The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-11
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There are 10. 600 colored catholics in
Washington.
There are about $4,000 persons in
prison in the United States.
A California man has started into the
business of raising half-breed buffalo.
Senator Quay's second daughter has
gone to Berlin to complete her educa-
tion.
A New York surgeon has supplied
patient with an artificial larynx and
vocal apparatus.
Ex-senator Fair has within the last
eighteen months invested S.. 600, 600 in
San Francisco real estate.
A S. gold nugget was picked up from
the gravel with which a street in lone,
Cal. is graded, recently.
After being separated for eighteen
years farmer in Washington County,
Pa, has found his son by means of a
wedding notice.
Marion Crawford the novelist, has
command of eleven languages, besides
the ancient Sanscrit, in which he is
fairly well versed.
Willie Schaeffer, Cincinnati boy.
is z years old, and tips the beam at 1876
pounds. His brother Robert is IA, and
weighs 230 pounds.
A jury at Carmarthen quarter ses-
sions in Wales recently brought in a
verdict of s'Not guilty, and strongly
recommended to mercy"
The Princess Alexandra of Wales is
the Queens favorite daughter-in-law,
and has always been most affectionate-
ly regarded by her Majesty.
Mr.. Petrof, who had charge of the
census of Alaska, estimates tho popu-
lation of the territory at from 35, 600 to
$4,000. Of this number one-seventh
are white.
The song birds brought from Ger
many and turned loose in Oregon last
year have prospered, and large num-
Der of insectiverous song birds will be
imported.
William Holden swore before Cam
den Justice the other day that Howard
Jones threw cobble stone which was
broken into three pieces by striking
him on the head.
Owing to his physicians advice,
James Russell Lowell has Cancelled his
engagement to deliver six lectures on
the old English dramatists at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Great Britain is generally regarded
as the strongest naval power and
France a close second. Some naval
officers are inclined to reverse the
order, putting France first.
Nine. Barrios, widow of the Central
American Dictator, has magnificent
collection of diamonds. The greater
part of the jewels were heirlooms Of
the Kingdom of Guatemala.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Detroit, Mich, have decided
that the drinking of ginger ale. ginger
beer, homemade wine, root beer and
raspberry syrup violates the pledge
The Princess Frederick Charles, o.
Prussia, widow of the Red Prince and
aunt of the German Emperor, has
clandestinely married her first dord oi
the bedchamber, Baron Won Sekken
dorff.
The fact that the Indians do not ap
preciate the blessings of civilization
and probably never will is seen in the
fact that squaw has committed suicide
because her husband was made /;
policeman on the reservation.
The safest piece of water on eartl
is the Lake of Urum1a in Persia, stu
ated more than f. 600 feet above the Sc;
level 1t is much saltier than the Deat
Sea, the water being found on analysis
to contain nearly % per cent of salt.
The most astonishing novelty il
Paris is calculating machine, invent
ed by M. Bollee, of LIE Mans. By sim
ply turning a wheel it adds, multiple
or divides any number of figures up t,
lines of 10, and with amazing rapidity
A well-known emhalmer DIR Wick
ersheimer, has produced liquid 81
perfect that it can be applied success
fully to game. An embalmed hare
served after having been shot 81,
weeks, was recently pronounced to b.
as good as fresh.
There has been placed on exhibition
at the Libby Prison Museum il
Augusta, Ga. among the relics o
President Andrew johnson. the oil
book in which he kept all of his &C
counts while in the tailoring busines
at Greenville. Tenn.
Thomas Rasley, who acted as th,
executioner of Birchall, has ceased t
be steward of the Sunnyside Boatin,
Club his resignation being accepte,
by the Directors. His reason for leav
ing is that he had become obnoxiou
owing to his acting as executioner.
Princess Bismarck is said to be hap
pier, now that she is enabled to liv
quietly in retirement with her hus
band, than she has been since he be
came Minister of State. She has a.
ways disliked the publicity entaile
upon her by her high social position.
Professor Crull. of Concordia Co
lege. Terre Haute; Ind, is cousin {
DR.. Koch. He says that when he wa
guest at the Koch household th
doctors brothers had no faith in hi
skill. and one of them remarked ths
he would not trust cat to his care.
The late Justice Miller is said to hav
had taste almost amounting to
passion for mathematics. He deprt
Gated the amount of time collee
students gave to the study of dea
languages, and held that mathematit
and scientific studies were of chief in
portance.
One of the three daughters of job
ID. Rockefeller, while a student
Vassar, had handsome allowance i
the way of money from home. Il
stead of spending this on rich gowl
and apartments. she paid for two yea
the tuition and expenses of a girl fro
the country who was not able to pa
them herself.
Speaking of High Church Eplscop
Theological Seminary in Chicago. Re
DIR. w. S. Rainsford, of New York, +,
Gently said: ut contains two tol
and half of the Fathers. What {
the Fathers know about Chicago {
New York; What do the students WI
spend their time studying the Fathe
know about the present generationP"
Mrs. Plumb, the wife of Senate
Plumb, of Kansas, has been an inval
for several years, and during the a
sence of the Senator found much con
fort in the company of her son,
young man of exceptional promis
The son has lately become Athlete
with nervous diSorder which nacasS