The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-18
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a New York doctor, startled by a
proposal of marriage from a spinster,
called in the police and had her
arrested.
DR.. Louis Bell, editor of the Electri-
cal World, is of the opinion that steam
as motor will one day become
thing of the past.
The Imperial tribunal of Leipsic has
decided that henceforth refusal to rise
and participate in toast to the health
of the Kaiser shall constitute high trea-
son.
Co-education is success at the Mis-
souri, University, forty-two marriage
engagements having been reported
thus far between the boys and girls of
that institution.
Sig. Jessada, of Genoa, Italy, a leader
in the great lace industry of that coun-
try. has specimens of the fabric woven
in the year 1400. He considers these
the earliest productions of the art.
The Duke of Nassau is the possessor
of almost unlimited wealth and is the
envy of every German and Austrian
princeling because he has the biggest
and best cellar of rare old vintage and
cabinet wines in Europe.
India and Ceylon are increasing their
production of tea to such an extent that
it is expected they will furnish Is per
cent of the amount consumed in Great
Britain this year. China is a great
sufferer from this change.
General Booth, of the Salvation
Army. says he will do what he can to
bring the right kind of people of both
sexes to know one another. This is
part of his Darkest England" scheme,
and seems to be a huge matrimonial
enterprise.
Near Camilla, Ga, there is justice
of the peace who uses the oath to wit
nesses as follows: THE evidence you
shall give in this case shall be the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth. and pay all costs, SO
help you God"
Mrs. Stanley thinks that American
women are more hospitable than the
women of London and the cities of the
British isles, but ''the English girl is
better when you get acquainted with
her. She is little stiff and distant at
first but improves after she has thawed
out"
and greatly enjoyed Journey by rail,
but she disliked riding in carriages.
Up to the time of her arrival in Salt
Lake City she had met with twelve
carriage accidents, and she had a
superstition that the thirteenth would
prove fatal.
A remarkable petition is on its way
from India to Queen Victoria. 1t is
more than sixty feet in length, and is
signed by more than 10, 600 women in
India who are anxious to have the
legal marriage age for girls raised
from its present limit of ten to four
teen years.
The late Earl of Devon, the twelfth
of his line, was a most incorrigible
spendthrift. When, in 1872, at the
age of So, he made his appearance in
the Bankruptcy court, his debts reach
ed the extraordinary amount of $3,-
588, 000-the result chiefly of reckless
ness on the race-track.
Thomas A. Edison is said to regard
his deafness as blessing in disguise.
1t enables him to think and plan in
perfect quiet, and he can have his chill
dren about him at all times without
being disturbed by their noisy prattle.
He also misses the comments passed
upon his appearance wherever he goes.
It is said of David Jacks, the Mon
terey county, CAL. millionaire, that he
can ride twenty miles in straight line
on his own land. He is Scotchman,
and in 1849 slowed himself away in a
barrel on a vessel bound for Califor-
mia. Now he has fortune of $1,000
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churchman.
Charles Nordhoff, the journalist. of
Washington, writes: Lower Califor-
mia, l think, has great future, but it
is solely owing to the excellent climate
of the peninsula that am building a
home there. 1 have had property in
terests in Lower California for several
years, and will now take up perma-
nent residence on my ranch"
Professor Robert Koch has given a
Hamburg firm permission to call one
of their vessels by his name. A bronze
medal has been struck off. also. in his
honor in Berlin. 1t contains on one
side an excellent likeness of the doctor
with the inscription: Professor DR..
Robert Koch" On the other side are
the words: ut Sementem Feceris; ita
Notes."
There is no end to the artfulness of
womankind. There comes a story
from Ridgway, Pa, to the effect that
a man there, while blowing smoke
rings in the presence of young lady,
was surprised to see her run her finger
in one and tell him we'll be married
next spring. What could the poor fel-
A. h; 1o ral
submission?
Gutta percha derives its name from
the Malayan words, ''gusta," gum
and ''pertcha," cloth, and was intro
duced to the civilized world in 1S4s
by DR.. Montgomery, a Scotch surgeon
The first specimens were taken to Lon
don from Singapore by Jose Almeida
and the properties of the gum were
announced by Hancock, Wheatstont
and Faraday.
The professor of rhetoric and bellies
letters in Newcombe College New Or
leans, is Mrs. Jennie c. Nixon, Ten
nessee woman, who found it necessary
to seek her own living after girlhoot
passed in luxury on broad planta
ton. She is a clever newspape
woman, and much brilliant editoria
work of hers has appeared in th'
southern papers.
This instance of the late Genera
Devens' bravery is cited: At the cross
ing of the Rappahannock, in the bat
tie of Fredericksburg, his brigade lee
the way over the lower bridges, anG
when the retreat was ordered he asked
that he and his men might be the las
to return. General Franklin, to whom
the request was preferred, turned ant
said to General w. F. Smith: well
Badly, there doesn't appear to be any
body else asking for that honor, ST
we'll let Devens wait till the last if h
wants to-"
J. M. A. sends to the Critic a new
word from Ottawa: "A little frient
of mine in his anxiety to express tn
difference between right angle an,
an acute angle said that the forme
was much larger than the latter, but
you were to smallen the right angl
you would have an acute angle. Per
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