The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-04-06
GLEANINGS.

anybody be trained to eat eggs or hens?
'Pm the light of this nienagerier'
cried the apir. Then the other beasts
wanted to put him out
Three degrees of mining speculation
positive, mine; comparative, miner; su-
perlative, minus.
The ''fOurs of habit" said the gam
bier softly, as he dealt himself all the
aces in the pack.
Seventy American women took out
patents last year, and the most valuaelc
invention was a 5-cent shoe-buttoner.
Atlantic City hotels bid for winter
guests by ''sun parlors'' where feeble
folks can roast themselves under glass.
Mrs. Ko, the widow of Prof. Ko,
doesn't want ito go back to the old
tyranny of Oriental CUSTOM" and prob
ably will continue to live in Boston.
Asmarble headstone has been placed
at the grave of Keats's friend Joseph
Severn, who lies beside the poet in the
protestant cemetery at Rome.
Experience teaches that it does roll an
artist to ask him: What will you take
for that frame with the picture thrown
in?
ne uuICTOHcc DtIWc6n q VI dliNA ~
boy consists in the fact that when the
dog finds scent he doesn't spend it for
candy.
The widow of Balzae, nee Countess
Rzewusl1a, has sold her Paris mansion
to Baroness de Rothschild, widow of
Baron Solomon-James, for 100000
francs.
How to Become the Owner of Your
Farmr is the name of pamphlet now
circulating in Ireland. The agitators
think that the easiest way is to shoot the
landlord.
Cleveland editors are developing q
genius for nicknaming. Thus the Penny
Press man speaks of the Leader as the
FoHoUer, while Mr.. Cowles rctorts on
his small adversary by clubbing it the
Penny Pns. l.
A California paper says that wild geese
''swarm like bees'' around Washoo lake,
New. The smoke-stack of passenger
engine the other evening knocked three
fat old ganders out of flock that was
flying across the track.
The trade in sheep pelts in Los An
geles county, California, is very lively
of late, the, prices varying all the way
from 10 cents to S1.25, according to the
amount of the wool and the grade OF
the dsfRRct sheep, so cents being fair
average. -
A play-bill dropped from the gallery
of the Vollxs theater, Copenhagen, took
fire from a gas-jet inits fall, and, alight-
ing on lady's head, burned off heI
bonnet and nearly all her hair before
the flames could be extinguished.
A rattlesnake confined in o cage fol
eleven months shed its skin four times,
ate sixty rats, and, although it had &C.
cess to a tank of water, an apparatus
prepared for the purpose proved it hac
never drank drop.
The Springfield Union thinks that in
stead of fitting out expeditions to dis
cover the North Pole, and to suffer hard
ships in Arctic seas, it would seem more
wise and sensible to find out some things
we do not know about our own country
Ex-senator Thurman appears to b.
the most jovial and contented of the re
tired statesmen. He laughed a reporter
out of his room in New York the othel
day, say ing that he really knew no more
about politics than his friend, Johr
Smith.
A distinguished Spanish physician, DR.
Olive, after long term of close obSer
walton, gives it as his opinion that pow
dered cobwebs when taken in two
gramme doses, will cure the most obsti
nate cases of malarial fever To MAKE
cobweb powder, clean the cobwebs, dry
them in the sun, and pound them in
mortar. One gets thus an ash-browl
powder, insoluble in water, and hardly
soluble in alcohol.
Prof. Packard, of Bowdoin College
vouches for tho story that Talleyranl
dcteS;ed Aaron Burr, and that when tn,
latter sent his card, requesting an inter
view, the French diplomat said: 9Th,
minister of foreign affairs will see Col
Burr at such an hour, but miniatur
of Gen. Hamilton always hangs over hi
mantcl." Col Burr did not call
If the tunnel which it is proposed t,
build across the English channel shoult
cost $4,000, 900, which was one of tn,
estimates, it would take 1,000,000 pass
engers at 81. 80 to pay per cent. on tn,
Investment Ofcourse, there must be al
allowance for freight, but no estimat.
has been made of the possible business
of this nature.
Customer-Here, waiter; what do yol
call this you've brought me? Waiter
Ham, sir; you ordered ham. Customel
When was it cooked? Waiter (snap
pishly)-I don't know, sir; we don't pu
tags on with, the date and time of cook
ing! Customer-You ought to! Thi:
ham was cooked thirty or forty year!
ago! Bring me some that was cooked
this year!
There's too much horse-rachhg al
your agricultural fairs" remarked Par
son Jones to the secretary of the county
society; II should ike to know, sir
what horse-raeing has to do with agri
cultureP'' "Well, parson," replied tn,
secretary, with pleasant smile, moth
ing, perhaps; or, at least, no more thai
church lotteries have to do with tn,
spreading of the gospel" TParson Jone
saw the point, and changed the conyer
sation immediately
An anecdote of Lord Beaconsfield i
related by London paper. When ht
returned to office after his first retire
ment, a question arose as to making
Lord Rosslyn master of the buckhounds
His lordship had, it was urged, every
qualification for the post. He was
good sportsman, was especially good
looking, and would like the work. Or
the contrary, it was averred that he
swore like nobody since the army in
Flanders. ''Swears, does he?n uuott
Dizzy. "Then we will make him lord
high commissioner to the church of
Scotland And it was done.
The new building for the German Par.
lament is to occupy site 450 feet long
and 800 feet broad. There are to be
seats for 400 Deputies arranged like
thosein the Hall of Representatives al
Washington, each with desk. All
around the sides of the hall will be
ranged boxes as in a theater, with sep.
arate entrance. The two most import
ant of these are reserved for the Imper-
ial family and the Diplomatic body, and
only about $50 seats are set apart for
the use of the general public.
A meeting of job printers has been
held in Baltimore to take some action
for the protection of the trade Amen.