The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-27
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Russian railroads have. womens 8 |
smoking cars.
Liverpool, England, has in its list of |
city employees an official rat-catcher.
Analysis proves that white corn has |
about per cent more muscie-forming |
element than yellow.
Pilot balloons provided with self-reg- |
istering apparatus have been sent to a
height of so 900 feet,
There are 1000 girls employed in the
British postal department, and there
was only l per cent of them married
last year.
The Boston Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to animals gives weekly
lectures to coachmen on the proper way
to treat dumb animals
DIR. Ida E. Richardson. of Philadel-
phia is one of the most successful wo-
man physicians of the country, her in
come being estimated at SO 900 year.
H. b. Pant the well-known Florida
railroad magnate made the hearts of
the Sisters of the Sacred Heart glad at
Tampa recently by liberal gifts of
money.
d. V. Talent, mail carrier between
walks twenty miles each day, carrying
the mail bag on his shoulders. His COM
pensation is 5000 year.
Mrs. Mozette, of Jackson county,
Michigan, an inmate of the county
alnshouse, is 106 years old and glories
in the assertion that she is las mean
woman as God ever put breath into"
The natives of interior Madagascar
defend themselves against the advance
of the French soldiers by removing all
food from the line of march and re-
fusing to furnish supplies at any price.
San Antonio Texas councils have
passed an ordinance which prohibits
physicians from charging more than 81
visit. 1t was passed at the solicita-
tion of the leading physicians of the
city.
j. NJ. Barrie, the novelist. opened his
literary career by writing leading arti-
cles for a Nottingham paper. David
Christie Murray commenced his jour
nalistic career on the staff of Birming-
ham paper.
A naval dry dock, large enough to
receive any vessel of our feet. is nearly
ready for use at Port Royal S. c., and
ANO Vi CAihdl SlAC W Ia oOOh bC
completed at Brooklyn and on the Pa
cif1c side of Puget Sound.
1t is said that when the United States
government moved moved to Washing
ton in the year 1900 the property was
all carried in seven boxes. while the
chief executive got lost in the woods in
the neighborhood of Washington
In two years Austria has obtained
through the Rothschids two-thirds of
the 1925, 600, 600 in gold it is boarding
in order TO adopt the single standard,
and of the amount secured this year
$24, 900, 900 is in American eagles.
James Chandler, of Lyon county,
Kentucky, is 20 years old, and has for
ty-seven grandchildren and thirty ght
great grandchildren. He lives near the
farm on which his grandfather settled
109 years ago, and has never been
away from home more than ten days at
time.
A Boston manufacturing company re-
Gently celebrated half century of ex-
istence by making distribution of a
fund of $500 among its emp oyes on
the basis of S5 for each year of service.
Some of the employees have been in the
service so long that their shares reached
$3.50 each.
Massachusetts, has been fighting that
dangerous insect, the gypsy moth, with
annual appropriations and finds that
they grow larger every year. 1t is
question now whether the bug viii not
prove more costly to the state than the
Hoosac tunnel, which represents an
outlay, on the installment plan, of $780,
600. 700.
Some time ago the City of Lawrence,
Mass, discovered that its death rate
from tvpoid fever was higher than that
of any other town in New England
After an investigation of the cause the
water supply of the place was filtered
through sand, and the mortality from
the disease has fallen from 43 to in
six months.
In the barren country of West Aus
tralia. where men are madly flocking in
search of gold the temperature is said
to be 120 in the shade and no adequate
water supply. There is such hoom in
the price of claims that only rich men
can afford to buy them, and numerous
rich men are there enduring all the
hardships with the hope of growing
richer.
In Manchester. England. the town
council is about 10 put 81, 250, 900 into
clearing the slums. An oyercrowded
and unhealthy space of five acres in the
center of the city will be taken, the
buildings torn down and new model
workmen's dwellings erected in their
stead. with large areas for Fairgrounds,
and trees and flowers planted in the
open spaces.
A New York court has decided that
when a passenger drops a nickel on the
floor of street car it pays his fare the
same as if handed to the conductor, and
that in case of larger coin the conduc-
tor must give the proper change. The
theory of the decision is that the COM
pany owns the car. and coin dropped
accidentally is therefore in its custody.
France pays increasing attention to
forestry and is acquiring and replanting
much waste land to control torrents
and prevent the spread of sand dunes.
About 15 1-2 per cent of the total area
of France is in forests, a total of 30. 422
square miles, of which the state man
ages about one-third. The forest hold
iugs of the communes and of public in
stitutions are much larger.
IL mas lOH0 DeeH PolHteu ouI ny SA-
perts that French newspapers and books
WILL owing to the inferior quality of
the paper on which they are printed,
literally turn to dust in much less than
a century, so that public libraries bid
fair to become literary cemeteries. This
is the reason why the budget commit
tee propose to have 100 copies of the
Journal Official printed daily on what
is called Dutch paper, to insure preser-
Vation.
The power for mischief of the Rus
sian thistle is instanced by A. j. Love-
Joy. of Roscoe, who reports an expert
ment made by friend of his in Gettys-
burg. S. D. While driving one day
one of the thistles came tumbling along
in his path The happy thought came
to him OF ticketing the thistle with the
request to the person finding it to let
him know where it travelled to. He did