The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-30
MISSING LINKS.
New York has a woman cobbler.

Striker"
A Cornell college girl is studying
veterinary surgery.
But z 1-2 per cent of Bulgaria's pop
ulation can write or read.
The magic lantern was the invention
of Roger Bacon in 1860.
The Benbow guns throw an 1900
pound she'll over twelve miles.
Mr.. Gibbs, of Paterson, N. j., has
smoked 100 consecutive cigarettes on
bet.
The medical journals are beginning
to take an interest in the improvement
of country roads.
The men employed in a Michigan
basket factory make a grape basket
apiece each minute.
The constitution of Louisiana per-
mits wemen to hold any Office. con-
nected with public education.
The town of Bennington, Vt, con-
tains three villages : Bennington,
North Bennington and Bennington
Center.
The census figures for 1890 show
82.067, $50 males in the United States
to 30,554, $40 females. In Massachu-
setts the proportion is most seriously
felt.
On the farm of George Harter, near
Yuba City, Cal, there is mule that
came across the plains in 1864, and still
IS able to do considerable work and Is
fat and healthy.
Al 600 "a
married in New York city, while of
widows there were only 1,574, so that
about 20 per cent more widowers than
widows were married.
A woman has lately been admitted
for the first time to the London So
ciety of compositors. The society re-
fuses to admit women who are not
paid at the same rate as men.
Two hundred and sixty-two years
ago last Saturday Boston was born.
st. Augustine, Fla, New York and
Salem, Mass, are the only three cities
in the United States that are older
than Boston.
According to Scandinavian legends
the swallow hovered over the cross.
singing: %Svala! Svalaw (Cheer up!
Cheer upD, and hence it receives the
name of svala or swallow, "the bird OF
consolation"
The following advertisement re-
Gently appeared in the Wiltshire
(England) Times: Notice-"Baptizing
by Rev. A. E. johnson, Stournere
Water, next Sunday, at 1880 a. m.
Photographers invited.
There are congregational churches
in all the states except Delaware and
in all the territories except Alaska.
There ere 4,868 organizations, with
4,7S6 churches and 456 halls, and
church property valued at $43. 335, 437.
The numper of communicants is 512,-
I'll.
The amount appropriated last year
for public schools by the Russian gov
ernment was 1892, 600. How pitifully
small this is for a great country like
Russia is vividly brought out by the
fact that for thepyear 1890 the amount
expended for the public schools in
the state of New York was $1S, 214,'
687.58.
In 1451, at Berne, in Switzerland,
when leeches became nuisance, the
parish priests of the vicinage, by com.
mand of their bishop, cited the leeches
in court and placed some of the
@equatic worms" before the magis.
trates. The verdict ran that in three
days the 1eeches should leave tbs
country under penalty of incurring tht
ma1ediction of God.
A young Vermonter, who was re-
fused by the girl he loved, climbed il
through her chamber window a few
nights ago. cloroformed her and triet
to steal her bodily from her father
house. But she came to and rouseC
the household with her cries. Th'
authorities have the ardent swain il
jail, but are perplexed whether t.
charge him with burglary or abduc
ton.
A new toy which is likely to becom
very popular has been brought out il
Paris. It is clever imitation of
diver. A small figure, appropriated
dressed, and inside which is an Indi
rubber ball, is attached to tube, a
the other end of which is another bal
When the doll is placed in water
is forced into it by squeezing the QUITE
ball.
As rule seats in frst-class theater
in Europe cost more than in this eoun
try. A seat in the parquet of Lon
don theater costs $2.63 1-2 and one
the first balcony $1.75. Then the pre-
gramme costs from 2 to cents AM
the fees of the attendants count u
anywhere from a dime to so cents
The theaters in this country are nc
only the best in the world, as well q
the cheapest, but they cover every in
agina BILE taste and are suited to ever
purse.
New Jersey is geographical puzzl
to most Britons, because it happens
be closely associated with New Yor
and Pennsylvania. Even so INTEL
gent an observer as Anthony TrolloI
assures his readers in his book @
North America that the "city of Ne
Jersey is visible across the Hudso
from New York, although in anotht
state" while a recent critic of a woT
on Walt Whitman says, referring
the Homestead troubles, that there
deadly economic war in that veI
state of the American republic whel
Walt Whitman died not many month
ago."
Some Australian blacks, who wei
imported for show purposes, and a
detained at San Francisco, are wo
derfully clever with the boomeran
One of their most interesting perform
ances is the throwing of the boomerar
SO as to describe the figure s. o.
line crosses the other as quick as a fla
and the boomerang goes whistlir
through space and finally comes bac
after having proceeded many yard
Its movements are faster than that
q flying fish, and it strikes at tt
end of its journey with tremendo
force.
One Boston clergyman, at least,
up to date. Last Sunday he preach'
on Whittier in the morning and {
the Sullivan-Corbet fight in the eve
ing. It will now be in order to prea
a sermon on the wickedness of I
papers in reporting the fight. [
ComgregatioaaGlist reports another Gle
gyman who announced Sunday eve
ing talk on the subject, "Your Tr'
ley's Off" Another clergyman
marked to his congregation: "Y
Yorass the hutton and I do the rest