The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-06-07
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The first idea of pneumatic tube
was due to Denis Papin in 1867.
There are in British India 10, 147
shops licensed for the sale of opium.
The hat last worn by Richard Wag-
ner, with certificate of genuineness
attached, is offered for sale in Venice.
A chestnut tree, said to be 1000
years old, still fiourishes at the foot of
Mount Etna. 1t is 213 feet in circum-
ference.
Twenty-six murders were committed
In Ebert county, Georgia, during the
last two years without a single convic-
tion.
An ounce of pure gold is worth
$20.64. Therefore ton of pure gold.
which contains 1900 ounces, is worth
$495, $50.
In the cellars of the Hotel de Vile
in Bremen there are some cases of
wine that have been preserved twenty
years.
Australia has just completed the
first locomotive ever built on the ISL
and continent. 1t was constructed at
Melbourne.
The fastest typesetter in California
is said to be q young woman who is
employed in newspaper office at
Santa Barbara.
There is a man in Griffin, Ga, who
is boarding million dollars of confed-
crate money, in the hope that it will
become valuable some day.
A statistician, quoted by the Boston
Transcript, finds that the death rate is
lower among clergymen than among
any other class of workers.
M. Chappuis' proposed electric rail-
way through the Simplon pass is esti-
mated to cost So, ,000,0 900, and it would
greatly reduce the distance between
Italy and northern Europe.
A newspaper has just been started
in London which is printed on a postal
card. The first number has four illus
trations, comic tragedy, a few jokes
and puzzles and some advertisements.
For some years past Greece has been
gradually monopolizing the earth
quakes of Europe. Several beautiful
towns and villages have lately been
turned in few moments into heaps of
ruins. Amphissa, Leucadia, Corinth,
Egion, Philiatra, and lastly the flower
of the Levant, Zante, have all been
badly shaken up.
1t is hard to believe that, blooming
fruit tree is a rarity anywhere in the
United States, but there are parts
of Colorado where such is the case, and
q Coloradoan confesses to having
driven forty-five miles down into New
Mexico to see dwarf pears in bloom, no
specially inspiriting sight either to a
man acquainted with the apple bios
som and the glory of the peach.
People who have taken the Lake Su-
perior steamers at Port Arthur have
noticed the high, long dixie of basalt
that pushes into the water from the
northern limit of Thunder bay. The
Indians believe that this ridge is the
grave of Hiawatha, OF, as he is called
there, Manibozho, and few red men
pass the spot without dropping few
beads or pipeful of tobacco in the
water as an oblation to his spirit.
The Bon Marche in Paris is said to
employ 100 men who do nothing but
watch for shoplifters. This one estab-
lishment alone arrests on an average 9
from twelve to fifteen thousand people
annually who have been caught steal
ing. Probably if thirty or forty thou
sand more who don't get eanght are
added an idea can be formed of the
way kleptomania fiourishes in France.
Wood pulp is rapidly becoming one
of the most universally used of manu-
factured articles. Not only is it found
available for making many of the nee
essaries and conveniences of mans
lite, aside from newspapers, but it is
also appearing in artistic coffins in
which to bury him. 1t is interesting
to note in this connection that there
are very few areas of spruce lumber in
the United States, west of the Adiron-
dacks.
A German Of wealth and education,
who has lived in this country for a
number of years, says he is convinced
that most of the suicides of his coun-
trymen, both on this side of the Allan
tic and the other, are caused by adul-
terants in beer that have depressing g
effect upon the nervous system and
dispose the subject to melancholy.
The use of beer that was chemically
pure would, he thinks, produce no
such effects.
The phenomenon of phosphorescence
is not universally understood. Objects
possessing this property absorb light
during the day and emit it at night.
An estimable old lady had a dark
closet in her house and she painted If
with phosphorescent paint, expecting
to illuminate it. But as the paint had
no opportunity to absorb light it
couldn't emit any, and the old lady
continues to scar n for her dress poek-
cts with candle.
Although the musk OK is still plenti-
full in the arctic regions of this conti-
nent, it is believed that there are not
more than five or six mounted speci-
mems of the creature in the United
States. One of the latest received was
ordered three years ago, and finally
delivered after 100 miles of sledging
and great many miles of other travel.
According to the best authorities the
odor that gives the musk OK its name
cannot be traced to any one special
secretion.
Buddhism and christianity are in
strange juxtaposition at East Chester,
in Westchester county, New York.
The episcopal church of East Chester,
quaint edifice bearing the date OF
1865 and standing in a, picturesque
graveyard that overiooks the marshes
of East Chester creek, is just opposite
private dwelling which stands amid
large ornamental grounds. The owner
of the dwelling, apparently inspired by
the peaceful neighborhood of the grave
yard, has inscribed on his gatepost
the single word "Nirvana."
Some of the most capable men who
spend spring and summer on the Alas
kan islands looking after various COM
mercial interests earn very large sala-
ries and live what some folk might
call double lives. They are able dur.
ing the winter, in San Francisco, New
York or Europe, to be lavish in ex-
penditure and enjoy all the privileges
of life, and the fact that there is little
to be done on the islands but attend
strictly to business enables a man to
recuperate from the weary joys of civ
ilization and thus to prolong theil
dual existence.
Vegetarianism in the United States
does not discard the use of meat diet