The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-29
GLEANINGs.

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Gustave Dore is sketching and paint
ing scenes among the Alps.
There are 5000 Cinnamon engaged
in making boots and shoes in this coun-
try.
Railroad property inGeorgia increased
two and quarter million dollars in
value last year.
The abbey of st. Vincent, near Lat
robe, Pa, is the oldest monastery in
America, having been established in
1890.
Oscar Wilde has unusual qualities at
''poteen." Even in Colorado no one
could be found who could .'drink him
under the table,
A Boston millionaire recently said:
''Fhank God, although have been
very poor, never was so poor that l
was obliged to live out of town."
Gen. Joseph f. Johnston says that if
he had staid in congress he would have
become beggar. He is an insurance
man now, and presumably makes more
than 1000.
Some of the richest men in Boston are
said to be the ones who could close fast
houses and gambling-dens if they would
withdraw the capital they have invested
in them.
The sheriff of Chehalis Co., Washing
ton territory, advertises for sale all the
Northern Pacific lands within his juris-
diction, ON account of nonpayment of
taxes in 1881.
One of south Georgia's most popular
society ladies, resident of Lowndes
county, has cleared this season on an
acre and half truck farm over $3.50.
She superintended its cultivation in per-
son.
Gold is coming in quite rapidly from
the mines in the foothills near Oroville,
Cal The large amount of snow in the
mountains has afforded the miners an
abundance ofwater to work their claims
} with.
Professor Schiff, the vivisector of
Florence, has used up more than IA,
900 dogs in his experiments, and in or
der to silence their complaints always
begins work by cutting their vocal
chords.
Capt. Constantenus, the tatooed Greek
order. He will become voter next
year, and means to take up his resi-
dence in New York, having amassed a
fortune.
The queen of Italy has nice sense OF
'the picturesque, and in summer never
wears bonnet if she can help it. She
takes her afternoon drives with her beau
tiful head covered only by the mantilla
or the black lace veil.
A lady lecturer in Chicago asserts
: that a chicken should be boiled one
hour for every year of its life. The or
,'dinary restaurant fowl would by this
rule simmer in the pot about twenty-four
hours.
Within less than four months of 1882,
1891 miles of new railroad have been
built. Only in one year 1856, was this
mileage exceeded during the whole II
months before 1869. So many miles
were not built during the whole of any
one year from 1873 to 1878. 1t is COS
miles more than were constructed dur
i ing the same period of 1881.
The oldest deed in America is said to
be in the possession of Maj. Leland, OF
New York city. 1t was written eighteen
years after the discovery of the new
world by Columbus. This document is
a conveyance of Fisher island, near the
mouth of the sound, from certain Indian
chiefs to the celebrated navigator, John
Cabot, whose signature it bears.
While DR.. Glenn, the great California
GARNER, will not clear any money in his
farming operations, still he will realize
enough to pay all his expenses for the
current year. He expects to realize at
beast 500,0 900 bushels of wheat from this
years crop. This will give him 80, ,0O0,-
900 pounds, which, if sold at II cents
per pound, will amount to $780, 900 for
The entire crop. He estimates his ex,
penses for the crop this year at some
thing near $3S0,000.
M. Mackart recently withdrew. with
out giving notice, his picture of Sarah
Bernhardt from the Vienna salon, and
in its place hung the portrait of Vien-
nese belle, Nine. De Teschenberg. Wis
itors unfamiliar with the actress's face,
not knowing of the change of pictures,
were thereafter frequently heard to ex-
claim: Zach, Gott! How fat Sarah is
is growingr'
> An enterprising justice of the peace
IN Russell county, Alabama issued a
. swafrantOf arrest for freedman, charg-
ing him with stealing rations, breaking
his contract, and living in adultery with
woman. This j. p. is an honest, clever
colored man. He framed his warrant
so as to cover accidents and found
the prisoner guilty of living in adultery,
and thereupon committed him to jail.
The Russian newspapers announce
that the Holy Synod is contemplating
the necessity of reducing the number of
religious holidays, observed by the
Greek Church. The number of saints
days upon which workmen have hol-
iday in the course of the year is 160, so
that, instead of doing about 800 days
work in year as in other countries, in
Russia they hardly do more than 200
days.
Notwithstanding the volumes which
have been printed and published con-
cerning the capricious and gifted Sarah
Bernhardt, the fact of her real name not
being Bernhardt has escaped the notice
of her biographers and critics. Her real
name is Sarah Ker-Bernhardt. and she
dropped the Ker at the request of her
family when she went on the stage Her
mother, now dead, was the most dread
full old woman imaginable. and would
have delighted the diseased imagination
OF Eugene Sue; but with this exception
the Ker-Bernhardt family is worthy
one, and looked at first with great dis
taste upon the unsuccessful debut of
Sarah.-London Life.
Hank Blodgett, who for the past twen-
ty years has followed sea-otter hunting
on the coast of Washington territory,
above Gray's harbor, says that he now
averages hundred shots for every otter
obtained. Inearly times, when an OF
ter was shot it would come ashore, but
the animals have become so shy that
unless killed instantly they put out to
sea. They can not be approached now
nearer than six hundred yards. Blod-
gett uses a Sharp's rifle, 45 caliber, car
rying 120 grains of powder The fur
of the sea-otter sells from $75 to $3.50,
and is becoming more rare every sea-
son.
Beer OF German manufacture has for
some time past been convened in LARGE