The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-05-11
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for the Tilden heirs, receives 100000
for his fee.
The tallest and shortest people in
Europe, the Norwegians and Laps, live
side by side.
A man breathes about eighteen pints
of air per minute, or upward of seven
hogsheads in a day.
Potatoes, sugar, bread, butter, cakes
and fat of meats must be eschewed by
all who dread obesity.
In Japan, it is said, are apple trees
growing four inches in height, which
bear fruit freely about the size of cur
rants.
Every workman in Japan wears on
his cap and on his back an inscription
giving his business and his employers
name.
The Archduchess Stephanie, of Aus
tria, has published profusely Illus
trated volume entitled Travels in the
Tyrol."
In the Sahara desert the day may be
boiling hot, but not infrequently the
temperature at night falls below freez-
ing point.
The Marquis di Rudini has received
from Kaiser William the order of the
Black Eagle, the highest German honor
of this sort.
The first matches were pieces of
wood about six inches long tipped with
sulphur. They caught fire easily with
piece Of flint.
The Paris executioner, M. Deibler,
has always been passionate violinist,
practicing early every morning, execu-
ton or otherwise.
Bismuth melts at a point so far be-
low that of boiling water that it can be
used for taking casts of the most de-
structible objects.
There are said to be $4,000 news
paper women in London, who have
twenty-five press clubs and authors
societies among them.
James Runciman is said to have
written his Dream of the North Sea, "
which contains 10000 words, in eight
days and with one pen.
1t is strange, though true, that in
Asia and Africa, where grass will not
shrubs flourish to perfection.
To prevent the wearing of high hats
in the theaters, the managers are
shrewdly circulating the report that
only servant girls wear them.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is
said to be writing new play, which
will first be rehearsed in London, and
then brought to this country.
Gov. Russell of Massachusetts doesn't
propose to lie under obligations to the
corporations. He has returned every
railroad pass sent him within the last
year.
Rev. Richard Schofeld, who was re-
ceived into the Catholic Church by
Cardinal Newman in 1850, at the age of
So, is enjoying good health in his 101st
year.
Ex = President Arthur's daughter,
Nellie, is going to Europe, having re-
Gently graduated from college. She
is tall young lady of five feet nine
inches.
The celebrated Russian traveller and
explorer in Asia Minor and other narts
of the East, M. Eliseieff, is about to
undertake scientific expedition in
Abyssinia.
Baron Hirsch was one of the largest
subscribers to the Russian loan. I'm
like the Rothschilds, he never allows
sentiment to interfere with his desire
to make good investments.
In Belgium no person is allowed to
vote unless he is taxpayer to the
amount of 40 francs year This law
makes the voters only twenty-five out
OF every thousand of population.
Oliver Goldsmith's grave in the
Temple Church yard, London, has al
last been given little attention anG
has been renovated and repaired, the
old lettering of the inscription being
recut.
Less than thirty years ago President
Mcleod, of the Reading Railroad, was
a rodman on the Northern Pacific. He
is now the head of 2, ,600-mile trunk
line and the employer of 100, 900 sub
ordinates.
Colonel William Henry Mcintosh, ot
Deer Foot, Mimi, veteran of the wal
of 1872, chops his own firewood and
bathes at dawn seven days a week in
water from spring near his solitary
habitation.
Alexander Salvini has four brothers
and two sisters, but he is the only one
now on the stage. His older brother
entered upon q histrionic career, but
after five years was persuaded by his
father to abandon it.
George B. Mcclellan, son of "Little
Mac" is secretary of the Bridge Trus-
tees in New York, and is very popular.
In appearance and many traits Of
character he bears a strong resem.
blance to his father.
They say that Thomas Mast, the
great cartoonist, grows younger as the
Years pile up their burden on his
shoulders. In his New Jersey home
at Morristown he is sometimes seen
cantering about on horseback like 6
boy.
Legendary history says that Noah
took the true and original "philoso
piers stone" with him in the ark, and
that he changed it up in the center o.
the great boat that all the living Great
ures gathered therein might be lighted
by its presence"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been in
vesting in real estate near Seattle. A
generous contemporary remarks that
She is still so fresh and vigorous thai
no one would be surprised if she were
to go out to Washington to grow VI
with the country.
1t is not generally known that the
reigning houses of Europe, with few
exceptions, are descended from two
sisters, the one being the mother sot
almost all the catholic princes and
princesses and the other of the major
ity of those of evangelical profession
Timothy Hopkins ought not to ex.
perience any serious difficulty in keep
ing the wolf from the door, even if ht
does not succeed in getting any O.
Mrs. Searles' money, now that his
uncle Moses has left him $4,000 in
cash and 100000 for his wife and chill
dren.
Governor Edwin B. Winans, of Mich
igan, is not very widely known outside
Of his State. He is man of command
ing appearance, with a tall, straight
military figure, iron-grey hair and 6
mustache of like color. He is usually
at his desk by 8 o'clock and is a hare
worker.