The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-03-01

The European locomotives have no
headlights.
Rabbitsburg is the name of a town
in West Virginia.
One Maryland factory alone put up
100000 cans of corn last season.
"Old bachelors and old maids spe-
cialty" is part of sign displayed be-
fore a matrimonial agency on Kansas
avenue, Kansas City.
"Panamad" is now the Partisan word
for anything plucked, feeced or shorn.
A dog-clipping establishment has a
sign: "Poodles Panamad here" s'1
To make Paris seaport is only half
the Frenchmans dream. He,wants a
ship canal through from the GaTonne
to the Mediterranean to save going
around Spain.
Out in the state of Washington a
man fell thirty feet to some rocks and
was killed. According to the re-
porter, he did not land with the usual
dull thud, but with "an echoless thud. :"
The value of correct punctuation is
shown in the annual weather report of
the Kansas meteorological authority,
who is made to say that last year was
characterized by low, mean tem-
perature.
A British scientist recently stated
that if man weighing 140 pounds
were placed under a hydraulic press
and squeezed fiat, the result would be
105 pounds of water and thirty-tive
pounds OF dry residue.
A French doctor recently celebrated
his Tooth birthday anniversary, and
the fact was commented upon that
among the large number present who
had been his patients not one was over
30 years old, and most of them were
much younger.
In a certain quarter of London the
newsboys are encouraged to save a
penny day. The money is kept for
them in a savings bank and the boy
who deposits regularly for a month is
given penny interest" on his money.
The bank is the work of good woman.
The health authorities of Philadel-
phia have added mem branous Group
to the list of contagious diseases which
will not hereafter be admitted to the
ordinary hospital ward. 1t is stated
that"this disease is as contagious as
diphtheria and relatively much more
fatal.
Bottled beer, especially that pre-
pared for export, is much stronger
in alcohol than draught beer, and
much of kle American beer sent abroad
borders close upon pale ale. 1t has
been discovered, too, that some, al
least, of such beer does not suffer by
transit in ship.
There are said to be three countries
in Africa in which the liquor traffic
has been practically annihilated.
These are the Orange Free State, the
British territory in Basuto Land, un-
der the government of Sir Marshall
Clarke, and the North Bechuanaland,
under Khama, the native christian
king.
The height of absurdity in libel suits
has been reached in London, where s
case, based on the use of three excla-
nation points, was tried the other day
No complaint was made against the
language used by the defendant, but
against the exclamation points with
which he punctuated q certain SEN
tence. The verdict was for the de.
fendant.
Within six-mile radius of Charine
Cross, London, there are 270 miles o.
railway and 255 stations, and within 6
twelye-mile radius over 400 miles o1
line and 301 stations. The average
number of passengers carried on g
weekday by the public conveyances
of London, including omnibuses, i:
$500. 900. The total for last year was
Ut, 10000
A public library has been founded
in Panama in commemoration of the
&QQLh anniversary of the discovery O.
America. Three hundred volumes
were provided to start the library and
800 more were donated by the Societe
Progresso del Istmo. An appropria-
ton to found and maintain the library
was made by the municipal council.
There are about twenty large public
libraries in Asia. The Royal Asiatic
society library in Bombay has 80, 200
volumes, besides large collection of
Sanscrit and Persian manuscripts.
The Tiflis library, established in 1916,
contains $4,000 volumes, and annually
receives 10000 rubles from the Rus
sian governmentafor the purchase OF
books in Asia Minor, Persia, etc.
An extraordinary case of suicide is
reported in the Berlin papers. A 16-
year-old boy, feeling himself humili-
ated by severe reprimand that had
been administered by his parents,
seated himself in chair, and after
loading a revolver handed it to his
brother, lad of 6 years, and COM
PEELED him to do the shooting. The
little fellow fired but one shot, killing
his brother instantly.
A gentleman sends Labouchere's
Truth a suggestion as to decimahzing
the British system of moneys, which
would have the advantage of retaining
the existing coinage. He divides the
pound into one thousand new farth-
ings. Florins would, therefore, be 10C
farthings; shillings, SO farthings, and
sixpences, 25 shillings. On each coin
the value in farthings would be clearly
stamped.
On Silver Heights, near Winnipeg, 8
few buffaloes are kept, remnants of the
enormous herds that rolled like 8
brown tide from the Texas plains tc
the Saskatchewan. The experiment
is being tried of producing a race Of
hardy stock bv breeding the buffaloes
with cattle. The offspring resembles
the COW rather than the bison, but has