The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-26
GLEANIHGS.


ported to be plentiful in San Francisco.
An association called the London
Arctic council has been formed for the
purpose of discovering the north pole.
farmer near Stockton, Cal, is so
greatly troubled by wild geese that he
shoots ut them with a huge cannon.
The great scarcity of cabbages makes
it possible to detect slight flavor of
tobacco i'm Connecticut cigars.
Swinburne considers Victor Hugo the
greatest man of France, the chief of liv-
ing poets, and the first dramatist of the
age
Striped and checkered vests, of fiashy
colors, with striped pants to match,
will be the new fashion for gentlemen's
wear.
Silver dollars with holes in them are
painfully numerous, but they are not
half so painfully numerous as holes
without any silver dollars around them.
There are 5, 116 men employed in the
copper mines of this country, and the
total yearly product of copper is a little
less than $S,85O,0O
A Berlin sculptor has an order from
Philadelphia for an equestrian statue of
Washington to cost $13 600, to be erect
ed in the latter city.
There are $4,000 people employed in
cigar-making in New York city. There
are SO7, 200, 600 cigars and 230, ,0O0, 600
cigarettes manufactured there yearly.
Eight divorce cases followed the cs-
tablishment of a female barber shop in
Kansas City. Wives lather your own
husbands
King Oscar of Sweden has completed
new play in five acts, which is to be
brought out this Winter at Stock
holrl. 1t is called 1.-THE Castle of Kron-
berg"
The English Admiralty has given or
ders that boys with fiat feet are upon no
consideration to be entered in the navy,
even if the fat-footedness be ever so
slight Bad for the flats.
Robert Buchanan the poet, has lost
his wife, who suffered from long and
painful illness. Mrs. Buchanan was the
.'TfIe Queen of Connaught.'
Mosquitoes are like Boston girls, be-
cause they are SO difficult to mash.
You've got to hit 'em right.-BostOn
Post Esthetic culchah and baked beans
hits 'em right
Yankee residents of Concord, N. H.,
to the number of $40, have been '.gues-
sirg'' the number of beans in glass jar,
and the guesses have ranged from 900to
4,0OO, 900.
1t has been shown in q recent Penn
sylvania colliery fire that steam, when
properly applied, viii extinguish coal
mine fire more effectualiy than any other
Known agency.
Magnificent pine forests have lately
been discovered on the upper waters of
the Saskatchewan, and explorers have
traced them fifty miles up the shoulder
of the Rocky mountains.
4 Georgia paper says: "Gold in
tiIlrty-three counties in this State; cop
per in thirteen; iron in forty-three;
diamonds in twenty-six; whisky in all
of them, and the last gets away with all
the rest
A Germantown lady, on being asked
to subscribe for fashion publication i'm
order to keep up with the styles, replied,
with some spirit, '.Do you take me for
heathen? l go to church "-Phildllel-
7lizia Nc,cs.
Henry Ward Beecher says the charge |
that the New England of TO day was de |
teriorating from emigration and immi- |
grafton is not true. The foreign blood |
brought in. he says, is beneficial, and |
New England is now going ahead.
The last words of Colonel John w.
I am prostrate' Colonel Forney left a
widow, two sons. Lieutenant James For
ney, of the marines, and John w. For
ney, Jr., journalist. and three daughters,
one married and two single.
The Congregational Union of England
did not. as reported, recommend the re-
vised revision of the Bible to its church.
es for adoption 1t passed a resolution
extending thanks to the revisers and
congratulating them on the favorable
reception the revision had met with by
the general public.
There are in England about 500
packs of hounds, numbering about
eighty each, or 10000 in all. The hunt
inc horses number about 115, 900, and
the yearly cost of the hunting establish
hshments is estimated at more than $45,
600, 900.
The French army i'm Tunis is sadly in
want of water during its marches in the
interior. Water has to he carried on
caInels, as the Romans carried it during
their campaigns against Jugurtha- To
get water from the soil wells have to be
bored fifty feet deep.
. A French novelist makes his gentle
manly hero say: ''When you are not on
Speaking terms with a gentleman he
does not stare at you whether you are
alone or with a lady If he is boor he
will stare, which is a sure sign that it is
better to have his gaze than his acquaint-
ance''
The Fulton Journal in instructing its |
readers in the proper use of the English
language, advises them to say, Il would
rather walk" not II had rather walk"
The instruction is lost on us. We had
MT druther walk by a long shot; 'druth-
er ride--M. Carroll Herald.
Inasmuch as New York, after much
vexation and delay, is actually possessed
Of an Egyptian monolith, it is interest
ing to note the report that the obelisk in
The Place de Ia Concorde is surely though
slowly cracking and crumbling away in
he pure atmosphere of Paris.
The japanese telegraph system, es-
.ablished ten years ago, has now over
!, 900 miles of line, and 9,345 miles of
wire. Twenty words are sent sixty
miles for less than 2 cents. Last year
he number of messages transmitted was
,272,75 There are 348 Morse in
'truments in use, twenty-six single
and twenty-nine Bell tel
,phOnes.
This is Boil It is on the Mans
Week. Would you like to Feel it? If
Tou Do, the Man will Feel it, too. The
Boil is mean Thing, and it is a Cow
nd. If you Strike it, it will Run. But
he Man will not Run. He will Dance
nd make Remarks. Boils may start
Way down near little Boys waist
and, But they always come to Head
t last
The Washington Republican says:
There is no other city ON the continent
There it is so easy for young man of
ood address to get appointed to the po- j
ition of a son-in-law to a gentleman of
Iealth and standing as it is in WASH
aSton during the season. And this
ort Of appointment is really more de-
irable than that of Consul in warm
Innate"
This strange looking creature is
lilly Goat He has a Beard on him n
nat Looks like Papa's, and he is \