The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-12-09

HOWARD STRATToN,
FIG. NEEDHAM,
f. E. STOAKS.
The Cornell School of Law has en-
rolled Mrs. Mary Kennedy Brown.
graduate of Wellesley and young
widow, as one of its students. She IS
the first lady who appears on the
school list.
1t is not so hard as is supposed to
pronounce the name of the queen of
the Sandwich Islands. That ''u" in
Liliuokalani has the value of "w,"
and if one says 'Lillee-woka-lanny"
he will hit it about right.
Says Capt. O'Shea: 1T was in the
April of 1886 that found Mr.. Parnell
out. He was never a man of ideas,
His was not an original mind, but he
was the most skillful assimilator of
others ideas | ever met"
Jefferson M. Levy says it is not true
that Monticello, once Thomas Jefer-
sons home. is for sale. He says that no
money could purchase the historic es-
tate, which has been in the hands of the
Levy family since jefferson died.
M. Pasteur has now, by the grace of
the emperor of Austria, become Baron
Won Pasteur, and been decorated with
the Order of the Iron Grown. 1t is a
big advertisement for him, even if it
does not increase his reputation as
savant or his skill as physician.
Walter Fl. Evans. young Indiana
botanist who spent the summer eXplor-
ing the southwestern states in search
of cacti for the agricultural depart-
ment. says that he did not see single
rattlesnake or tarantula in that region,
which is supposed to be their home.
Prince Christian Victor. of Schles-
wig-Holstein, is gaining military expe-
rienee and finding pretty bits of fight
ing as an attache of the Black mount
ain expedition in India, where Gen.
Ellis and his army are engaged in
bringing the hill tribes into subsection.
Andrew Carnegie cherishes the doc
trine that the young men of America
should take their holidays away from
their own country, so that the cobwebs
may be entirely wiped away from their
ewes. He doesn't. however. conde-
scend to discuss the insignificant de-
tail of the expense involved.
Again the reproachful news comes
from abroad that Louis Kossuth. the
Hungarian patriot, now blind and old,
is living in wretchedness and poverty
IN Turin. Forty years ago, when he
visited America. the simple mention of
the fact that he needed funds would
have brought forth hundred offers of
assistance.
Mrs. Stanford has given the Leland
Stanford. Jr., University sixteen me-
dallions containing figures of three
gods each, and statue of Achilles and
one of Paris. four feet high. The
carving was beautifully done by the
Athenian sculptor. George Brontos.
The value of the statuary is estimated
at $25, 900.
When S. V. White was in congress
he astonished and disgusted many OF
his co-members by having private
wire run into the cloak-room. They
were afraid that if he was not frowned
down he would soon have had a grain
elevator and a stock board in opera
ton under the shadow of the Goddess
of Liberty.
The battered hull of Nelson's famous
flagship. the Victory, which will be
exhibited at the Worlds Fair. is 126
years old. The exact spot where Mel
son fell is marked on the deck, and in
the cockpit will be number of Nine.
Tussauds wax figures representing in
realistic way the death of the adj
miral surrounded by his officers.
Sir James Ferguson. the new British
postmaster general, was wounded in
the battle of Inkerman. He was
directing a charge. and had snatched
up rifle from wounded man. just
as he fired the, weapon he received a
musket-ball from the enemy in the
wrist. He holds the Crimean medal
and Turkish medal for bravery.
Judge Campbell. of Philadelphia. is
not, as recently published. the only
surviving ex-member of ante-bellum
cabinets, Horatio King, who was first
assistant postmaster general during
Mr.. Campbell's term. was appointed
postmaster general by President Bu-
chanan when Gen. Joseph Holt, who
is also living. was transferred to the
war department..
Joseph Taper of Pittsburg got fool
ishly discouraged because he fancied
that he was cumbering the earth for
too long span of years, and imagine
ing that Nature was forgetting to call
in his checks he gave her a gentle re-
minder by trying to hang himself.
And vet Joseph is only giddy youth
of 107 squito-hauDted summers and
corrugated winters.
Sir Edwin Arnold, who is coming to
this country to lecture. is an English
man who is thoroughly English in his
opinion of himself, and not overmod-
est in stating his own estimate of his
powers. He has written about his first
lecture here that it will be ''an inter-
esting discourse. with poetical illustra-
tions of ancient and modern India"
and says: you need have no fear
but that l can hold and please my
audience"
The youthful queen of Holland, who
is only 10 years old, has little farm
near the royal castle at Het Loo, where
she is sole mistress. There is a pret-
tily furnished drawing-room there for
the lady of the house and her numer-
Gus children-the dolls-and kitchen,
where the little queen learns how to
make tarts. The child has her own
poultry to feed, and her own garden,
where everything has been planted
and cultivated by her small royal
hands. She trims her roses herself,
and the flowers in her mothers apart
ments are always gathered and ar
ranged by her.
John II. Parnell. a brother of the
dead Irish leader. says he thinks the
''uncrowned king" left a considerable
estate, though much of it may have
been consumed in the litigation forced
upon him in his last years. At the
tinse of his greatest aff1uence he was
worth G150,000. He had an estate in
County Wicklow. some stone quarries,
copper mines and mills, but it is un-
known whether they were mortgaged.
John Parnell himself has small fruit
farm in Georgia. He is described as a
rather seedy-looking man of AZ. who
dresses in rough suit of brown goods
and wears a faded slouoh hat.
Should the new king of Wurtem burg
die without male issue, his heir would
be- distant relative, Duke Philip,
grandson of Louis Philippe and hus-