The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-08-12
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of Flemish blood.
The penuriousness of Russell Sage is
said to increase with his years.
Joel Chandler Harris, better known
as Uncle Remus, !" has red hair.
The President of Mexico has Indian
blood in his veins and is proud of it.
Hippolyte, the Haytian tyrant, is 60,
coal black, educated, and hated by the
creoles.
The Twenty-third Ward in Philadel-
phia is larger in area than the city of
New York.
Over seven tons of diamonds have
been taken out of the South Africa
diamond field.
Miss Manette Mcdowell, a grand
daughter of Henry Clay, is one of the
prettiest of Kentucky women.
M Sarcey. the French dramatic
critic, has given up dining in the hope
of reducing his weight, which is enor-
nous.
The wealth of the United States is
estimated at $71 800. 900, 000 that of En-
gland at $50. 900. 600, 600. and that of
France at sc, 900, 100000.
Emperor William has given orders
that no person shall ride free on rail-
roads unless they are actually engaged
in the service of the Government.
In a sale of Wilkie Collins, manu-
scripts ''The New Magdalen" brought
921; 'sThe Woman in White" E14, and
''Moonstone," clio
The most valuable dinner service in
the world belongs to Queen Victoria,
and occupies two rooms at Bucking-
ham Palace, over which two men watch
continually.
Edgar Saltus, the writer of salacious
literature. is no longer the subject
of divorce suit, his wife having with
drawn her charges against the novel
ist and the correspondents.
A society has been organized in Cal
ifornia for the importation of foreign
singing birds. 1t might better be en-
gagged in the protection of our own
singing birds which are not surpassed
in the world.
Henry Magrath, prisoner in the
Richmond Jail, ate the mirror in his
cell, swallowed his trousers, buttons
and all. and was about to eat up his
bedstead when the jailor put him in
StralSnL-Jackel.
The Chilian war has had very seri-
Gus effect on the English hat makers
who supply the majority of Chilians.
The latter have been so busy fighting
that they have had no time to attend.
to their sombreros.
After the young curate of a Berk-
shire parish became involved in a social
scandal the Bishop was requested by
the rural population to purify the
church, and some sort of a ceremony
was duly performed.
If a gentleman takes a gold band
from his finger and places it on the third
finger Of lady's hand while repeat
ing, marriage ceremony before three
or more witnesses the ceremony in
New York State makes her his wife.
Tsuda Sanzo the Japanese police
man who attempted to murder the
Czarewitch of Russia, has been sem
fenced to life Imprisonment. Accord
ing to the terms of the law, this was
the heaviest punishment that could be
inflicted upon the man.
A. H. McGuffey. the author of the
famous McGuffey's School Reader, is
still alive and is well-known lawyer
of Cincinnati. He is modest and re-
firing gentleman of the old school,
courtly in his manners and well in
formed on all literary matters.
The word sulky, as applied to a
wheeled Conveyance, had its origin in
the fact that when it first appeared the
person who saw it considered that
none but sulky. selfish man would
ride ia such an affair. which afforded
accommodation to but one person.
The Emperor of Austria has for
years past found consolation for his
troubles in the sympathetic compan-
ionship of former well-known Wen
nese actress, Catharine Schratt, whose
counsels are said to have been of the
utmost advantage to him in many i'm
portant affairs of State.
A Talladega (Ala.) Justice has de-
cided that the issuing of store checks
in payment of wages is criminal
offense against the laws of the State of
Alabama, and has bound a man over
to the Grand Jury for doing it. 1t
promises to be a ''cause celebra," as it
will be tested in the higher courts.
Japan's Emperor has decreed that
cepts challenge shall pay heavy
fine and serve from six months to two
years in the galleys. The taunting of
a man for his refusal to fight when
challenged will be regarded as SANDER,
and will be so treated by the courts.
1t is the opinion of the N. Y. World
that when Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. James
Brown Potter and Miss Agnes Hunt
ingdon get their new theaters in Lon
don. the aetress-hating dramatists of the
Elizabethan era will roll over in their
graves and Shakespeare himself wonder
why he never wrote play for Ann
Hathaway!
Colonel Edgar Daniel Boone, a de-
scendant of the great Kentucky ex-
plorer, is lion tanner connected with
Forepaugh's circus. He is splendid
man of 80. with flaxen hair and waxed
mustache. He finds it more profitable
to beard wild beasts in a cage than in
their native dens as his redoubtable
ancestors used to do.
The proportions of the human figure
are six times the length of the right
foot; and the face from the highest point
of the forehead. where the hair begins,
to the end of the chin, is one-tenth of
the whole stature; the hand, from wrist
to the end of,the middle finger, is also
one-tenth of the total height; from the
crown to the nape of the neck, is one
twelfth of the stature.
The betrothal of Mile de Rohan-
Chabot, daughter of the Princess de
Leon. to the Due de Montmorency, is
an event in a French romance of the
true Montague-Capulet order. The
young peoples parents have been
hereditary enemies for several genera
tions back. but apparently love is a
plant of too hardy a growth to wither.
even under the baleful influence of
family feud.
One of the compositors on the Gin
cinnati Iimes-Stdr has a composing
stick" made of aluminium, the metal
that has made such sensation of late.
1t is strong and very light, of course,
and herein will be its economy, for it
is the weight of the ''stick' when full
of type that is SO trying to the hand
and wrist, especially the longer