The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-07
MISSING LINKS.

No You Don't is the name of new
Utah settlement.
A single white rose is laid each day
on the grave of Gambetta.
The rag-pickers of Paris collect
about ten thousand dollars worth q
night.
The average number of American
patents issued yearly is twenty thou
sand.
The United States collects $6S9 and
spends $461 every minute of the night
and day.
About twice as much power is re-
quired to stop an express train as to
start one.
A pair of deaf mutes were married
the other day at Topeka. One of the
presents was an alarm clock.
The catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about six millions of human
beings and those of Paris about three
millions.
A sensible dog at Auburn. Me-, regu-
larly disappears in the country on July
8, and doesn't come back until the
racket is over.
1t has been calculated that the actual
amount of salt contained in the ocean
/ would cover an area of 5. 1000. 900 square
miles with layer one mile thick.
Physicians of this country are paid
annually nearly 81, 800, 900 for medical
examinations for life insurance com
panies. Three companies pay over
$3.50. 600 each.
John Lathrop Motley's daughter.
Lady Harcourt. lives in London, and
has the reputation of being one of the
cleverest and wittiest women in En-
glish society. She is. also. extremely
/ handsome.
The New York girl who lost her en-
gagement ring in wash basin only to
| find it two years later in the. gutter.
where it had been wished from an
open sewer. had meantime been mar
ried and widowed.
George w. Hager. of Michigan. has
secret whereby augurs will bore holes
of angular shape. He has also invent
ed lathe that will turn articles, round.
square. oval, hexagonal. concave, con-
vex or in any shape wanted.
Gold coin is shipped abroad in fYe-
gallon iron-bound oaken kegs Each
keg holds ten bags. and each bag con-
tains 5000. so that the value of a
keg is $50 600. Gold from the other
side usually comes in boxes.
While an Auburn Qnd. } barber was
shaving customer boy threw q
lighted irecracker under the chair.
The explosion startled the barber, the
razor glanced into the customers
throat, and surgeon had to be called
to sew the wound.
A peddler arrested in Shenandoah.
Pa, for not having license said that
he had no faith in banks. and, there
fore. carried all his money in his
clothes. His pockets were searched
! before he was sent to cell and exactly
81, GAG. 40 in cash found in them.
An oak named after Bob" Toombs
the old Georgia fire-eater, in Athens,
Ga, is said to be dying. Interest att
taches to it mainly because he de-
livered underneath its branches an ad-
dress to his fellow students which he
was not allowed to give in the college
chapel.
A Ukiah, Cal, man, the owner of a
three-story hop house. recently con-
ceived the idea of turning the building
into mammoth incubator for the
Matching of chickens. He has given
evidence of his faith in the practicability
of the scheme by setting hatch of a.
600 eggs.
The following metals will conduct
electricity in the following proper
tions. viz: Silver. 100; copper. 90;
gold, Y, aluminium, 81; zinc 26; plati-
mum, 16; iron, 10; nickel. u; tin. IL;
lead, z. Of the above. copper and
/ 10 81
value as electrical conductors.
Wah Sing, a Chinese laundryman.
died the other day at Winfield. Kas.
He was buried by three of his own
countrymen. who placed in his coffin
all his personal effects. including So in
money. a razor, brush a knife and
some soap. The cot of the deceased
and his bed-clothes were buried with
him.
1t is fact not to be ignored that q
large share of the vice and crime in
this country comes from abroad.
Out of $4,000 prisoners. accord
ing to the census of 1880. about
$4,000 were of foreign birth. though
the foreign-born population was only
a little over an eighth of the whole at
that time.
A strong solution of extract Of
licorice destroys the disagreeable taste
of aloes. Peppermint water DISCUSSES
the nauseous taste of EPSON salts.
Milk is good abater of the bitter taste
of Peruvian bark. and cloves that of
SIENNA. Castor oil can not be tasted if
beaten and thoroughly mixed with the
white of an egg.
A horse in Macomb, Mich, has been
used to go to church every Sunday
with his owner for years. Recently.
for reasons best known to himself, he
left the horse at home and after SER
vices went out and there stood the
faithful animal in his accustomed
place. by the church. waiting for him.
but without carriage.
Meissonier's successor in the Presi-
dency of the National Society of French
Artists, Puvis de Chavannes, is the
antithesis of his predecessor intellect
ually and physically. Intellectually.
he is an ideallst and a poet; personally,
a man of tall figure and snow-white
hair; thorough gentleman, elegant
and fastidious. He is man we'll adj
Vanced in years.
J For number of years a pair of
storks built their nest annually in the
t park of the castle Ruheleben, in Ber-
lin. A few years ago one of the SER
: wants placed ring with the name of
) the place and date on the leg of the
male bird, in order to be certain that
the same bird returned each year. This
spring the stork came back to its Gus
, tomary place. the bearer of two rings
The second one bore the inscriptions:
India sends greetings to Germany"
A young lady went into drug store
at Belfast, Me-, the other evening and
| purchased bottle of very high priced
. perfumery. She had scarcely left the
store when she dropped the bottle on
: the sidewalk, breaking it in many
pieces. The mute look of distress
} which her face assumed assured the
spectators of the state of her feelings.
Kicking the pieces of the bottle in all
directions. she took her handkerchief
and mopped up as much of the per-
furoo ,l0ccih1a nd mo 1Irod r,ff