The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-07-29
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is the most beautiful unmarried royal
girl in all Europe.
Jerry Simpson. the Kansas Congress
man, owns farm of 600 acres and has
eighty acres in wheat.
Joseph Pulitzer has fad. 1t is to
commence whatever he has to do OF
Importance on the 10th day of the
month.
1t is no unusual thing for a vessel
plying between Japan and San Fran
cisco to bring 1, 100000 fans as single
item of its cargo.
Ex-congressman Turner, of New
York, 1.-The ice man." is a candidate for
doorkeeper of the House, of which he
was formerly a member.
| Theodore Thomas is so well known
as conductor that it is almost for
| gotten he is frst-class violinist, but
| he still remains aware of the fact.
| Houston County, Georgia, claims
the youngest confederate soldier in the
person of Augustus L. Dixon, who en-
listed in 1868 under twelve years of
age.
The word preface, used in the be-
ginning of books, was originally a
| word of welcome to meal, and was
equivalent to Much good may it do
you"
The Springfield Republican says:
'Wachusett, the only decent mount
ain down East, is about to be sold like
any parcel of level mead and wood
land"
A scientist of Tennessee thinks that
the Gulf stream every day passes
through thousands of miles of subter-
ranean channel that is surrounded by
living fire.
The Michigan penitentiary has
class of fifteen in telegraphy. origin
ated by one of the prisoners. Each
convict purchased his own instrument
by working overtime.
The people of Starlight, Grundy
County, Mo-, complain that the man
who carries the mail to that town puts
young pigs, ETC., in the pouch along
with the love letters, etc.
Dr. Roland p Faulkner has been
elected Professor of Statistics in the
University of Pennsylvania, the first
professorship of the kind established in
any American university.
A new religious sect has appeared in
Pike county, Pa. Its members call
l
rived from the fact that they anticipate
an early end of the world.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer is always
the center of attraction at "teas" and
other social gatherings. but that is be-
cause she has very gracious manner
and SAYS Just the right thing to every
, body.
Australia has now 4, 750 900 of peo-
3 pie, l, 500, 600 more than the popula-
ton of the American colonies when
they declared their independence, and
the same as Ireland at the present
- time.
A monument will be erected shortly
D in Tutlingen. in the Black Forest to
Max Schneckenberger, author of THE
s Watch on the Rhine" The fund for
this purpose is $1,000, and contrib.
s utions are still solicited.
irI A benevolent Atchison, Kan, woman
keeps bar of soap on board near a
G creek that runs through the town fol
the use of tramps. and number oi
- them may be seen at that place every
day washing themselves.
U The commerce of New South Wales.
one of the Australian provinces, in
proportion to its numbers is three
times that of Canada, five times that o.
France. and eight times greater thar
the trade of the United States.
d Miss Edith Boyd, who is about tt
marry Gustave Coquelin. a brother o.
the two Coquelins, is not an American
- lady, as has been stated. but the
: daughter of Captain Arthur Boyd, who
was lately retired from the British Life
Guards.
A Honesdale, Pa, lady has full Sc,
of carpenters tools. which she use:
~ with remarkable skill in making use
full and ornamental articles for hel
y own home, full set of chairs being
among the productions of her mechan.
at ical genius.
is Apropos of Lieutenant Peary's pro
~ posed expedition to Northern Green
land. General Greeley expresses th
opinion to an Oregon reporter tina
al less danger attends these polar ex
,p plorations than tramp like Stanley
81 through Africa.
= 1t is said there is a tract of fores
~ trees in southern Oregon embracin.
about 5000 square miles, which, Gu
OF and sold at SO per 1000 feet. woulC
es pay our national debt twice over. |
=. is estimated that the amount of mer
chantable timber standing will reacl
p 400, 600, 900. 900 feet.
K A few years ago gentleman bough
ne 100 acres several miles below Macon
so Ca. on the East Tennessee Road, fo
which he paid $40 an acre. He i'm
proved the property at a cost of onl
So an acre and within four years fron
, the date of the purchase cleared 1927. 00
~ from the sales of fruit grown on thi
land.
A ten-year-old son of W. B. Doug
lass, a merchant of Westfeld, N. Y.
recovered from an accident similar t
that which killed DR.. Boutwell,, Q
Brooklyn. The boy swallowed
horseshoe nail, which was taken int
left bronchus and remained there fror
July II to January 13. The nail wa
expelled through the mouth by
violent fit of coughing and the boy go
well.
"a Rose Hawthorne thinks that on
E reason why Ralph Waldo Emerso
81 smiled was in order to distinguis
himself from the American eagle
which he resembled to remarkabl
- degree. go to the cage of eagles il
h Central Park, in New York" she adds
4 land you will find that the hoaries
Il bald-headed monarch there will be tn
4 image of Emerson who does nc
Il SMILE"
n Caytain Jack Haynes, who served i
three wars and is now 103 years {
age, has been made member of Fran
p Blair Post, Grand Army of the Re
public. of st. Louis, and is doubles
the oldest member of that organiza
O ton. He was in the war of 1912 an
the Mexican war, and during the lat
-, unpleasantness, when over 20. was tn
W engineer of a gunboat on the Missis
sippi.
There are hopes of introducing th
y magic lantern as a means of sigma
~ ing at sea. When so used the lanter
will be called the ''Lucigraph." 1t wi
have slides in the shape of stems