The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-08-26
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panies. He is insured for $500, 600.
Miss Mary K. Montgomery, who
took the highest honors at the Univer-
sity of London. is % and the daughter
of Unitarian clergyman.
The Paris garcon has won in the
struggle for his moustache; and the
result is that the restaurants are now
manned by fierce looking band re-
sembling dragons more than walters.
Mrs. Gen. Grant is aging rapidly.
There has been a marked change both
in appearance and in her manner with
in two years. Her hair is silvered and
her slow and uneven steps betoken her
advanced years.
A full-grown wild boy, aged about
16 years. has been captured at Enoch's
Point, Australia. His body is said to
be covered with hair four inches long,
the hair on his head being four feet
long and his nails five inches.
Among the curiosities on exhibition
in the British Museum is Chinese
bank note issued during the reign of
the Emperor Hung WI, A. d. 136S-99.
This is supposed to be the earliest
specimen of bank note in exist
ence.
The Princess Stephanie is said to be
fast losing the beauty that made her
famous at the Viennese Court when
she married the Crown Prince Rudolph
ten years ago. She has never recov-
cred from the dreadful shock of hel
husbands suicide.
Edwin Forests widow. who died in
New York in obscurity recently, made
in ha,. 1ifo hyy
her beauty, which was regal; second,
by her successful defense in the famous
divorce suit which she won, and third,
by her appearance on the stage after
ward.
A Belfast, Me-, man is doing quite a
business in the poultry line, having
established duck farm where he now
has over l, 200 of the young swimmers
in various stages of growth. He ships
them to Boston as fast as they are
large enough for the market and gets
fancy prices for them.
The correspondence between ex-
King Milan and ex-Queen Natalie was
published recently in Paris. King
Milan addresses his former wife
throughout as you" while Natalie
uses the familiar thou The ex-
queen, to judge from her letters, had
great difficulty in persuading Milan to
reply.
Seth Abbott, the father of the late
Emma Abbott, has been forced to
assign at Minneapolis because of real
estate entanglement. He says his
real estate was worth 500 600 three
or four years ago, but to-day it will
not bring more than the incumbrance
upon mortgages to the amount of
$11,00
It has long been custom of the
Bayard family to bury with their dead
sprigs of ivy plucked from the old
church in Wilmington. The vine was
originally planted by the ex-secretary's
great grandmother. A spray has been
obtained to go abroad with the re-
mains of Count Lewenhaupt, his
widow, and her brother, Thomas Bay
ard, Jr., accompanying them to Stock
holm, where the burial will take place.
One per cent of all German children
in city schools stutter. In Dresden
the per centage (2) is highest. In q
military school near Berlin four cadets
in forty suffered, and in severa
civilians schools the percentage has
been found to be as large. Many Ger
man physicians are advocating the
separation of the suffering schoo
children from the smooth-tongued anC
the instruction of them in depart
ment of their own.
A. j. McKeown, son of the million
aire oil producer, John McKeown, il
probably the richest young man il
Pennsylvania. He enjoys a princely
income which he spends with a lavish
haud; In his younger days his father
offered him $40, 900 to stop smoking
cigarettes. and subsequently raised the
amount to $4,000, with the under
standing that the boy should abstain
from the use of tobacco in any form.
This offer young McKeown refused.
1t was The O'Gorman Mahon, the
fine old Irish gentleman whose death
was chronicled recently, who intro
duced Parnell to Mrs. O'Shea. He
was man of extreme punctiliousness
where matters of honor were con.
cerned and when the scandal became
public stated that he would challenge
the 'uncrowned king" to duel. Had
the meeting been brought about il
would have been the seventeenth affair
of honor that The O'Gorman had taken
part in.
Kipling's famous "Plain Tales from
the Hills" was rejected by Londor
publisher to whom the volume wa!
offered for mere song. Gunter'l
"Mr. Barnes of New York" anC
Jerome's Three Men in Boat me
with similar fate, the publishers
readers" denouncing them as rub
bish." Perhaps they are, but judgins
from their wonderful sales subsequent
ly it is apparent that the reading pub
lie knows better what it wants thar
the publishers readers do.
The colored bell-boys of the Nor
mandie. in Washington, miss Mr.
Blaine, though when he was quarteret
there they stood in considerable aw,
of his peremptory demands upon them
Naturally they have many anecdote
of the secretary. One frightened littl,
fellow who was called to the secre
tary's room in the early mornin.
found him in his night robe, walking
the floor and running his hands through
his hair in deep thought. Turnin!
suddenly on the youth, Mr.. Blain,
said. in stentorian tones: Boy, dom
you ever be secretary of state" ''Deet
won't, Mars Blaine; deed / won't,
said the little negro, his eyes rolling il
fright.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler will cal
his forthcoming autobiography "But
ler's Book" His mother was a YER
religious woman, and she struck bar
gain with Ben by which he was to com
NIT to memory as many verses O
Scripture as she explained chapters O
the book to him. Il committed t
memory" he says. 1.-THE four Gospel
and once had recited them at call fo
a quotation in every part. l kno,
every word, not even excepting th
first eighteen verses of the first chapte
of Matthew, where everybody bega
everybody else." His first feeling c
hostility to slavery, he says,wa game
from parsing half-page of rs Indi
Free. or Do We Grind Her Still?n
1t may interest good livers to rea
that wines are used as rule at tn
table of the emperor of Germany
When the members of the family ca