The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-09-02

mule IS generally regarueu ds hon-
tuckian.
At a fire in Georgia, there being no
water at home, some little colored boys
pelted it with watermelons which were
growing in neighboring field and the
watermelons bursting soon quenched
the flames.
There are many odd ways of getting
a living. One of the oldest is pursued
by the SGIo711aiers of Paris, who make
profession tying gentlemen's cravats.
An expert artist in this line can earn
$40 an evening, it is said.
Investigation of the working of the
Kansas Liquor law shows that q
resident of Topeka had cold one day
and a fever the next for a year without
a break, and that his medicine was in-
variably whisky or beer.
The wife of President Diaz has been
designated the Mrs. Cleveland of |
Mexico. She is very popular and a |
beauty of the brunette type. She is. |
moreover, finely educated, simple and |
unostentatious,a and possesses charming
manners.
A Maine farmer who recently sent |
10 cents to man who advertised tt.
run farm without being troubled with
potato-bugs got this reply by postal
card: 'sPlat fruit trees instead of
potatoes.
Mrs. Kate Chase Ralston Seymour,
of Lockport, well-known society
woman and newspaper writer, and
relative of Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague.
had the fingers of her right hand cut
off recently by her coachman careless
ly slamming the door of her carriage.
Mrs. Ewing, an authority on cook
ing, says that cooking pays women
better than many other avocations they
follow '.Half dozen churches in
Kansas City," she adds. leach paid one
for course sum greater than the
average school teacher can earn in
year,
Farmer ellison came down from up
country the other day and brought his
boy along to see the sights. Paw"
said the lad, amazed at, seeing hearse
horses trot, ''that amt funer'l, is t?''
Yes, tits; these city folks hev to hurry
like sixty to get man buried fore the
mourners furgit it.
The mother of Governor the wife
of Governor. the sister of Cover
nor the niece of Governor and the
aunt of a Governor! That's Mrs
Richard Manning, of South Carolina.
and she's the only woman in the world
with such record. This is governing
with vengeance; but women always
did love to rule, so men say; men don't
rule-oh, mol
Senator Plumb in many of his char
acteristics, and even in his giant frame,
suggests to the observer the late Sen
ator Beck, of Kentucky. The eminent
Scotch-Kentuckian was a big man
physically and mentally, absolutely
without show or fear. bluff, downright
and sincere. and one of the most rapid
takers that ever threw a staff of steno-
graphers into panic.
The difference between the standard
time and sun time still makes trouble
in eastern Maine, where it is about
thirty minutes. A party was recently
made up in one of the towns to go to
neighboring village and hear popular
preacher. The party started by rail-
road time and the preacher began his
service by the Lords time, and the
visitors arrived just as the good man
was pronouncing the benediction.
An illustration of the boyishness and
good heartedness of Burgess, the
famous yacht-builder. just dead, is
given in the fact that when the re-
cipient of the plaudits of two great
peoples on different sides of the ocean,
he bore his honors with the meekness
of boy. And. in truth, there was a
good deal of the ingenuousness of the
boy in his nature. One manifestation
of this fact furnished much amusement
to his friends. Whenever he sailed on
ons of his boats that came in VIM
yer he always threw somersault or
two upon her deck as she crossed the
line.
All France is very much interested
just now in the future of a young
widow, the Princess Letitia. who is the
only marriageable Princess of the
Bonaparte family. The Princess is
woman of somewhat imposing beauty.
She has a rather large figure, inclined
to embonpoint. fiorid face and thick,
black hair. Her lips are full, almost
to the point of sensuality. OF her
shoulders and arms it has been said
they might furnish models for sculp-
tor, for they are superbly developed.
In manner the Princess is most viva
clOuS, Dut Sne mas an unpleasant way
of making cutting and sarcastic re-
marks. She has expressed desire to
marry again, and Paris is curious to
know whom she will select for hus-
band.
One of the best Greek scholars in
New York is guard on the Sixth
Avenue Elevated Road. Not long ago
famous professor in one of our lead
ing univerities published volume
on certain features of the ancient
Grecian dialects. of interest only to
scholars. The L guard referred to
above wrote to New York newspaper,
pointing out several errors made by
the professor. He signed himself
Sixth Avenue Elevated Guard, No.
-" For mouth. says writer, 1
watched the badges of the guards on
that road as l made my daily trips
back and forth. One morning | was
rewarded by finding the learned man l
sought. How does it happen" I
asked, showing him my card, that
you, Greek scholar of first rank,
should be doing such work as thisP"
He looked at me sadly. and his red
face grew more flushed than usual II
was the best Hellenist of my year at
Dublin" he said. MY Greek is still
what it used to be, but my career has
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