The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-02-15
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The fashion of serving the fsh be.
fore meats began in 1862.
The marriages of minors are s per
cent Of the whole number.
It is said that $4,000 varieties Of
goods are manufactured from wood.
There are more than 1000 varieties
Of apples raised in the United States.
France will spend nearly $4,000, GEO
for arms and ammunition for the cav
airy alone this year.
The state of Washington is one of
the heaviest consumers of condensed
milk In the country.
The English clergy was at first very
bitter against the fork, one man de-
claring that its use was impious.
The people of many of the South
Sea islands manufacture their entire
suits from the products of palm trees.
Cuban BARRIERS lather their patrons
with their hands from bowl made to
fit under the chin. No brush is used.
Four-ffths of the engines now
working in the world have been con-
strueted during the last twenty-five
years.
The accuracy of surveying in an
cient engineering is marvellous, con-
sidering the rudeness of the instru-
ments.
A number of NJ. P.'s are understood
TO be in favor of having an official ver
batim report of the proceedings OF
parliament.
A famous Roman glutton always
wore gloves at feast SO that he could
handle the hot meat sooner than the
other guests.
Among the Saxons, when drinking
healths, as many cups were drunk as
there were letters in the name of the
person complimented.
A New York paper solemnly an
nounces that one of the hotels of that
city is to "be enlarged by reducing the
size of its immense rooms"
The modern italian wine jars, hold
ing about twenty quarts, are almost
identical in shape and size with the
amphoras found in Pompeii.
A fast penman will write at the rate
of thirty words minute, which means
that in an hours steady writing he
has drawn his pen along space of 300
yards.
Champagne owes its quality to the
soil, q mixture of chalk, silica, light
clay and oxide of iron, and to the
great care and delicate manipulation
IN manufacture.
During last year the number of elec-
trio railways increased from 385 to
469, the capital stock from $3.50, 087, ,97S
to $205, SIC, 900, and the mileage from
1913 to 3. 446 miles,
The latest whim for the owners OF
dogs is to make them wear shoes in
the house for the purpose of protecting
the polished floors. They are made OF
chamois, with leather soles.
A test case brought by the city OF
Providence against man for selling
adulterated milk was lost. 1t is alleged
that the jury was confused with tech
Sical terms and Latin words.
A baby boa constructor fell out of {
lot of bananas unloaded at Washing
ton, D. c., the other day, and after
the boa had become cold it was cap
tured for the geological gardens.
A Norwich, Conn.,, hunter expert
enced queer incident the other day
He fired at partridge that was fyins
toward him in the air and shot it, ant
the dead bird fell into his hands.
The champion pickpocket lives II
England. He went through churcl
fair with gratifying results-to himsei
and lefs the empty purse belonging
TO some one else in the pocket of thi
hcrrided bishop.
eoientists have discovered, it is said
that the memory is stronger in sum
mer than in winter. Too much food
too much physical exercise and to-
much education are among the wors
foes of the memory.
The governor of the electric igh
works in Sedalia, Mo-, broke the othe
night and the engine jumped from so
to 1000 volts. The globes burst il
the street cars and there was great ex
citement for awhile.
It IL estimated that it costs the well
to-do people in this country $125, 600.
900 annually TO support charitabl
institutions, while at least $500, 900, 90
are invested in permanent building
where the needy are cared for.
The best lighted city in Europe i
Milan. American machinery only
employed in its two central stations
A curious feature of the system of dis
tribution is that the wires, instead o
being carried on poles are suspende,
from the brackets under the caves @
the houses.
The city Of Avignon, France, inner
tied almost half a million francs re
gently from man named Marcelin
who had lived in the place as begga
for decades. In preparing his bod
for burial the bonds and money wer
found in his clothes. The "beggar
allowed his sister to starve to death
year ago.
Not many people stop to think abou
it, but the outside of lemon is any
thing but clean. If you will look at
you will see some tiny spots, lik
scales, all over it. These are eggs c
an insect, and if the lemon is no
washed they are likely to become a
ingredient in whatever dish the lemo
is used for.
In the late church congress at Folke
stone, England, one of the clergyme
said that the clergy could only full
understand the wants of the workin
classes by living among them, ivin
as they did, eating the same food, an
surrounded by the same influences an
tnus acquiring real sympathy AM
compassion for them.
Calculations, based on the observa
ton of the refraction of light, hav
caused it to be supposed that the al
becomes so rare at the height of abou
sixty miles that the distance may b
regarded as the limit to its sensibl
extent; but other calculations, mad
during the present century, of th
distance from the earth at whic
meters ignite, indicate that the al
mosphere extends to upward of hur
dred miles.
"Potomato" is the name given CT
rious manufactured vegetable whic
owes its origin to DR.. B. G. Culner,
Atchison, Kansas. For more tha
twenty years the doctor has been e1
perimenting with view to crossin
the potato and the tomato vines.
is claimed that this has at last bee
accomplished and that species {
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