The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-19

dead.
More than 1000 distinct and perfect
forms of snow crystals have been emu
merated.
In Carlsruhe, Germany, anyone who
plays on the piano with the window
open is fined.
Visiting cards of sheet iron, with in
scription IN silver letters, are produced
in England.
Cargoes of horse flesh are being
shipped from New York to Belgium as
food for the poorer classes.
A large bowlder of galena recently
mined at Centerville, Mo-, is said to
have weighed $3.50 pounds.
For selling his vote resident of
Wolfe county, Kentucky, was sentenced
to disfranchisementf for life.
1t is said that of 100000 persons in
this country in need of wooden legs
and arms only 100000 are supplied.
The excavated temples near Bonn
bay, in India, would require the labor
of 10000 men for forty years to COM
| plete.
The Vassar girls have recently been
engaged in dressing dolls for children
among the poorest classes in New York
city.
A hustling burglar in one night re-
Gently at Phoenix, Ariz., robbed four
offices, bank and stable. He was
arrested on the following morning.
Members of the English life guards
cannot be tried by courtmartial unless
the members of it belong either to
their own or one of the other house
hold regiments.
Under Harry Y. an act of parliament
ordered all the geese in England to be
counted, and the sheriffs of the coun-
ties were required to furnish six arrow
feathers from each goose.
The pure white luster of snow is due
to the fact that all the elementary col
ors of light are blended together in the
radiance that is thrown off from the
surface of the various crystals.
| At Sedalia, Mo-, there is said to be
telegraph operator who is deaf and
dumb. He receives messages by plac-
ing his head against the instrument at
which he is working, SO as to feel its
motion.
In the grand duchy of Luxemburg
persons desiring work or help have
: now only to send postal card to the
director of the postal administration
J in order to have their wants adver-
tised in every postoffice in the grand
duchy.
M. Van Rysselberghe, who died re-
Gently at Antwerp, was the inventor
of the meteorgraph, an electric weather
| /, !
, conditions prevailing in various local..
ties may be shown at central station
Much research and investigation
warrant the assertion that man is moi
the only animal subject to dreams
Horses neigh and rear upon their hind
feet while fast asleep; dogs bark anc
growl, and in many other ways exhibi
all their characteristic passions.
One of the greatest curiosities in the
Mississippi valley is a natural ice cave
d in the bluffs of the Iowa river, within
e less than mile of Decorah. Thi
unique curiosity is a natural icehous,
e "a cavern in which great icicles may
be found at any season of the year
d being especially fine in summer.
Squire Phinney, an old-time charac
0 ter at Pawtucket, R. l., was a maj
who believed in giving credit where i
was due. He used to raise the mos
luscious pears in his neighborhood ant
send them to the local exhibition pla
: carded: RAISED by God Almighty oil
= the Premises of Squire Phinney."
A valuable contribution to the relic
S for the Confederate museum. to be es
tablished in the house occupied b,
| T1a lo 60
dent of the confederacy, was received
S several days ago. tits bound album
e containing over eighty specimens Of
notes issued by the confederate states.
= A peasant blowing near the village
of Porcuna, in Spain, a fortnight age
turned up an amphora filed with gold
and silver coins, all in good state o1
: preservation. The gold coins are
3 somewhat larger than a 25-cent piece
and on one side is the inscription
g "Sabina Augusta Hadriana, G. r. A.
e The figure of Roman soldier is or
4 The other side.
: : Rev. F. Marshall, in his work or
q football, says: "Football in Irelanc
may be said to consist of three parts
Rugbeian, Associationist and Gaelic
9 Fhe rule of play in these organization
:. has been defined as follows: In Rug
e by, you kick the ball; in Association
. you kick the man if you cannot kicl
e the. ball, and in Gaelic, you kick til,
IS ball if you cannot kick the man."
An interesting discovery was lately
u made at Glastonbury, Somersetshire
: England, of the remains of an ancien
= 4 lake village. From sixty to sevent,
. low mounds, rising from one to tw,
: feet above the surrounding soil, ant
= from twenty to thirty feet across, wer,
: found on the level moor which stretche
= to the British channel Many curious
Il objects were found.
% A Savannah drummer says drum
y mer who had had a great many deal
l. ings with the Macon lawyers went ou
n recently to Rosehill cemetery ant
IS amused himself reading the inscrip
n tions on the tombstones. He tinall,
1t came across one that read: Here lie
e a lawyer and an honest man." Turn
y ing to his friend. he said: Bill, wha
made them bury those two fellows il
u the same graye?"
N Johannesburg, in the Transvaal is
n wonderful little town. II is but fiv
+ years of age and the inhabitants mum
% Der 49, 900. 1t stands upon gold rect
d and upon thfs reef fifty companies ar
10 at work giving employment to 3,37
a white men and over $4,000 natives
e The town has gas, water, tramway
rs and handsome buildings, while TO
lg twenty miles east and west the fun
1t nels of mining works can be seen.
d The New York state library has il
n its possession one of the smallest book
a in existence. 1t contains fourteen
# pages, each of which measures one an,
:, one-half inches. On the fy-leaf ar
" =" the words: "Life and Service of Gen
- - eral Pierce. Respectfully dedicated t.
% General Lewis Cass. Concord Press
= 1852" From its text it would seen
it that the little book was vest-pocke
g campaign document, issued during tn
is Pierce campaign.
le A new method has been invented il
As Germany of covering tissues of cottol
,r yarn with flexible and brilliant de
l. posit of tin, A clear paste of CONNER