The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-03-15


Texas has fifty-seven counties, each
of which is larger than the state of
Rhode Island.
The Lexington (Mo.) Nes0s runs
divorce department under the head of
"Vital Statistics"
More than one-half of the street
railway mileage in Massachusetts is
now operated in whole or part by cleo
tricity.
The average weight of the Chinese
brain is said to be heavier than the
average weight of the brain in any
other race.
The Sioux Indians have newspaper
published at Madison, S. D., called the
Appoktas. It's motto is from Luke l.,
IS: "Wankantanhan Anpoakin Hiy-
ounhipi."
An old smoker was made deathly i'll
by cigar the other evening. A cigar
dealer explained it right away. There
was hair rolled in that cigar. 1t will
make you sick every time"
The flag carried by Pizzarro and his
followers during the conquest of Peru
will be a notable object in the Venezu-
elan exhibit at the worlds fair. The
sword of Cortez will be. exhibited from
Mexico.
The Halls (Ga) Weekly announces
the following as its subscription rates:
"One year, two bushels 'taters; six
months, two gallons sorghum; three
months, one quart sweet mash--invar-
iably in advance"
A hog killed at Scio, Oregon, was
found to have two perfect stomachs
and two complete sets of intestines.
The owner never noticed anything un-
usual about the animal while it was
alive except that it had wonderful
appetite.
The officials who look after the
morals of the people of Koeslin, Prus-
sia, have given notice that the works
of Alexander Dumas, Alphonse Dau-
det, Eugene Sue, Count Tolstoi and
Paul de Koch are subject to contisca-
tion.
The superiority of tea over brandy
in many cases is beyond question.
The idea still fingers that alcohol
keeps out the cold. AS matter of
fact, mountaineers have found by re-
peated experience that the opposite of
this holds true.
The Liverpool Overhead railway"
the first elevated road to be built in
England, has just been completed. 1t
occupied three years in construction,
is six miles in length so far, cost 1925
900 per mile, and the motive power is
electricity.
Vanilla is an orchid, which in the
/ 4
walls like ivy. A substance called
"salep," somewhat resembling arrow
root or sage, is obtained from the
tubers of variety that grows in Tur-
key and Persia, where it is highly es-
teemed.
A woman in Delaware was black.
listed because of coal bill which it
was alleged she owed and would not
pay. Because of the blacklisting she
was unable to obtain credit. She i'm
mediately commenced suit for SO, 700
! damages. A jury returned verdict
in her favor for So, 500.
Millet's painting, ia Bergere,
which formed part of the Van Pree
collection in Brussels. has been sold t.
M. Chauchard, merchant prince O.
Paris and chief proprietor of the Ma
gasin du Louvre, for $240,0O0. It viii
be fit companion piece for the can
gelus," which also is owned by M
! Chauchard.
A new luminous fungus has beer
forwarded from Tahiti to Europe. l
is said to emit at night light resem
bling shat of the glow-worm, which il
retains for a period of twenty-four
hours after having been gathered. 1
is used by the native women in bou
quets of flowers for personal adorn
ment in the hair and dress.
London scientists have recently de-
monstrated that the purest air in the
cities is found about twenty-five feet
above the street surface. Hereto fore
it has been thought that the highest
floors in tenement houses had the best
air. The investigations above referred
to show that the healthiest apartment:
are those of the third floor.
Palindromes, that is to say, sentences
the letters of which read the same
from left to right or right to left, are
| just now very popular in London al
home gatherings. Here are severa
good examples: Eros sew Eve tub
but Eve was sore-Repel leper-Was
it a cat l saw-Evil did [ ere did live
Big was I ere saw Gib-Live on,
do to do no evil.
Hungary is stated to be the country
where railway travelling is the cheap.
est. It is said to be possible to jour
ney from Buda-Pesth to Kronstadt 9
distance of 500 miles for 6 shillings
pence, being at the rate of six miles 6
penny. Low as this price is it is liable
to reduction of one-half in the case
of laborers journeying in parties Of
not fewer than ten.
The Indians have not the sound Of
e." All their SIS are silent The
French missionaries and writer's were
always strictly phonetic in their tran.
scription of words. Note the mistake
in the word missouri" the name of 6
large state, great river and famous
Indian tribe. Always and Invariably
Americans pronounce it as Mizzouri
while the natives of the state do like
wise.
Reports from Switzerland show thai
experiments that have been made in
the various cantons of the republic in
the form of graduated income taxes
| have proved successful SO far as the
great mass of the people is concerned
but that the effect with the wealthy
minority has been to induce settle.
ments in other cantons where this sys.
tenn does not prevail, or. in some in.
stances, in foreign countries.
The Commonwealth club of Glou.
cester, Mass, has just dedicated its
clubhouse, which was built at the close
of the revolutionary war and was the
first three-story edifce erected in thai
ancient town. It is rich in ghost
stories, tales of the sea and traditions
of the colonial period. One of its
early owners was Captain Samuel Cal
der, who was captured by the dey OF
.Algiers in 1898 and held for four years
until ransom was paid by the United
States government.
The unmarried men of the German
capital lately formed the idea of hav.
ing bachelors club, but the terrors
of social vengeance overlook the COM
mittee. They received threatening
letters from the hostesses of Berlin who
possessed unmarried daughters, and,