The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-02-02
GLEANINas.

In Great Britain the police are armed
with power to arrest any woman walk
ing up and down the streets after GER
tain hour and for the purpose of gain.
In the past season Minneapolis has
built over mile of business blocks, l.
Sol dwellings,, and mills and other build
ings enough to bring the total cost upto
nearly $4,000, 900.
1t IS now authoritaively denied that
the meetings of Moody and Sankey have
not been largely attended in Great Brit
ain, and their labors rewarded with en-
coura ging success.
From accounts published by the Jar
din dcs Plantes, it appears that the cur
rent price for an elephant IS l2'ooo
francs; for royal tiger, 1000 francs;
for, a rhinoceros, $4,000 francs; Tor
camel. 1000 francs.
NJ Dalo,I's fine bas-relief representing
Mirabeau in the act of answering the
Marquis de Dreux Breze at the national
assembly, Paris, in 1889, will be cast in
bronze and placed in the hall of the
chamber of deputies.
In Holyoke,' Mass. are twenty-five
mills, with sc, 6,O0O,OO capital, and en-
ploying $500 men engaged in making
writing paper. Their product is 15O
tons a day, more than one half of the
entire American production of writing
papers.
After career of more than fifty
years, the New York stages are rapidly
disappearing before surface and elevated
railway cars The first stage seen in
the city was that which began on juno
Q, 1880, to make hourly trips between
Wall and Blocker streets.
The materials for building Count PO-
tocki's mansion at the corner of the Av-
enue de Friedland and the Rue de Bal
zac, in Paris, cost 5000, 900 francs, and
a like sum will be spent on the internal
decorations The stone has all been
brought from the Jura-
Pennsylvania courts do not recognize
the great truth that man who is rum
ming for office may be hbeled with inn
punity by the opposition crowd, and one
of them has given judgment for 80. 500
damages against newspaper which
called recent candidate for congress
thief
A surveyor while in Shasta county,
California, lately found a fine lot of fos-
sis. Among them are blemnites, othoc-
critics, and ammonites of the cretaceOus
geological period. The mostinteresting
Specimen is an ammonite over two feet
in diameter, nearly entire, showing the
large corrugations of the outer shell.
There is noticeable a general improve
ment in American canned goods sold by
first-class dealers People who live in
boarding-houses, who rely greatly upon
canned goods, may now have just cause
for complaint when they are not nicely
Served. Even corn may be had of fine
quality from n few of the best mer-
chants, and peas have this year been
put up that are equal to the French
goods.
DIR. Stroussberg, the once famous rail-
way king and bankrupt, has been busy
in retrieving his shattered fortunes with
street-railways and cheap newspapers in
Berlin, and has regained the confidence
of capitalists, which he seems never to
have entirely forfeited. His latest en-
terprise aims at the construction of the
long-planned Euphrates railway. He
has secured all the necessary contracts
and is now raising the required funds.
The theater lately burned down at
Stockholm is asserted, though only
opened in 1872, to have been the oldest
in Europe. 1t was there that Gustavus
III. was assassinated by Count Ankarst-
rom at a masked ball. His fellow conspi-
rators raised q cry of fire, with a view to
his escape in the confusion. But the au-
thorities locked the doors, and every one
had TO sign before quitting the house.
Ankarstram signed and left, apparently
with light heart A knife of peculiar
make, identified as his by cutler, led
to his guilt being discovered.
The eldest daughter of Mr.. Freling-
huysen is one of the most refined and
charming of women. She has been an
invalid since her early girlhood, and
cannot endure the fatigue of society, SO
ti:at she rarely appears in public. She
interests herself in everything connected
with the Episcopal church, and many
outside charities. She is always cheer
full and accomplishing, has many ar
dent admirers, but, on account of i'll
health has refused to marry. Mrs. Ere
Hnghuysen is an accomplished society
woman, but she, too, is delicate and so
Is the ex-senator; therefore, they viii
find the social parties, in which they
once took pleasure, extremely irksome
now.
The baby elephant at Barnum's head
quarters in Bridgeport, Conn, is being
weaned. The milk taken from Hebe,
lis mother, since the weaving began, is
freely drunk by the show employees
Professor Arstingstall, who has charge
Of the elephants, has grown quite fond
Of IT, II is thicker and richer than
cows milk, and has n consistency and
flavor suggesting the milk of the cocoa
nut About a gallon of it is drank daily1
by the attaches of the establishment.
The baby is nineteen months old.
Abraham Burbaker. aged So years, a
weil-to-do farmer of Botetourt county,
Virginia was recently swindled out of |
$1,000 by young man who claimed to
be Judge Jackson" of Culpepper
county. They met at n circus, the |
young man ingratiated himself into |
tina old mans confidence, said he was
worth 10000. and agreed to purchase
Burbaker's farm for S13,500. He then |
borrowed 900 of the old man, to be |
since which time the '.judge'' has not |
been seen in Botetourt, and will not, |
perhaps, for long time to come.
The city of Newport, KY, has con-
scientiOus mayor. His name is William |
H. Harton- Eighteen years ago, in |
Washington, he borrowed SO of Capt |
K > Aver, of the 4th regiment of Maine |
volunteers Since that time he has |
made repeated attempts to learn the ad-
dress of his benefactor, but without sue
dess. as he was not positive that Aver
was from Maine Recently, however,
he communicated with Adjt Gen Beal, |
of that state, and through him learned |
that Aver was living in Montville The
other day. therefore, Aver received a
check for s20.S0, the interest amounting
to more than the original sum loaned.
Among the supernatural powers with
which the imagination of jealous Nor
mons still invest their bishops is that of
quieting vicious horses and inducing
balky ones to move on by the laying on
of hands. Great amusement was re-
Gently caused in street of Salt Lake
City by the performance of balky
horse, whose owner had hired a bishop
for 80 to reconcile the beast to his work.
The imposition seemed to be successful
at first, and the Gentle spectators were
discomtited- But presently the animal
stopped again just long enough to kick
the wagon into kindling wood and then
darted down the street with nothing but
fha sIaft- hahin1 him