The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-25
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yearly for the ladies of the Turkish
Harems
In London one woman in every twen-
ty is pauper, one in every thirty is
illiterate, and one in every sixty is
gin drinker.
Mrs. Schliemann, in addition to her
other accomplishments, has a talent
for tapestry that would have made her
a fit companion for Penelope.
DIR. James Croll, the first to explain
the movement of the Gulf Stream, has
died at the age of 68, a distinguished
Fellow of the Royal Society.
A telephone line about five miles
long has been established in Iceland,
and is regarded as great curiosity,
being the first ever established on the
Island.
General Butler owns the Craig
Ranch. below Pueblo, consisting OF,
100, 1000 acres. He is also the owner of
three-fourths of 600, 0,000-acre ranch
in New Mexico.
Ida Lewis, the famous life-saver, has
been offered chance to go on the
stage as the heroine in life-saving
scene. but she prefers her station ir
the Newport lighthouse.
Animals are kept on the roofs of the
houses in Lima, Peru, and it frequent
ly happens COW passes her whole life
on a roof, being taken there as calf
and brought down finally as fresh beef.
It is said that when Fanny Daven-
ports stage toggery went through the
New York Custom House it was valued
at 81, 600, but after it was reduced to
ashes in the New York fire the valua-
ton rose to nearly $4,000.
One of the few herds of buffalo still
left in the country is owned by Senator
Pettigrew. He has twenty of the ami
mails pastured near Sioux Falls, where
he has also thriving menagerie of
deer, prairie dogs and moose.
The Royal Geographical society of
England has advanced $1,000 to Mr..
Theodore Bent for the exploration of
the ruins found recently in Mashona-
land, East Africa, which, it is suggest
ed, may be King Solomon's mines.
Mr.. Spurgeon gives but little time to
the preparation of his sermons. He
sits in his study couple of hours with
his face buried in his hands, then goes
to his desk, jots down few headlines,
and then he is ready for the pulpit.
Ex-Empress Eugene declines to help
any more of Napoleon Thirds rela-
tives. She thinks she has been too
good to them, and she is not able to
help them now. 1t is limited that she
has lost heavily in financial invest
ments.
Governor Francis T. Nichols, of
Louisiana, is dismembered to remark
able extent. He has lost leg and an
arm and an eye. He lost his leg at
Charlottesville and his arm was car
ried away by a cannon ball at Win
chester.
Mr.. Justice Brown is variously said
to resemble in countenance Senator
Carlisle, Major Mckinley and the late
Samuel J. Randall; and when he first
appeared on the bench in his judicial
robes there were those who thought of
Edwin Booth as Hamlet.
Charles King, of Middletown, Mass.
is preparing to celebrate his 10th
birthday. He has a son rs years of
age, and at a recent reunion of the
family four generations of the
blood were represented. He is in
quite lively health, but when he jumps
up high he always keeps one foot on
the ground.
Rev. DR.. John Hall, of New York,
was visited recently by a young man,
recently arrived from Ireland, who,
when the doctor remarked that he did
not remember having seen him before.
said: Indeed, you did, then. Why.
you baptized me twenty-five years ago
in the old country, and yet you have
forgotten me entirely"
At San Martin, near Altacapotzal
Mex, there resides pure Indian wo-
man who is believed to be lis years of
age. She owns documents proving
that she carried on lawsuits with Vice
roy Vinegas while Spain still held
dominion of Mexico, The name by
which she is known is Torres, but her
true name is Ixcahuaxochiti.
Speaking of namesakes, Cbauncey
M. Depew says he gets an average of
two photographs day of babies said
to have been named after him. and he
adds: My son is named after me, al
so, and tell him that by the time he
has grown up, if this average contin-
ues, the Chauncy Depew's will ill all
the offices and jails in the country"
Mrs. Stanley's mother, Mrs. Ten
nant is in some respects more inter-
esting woman than her talented daugh-
ter. She is neither so tall nor so ro-
bust as Mrs. Stanley, but in figure and
In manner she is most attractive. Her
black eyes sparkle with vivacity, and
though there is a silver thread here and
there in her black hair time has dealt
very gently with her. Her speech is
concise but melodious. In talking
with her daughter she almost invaria-
bly, uses French.
The Royal Commission appointed to
examine Westminster Abbey in its rela-
tions to future burials report that there
is comfortable room for forty or fifty
more; but space can be made for sew
enty-eight more by devoting every
available spot for the purpose. The
present rate of Abbey funerals is about
one year. The architect of the Alb
bey, Mr.. Pierson, recommends the
addition of various new chapels, for
which some outside houses would have
to be pulled down.
A novel door. especially intended for
the economy of space. has just been
patented. The door is an adaptation of
the principle of the roller-top desk and
cover. and consists of series of stats
about one and one-half inches wide and
three-quarters of an inch thick, joined
together by wood en- spindles, one re-
volying within another. When the
door is opened it is wound upon a spir-
al drum at the top and bottom, and all
is inclosed within the decreasing. A
three-foot door winds up in roll seven
inches in diameter.
Speaking of Captain Wallace, who
was killed at Wounded Knee, an old
soldier says; MANY man could have
been better spared from the regular
army than Old Wallace. term of en-
dearment, by the way; for he was not
old. / we'll remember him around
many jolly campfire and many a
weary march. He was one of those
big-boned, big-hearted men who knew
no guile and always had kind word
and a helping hand for every one. /
think him one of the few men l ever
met who had absolutely no enemies
and vat WAS a thOrouOh man and q