The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-04-13
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There are 466 saWmillS running In |
the state of Washington, with total
daily cutting capacity of S,421, 600 feet.
There is rosebush at Hildersheim,
in Hanover, that was planted more
than 200 years ago by Charlemagne
in commemoration of visit made by
an ambassador from the Caliph Haroun
al Raschid. The bush is now twenty
six feet high.
DR.. Louis Reuter-, physician of
once lucrative practice, and now a
man of wealth, has been discovered
living in squalid apartments at Will
liamsburg. and with all the surround
ings of a miser. His wife, who left
him some years ago, is a niece of Gen.
Franz Sigel
George Parsons Lathrop, who is a
very recent convert to Catholicism, is
exceedingly anxious that all Catholics
in this country should celebrate the
4O0th anniversary of the planting of
the holy cross on American shores by
Columbus, 12S years before the Pill
grim Fathers landed on Plymouth
Rock.
The sultan of Turkey, through the
grand vizier, recently began suit for
libel against La Rama, comical paper
of Bologna, Italy, for publishing carl
| catures of his majesty. The sultan
won the suit, and the editors of the
paper were sentenced to three days
| Imprisonment and to the payment of
fine of $75.
An interesting sight in the door
ward of Mr.. II. W. Wheeler's house. az
| the foot of Mount Shasta, is redwood
| tree IA feet in diameter, which towers
| up 130 feet without limb or branch.
| The tree would make $1,000 feet of
merchantable lumber, but though Mr..
Wheeler is lumberman, he says it
shall never be cut down.
| A Maine man has discovered among
his papers the articles of agreement of
a wager between Jonathan Cilley and
Nathaniel Hawthorne, dated at Bow
doin College, Nov. IA, 1924. Haw-
| thorne wagered a barrel of old Madeira
| that he would not be married twelve
years later. He won, but Cilley was
killed in duel before he could pay.
According to the ideas of the Ice
landers all waters which flow to the
north are drawn thitherward by a sue
ton created by the oceans tumbling
downward through the hollow which
| they firmly believe exists at the Pole.
Their authority for this curious belief
is the "Utama Saga" a semi-sacred
work written early in the fourteenth
century.
On every horse will be found, on the
inside of each foreleg, dry, gray
wart about the size of silver dollar,
apparently of no possible use. When
the weary, overtaXed animal, sweating
at every pore and covered with foam,
can reach down and rub with his wet
nose this always dry, hard substance,
he is instantly refreshed with an odor
like geranium.
| Until recently it was supposed that
the small star near the North Pole
known as No. 1880 Coon bridge, which
travels at the rate of 232 miles a Sec
ond, had the greatest velocity of any
in the heavens; but it is now known
that Mu in Cassionola has velocity
of 305 miles second, while, if the OBJ
servations of Dr. Elzin are accepted,
Arcturus is travelling at a speed of 375
miles a second.
Churton Collins has created a small
sensation in England recently by the
publication of little book in which
he attempts to prove Tennysons in
debtedness to his predecessors. He
names a great many passages in diff
ferent poems which are taken bodily
from Virgil, Lucretius aid Iheocritus,
not to mention innumeiable words
and phrases that are taken from the
early English poets,
A unique kind of b8s, .las just been
launched at Christians in Sweden.
1t is so constructed t:...s it can move
on the rails which connect the two
lakes on which it plies. Thus passen-
gers embark on one lake and are trans
ported across it and over the ground
to the next without moving. This
vessel is a small one. he is called
the Swan, and her engines indicate
only ten-horse power.
eff a child has swallowed anything
, that will not digest" said noted
| physician, particularly if it is sharp,
: let him eat immediately two or three
pieces of dry bread. This is very apt
: to surround the object swallowed with
: a sort of coating. In addition let the
. food for several days be more solid
than usual, and under no circum-
stances give purgative medicine. The
chances are that the child will feel nc
trouble from the carelessness."
!, A few years ago it was suspected
that the latitude of places on the
earth's surface changes. A number OF
! astronomers agreed to make observa-
tions for two years, and the result has
just been made public. Latitudes dc
change. Berlin, for example, was
fifty feet nearer the North Pole in Sep
, tember than it was in March. This
, change is not, of course, q shifting o.
l any one point on the earth's surface
1t is fitting of the axis of the earth
: For ages the common slang phrase
= or its equivalent, Gin the soup" has il
l one form or another been i'll use among
. the Germans. "He sits in the soup" i
: used to indicate the situation of MAJ
> in misfortune by his own fault; "h'
: has made nice soup for himself" il
used to indicate ludicrous or ridicu
lous position in which one is placed b,
= himself; "he must eat his own soup,
with other expressions of this kind, i
. still in common use throughout Ger
many.
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