The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-02-23
GLEANINGS.

A young man who went West some
years ago is now an undertaken in 3
populo1s Western city. He is under
taking n $40 week living on 81 a
week salary.
New York Commercial advertiser :
''Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puff
fed up," and yet some men expect a
puff every time they give dollar to an
INDECENT old woman's society.
What is the greatest charge on re-
cord?" asked the professor of history.
And the absent-nlinded student ans
wered Seventeen dollars for hack-ride
for self and girl for two hours"
A movement of great Importance is
in progress for the purpose of securing
some uniform standard of time through
out the country. But the question is
what time shall be made the standard.
"A farmer living near Shelbyville,
Tenn, has, perhaps, the largest calf on
record. The weight at its birth was
140 pounds at two weeks, 176 pounds,
at four weeks, 212 pounds at three
months. 4124 pounds. tt
a schoolmaster in southern Oregon
has resigned his place because two OF
the directors would not sustain him i'm
his efforts to stop urchins from sqrIitine
tobaccOjuice on the stove during school
hours.
There has been, during the past year,
a marked decrease in the quantity of
obscene matter found in the mails. Not
one obscene book has been received in
Washington. and to find an indecent
photograph is a rare occurrence.
Miss Grundy is very much excited be-
cause there are ''only 200 decent table
napkins at the white house." This mat
ter probably escaped the presidents at
tention when he was writing his mes
sage to congress, as no mention was
made of Wheeling Register.
The first house designed by Syracuse's
female architect. contained SO many
closets in each room that they had to
build an annex to the structure in or
der to accommodate more than one
half of them. And it is just what might
have been expected. Her
aid.
The diamonds worn by Mrs. Sanford,
of San Francisco, one of which was lost
in New York, were cleverly set in two
hollow globes of virgin California gold,
which. on pressing spring, parted in
the center and revealed the precious
brilhants, each worth 81, 200.
When a grand hunt is given in honor
of the queen of Spain a deer is lied to
tree, the queen rests musket in a fork
ed stick foot from the animals side.
and, as the gun goes off and the animal
drops, everybody yells; .'Whoope,
ga-lory! 'Rah for us r'-Detroa Free
Press.
The Calf Rock lighthouse on the
coast of Ireland, destroyed by a recent
storm, stood on a rock from sixty to
ninety feet high, and itself was ninety
feet in height, and yet it is reported
that the.waves dashed up so as to hide
the top of it for two minutes at time.
A recent enrolment shows that the
state OF Maine Has 81 $40 able-bodied
male citizens between the ages of Is and
45 years This is a gain of 1874 over
1873, but in that year, perhaps, the en-
rollment was not as thorough as now.
a company has been formed to search
for oil in Somerset county, Pennsyl-
vania- A tract of land eight miles long
and four miles wide has been leased,
and tine company think the oil indica-
tiOns are excellent.
The Los Angeles Times reports the |
residence in that city of the fiancee of |
Lieut.. Danenhower, of the Jeannette. |
After his departure, which separated |
two devoted lovers. she returned to Los |
Angeles and led a retired life, convinced |
from the first that she should never see |
her lover again.
fyndal's theory that heat is simply |
motion in another form must be true.
Strike piece of iron and it becomes
hot. Strike man and he Immediately
boils over. There is, however, one ex-
ception to the rule. Strike a warm
friend for a short loan and he at once
becomes as cold as an iceberg.
Carbolic acid, SO necessary for the
production OF vegetation, yet only
forms thousandth part of the atmos-
phere. 1t is calculated, however, that
whan taken to the full altitude of the at
mosphere the latter contains the enor-
nous total of 3, 400, ,OOO, ,OOO, 600 tons of
carbonic acid. This amounts to about
twcnty-eight tons over every acre of the
eartl's surface.
The New York Christian Union has
the following "a story is told of Jay
Gould dropping into strange restaur-
ant for lunch, and not finding himself
in possession of enough ready cash to
pay for it, greatly, of course, to his sur I
prise and chagrin, he finally attempted
to find relief from his embarrassing
position by telling the proprietor his
name, but that Individual considered
that ''toO thin," and threatened him :
with arrest for false pretenses. He was
finally about to show check drawn to
his order for a million, more or less,
wien gentleman came in who knew
him, and relieved him from his embar-
rassment by loaning him So
Not long ago Mr. Beecher's door-bell
was rung by a bright-faced boy, who
81 emed to be i'm breathless haste as he
a ked to see the clergyman. He was
and at once explsined that
two gentlemen down the street were
holding debate over the proper spelling
II q word, and had sent him for Web
rer's Unabridged to settle the question
he quartO was obligingly handed to
he messenger, who hurried off with it.
sir. Beecher has never learned how the
difficulty was adjusted,
1lt he Is aware that his library is minus
me dictionary.
The statistics of water surface-lakes.
'onds, bays and rivers,-in the several
tates and territories present the ex-
RENE aridity of New Mexico and Ari-
ona, with only 120 and 100 square
niles of water, respectively, and the
iiarked contrary characteristics of
'lorida, with 4,440; Minnesota, AGO;
sorth Carolina, 3.670; Texas, 1920;
louisiana $500, and Maine, 3,345 miles
f river. lake and inlet area. The total &c
rater surface of the country is given at Jc
} 200 square miles, and the gross area, D
md and water, 3,O25, 900 square miles, N n
ihabited by 16 persons and a fraction Ca
, each mile. =,
Pamito was lately burned to death by d.
fire which destroyed his wigwam, on 20
ne Nelson river, in Canada. He was a r;
cry old Indian He had in his day ri
cen a noted conjurer. His people firm s. 81
: believed that he possessed supernat- Re
raj powers, and lie abused their faith | in
| the worst ways, killing those who of "a "a
red him, and exacting heavy tribute. vo
ut a mission was established in the eli,
few years ago, and his Dir
npes were slowly made to discredit his nc
When the fear of him 70 X,
rs removed hatred became dominant. 7