The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-10
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Nubia has acacia groves 100 miles

The church of England ordained
1,473 ministers last year.
There are many stone bridges in
China dating from 1000 B. G.
Not person has been killed in a
Maine railroad wreck since 1889.
The Germans were the first to en-
ploy gunpowder for blasting rocks.
The New York divorce courts put
asunder about five couples per day.
About the age of Sc the lean men
generally become fatter and the fat
men leaner.
In Washington it is unlawful for
newsboys to sell paper except on the
day of issue.
There is said to be invested in Amer
ican breweries about $91, 1000 900 of
English capital.
Boston lays claim to the oldest postal
clerk in the service. His name is
Charles Bingham.
An earthquake wave once crossed
the Pacific in twelve hours, or over six
miles minute.
An electrical expert says that it
would be dangerous for woman
wearing crinoline to cross electric car
tracks.
Female fish of all species are con-
siderably more numerous than males,
with two single exceptions, the angler
and the catfish.
A copy of the first edition of "Tom
Jones" has just been sold in London
for $455. It was uncut and in the
original boards.
Alexander the Great is thesonly Gel
ebrated man of history. of whom it
may be truthfully said: He was born
IN Europe, died in Asia and is buried
in Africa.
The Fifth regiment, of Baltimore,
now consists of privates and @non-
CONS" only, all the other officers, from
Colonel Boykis to the youngest sub, )"
having resigned in consequence of
trouble at the inauguration.
The silver mine at Przibram, in Bo-
hemia, is more than $500 feet deep,
and the temperature at that great
depth was found to be about 76 de-
grees Fahrenheit, little lower than
the temperature at the surface.
Detroit can boast of being the home
of Mrs. Della Minor, nice old lady of
81, who has such chronic thirst that
she has been penalized by fifteen years
and nineteen days imprisonment dur
ing the last twenty years of he- placid
and uneyentful life.
It is stated that one man has recently
moved from New York to Brooklyn n
for no other reason than that smoking
cars are run on the Fulton street ele-
waited road in the latter city. He says
he is too busy to smoke at his office
and his wife will not let him smoke at
home.
"Name any bird or fish in its season
that is not to be found in my larder,
gentlemen, and your dinner won't cost
you cent, the late Landlord Taft
was wont to say to his guests at Point
Shirley, near Boston. 1t was a bold
challenge, but the guests always paid
for their dinners.
A very full and interesting life of
Mohammed the apostle has just been
published by the Oriental Translation
Fund, under the patronage of the Roy
al Asiatic Society of London. 1t is a
translation by Mr.. E. Rehatsek, we'll
known Oriental scholar, from the
great work of Mirkhand, the Persian
historian.
It has often been wondered what had
become of the crucifx used by the
Able Edgeworth at the execution of
Louis XVI The Paris correspondent
of London paper says it is now in the
possession of the parish priest of St.
Medard de Guisiere, to whom it was
given by one of his flock, Nine. de
Espilat when she was dying.
On the surface of every leaf are
myriads of little mouths which bota-
nists call @stomates." They are most
abundant on the upper surface of
leaves; each is an oval opening. guard
ed by pair of lips which open and
close according to requirements They
vary from less than 1000 to more than
10000 to the square inch of leaf sur
face.
London has 1000 ships and 5000
sailors in its port every day. 1t has
on an average upward of $4,000 per-
sons annually taken into custody by
the police, q, 900 persons living in its
common lodging houses, 25,000 per-
sons annually arrested as drunk and
disorderly, and more than one-third of
all the crime of the country is COM
mitted within its radius.
A bill has been introduced in the
Connecticut legislature providing for
the punishment of persons who send
"fake" news to newspapers. The evil
complained of has grown to great pro-
portions lately. Three or four centers
of humbug Connecticut news send
such tales to New York papers and to
any Connecticut papers that will pay
for such service.
OF all the ludicrous things which
are told of the condition of the
discipline in the Massachusetts
state prison, that story of the
convict Booth who, having appointed
himself chairman of committee to
select testimonial to the retiring
warden, coolly picked out headquar-
ters and hung up sign, "No admit
tance," which was duly respected by
the prison guards, is the most anus
ing.
The London Nea0s says: There was
time when all foreign eggs in this
country were known as French eggs.
Now, thanks to improved means of
import, they come to us from variety
of countries. The annual import, ac-
cording to the latest official returns,
reaches the enormous number of near
ly 1900, 100000, valued at $3.50, 900, 900.
France and Germany still furnish more
than one-half of the whole"
Swans are now hard to raise. They
sell at $40 to $75 per pair. A Yankee
farmer at Biddeford, Me-, is making
quite a success at swan raising, and
his profits must be quite large each
season. The average hatch yields from
three to six young swans. They
hatch usually about June and mature
in fourteen months from birth. They
are very cross when with brood and
need watching constantly unless pen
ned up closely.
Captain Bower, after crossing the
plateau of Thibet at its widest part by
a route new to geography, has re.
turned to Simla. He says he has dis
covered the highest lake in the world
Hor-pa-chu, IL, $50 feet above the sea.
He has explored 1900 miles of new
ground at an average elevation of 49,
600 feet, tramping and riding over q