The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-05-20
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M. Grebaut has recently discovered,
near Thebes, in Egypt, large grave,
containing 240 sarcophagi, the oldest
of which dates back $500 years B. c.
An English company is working
silver mine in Bolivia which yields
more than $50 ounces to the ton. while
specimens of almost pure silver are
met with.
An international women's rights
convention, including workers from
the three Scandinavian countries and
Finland, will be held in Stockholm
next August.
The largest order for single adj
vertisement in one paper, before the
war, was given by the Fairbanks Scale
Company to the New York Tribune,
and it amounted to So. 900.
The city council of San Antonio,
Tex, is said to be seriously contem-
plating the creation of the office of city
seronaut and the selection of COM
petent balloonist for the place.
The unfortunate ex-Empress Car
lotta, of Mexico, is SO far recovered
able to take interest in the manage
ment of her home near Lacken.
The number of counties in Texas is
so great that it required special CEN
us enumerator to count them. He
found 244 counties with names, but
four of them were without any inhabit-
ants.
The alligators of the Orinoco, pre-
vious to going in search of prey, al
ways swallow large stones that they
may acquire additional weight to aid
them in dragging their prey under
water.
Mrs. Leland Stanford is so rich that
she does not hesitate to wear dresses
that are out of fashion by several
years. Nevertheless she is always
handsomely attired and has magniti-
cent jewels.
There are fifty-nine women in New
York who keep provision stores, and
they appear to meet with success. One
Oh the leading real estate brokers in
the city is woman, and there are fifty
or more female physicians.
In the Sylvester -basilica of Rome
have been discovered the tonlbs of six
popes, among them that of Sylvester
who succeeded in converting Con-
stantine to christianity, and who lived
at the time of the council of Nice.
A rich lady of Atchison Kan, made
her will recently, and in it she says
that all her fortune is to be given to
her husband at the end of five years if
he can prove that he has visited her
grave ten times during that period.
A resident of Tampa, Fla, has
natural curiosity in the form of a pair
of deer horns with clearly defined
hounds head on the tip of one of them,
formed in manner that makes it i'm
possible that it should be work of art.
A young woman of Dakota has a
farm of eighty acres on which she does
most of the work employing only one
servant-a woman. Last year she
bought lot of new stock and ma
chinery and cleared over $1,000 be-
sides.
The latest plan of beating the nickel
in-the-slot phonograph is for two men
to drop one nickel into the aperture
and each hold tube to his ear. The
music, speech or song ground out by
the machine then costs them only 2 1-2
cents each.
Early in the century the old church
bell on Meeting House Hill, in Dor
chester, Mass, used to ring at IL
o'clock every forenoon to announce to
the working people of the neighbor-
hood Whenit was time to take their II
o'clock drink.
The verses commencing You'd
scarce expect one of my age" etc., are
said to have been written expressly for
a prominent New Hampshire States
man who fourished in the first of this
century. He spoke the verses when
mere child at school.
One of the largest hogs in America
if not, in fact, the largest in the world
was reared by junction City, Kan.
man. The length was feet 9 inches;
girth of neck. 6 1-2 feet; girth of center
of body, feet; width across the hips,
80 inches; weight, 1852 pounds.
Lawyer Steel of Meadville, Pa. was
recently the unwilling perpetrator of
an amusing bull. When questioned by
the Judge upon some citation of the
law he replied, with spirit: THAT
principle is so well known that even
Your Honor must be familiar with it. :"
The Massachusetts, Senate Committee
reports against the bill to legalize per-
pendicular drinking. So now, as be-
FORE it is not against the law in that
State to take seat in saloon and
drink till you can't stand, though it
would clearly be illegal to stand and
take drink.
King Kalakaua's coffin is made of
koa and kou wood of about 600 pieces;
even the handles are made of wood.
No metal of any kind is to be seen
except the inscription plate, upon
which the crown and the Hawaiian
coat-of-arms are engraved, with other
suitable inscriptions.
The inhabitants of the interior of the
FIJI Islands will not partake of food
while a cloud is in sight, especially if
the cloud lies in the west, fearing that
the Great Air Whale.n whose bel
lowing (thunder) is often heard in
that country, will pounce upon them
and utterly annihilate them for such
reverence.
A recently married young farmer,
living at Greenbush, near Sheboygan
has hit upon novel and effective
scheme for getting his wife out of bed
in the morning. He fills the stove
with shavings, lights them and then
shuts the damper in the pipe. BY the
time he reaches the barn she is effect
ually smoked out.
Over 800 years ago in the reign of
Henry VIII, an Italian ship sank in
the River Stour, at an entrance to the
English port of Sandwich. The river,
which is noted for frequently chang
ing its course. recently shifted into an
old channel and exposed the wreck of
the vessel which since the year 1912
has laid imbedded in the sand.
The missionary field seems to have
usurped the functions of the ragman
and the ash barrel to a certain exten t.
A woman missionary just home from
several years of service in India says
the boxes of clothing received by hel
for distribution among the heather
was sad commentary upon the chari
table missionary spirit of the American
women.
The longest board fence in New