The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-04-06
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The followers of Bismarck are busily |
engaged in endeavoring to form a
Bismarckian party.
Senator Stanford has acquired the
reputation of giving some of the finest
dinners in Washington.
A petri6ed turtle twelve inches in
diameter and five inches thick has been
found on Lake Champlain.
Field TASKS of aluminium instead of
the ordinary glass flask are being in
troduced experimentally into the Ger
man army.
Out of 2,7OO congregational minis
ters in England and Wales, at least l.
600 are abstainers; of SCI students, 320
are abstainers.
According to Colonel Rockhill, the
devils are driven out of the towns in
Corea on New Years eve by firing off
guns and crackers.
A smokeless fuel called ''massute"
is used on steam rollers in Vienna.
The fuel is composed of the liquid
residuum of petroleum refneries.
Chimneys are scarce in the City of
Mexico. There are no dwelling houses
that have them. Charcoal is the only
fuel used for cooking and heating.
A valuable find of skeletons belong
ing to the fourth dynasy was recently
made in Egypt, This is the earliest
known data of Egyptian remains.
Thomas G. Hodgkins who recently
gave 5000, 600 to the Smithsonian In
stitution. is So years old and manages
an extensive farm at Setauket, L. l.
1t is a noteworthy circumstance
that all the men elected to the speaker
ship since the first Congress were born
in one or another of only thirteen
states.
A young soldier at El Paso, Texas.
played base ball so well with a local
club that his admirers bought his re-
lease from the army and engaged him
as a star.
The sacred nuts of Japan are so
called because they are used in certain
forms of worship, where they are
placed on the altar and burned with
hot blush flame. The fumes are sup
posed to be acceptable to the gods.
A novel wager is to be decided in
Belfast, Me-, where one man has bet
S. that no one can drive a pig a mile
without the porker turning to see who
is driving, and another man has risked
his dignity and So to prove the con-
trary.
Allowing an average weight of four
pounds to the brain, deducting one
fourth for blood and vessels and an
other fourth for external integument
it may be said that each grain of brain
substance contains not less than 205,
R19 or iD11 1,TocSinnc Of iAoac
A curious phenomenon is the rapid
decrease of the woman's vote in Boston.
Only three years ago 20, 252 women
registered, and all but about 800 of
them voted. Last year only 1925
voted and next year it is estimated
that the number will be reduced to g.
600.
The majority of the Scottish Gipsies
have spread over a vast tract of
country. Here they have become
gradually lost to view as dis
tinctive race. In Europe they are
found in the greatest number to-day in
Hungary and Walchia, where there
are 100000.
A queer libel suit has been instituted
against a Charlottesville, Ind, news
paper. The article averred that the
plaintiffs horse was fed on soup. be-
ing too old to eat corn. Wherefore the
plaintiff claimed $4,000 damages,
alleging that he has suffered great
mental anguish because of its publica-
ton.
In selecting strong timber weight
has very little consideration. Only
man with experience can Gull the good
from the bad timber with. almost an
infallible judgment, and probably
without the ability to tell why he makes
his selection. Color has little to do
with it. weight something, timber
sense more.
The orange crop of California has
become so large that it cannot be
marketed at paying prices. Thousands
of acres of the land of California are
now bearing young lemon trees. The
olive and fig crops of the state are now
profitable. Experiments in the rails
ing of Ceylon tea in southern Califor-
mia will soon be tried.
The large gift of Baron Hirsch in aid
of the Russian exiles has stimulated
many other wealthy Hebrews both in
Europe and America to deeds of gen
erosity. The various societies for
IhO OAllOo WOil ouHPllOo
with funds. which are used with dis
cretion and which have been service
able to thousands of sufferers all the
way from the Neva to the Hudson.
Of all coined money the Maria
Theresa dollar has by far the largest
circulation in Africa. Its territory ex-
tends from Fez, in Morocco down to
that London of the Soudan, the great
do I'd
prises more than one-third of the whole
of Africa, about 4, 900, 900 square miles,
with population of 20. 600, 900, but
even in this coin there are differences.
A doctor recommends menthol as
prevention of the grip, and the drug,
it may be observed, is greatly in vogue
nowadays for many kinds of ailments.
1t is the concentrated essence of the
humble peppermint, and in the form
of pencil or in an alcoholic solution
of from 20 to 40 per cent it is extreme
ly etficacious as an application in
neuralgia, toothache and colds in the
head.
The under graduates of Cambridge,
England have taken to drinking tea
after dinner instead of wine. But.
though novel at Cambridge, this
practice has been in vogue at Oxford
for seventy years, the innovation hav-
ing been brought about by Newman
and Froude, even then famous. who in
duced most of the other fellows of Oriel
to give up wine in the common room
after dinner and substitute tea.
1t is computed by leading physiolo-
gists that, since one-third of a second
suffices to produce an impression upon
the brain, man of 100 years of age
must have collected on or in his brain
matter 9, ,467, 280, 900 impressions. Or,
again, take off one-third of the time
for sleep, and we still find 6311,-
$50, 900. This would give 3,155,-
700, 600 separate waking impressions
on the man who lives to the age of fifty
years.
A considerate generous cobbler in
Delaware gave his wife a certain sum
of money each week for her personal
use. He never inquired what she did
with it, but after thirty-nine years of
welded life died and in the drawer of
an antique table the husband found
bag containing gold. also roll of
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