The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-01-14

of Constantinople by the Turks in 1454.
He intends it to be as good in its way
as Ben Hur."
Secretary Tracy has decided upon the
names for five new ships of the navy
now building. They will be called
Cincinnati, Raleigh, Indiana, Massa-
chusetts, and Oregon.
Out of compliment to a bridal couple
train was stopped at Buena Vista,
Pa, and this action averted Il serious
accident, which could not have been
avoided had the train gone on.
Ex-senator Thurman no longer uses
snuff. He found that the constant it'll
lation of his nose affected his eyes, and
so he weaned himself from the snuff
box. He still waves the red bandana,
though.
Ex-Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin
is fond of dancing, but his dislike of
music amounts almost to hatred, and
he never goes into church till the open
ing musical exercises are over If he can
help it.
The private correspondence of Albert
Edward, the Prince of Wales, is some
thing enormous. He is said to receive
four times as many letters day as
does the President of the United
States.
The wife of Ex-Governor st. John is
drawing large audiences in the West
as lecturer. A local paper describes
her as 'sbright-eyed, glib of tongue, and
blamed sight prettier than her cranky
husband
Mrs Bradley Martin has purchased
in Paris the crown of Marie Autoinette
not a coronet which in picture books
generally does duty for a crown, but a
genuine velvet cap with the insignia
of royalty emblazoned upon it in pre-
cious stones.
The King of Italy is splendid horse
hunting. He follows the hounds on
his big brown hunter Recreation. a
horse sixteen hands high and all bone
and muscle, and makes fine appear
ance in the field.
Thomas j. Whitman, of St. Louis,
who died recently. was a younger
brother of Walt Whitman. the poet.
He was an expert mechanical engineer,
his last work being the building of the
water works at Memphis. He was born
in Brooklyn, in which city he spent his
boyhood.
The Young Women's Christian As
sociation, founded in London in 1857,
now has 143 branches, with a member
ship of 1000. There are forty insti-
tutes, evening homes and boarding.
houses where young women from the
country can be lodged aud cared for at
small charge.
Arthur Orton, the British claimant,
alias Tichborne, is now employed as a
waiter in a big drinking saloon in Bir-
mingham. He is paid large salary.
not so much on account of his ability to
draw beer as on account of his facility
in drawing custom.
Governor Warren, of Wyoming. who
has been elected to the United States
Alderman twenty years ago, and has
been pretty much every kind of an
official since. He went West and grew
up with the country.
Lucy Wood is 1O5 years old, and she
lives in Barre, Vt. She is the widow of
John Wood. who was teamster in the
War of 1912, and her application for a
pension has been denied on the ground
that she is not the widow of soldier.
In her petition she says she has no
means of support except her manual
labor.
Lord Wolseley, the we'll known
General of English forces, is described
as trim, dapper man, below middle
height. He is so slight in frame, and
has such thin, delicately chiseled feat
ures. that he seems less robust than he
really is. He has the same stern deter
mination which is observable in STAN
ley's face.
Mr.. Blaine is great student of Ma
poleon Bonaparte. He has in his house
in Washington number of excellent
engravings and etchings of the Corsican
in the various stages of his meteoric
career. His picture of Napoleon as the
youthful, alert. tigerish commander of
the Army of Italy is an interesting
study, and it is one that Mr.. Blaine de-
lights in showing his visitors.
Mr.. Mountney Jephson, one of Stan.
ley's officers, evidently knows more
about Africa than about the United
States. Il have some friends in Bos-
tonmass, you know" said he. do
tell me where Bostonmass is, you
KNOW, anu what is mass anyway!
Now, by the way, do I pass near
Chicago, you know. when go to Phila-
delphia, and is it anywhere near Brook
lyn, dear boy?"
Uncle Jake Deshart, 10S years old,
was taken to Evansville, Ind, few
days ago to the Catholic Institution of
the Little Sisters of the Poor, but not
being accorded his usual freedom he
escaped from the institution and walked
back home, sixty-tive miles. He re-
members distinctly when George
Washington was inaugurated Presi-
dent the second. term, and tells graphic
ally of the scenes when George Wash
ington died.
Isaac Bluxome, the Secretary of the
celebrated California Vigilance Com
mttee of 1856, who has just died, was
man whose official signature. ''3S.
Secretary" was sign of dread to the
desperadoes who thronged San Fran
cisco in that day. Luckily for him, his
personal identity with ''33, Secretary"
was not known except by the members
OF the Vigilance Committee. Bluxome's
efforts were said to be the means which
saved Judge Terry from the fury OF
the mob at the time of the Rfoderiok