The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-05
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The French people fight an average
of 1000 duels every year.
More than one-third of Great Britain
is owned by mem bers of the house of
lords.
Shirts embroidered by hand and
costing $50 each came in fashion in the
reign Of Elizabeth.
In Monterey, Mexico, a school has
been opened in which scholars are
fed free of charge.
The Edinburgh Reviea0 says that the
commonest form of color-blindness is
that which thinks green identical with
red.
Medieval medical men considered
chips from the gallows on which some
body had been hanged good remedy
for ague.
Coal of an excellent quality and in
large deposits has been discovered at
Diebell-Ebou-Feyar, in the dirtrict of
Ter, Asia Minor.
Since the great earthquake of 1891
lilo and 2,026 shocks have been expe-
rienced in Nagoya and Gilu respect
lively, two provinces in Japan.
The meteorological editor of a Mis-
sissippi paper, in describing the
weather one day recently, said the
asoughing rain sozzled and sizzled." :"
A gentleman in Berlin, Wis, has
Just lost family pet of great price, q
canary bird 80 years of age. 1t had
lost its voice and was almost feather
less
Germany will not use any white
horses in the army in future, because
in . battle the enemy can discern
white horses at considerable dis
tance.
Following are the titles of numb Der
of clubs in New York city that have
queer names: The Tenderloin club,
Munchausen Annex club, Thirteen
club, Anti-Sedentary club, Paresis
club and Jonah club.
It is estimated by the Covington.
KY, Record that 1856 OF the babies born
in Kenton and Campbell counties since
the first of the year have been named
after President Cleveland, Mrs Cleve-
land, Baby Ruth or John G. Carlisle.
MANY of the houses in Madrid have
long palm branch twisted along the
railings of one of the upper balconies
This is blessed in one of the churches
at Palm Sunday and is kept unit
another is substituted in the following
year.
When Handers messiah. was first
/, given to Dublin on April IS, 1742, the
desire of the people to hear it was sc
great that the ladies of rank in tn.
City agreed for that particular occa
sion to go without hoops so that ar
additional number of people could be
admitted. -
A female lunatic in England is o
the opinion that she is an envelope
containing letter. and with this ide'
she fixes q stamp on her forehead ant
imagines that she goes through tn
post to visit her relatives The fol
lowing day she sticks another staml
on for the return journey.
The will of the late duke of Mari
borough contains the following char
acteristic clause: II particularly dis
like the exclusiveness of family prid
and desire to be buried in the famil
vault at Blenheim, but in such cor
venient place as others of my. genera
ton and surroundings may equal.
use.
The observatory for the top of Mon
Blanc is finished and will be placed i
position as soon IS the parts can b
carried to the summit. Two huts TO
the shelter of the workmen have bee
erected about 900 feet below the tor
and part of the woodwork of the OF
servatory has already been carrie
up.
Since jeweled fillets became the rag,
among rich women New York jewellers
have produced many fabulouslY ex
pensive thiags of this sort. Regula
coronets are not uncommon, and on,
jeweler has made to order for a New
York woman reproduction of one 0
Queen Victoria's crowns, an elaborat
affair of gold enriched with handsom
work and jewels.
Paris soon hopes to be rid of the differ
ences between cabman and the public
Someone has invented a clockwork al
rangement which registers the dis
tance covered and the proper fare
The distance is chronicled by means c
water pump attached to one of tn
wheels. The owners are also benefte
by being able to. make sure of thei
three-fourths of the money.
Electricity has been successfully az
piled to the resuscitation. of apparent
" drowned persons. A man in Scot
land while bathing was seized wit
cramp and sank, remaining below tn
water for two minutes. When rescue
he was believed to be dead, but tw
applications of the electrical current
passed between the nape of the nee
and the heart, restored him to anfms
tion and ultimate recovery.
Middle-aged Marylanders recall tn
fact that the Philadelphia, Wilmingto
and Baltimore railroad crossed th
Susquehanna at Havre de GRANGE o
the ice in February, 1852. In thos
days the river was not bridged at ths
point, and the old steam boat Marylan
carried the trains across on the decl
The river froze very thick in Febrl
the ice, upon which the trains crosse
for several days.
An official notice that Emperor Viii
lam must have better view from th
windows of his palace, and to ths
end all private property from th
Schlossplatz and the Breitenstrasse,
Berlin, to the river Spree will be col
demned, has created bitter feelin
there against the emperor. The groun
thus acquired will be converted int
park. The money with which to
this will be raised by lottery whic
the Prussian government will get VI
An Ohioan recalls that bituminou
coal was literally free fifty or sixt
years ago in the eastern part of OH
to such persons as chose to dig
where it cropped out, and it was NJ
uncommon to see the industrious cit
zen returning from some hillside, h
wheelbarrow laden with enough FIRE
coal to warm him the better part of
week. This was in the days whe
eggs were 8 and 10 cents dozen i
Ohio and squirrels so plentiful ths
farmers lads killed them with stick
as the nimble creatures scampere
along the fences.
M. de Nelly, French wine grove
and something of classical schola
discovered that Strabo had describe
method OF treating diseased vine
with petroleum. He determined I
try it on his phylloxera-smitten vim,
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