The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-10
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adelphia reads: "Alderny milk, butter
and eggs"
The electric cars in Frantfort-on-the
Main have been supplied with stoves
after the American pattern.
Since the organization of our mint in
1898, it has coined, of gold. $1,612, 405,-
$3.50. and of silver. 1869, 929, 1928.
The longest continuous street railway
in the United States is the forty-two
mile strip from Lowell to Haverhill,
Mass.
Me-, uses $76. 900 worth of liquor every
year for medicinal and mechanical pur-
poses"
An expert oculist has been appointed
to test the eyesight of all conductors,
engineers, tiremen, and brakemen on
the Canadian Pacific lines.
The first tin plate mill to be estab-
lished south of Maryland is being COM
pleted at Richmond. Va. The capacity
will be 100 boxes of tin day.
Five hundred and seventy-six archi-
tects have entered the competition for
the preparation of plans for the pro-
The celebrated Society for Employees
Of Commerce, of Hamburg, since its
foundation in 1858, has placed gratui-
tonsly 46. 900 applicants for work.
Wheat can be grown in the Alps at
an elevation of $500 feet; in Brazil. at
5000; in the Caucasus. at 5000; in
Abyssinia, at 10000; in Peru and Bo-
ivia, at 1900.
There is something cosmopolitan
about the Sultan of Turkeys idea of
erecting an asylum for incurables near
his palace. 1t has to contain church,
a sy nagogue and mosque.
A Boston manufacturing company re-
Gently celebrated half a century of ex-
istence by making a distribution Of
$33. 900 among its employees on the basis
of $5 for each year of service.
The water rate of a large hotel in New
York is equal to the rent of an ordinary
house. Every bathroom adds to the
rate. Even some of the smaller hotels
have to pay $1,000 and over.
The ordinary cost of cable road has
been from 500, 600 to $4,000 mile OF
single track. 1t is estimated that IN
w ILLS COSb VI COuSIAuCIAOA IA
brought down to $36. 600 mile.
In England the rows of curls on the
| wigs of footmen are indications OF the
rank of those whom the footmen serve.
The queens's lackeys wear eight rows,
the Prince of Wales seven and the lord
| mayors six.
A sheet of pen drawings by Michael
Angelo was discovered recently in
London auction-room. The subjects
were sketches for holy families and al
legorical groups. The prize brought
81, 800 at auction.
The colony of Waldenses at Valdese,
Burke County, North Carolina. has up
to this time he'd the lands there in COM
| mon, but now each family takes what ii
| can cultivate and pay for. The col
| onists are now above immediate need
The Iron Trade ReUiea0 says that
'those who have had a chance to test
trade conditions among machine shops
and foundries find the recovery has
been more rapid in the west, particu-
| larly in the central west, than in the
east"
The railroad suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls. which is one of the old
est railroad bridges in the country, and
| probably the first large suspension
bridge ever built. will soon be taken
down and rep.aced by an arched canti-
lever bridge.
A ship canal from Bordeaux to Mar.
bonne, connecting the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean, is one of the coming
public enterprises. The distance is 32(
miles. Boats will be uowed by fixed
engines. The cost of the canal is esti
mated at $15O, wv. 700.
Undertakers are using cheap coffins
pressed out OF paper pup. When pol
ished and stained, such coffins are al
| most as handsome as wood. They last
longer in the ground than collins OF
wood or metal. and they can be her
metally sealed better than heavy metal.
"Broi'ed live Holsters" Is a familiar
phrase that has been explained to the
satisfaction of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, but "live
broiled lobster" which appears on the
enameled sign of Broadway restau-
rant in New York remains yet unex-
| planned.
| Until the dissolution of the old Ger
man empire. the arms of Austria were
the most complicated of any in Europe,
for they contained those of Hungary,
Bohemia, Dalmatia, Savonia. Avagon,
Sicily, Brabant Swabia. Antwerp, Fiand'
ers, Burgundy, Naples, Jerusalem, LON.
hardy and Milan.
The streets of Toronto are sprinkled
by trolley water car. The city con-
tracts with the street car company tc
sprinkle the streets, and with the troll.
ley tank the company does it for 6t
cents mile year. In the hot weather
the principal streets are sprinkled ev'
cry thirty minutes.
The estimated losses from hog cholera
and swine plague of between $40. OO0,'
600 and $25, 900, 900 per annum in the
United States, of the treatment anC
means of prevention of these diseases il
bulletin issued by the agricultural
department, is of great value to thu
farmers of this country.
The average cost of power for thu
manufacture of a barrel of flour in Min
neapolis is said to be 1-2 cents for wa
ter and 6 to cents for steam, while a
Duluth, where steam is used exclusive
ly, the cost per barrel is 2 3-4 cents t.
8 1-2 cents BARREL, the coal used be
ing the refuse from the docks.
A young Bath, Me-. couple. New
Years Eve, at q company, joked eact
other on the fact that neither was wed
ded. The young man went home witt
the maiden and proposed that if neithe
of them found anyone he or she like
better during 1895 that they become en-
| gagged to each other next New Year