The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-12-29
GLEANINas.

manners i'm the world. I
Chauncey NJ Dcpew receives about
$50, 900 as counsel for the New York
Central Railroad company.
Susan b. Anthony solemnly declares |
that no man has kissed her for the last
thirty years.
Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, who is
the youngest member of the United
States senate, is 40 years old.
A United States weather observatory
will be put up on Kilanea, one of the
great volcanoes of the Sandwich
islands.
A South Carolina colored man, aged
20 years, has been on the gallows hve
times. His last acquittal robs the Jail
of an old fixture.
The largest and finest turquoise In
the world is in the crown OF the Russian
czar. 1t was found in the mines OF
New Mexico nearly two centuries ago.
A young man of Boston had his knee
knocked out of joint the other day by
falling from bicycle. We look to see
the Virginia duel supersede bicycling
as cheap and innocent amusement.
An English naval officer visits tins
country to inspect our harbor fortifica-
tions on the Atlantic and Pacific sea-
board. Nothing is said about his
bringing a microscope to inspect the
navy.
Some cocoons raised at the Swiss col
ony in Grundy county, Tennessee, are
finely developed and of superior quali-
! ty. Silk culture is beginning to receive
considerable attention at the colony.
and is becoming very important and
successful industry.
A lively oil excitement has broken
out in Concord, Erie county, Pa. A
party of producers in the bradford dis
frict have organized company for the
purpose of developing the region which
Otvas abandoned several years ago, ana
have leased several thousand acres OF
land.
.'This butter. Mr.. Spicer," said the
dealer, sscarried off the prize at the
farmers fafr;'' and Seth spat out taste
of the compound. and remarked: ''Un-
less the prize was n ships anchor and
the chain cable, / should think the but
ter could have carried il of easily"
..Mike: '.Its the Irish that does all
the invinting i'm these days, sure.
Jouathan: ..Irish be darncd; the Irish
don't invent ANYTHING 10 speak Of: it's
the Americans that invent everything"
Mike. ..Tiiin perhaps yez can tell me
why the Irishman's name. Pat, Is al
WAYS tn the date on all the new invin-
tions? Divil of an American name can
We find on wan, at all!
A Rochester On. W butcher drove
into a creek near West Waiworth to
water his horses, and. it being deeper
than he anticipated, the entire rig was
inundated. His lusty shouts for help
brought an avaricious German, VIII,
stood On the bank parleying rs 10 how
much he would be paid for saving the
drowning man. Being promised iiber-
al reward, he pulled them out
Two workmen were repairing an
empty grain bin, fifty-seven feet deep,
in Dows' stores, Brooklyn, N. Y. the
other day, when Stoley said to Miller:
George, if you fall down therc you
will 90 to heaven" The reply of Mil
Ter was: '.No, will not will 60 to
the other place" flew moments later
Miller fell to the bottom of the bin.
and fractured his skull. dying on the
spot.
Eleven years ago, John Farrell, of
Troy, N. Y, swallowed two false teeth
and the rubber attached. Attempts
have been made from time to time to
force the plato into the abdomen, but
the substance has lodged i'm the lower
part of the gullet. The suffering has
been intense, and at times Farrell has
been unable to partake of any but
liquid food. One day last week an op-
Grafton was successfully made to re-
move the obstruction. 1t consisted in
making an incision in the neck behind
the ear, dissecting the windpipe by an
opening of about three inches, and an
other in the gullet. 1t was delicate
and novel operation.
s.What yer chewin' on?'' inquired
cne bootblack of another at the post
office. the other day. Gum" ''Wha'
elSe?'' .'Terbacker." "Got 'em both
on the same side o. yer mouth?''
Yum" Like 'em that way?" '.Well,
not overmuch; but it saves half day
of ciawin'''
In Arkansas. when couple of 10
year-old boys are not at home for sup
per. their mother looks troubled and
Observes "Now. where in the world are
them children? If they are out robbing
trains again I'll take the hide off O
them when they come home, consarn
themr'
European newspapers are talking of
the possibility of American wheat being
eventually driven out of the markets
of Europe by grain from Tunis. Land
can be bought in Tunis. it is said, for
half the price it costs in the western
states Of the American union. and it is
so fertile that it will yield two crops in
the year. The quality of the grain.
moreover, is equal to that of the much
priced Hungarian wheat
Mr. Middaugh, of Walkerton, Cana
da, owns = horse that in some way got
stone embedded in the fifth molar of
the left side of the lower Jaw, which
caused the throat and neck to inflame,
and the jaw-bone TO rot away until a
very large hole was formed. A veter-
inIry surgeon took an inch and half
anger and bored a hole directly under
the horses eye, penetrating 10 the dis
eascd tooth, and dug out the stone.
The animal. which bore the operation
in much about the same way that very
sensitive persons endure tooth-pulling,
is now getting well.
remarkable stampede is in progress
toward the Beni river in BDlivia, unex-
plored until last winter, when DIR. 4. Il.
Heath assembled it, and discovered vast
forests of cliineona and caoutchOuc.
Fully 10000 men have since gone there.
and the export of rubber alone has ris-
en- from $1,000 pounds to $4,000, with
promises of 100000 next year. DIR.
Heath is sanguine of finding rich de-
posits of precious metals and medicinal
plants along the Madre de Dios.
The strange practice prevails among
some classes of London pawnbrOkers
of taking Bank of England notes in
pledge A London pawnbroker's man
ager recently admitted having taken in
pledge from one individual two notes
for f1O0 each, besides one for ESQ, and
four for f5 each. advancing upon the
whole FL only. The explanation given
was that the customer had volunteered
the statement that he merely desired to
place them temporarily in safekeeping.
AS fact, these notes were the produce
of n robbery.
A correspondent writing from Ireland
says: II visited cottage and remarked
on the door posts some mourning trap
pings, and expected to find inside the
dead But mol In answer to Who is
doad2 % Iad H.. L..