The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-01-20
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talk 312 words a minute when preach
ing.
Sir Henry Bessemer has discovered
a way to run molten steel into thin
plates.
Charlotte, the new Queen of Wur-
temberg. is credited with being a
clever musician and artist.
1t will not be long before the type
writer will be introduced into the
schools of Massachusetts.
A man in Concord, Mich, makes a
living by raising English sparrows and
selling their heads for the bounty.
A stained-glass window has just
been placed in nave of Canterbury
Cathedral, as memorial of Dean
Stanley.
In eastern Oregon the coyote keeps
up the price of eggs and chickens. and
many counties pay liberal bounty for
his extinction.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards says that
the secret of success in the writing of
fiction is to be summed up in a single
word-sincerity.
DIR. Brown-Sequard has apparently
abandoned his famous 'elixir of life.
and now he thinks he has a cure for
coughs and sneezing.
Texarkana, Ark, has a woman
whose height is feet 3-4 inches. She
has two cousins travelling with circus
es who are taller than she.
A big temple which the Salvation
Army is to erect in New York City
will be memorial of Mrs. General
diod
George Ebers has been writing a
story of Alexandria in the third CEN
tury, under the reign of Caracalia. 1t
is to be called Per Aspera."
To show the growth made in the in
dustry of furnishing kindling wood. a
single factory in Pennsylvania turns
out 3. 100000 bundles month.
An instance of the modern regard
for things suggestive of the Golden
tymes" is the increased use of candle
light at fashionable dinner-parties.
1t is reported from st. Petersburg
that 25, 900. 900 persons are unable to
paw their taxes, and that this will
cause budget deficit of G12, 900, 900.
A meteorite, found few weeks ago
in the rotten roots of willow tree at
Lysabild, Denmark, was seen by the
finder to fall into the tree in August,
1843.
Professor Alcee Fortier, of New
Orleans, says the Creoles are the
Knickerbockers of Louisiana. He takes
Author Cable to task for his character
izations of Creole life-
Forty-seven newspapers are pub
lished in the republic of Ecuador. OF
these fifteen are published in Quito.
the capital, and twelve in Guayaquil,
the principal seaport.
A runaway locomotive on the
Blairstown (N. J.) Railroad beat all
previous records recently by making
the twelve miles between Bairdstown
and Portland in six minutes.
One of the largest hop growers on
the Pacific coast got a growth of 5,592
pounds of hops on an acre of 816 hills.
A weld of l, 600 pounds to an acre in
the average yard is considered fair.
A Russian electrician is said to have
lately patented process of photo
graphing and engraving on metal by
means of electricity. by which the
etching method is entirely dispensed
with.
Nathaniel Holland, who is SO years
old, voted at the recent election in
Barre, Mass. His vote was cast for
James Monroe in 1916, and he has
never missed an election since thai
year.
Robert Plilson. banker of Berlin,
Pa, is dwarf, and so diminutive q
one that the dime museum managers
have offered him large sums to exhibit
himself to the curious public under
their auspices.
Recent reports from the Salton Sea,
in the Colorado desert, are to the effect
that there is no marked diminution OF
the water. Notwithstanding the enor-
nous evaporation, and it seems to have
come to stay.
in Hungary, where the railway fares
were reduced by the Zone SYSTEM
from 40 to 80 per cent the receipts
have increased 18 per cent and the
number of passengers rose from 2,000,'
600 to 1000, 600.
The keeper of a bar-room in San
Francisco while among his casks ir
of an empty cask, one of the stave!
crushing his skull. His light igniteC
the accumulated fumes in the cask.
Moose are SO very plentiful in north
ern Maine that, as a sportsman car
legally kill but one in a season, it i!
something of disappointment tt
throw away the only chance on al
understood or lean animal, or one will
poor antlers.
Western Washington loggers tell o
an immense log, recently hoated dowl
the Snoqualmie River, which five oxel
had difficulty in hauling. 1t was a ii
log thirty-two feet in length aut
eighty-nine inches in diameter at tn,
largest end.
A note written recently to Chicagt
author by Oliver Wendell Holme
shows that the aged poets pen is still
entirely under his control. literally a.
well as metaphorically, for though DR.
Holmes is now SO, he writes as nea
and unvarying hand as bank clerl
of 80.
Twenty-one specimens of fossi
shells have been found in the vicinit,
of Boston. Some of these fossils wer,
found in the Muddy River on the Dor
der of Brookline. some have beel
found in the dredging of the Charlie
River near the Back Bay. Some o
the oyster shells are ten inches long.
1t is stated that there is now hardl,
civilized language in which trans
lation of Professor Drummond's per
fectly simple and nobly wise littl
treatise, The Greatest Thing in tn
World" cannot be obtained. Vol
Moltke was lover of this booklet, ant
the last letter he ever wrote was de
voted to its subject.
The mummified body of man ha
been found in Selma, Fresno County
Cal. 1t is in a perfect state c
preservation. being thoroughly drie
and as hard as board, without tn
least sign of odor. The flesh is as har
as sole leather and as black .as tn
mummies of the ancients. The bod
is evidently that of Mexican.
The first flag of stars and stripes wa
made for the United State army by
Quakeress named Betsey Ross. in
little brick building still standing o
Arch above Second street in Philadel
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