The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-02-27
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Gle of gas.
The name of steamship hailing from
Honolulu is Likelike pronounced
"leaky leaky."
The origin of the use of the term
sterling applied to English money, is
lost in obscurity.
Sleeping in linen is nowadays gener-
ally considered as being unhealthy, cot
ton being preferable.
An Austrian nobIeman in Vienna
won big bet by standing on one foot
continuously for four hours.
The roar of Niagara has been phono-
graphed and may be heard in any part
of America for a small fee.
The ground has only been lightly
covered with snow at Mobile, Ala, i've
times during the last seyenty-tive years.
A negro preacher in Oklahoma was
killed the other day by his pistol drop
ping out of his hip pocket and explod-
ing.
The orbit of Jupiter is 1000. 900, 600
miles in extent and it takes the great
planet 1882 days to make one round
trip.
According to Major General Tulloch,
of Victoria, New South Wales depends
for its defense on ten obsolete torpedo
boats.
The house of lords has ruled that
man was at liberty to prune trees which
overhung his estate from neighboring
estate.
Land in New York city has been sold
at price equal to $S, 600, 900 per acre.
The highest in London at So, 600, 900
per acre.
They don't do things in half-hearted
way in China. Their national hymn is
so long that people take halliday to
listen 70 it.
The original of the face on the silver
dollar is Miss Anna Willess Williams,
formerly a teacher in the Philadelphia
public schools
The latest anthropological statistics
prove that the daily, monthly and year
ly number of births exceed the deaths
in ratio of 5 to l.
An Italian scientist claims to have
discovered and translated inscriptions
in an heretofore unknown tongue in the
heart of Abyssinia.
The Canadians propose to erect a
monument to Tecumseh at London,
Ontario, as tribute to zone of the no.
blest allies of Britain"
Twenty female clerks are employed
by Sydney insurance Office. Their
work is noted for being more correct
than that of male clerks.
The harvester invented by McCor-
mick in 1881 has been so improved that
it is said it will cut and bind an acre of
grain in forty-fve minutes.
Remains of the orohippers, an ex-
tinct species of horse found in the Bad
Lands, prove that it had five toes and
was not larger than goat.
The first shipment of railway ties
made of Australian timber has Just
taken place to England. Much is ex-
pected of this trade in the future.
The ratio of deaf mutes in the world
is one to 1,600 people. There are up
ward of 40. 900 such unfortunates in the
United States; 1,000,0O0 in the world.
1t is calculated that the sugar pro-
duced in FIJI, Queensland and New
South Wales, at the present rate of in
crease, will supply the whole demand
of the Australian colonies by 1896.
The greatest sum of coin that was
ever collected in one spot was in the
national treasury of the United States
in the silver crisis, when no less than
$500, 000 600 was contained there.
In the convict prison at Copenhagen
mothers are allowed to have their babies
with them until they are one year old;
then they are taken to the workhouse
until the mothers term of sentence has
expired.
The balloon recently sent up by
French scientists with automatically
registered thermometers and barom-
eters, reached a height of ten miles
where the thermometer registered 11C
degrees below zero.
Four hundred tons of top weight
must come off the new French battle
ship Brennus before she can be made
seaworthy; one of her fighting mast;
will be taken out and her upper decl
will be almost completely dismantled
Sugar beet growing is about to re
ceive an impetus in the vicinity of Sar
Bernardino, Cal. Experiments have
been made there which show as high a!
166 per cent of saccharine matter ir
the beet which is cultivated by the loca
farmers.
a proposition is now well under wa
to erect on Mount San Miguel an oh
servatory with the largest telescope il
the world, an observatory in which al
civilized nations shall have not only
scientific but financial interest. Mrs
Richard a. Proctor is at the head of tn
scheme.
W. E. Page, of Netarts, Wash, is ex
hibiting out there some samples of sea
and sea lion leather, also shoes of tn
same material made by him. He say
the seals and sea lions are very valus
BILE for their hides and oil and that the
are easily procured. The leather
very tough and soft and takes fine fir
ish.
A 9-penny shinplaster bearing dat
OF April, 1777, a specimen of probabl
the oldest United States money in exis
ence, was found between the leaves {
an old history few days ago by j. \
Hooker, of Barlow, Fla. The bill ws
printed by John Dunlap, of Philade
phia. and has printed on one side th
warning, ITO counterfeit is death"
The old Lincoln homestead, nes
Hodgepville, Larue county, KY, whel
Abraham Lincoln was born, is TO
purchased by an association of the cit
zens of Hodgenville and made into
public park. The homestead is no
known as the Creal farm and lies abol
two and half miles south of Hodgel
vile. An electric railway is to be bui
out to the farm and in a general way
is intended as another Mount Vernon
Arrangements have been perfecte
by the ranchmen of San Diego, Cal
for the planting of canaigre, the ne
tanning plant, on large scale, and
company has been organized to hand
the product. A tannery is to be erecte
in that city to cost $4,000, and tt
plant will be extended as rapidly as tt
supply of canaigre increases. III
roots grow wild in lower California, b
it is believed that the output can
largely increased by cultivation.
The surplus wheat of Kansas is four
IN he STDeTior to corn as a stock foo