The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-11-04
MISSING LINKS.
Henry Clews has a $40, 900 bath

Henry Clews has a $4,000 bath
room.
Chauncey M. Depew says 600 babies
have been named after him.
Queen Victoria puts in her spare
time playing the crochet needle.
The French fight an average of A.
600 duels year. The casualties are
not worth counting.
The Grand Duke Alexis has the
gout and is generally suffering from
the effects of high rolling.
Wendell Phillips memory is to be
honored by the erection of public
hall in Boston bearing his nanse.
A papier mache trunk is one q tse
latest ideas. It is a terror to the bag
gage smasher who finds it practically
indestructible.
A. Grand Army post, named in honor
of General E. o. Ord, has been er-
ganized in the City of Mexico, with
thirty members.
Brazil and Mexico have adopted the
American locomotive ont their railways
and many other countries are follow
ing their example.
A fine specimen of the pine-tree shil-
ling of 1862 was found recently by
workmen who were excavating at
Great harrington, Mass.
The smallest church in the world is
said to be at st. Lawrence. near Vent
nor, Isle of Wight. 1t has a seating
capacity of twelve people.
About s. 1000 stars are visible to the
civth M ornitr11o sFko 1afoct o1o1ss,,
tions of the astronomers put the entire
number of stars at 1000, 900.
The old German Lutheran Church
at Waldoboro, Me-, has stood 130
years, and there has never been col
lection taken within its walls.
Recent researches in medicine show
that persons having a tendency to
equity troubles generally improve more
rapidly when they eat no fruit.
General Morgan, the Alabama Sem
ator, is a Tennesseean, and typical
Tennesseean at that, for he is tall and
spare and straight as an Indian.
In the 5000. GOO letters that reached
the dead-letter office last year there
was money amounting to $2S, ,642 and
checks and notes of the value of 81,
AL. 81.
The recipe for Roman punch was
long kept secret by the chefs of the
Vatican, but was given to the rest of
the world when Napoleon invaded
Italy in 1896.
The Light House Board has present.
aqed@tuth the Irish Light United States
lighthouse buoy that drifted across
the ocean to the west coast of Ireland
where it was picked up.
The way to tell a well-bred dog. ac-
cording to canine fancier, is to grasp
him by the back of the neck and hold
him up. If cur, he yelps; if we'll
bred, he never utters whimper.
There is horticultural curiosity in
Troy, Kas. 1t is branch containing
lot of peaches and two plums. The
peach tree from which it was taken
interlaces with plum tree, hence the
phenomenon.
A man fishing at Jersey. Eng, was
caught by the rising tide, and boat
had to be put out to rescue him. The
next day the magistrate sentenced
him to eight days hard labor for the
trouble he had caused"
Captain Eva Booth daughter of
General Booth, of Salvation Army
fame. is one of the most promising Of
ficers in that vast religious army. She
is said to be very handsome, and is a
great success in making new recruits.
In Austria it has been found that the
slanting of letters in writing causes
curvature of the spine. due to the posi-
ton maintained at the table or desk,
and supreme council has recon-
mended that upright letters be cult
vated in schooling.
Miss Theo Alice Ruggles Boston's
woman sculptor, is only 20 years old.
When she was only IL two of her works
were accepted By the Paris Salon. She
has Just submitted a model for the
statue of Shakespeare which the city of
Providence is to erect.
Bishop French. of England, who
died recently in Arabia. was known as
s'that many tongued man Lahore" for
he could preach in English. Persian,
Hindustani, Pushto, Hindel, Tamil and
Puniabi, and was an eminent scholar
in Hebrew. Arabic, Syriac Greek and
Latin.
Bishop Huntington has gone to farm
ley, Mass. He is now 73, and as ar
dent as ever. not only in his outdoor
work, but also in his studies of socia
questions in which he is by some said
to be the spiritual leader of the Episco
pal Church.
Ethel Chase Sprague, daughter O.
Kate Sprague, is said bv a CORES
pondent to be one of the most dashins
and fearless horsewomen in the coun
try. She rides big bay horse named
Star, the gift of Senator Fair, and per
sonally superintends the care of he
favorite in the stable.
Walter Winans. the American mill
ionaire whose deer forest in Scotlan,
has so often formed the theme of par
liamentary debates and whose revolve
shooting is remarkable, has made
wonderful record with his fayorit'
weapon. At a distance of twent,
yards, with disappearing target. h
scored forty points out of a possibl
forty-two.
..Iniun Jo,' the original of one o
the characters in Mark Twain's ssTon
Sawyer. y still lives in Hannibal, nea
where the scenes in the book are laid
He is now a tough old man of 70. an
hauls trunks from the depot on a re-
express wagon drawn by white horse
He has always been displeased with tn
notoriety Twain gave him. and cor
siders himself insulted when the sub
ject is mentioned.
Upon the headstone of grave in th
old fort cemetery at Winslow, Me-,
inscribed this epitaph: Here lies th
body of Richard Thomas, an Englisf
man by birth, Whig of 20. By OF
cupation a cooper. Like an old rur
puncheon, marked, numbered. an
shocked. he will be raised again an
finished by his Creator. He died SeE
tember %. 1914. America, my adop
ed country. my advice to you is thi:
Take care of your Liberty. !"
The Duke of Cleveland, who died re
Gently. had one pet aversion-Lor
Brassey. The latter, whose fathe
was a dav laborer. is immensel