The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-09-14
GLEANINGS,

A"SANO SsblOOuS W6E0 TcCcuIly
one day at Russellville, Montana.
Rufus Hatch feels quite sure that
William II. Vanderbilt and his three
sons are worth together $500, 100000.
Senator Brown is the largest individ-
nal taxpayer in Atlanta, Ga, and he
pays taxes on 1929, 500 worth of real
and personal property.
Arecent authority says there are about
1900 different dialects spoken in the
world, while the languages proper from
which they have been derived do not
exceed five or six.
Josh Billings remarks in his philoso-
phizings: "a reputation once broken
may possibly be repaired, but the world
will allwass keep their eyes on the spot
where the krack wuss."
The bold drummer will have to pay
a license in Virginia when he sells
goods in that state, the law having been
declared constitutional by the State
Supreme Court.
A 13-year-old girl living on Bayou
Terrebonne, eighteen miles from Hou-
ma, La, has growing upon her face
light brown beard two inches long and
very heavy, except upon the upper lip.
Eugene GODDARD accomplished recent
ly at Berlin his eighteen hundred and
sixty-seventh balloon ascent. 1t is es-
timated that this celebrated @ronaut
has travelled over thousand leagues in
the air.
The "wickedest'' woman in England,
Jane johnson, aged "a, has been con-
verted. She has been in Leeds Prison
240 times, and nearly as many times in
other jails. She is now preaching in
Hull.
A concert at public cost is given on
Boston Common every Sunday afternoon
in Summer, There was opposition by
the orthodox church people at first, but
it has died out and this year it is fash
ionable to go and hear the music on the
way to evening religious services.
A negro living in Jefferson county,
Florida, went to church recently and
listened to asermon from the text which
advises the plucking out of the eye and
cutting off of the hand when offensive,
and upon going home attempted to lit
orally obey the scriptural injunction by
using a razor on his hand and plucking
out his eye.
A Fayette county (Texas) jury hav-
ing decided that man was guilty of
murder in the first degree, were divided
as to the punishment. Nine favored
hanging and three life imprisonment.
In order to arrive at conclusion they
drew lots, resulting in the death penal
ty. This proceeding having leaked out,
a new trial has been granted.
A dark green and blue marble vein
has been discovered along the Shawan-
gunk mountains, New York. 1t is of a
very fine grain and easily worked. The
stone throughout is veined with dark
lines. As soon as the proper leases are
perfected the quarry will be worked,
and it promises to be bonanza.
A man at Moretown, VT, whose wife
recently presented him with four babies
in one day, and who is a poor man and
an old soldier, received notice the same
day that he was to receive 1920 in pen
sion and arrears. His family now con-
sists of two children I6 months old, and
four Is days old. A COW and 800 have
been given to the quadruplets.
Daniel Hicks, of Madison county,
Florida, has collard and gourd worthy
of mention. The collard plant is 9 feet
high; p feet from the ground the stalk
measures z inches in circumference.
The first leaf branches off at 5 feet 4 in
ches from the ground, at which place
the stalk is 81 inches. The gourd is 2
feet long and 8 feet 81 inches in circum-
ference.
An improvement for bob-tail cars at
last. A glass-faced tube, with openings
eighteen inches apart, enables passen-
gers TO deposit their fare without tread
ing on their fellows. The ''conveyer, j"
rs the tube is named, is inclined toward
the front, and the nickles roll down it
10 the fare box. The contrivance is
said to work we'll in Brooklyn.
A police magistrate is questioning a
tramp whose bearing indicates that he
you had been u gentleman" he re-
a sigh; "once | was worth hundred
thousand" '.Gambled, ehP'' mo, sir"
''Squandered it in riotous livingP'' mo,
sir" ''Then to what vice were you ad-
dictedP' ''Friendship, sir"
THAT man is phrenologist, Pat"
"a phat?" asked Pat, puzzled. "a
phrenologist" "Phat's that?" ''Why,
man that can tell by feeling of the
bumps on your head, what kind of a
man you are'' Bumps on me head,
is itP'' exclaimed Pat ..Begorra, then,
1 should think it would give him more
of an oidea phat kind of woman me
wife isr'
Baked eggs are sometimes relished
by those who find fried ones greasy and
indigestible. Butter a deep earthen
pie-plate, then put in the eggs, taking
care not to break the yolks of any; put
little lump of butter on each egg, and
n little pepper and salt, too. If the
oven is hot, the eggs will be cooked
sufficiently in four minutes. As soon as
the whites are firmly set they are done.
DIR. Declat, of Paris, has pushed the
theories of Pasteur and Coch to the ex.
tent of claiming that all diseases result
from the presence of parasites in the tis
sues or blood of a patient. To cure al
diseases it is only necessary to find some
thing that will kill these parasites. AT
ter much experiment, DR.. Declat has
ascertained to his own satisfaction thai
what he calls chemically pure carboliC
acid or picnic acid is the universal nos
trum.
The London Lancet says that musca
rine, the active poison of mushrooms, il
directly antagonized by atropia. 4
trace of muscarine placed upon a frog
heart completely arrests its motion;
drop of atropia will start it up again
although it may have remained motion
less for four hours. In human being
poisoned by mushrooms one minim o
atropia, administered hypodermically a
intervals, effects complete cure,
1t is proposed to erect, on the plac
where the bodies were found, monu
ment to Lord Frederick Cavendish ant
Mr.. Burke, and if this be done it vii
front the central window of the vice
regal lodge. Many persons think tina
the assassins deliberately chose the onl
spot where their crime could be see
from the viceroy's residence. Their
seems no other reason why the dee
should have been carried out there, an
had it been done twenty yards furthe
east or west it could not have been see
except from the upper stories of tn
lord lieutenant's mansion; and yet, wit
all this recklessness, the desperadoe
escaped.