The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-04-01
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Iowa last year.
Missouri annually expends over ST..
600 for tobacco for the convicts in the
penitentiary.
The people of Mexico have taken to
drinking beer. Breweries are spring
ing up in every city of Importance.
1t takes the tusks of Is, 900 elephants
year to supply the worlds piano
keys, billiard balls and knife handles.
A descendant of Bishop Latimer,
who was burned at the stake during
the reign of Queen Mary, is living in
Buffalo.
A store building at Decatur, Mich,
is nicknamed ''Mummery Block" be-
cause all the village secret societies
meet there.
Betting on the rainfall has been car
ried to such an extent in India that the
Bombay Government has passed an act
forbidding it.
The Emperor of Austria sent the
German Empress diamond set which
cost SIS, 900 as gift in celebration of
her infants christening.
Fiji is commencing the cultivation of
tobacco, the enterprise being assisted
by the concession of government land
to the planters on easy terms.
One of the largest babies ever seen
in Florida is the son of Walter Syl-
vester, living in Palatka. He is seven
months old and weighs forty pounds.
Bismarck is said to have sent large
quantity of his papers to England for
safe keeping against any possible
swoop upon them by the German
Government.
Washington County, Georgia pro-
duces annually 35, 600 bales of cotton,
worth about 81. 500 600. This is one of
the largest cotton producing counties
in the state.
Mr.. Moody declares that if an arch
angel should come down from Heaven
and preach in Boston the congregation
would find flaws of grammar or logic
in the sermon.
The ''manna' which fell from the
sky in Asia Minor last August and was
baked into bread has recently been ex.
amined by men of science, and is iden-
titled as lichen.
Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
nessee raise an average of 2, 970,O 900
bushels of peanuts year. The annual
value of the crop averaged $2'50O,O OO0
for the last four years.
The decrease in the shipbuilding of
the United Kingdom during 1890
amounts to 29, 1923 tons in the aggregate,
but the production of the Scottish yards
has increased by q, 900 tons.
The late William H. Vanderbilt is
quoted as saying, few weeks before
his death: TOO much money is nuis-
ance. The happiest time in my life
was when was worth $500, 1000"
In hotels the life of a napkin is put
down at three months, provided it is of
extra good material. A sheet lasts six
months and tablecloth depends for
its existence upon the care that is taken
of it.
DR.. Schliemann's grave is in the new
cemetery at Athens, in full view of the
Parthenon. 1t is not far from the spot
where Socrates used to sit under the
plane trees and bathe his feet in the
Illissus.
Women are excluded from the gal
leries of the Japanese Parliament be-
cause, as Japanese newspaper says,
they might be moved by the debates
there to further political agitation in
the Empire"
The proprietor of leading American
menagerie says that his gains by the
birth of wild animals in his show are
annually about fifty thousand dollars
greater than his losses by the deaths in
the collection.
The latest linguistic importation
from London is the verb s'to finance"
xryhsoh Sc t0 ho Of
furnishing funds for finance institu-
tion. 1t is rather worse, on the whole,
than ''suicided."
There are more believers in astro-
logy than the world at large has any
idea of. Most of those who entertain
faith in this occult science are people
of intellect, learning and, not infre-
quently, culture.
The new reading clerk of the Color
ado State Senate is Miss Anna w.
Kelly,a young and very pretty woman.
She reads rapidly, clearly and with
correctness of accent and pronuncia-
ton. She is the first woman to hold
such position.
Vera Sassulitsch. the nihilist, has
been supporting herself in Switzerland
by translating. Her health is now fail
ing and her physician has ordered her
to stop and proceed to a warmer
climate. A subscription is being taken
up in this country to enable her to do
so.
Chief Engineer Sewell of the White
Star fleet considers himself the greatest
traveller that ever lived, because during
his connection with the company he
has sailed 81S, 400 nautical or 941, 900
standard miles, nearly four times the
distance between the earth and the
moon.
The greatest natural orator in the
Senate is Mr.. Eustis, of Louisiana. He
is big man physically, and has full
voice and deliberative, imposing style
of speech that is very effective. At
times his voice fills the Senate chamber
with its reverberations and again it
falls to loud whisper.
Mrs. Walter Baker, of Boston, who
left about $1,000 900 to educational
and charitable institutions, gave years
of study and thought to the nature and
needs of these Organizations before
making her will. This is better than
waiting until old age OF sudden illness
may hive brought confusion to the
judgment.
Ward McAllister's overcoat has be-
come as well known to New Workers
as Seward's statue. Mr.. McAllister,
who has many odd fancies and pre-
judices, has twined his pure affections
fast and firm around this particular
garment. 1t is brown overcoat with
a velvet collar, and it must be admit
ted that it has rather rusty look.
Austrian census-takers have discov-
cred score or more persons in the
Empire who have passed their Tooth
birthday. The eldest was the widow
of Peter Hanei. She has certificate
of birth dated December "a. 1776. OF
her four living sons, the youngest is
20 years old. In Szegedin man named
Isak showed a birth certificate 105
years old.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, the
banker poet. makes his summer home
in quaint stone house on New Castle
Island, in Piscataqua Bay. From the