ballston. It is as light as air
and almost as transparent.
One of the youngest widows in the
world is Mrs. Ickes, of Columbus, o.,
who is only fourteen years old. Her
husband died of pneumonia after they
had been married only three weeks.
There is no taxation upon either real
or personal property at Paris, but when
a piece of real estate is sold the pur-
chaser is required to pay Il fee TO the
government of 5 per cent on the sell
ing price.
A new truf1ie field of wide extent is
said to have been discovered near Mus
sorie, India, and epicures abroad are
letting their mouths water in anticl-
patton of more abundant supply of
the delicacy hereafter.
An Indian squaw picked up $500
worth of gold nuggets in the Franklin
County hills in Maine and sold it in
Portland. Several bands of prospect
ors will set out in the spring for the
site of the reported finds.
Charleston, S. c., does not appear to
be growing in wealth very rapidly. The
city assessor reports that the value of
real estate has increased $306,000 and
that of personal property decreased
$249, 700 during the past year.
Near Lebanon, Pa, there is school
teacher who has an inordinate desire
to sleep, and frequently slumbers during
school hours. The scholars. being un
able to wake him a few days ago
gathered up their books and started
home.
The daily consumption of oysters at
the Senate Restaurant is about twenty
five bushels during the oyster season
Fully the same quantity is served to
customers in the House Restaurant
Friday is the big day for oysters at The
capitol.
The high officials at Pekin are sale
to be divided on the railroad question
One-half wants the roads to be con
structed with native capital, which
would Indefinitely postpone their reali
zation, and the other favors the use o
foreign capital.
There is an admirable arrangement
for quickly and safely emptying the
house in use in the fremont Theatre
Boston. BY simply touching button
in any one of eight handy places in the
theatre seventeen exits open, actuateC
by electricity.
A periodical for the betrothed is now
published in Vienna. 1t is published
twice month. Every announcement
of a betrothal or marriage is inserted
gratuitously. provided the happy couple
will buy their trousseau of the trades
men advertising in the paper.
White County, Arkansas claims the
champion big girl. Her name is Mel,
lie Arilda Malone. She was nine years
old the 14th of last August, and now
weighs 23U pounds. Her father i;
dead, but she has two sisters and 6
brother, all younger than herself.
A Reno County, Kansas, farmer OF
sixty summers advertised for a wife
Pretty Miss Minnie Forester, o.
Carthage, Mo-, answered the adver-
tisement and went to Hutchinson tc
wed her antiquity. She asked him tC
deed 10 her 100 acres of land. He de-
clined, and the wedding did not oc.
j cur.
There is a spring near Stonington,
Conn, the water of which has pc
culiar result on those who drink it.
The water flows from crack in high
rock, and the veins of a man drinking
from it begin to swell and he looks and
feels as though he were about to burst
for ten minutes. Then the effects
gradually disappear.
A cork core floating rope has been
invented. The inventor claims that
his floating rope of one inch thickness
withstand a strain of more than one
thousand pounds. 1t can be used in
life lines, on life RATS and as heavine
line to tie heavy hawsers to. AT "a
life-saving station such a rope would
be very valuable.
Captain Bob Warner has regular
zoo in his store at Port Tampa, Fla,
a collection of South American birds
and animals, which proves quite an at
traction to visitors to the port. Among
the collection are two fine macaws,
several parrots, monkeys, ETC., and a
curious little animal which he calls a
night-walker. 1t lies curled up asleep
all day, but at night plays, and is as
frisky as kitten.
Among the veterans detailed as a
guard of honor over Victor Emman-
uel's tomb in the Pantheon at Rome,
on the occasion of the anniversary of
the kings death, was a priest wearing
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