Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-05-23
Bits Of Information.

longs TO the ear.
Italian women, as rule, object 10
marrying foreigners.
Lavender pillows are the latest com
forts for tired heads.
The cars private income is about
s4S0,000 per annum.
Ii took Spain ten years 10 suppress
the last Cuban rebellion.
Stout people have a greater chance
of long life than thin ones.
All animals whose habitat is the
arctic region turn white in winter.
A Frenchman has patented an appa-
ratus to take off and put on mans
coat
There are said to be quite 1863, 900
families in London living in single
rooms.
The best transit Of Venus took place
on December s, 1871. No other will
occur till 2004.
Foreign seamen after two years SER
vice in any British ship. become
naturalized.
Alexandra Dumas bequeathed to
the Louvre fine portrait of himself,
painted in 1876 by Meissonier
The only eclipse visible in North
America in 1896 will occur August
22-23-a partial eclipse of the moon.
The Egyptia have none but
wooden bells, except one brought by
the Franks into the monastery of St.
Anthony.
The British museum recently ac-
quired Il sword, a watch and gold
snuhbox once belonging to Edward
Gibbon.
Something like 1000 unclaimed um-
brellas are sold by the London and
Northwestern Railway Company every
year.
Embonpoint does not mean absolute
fatness. Its significance extends only
to moderate and agreeable fullness
of figure.
Many kinds of fish see equally well
in every direction, their eyes being 50
prominent as TO command wide field
of vision.
Frederick the Great had eyes of
clear blue. One of his biographers
compared the lustre Of his eyes TO that
OF polished steel.
The vision is not obscured by the
act of winking, which takes place 50
quickly that the outer image remains
impressed upon the retina.
In ancient Greek art Venus was
always represented with the upper
eyelid arched, imparting a languishing
expression to the countenance.
Baker county, one of the most fertile
counties in Georgia, has no railroad,
telegraph or telephone lines in It's
borders. and has no newspaper.
As speaking tubes are found not To
work on the English warships, owing
to the rattling of the machinery, the
admiralty has determined to try tele-
phones.
Several of the lshpeming Mich.)
miners who recently emigrated To
South Africa, write that they are
earning big wages. and that the
country isn't half as rough as they
expected.
How About the Aldermen
Stranger docking down Wabash
avenue) Its hlooded shame to let
an elevated railroad spoil fine street
like this without having to pay some
thing for the privilege.
Citizen You misunderstood. did
not say the railway company paid
nothing for the privilege. | said the
city got nothing for it,
Stranger Chicago Tribune.
just as Il PrccautiOn.
Look out =
st. Peter slammed the gate, and an
instant later there was a crash ind-
eating that some one had taken II
header
I'll have TO keepit smut hereafter
growled st. Peter, "or some of these
scorcherS will succeed in getting
through without showin. credentials.
That's the fifth one that's tried il to-
day. Chicago Post
II Was True.
Mr. Banker-You told me YOU
wanted 10 get oft Yesterday afternoon
to 90 10 Il funeral.
Clerk Yes. sir.
"Well. You lied TO me. You went
to see baseball game
"Yes, sir, but it was a funeral. all
the same. The visiting team was
buried out of sight = IonkerS States.
man
Gifted That Way.
at is dead easy said he. Il rode
all right the very first time and have
never had Il fall vet
"Oh. Of course = said the girl. who
had been practieing this is 50 sudden"
before the mirror for more than six