The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-12-28
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More United States vessels visit the
Mexican ports than those of all other
nations combined.
Macaulay was AZ when he began the
brilliant fragment known as the "His-
tory OF England"
A horse in Lock Haven has a black
coat in winter, but in summer it be-
comes beautiful roam.
A New Jersey man gives as cure
for hay fever the smoking OF pine
needles with tobacco.
An English paper asserts that 1,000,-
600 bonnets were sold in London dur
ing one week recently.
In the executive mansion at Raleigh,
N. c., is card table presented to
Governor Darlington by King George
III. about the year 1855.
A north of England newspaper re-
Gently contained an advertisement for
q cook who "must wash and dress
Qady and gentleman)."
A man while fishing in Lapwall
creek, Idaho, hooked a rattlesnake
three and one-half feet long that was
swimming across the creek.
The Danish government has issued q
decree forbidding the importation of
dogs from any foreign country except
Sweden and Norway.
One man in Wicomico county, Mary
land, on the eastern shore, shipped
this season nearly $4,000 quarts of
huckleberries in a single week.
1t was not Lord Brasseys famous
yacht Sunbeam that was lost recently,
but schooner of the same name be-
longing to some pearl fishers.
An anti-cancer league has been or
ganized in Paris, its purpose being to
seek means of relieving humanity from
one of its most dreadful scourges.
The only man in the world who lives
in a house of copper is an iron manu-
facturer named n. Poulson, whose
unique residence stands at the corner
of Eighty-ninth street and the shore
road in South Brooklyn.
The state of Massachusetts, was
named from the bay of that name.
The origin of the word Massachusetts,
is from the Indian word "massa," I"
great, "wadehuash," mountain or hills.
and the suffix "et," meaning at or
near.
Paper manufacture is one of the
chief industries in Corea. The paper
is made in the most primitive manner
from the bark of tree which is indi-
genous to the country and which is
closely allied to the mulberry.
A fresh terror seems to be in store
for the unfortunate inmates of the
Russian prisons. It is proposed that
the cells should be fitted with con-
cealed microphones, so that any con-
versation can be automatically con-
veyed by wire to distant telephone.
The finest grades of razors are so
delicate that the famous Damascus
sword blades cannot equal them in
texture. 1t is not generally known
that the grain of Swedish razor is SO
sensitive that the general direction is
changed after short service.
Of the famous English statesman
Fox it was said that if the bible should
get lost he would be able to duplicate
It from memory. Racine knew by
heart the entire Euripides, Bayle the
whole of Montaigne, Hughues Doncau
the Corpus Juris word for word, and
Metastatio all of Horace and Corteret.
A small island in Passamaquoddy
bay is inhabited only by one man and
his family. 1t is said that the man
has several wives, and he certainly has
surprising number of children. They
live by fishing and farming, and al
though the husband and father doesn't
own the island he is king there.
A Tennessee girl, educated in a
fashionable female college of Nash
vile, committed suicide because her
father wouldn't pay his grocery bills.
Her high sense of honor refused to
allow her to consume food that had
not been paid for to sustain life, and
as she had no other method of living
she decided to die. If every girl
whose father doesn't pay his grocery
bill should commit suicide there would
be more funerals in the country than
there has been since the yellow fever
epidemic.
Our youngest congressman" is ne
cessarily more thnn 25 years old, in
accordance with the provisions of the
constitution, but the British house of
commons has members several years
younger. One of the newly returned
members, William Allen, is 81, and
Frederick Smith and Mr.. Dalziel are
not yet "a. They do not break the
record of political precocity, however,
for William Pitt was only 1S when he
made his maiden speech in the house
the speech that led Burke to say
that the young orator "was not chip
of the old block, but the old block it
self.
William Clark Mobiles statue of Viii.
ior Hilary Gha f0 ho oroafod in
Newport next autumn represents the
famous preacher as raising his hand to
pronounce benediction. Of this pose
and of other features of the design
the Boston Herald says: Though the
attitude is critical one. in which q
single false suggestion would spoil the
effect, the details and general spirit o1
the work maintain it admirably. The
face is pronounced by those who knew
DR.. Charming to be speaking like
ness; the garments worn by the
preacher are faithfully rendered, while
the old-fashioned gown, with it's pen.
dant sleeves and innumerable wrinkles
and crossings, is marvel of realistic
reproduction"
Some very interesting comparisons
have lately been officially put forth,
6uOWlHS GTedL DTlCdlQS increase IN
naval strength during the past siz
years. The figures show that hel
claim to the title of mistress of the
seas" is in no immediate danger, but
they also show that one very burden
some source of expense each year
which the admiralty is called upon tc
bear consists in overhauling, refitting
and in many ways rejuyenating wal
ships that but few years ago were
among the marine wonders of the
world. The United States have at
least one thing to serve as consola-
ton for having been SO long without
any navy worthy of the name. The
money we now spend in building up a
navy nearly all goes for new work; for
construction and not for reconstruc-
ton.
OF One Mind.
A young man with a .wide-brimmed
straw hat on the back of his head and
look of forgiveness for everybody on
his face, entered suburban car at a