The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-07-29
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A chewing gun concern in Brooklyn
has become stock company with
capital of ST. 600. 600.
OF the 1000, 900 square miles of
Africa only $500. 600 remains in the
hands of the native rulers.
The king of all the Holsters was
caught off Monhegan, Me-, recently.
He was thirty inches long and weighed
fourteen pounds.
There are twenty-six monarchies and
twenty-five republics in the civilized
world today; sixteen republics are in
South America.
German medical papers report the
death of a young woman from heart
failure following immersion in cold
water for baptism.
So disgraceful has become the peni-
tentiary system in Georgia that juries
in many cases acquit women rather
than send them there.
Rose Hawthorne says that Emerson's
memory became so weak at last that
he used to go out looking for himself in
the streets of Concord.
The output of whisky last year was
120, 900. 900 gallons. and the transac-
tions in whisky are by no means con-
fined to the output.
The funeral ceremonies over the re-
mains of the late Prince Chun. father
of the Emperor of China, began on
January 10, and are still going on.
A Wichita, Kan, farmer within year
has sold corn from one crib at Is cents,
26 cents, so cents and rs cents. and has
some left for which he expects to get
IS cents.
Unless a Kansas editor lies there is
an old gentleman in Boonville, that
state. who has carried the same UNI
brella every day in the week for sixteen
consecutive years.
There are 40. 900 women studying in
the various colleges of the country.
And vet it is only twenty-five years
since the first college in the land was
opened to women.
One of the members of the Ohio
Legislature is blind gentleman named
Palmer, who, when he is in the chair,
can instantly recognize the voice of
any member rising to address the
House.
President Balmaceda. of Chill, is a
stern and arbitrary man,with cold gray
eyes, thin lips and an angular chin.
He possesses more energy and ability
than are usually found in South
American dictator.
These are fine days for the Kiplings,
Papa Kipling has written book about
Indian beasts; and now comes the an
&C. 1axyN Rtoa nj ~
Kipling, the sister of Rudyard, 1.-The
Heart of Maid"
Dallas Hunter, the fat boy of Green
County, Indiana, is dead. He was only
fourteen years old, but he weighed 249
pounds, and he died in his sleep, prac
tically smothered in his superabund
ance of adipose matter.
Boston is much cast down, because
the Concord School of Philosophy will
not meet this summer. Boston want:
too much of the Thisness of the Thus
She had the Theosophists in convention
and ought to be satisfied.
M. Bouvier, the French Minister o
Finance, is still young man, who ha'
dinarv ability as a statesman anC
the coming men in France.
Ibsen was entertained at banque
of journalists and actors at the Hote
Continental in Vienna on April 20. r
Won Sonnenthal, the actor, toasted hin
as the greatest living dramatist,
whereupon lbsen kissed him.
A farmer near Topeka. Kas.. storet
away 100 bushels of corn. Soon after
storing it. he sold seventy-fiye bushels
and realized $3.50. A year later he sold
fifteen bushels and realized $3.50. And
recently he exchanged the remaining
ten bushels for $3.50.
An artist has been looking through
the Boston cemeteries and finds to his
surprise that there is no monument in
any of the cemeteries there that is
worth over $1,000. The Chadwick
tomb cost about $25, 900, but this is not
classed with monuments.
As Senator Stanford could not induce
the Government to loan money to the
farmers he has concluded to cater to
another class, and will begin the manu-
facture of champagne on his big Cali.
fornIa farm. He has brought French.
man over from Lyons to take charge Of
the experiment.
The French Society of Men of Let
ters, which held its convention in Paris
recently has pension fund of $780,.
900 for old and INDECENT members. Its
whole property is worth between $500,
900 and 100000. Its annual expendi
lures are 500, 600 or about S., 600 les!
than its receipts.
h0 pnT.1o Of fYsnR
Neuilly to st. Denis is lined with tum
shelter more vice and iniquity than car
world. The houses throng with Grim
inals. The street is known as tn,
Route de la Revolte."
The commander of the St. Peters
burg police has issued an order that i
house owner is in arrears with hi
water taxes he is to be compelled b.
police measures to pay them. But tn,
water supply is not to be cut off, il
order that the tenants shall not suffe
for the delinquency of the landlord.
In 1922 Arthur st. Clair, of Cincin
natl sold piece of land for s. 25
which is thus described in the deed
''The IL, 900 pit of an inch from the n
c. corner of lot No. %, and runnin,
south IA of an in.; thence w. to tn
back line of said lot; thence n. IA of al
inch; thence e. to point of beginning.
This is probably the smallest rea
estate transaction on record.
The latest fish story comes from
Ocala, Fla. where the cook at
restaurant is alleged to have found
diamond ring in fish's stomach. Th
ring is of handsome design and con
tains seven small stones set in circle
with one larger than the rest in tn
center. Inside the band on the lowe
side are engraved the letters S. E. l
The ring is valuable one, probabl
worth from 800 to 1925.
A st. Petersburg lady of fashion ha
invented an improvement in her turr
out which, the local papers say. is like
ly to become popular with all the ladie
Of her rank. She has mirror fastene
to the girdle of her driver when st
takes drive. This enables her nc
only to see whether her headgear an
dress are in perfect order, but even