The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
GLEANINGS.

with carp.
The electric light at Atlantic City
costs 1850 for sixty nights.
A marble querry has been discovered
near Alpasco, state of Mexico.
The little toy murderer, commonly
called pistol, is chiefly manufactured at
Bridgeport, Conn.
"Make Yourself a good man." said
Carlyle, land then you'll be sure there's
one rascal less in the world"
In east Texas walnut lumber sells at
300 to $3.50 per 200 feet, or 10 cents
per foot.
1t is asserted that a large amount of
counterfeit small silver coin is now be-
ing circulated in Mexico.
An Easton, Pa, mule grieved so at
the death of its working mate that it re-
fused to eat and starved to death.
In Tom Green county, Texas, a Mr..
Reed found a large centipede in his hem
house. 1t had killed three hens.
Texas yet has 5O,0OO,OOO acres of un-
sold school lands. This will soon give
her the grandest school fund of any
country on the globe.
The school directors of Monongahela
City, Pa, require every lady teacher
employed to sign a contract not to mar
ry during the school year.
A Toledo patrolman, detailed to shoot
dogs, leaned his gun against the wall to
talk to man. The gun fell down and was
discharged seriously wounding two
boys.
This queer item appears in New
London Conn paper: A camel s-hair
shawl was found on Bank street side
walk Tuesday morning. The owner
won't dare to claim it.
The burned district of Haverhill,
Mass, is being rapidly rebuilt, and it is
predicted that the shoe manufacturers
viii all be back in new buildings on
their old sites by the 1st of September.
The Arkansaw Travellers aged col
ored person says: MY idea OBJ de bet
ter worl is war dar is election goin' on
all de time, case den de white folks is
alters perlight. t.''
J. II. Plummer, of West Brattlebor-
ough, VT, says there is a rose bush in
his pasture which Is more than ninety
wears old, and he furthermore AYERS
that two bushels of buds have been
picked from it the present season.
During the first half of the present
wear there were fourteen fatal colliery
explosions in different parts of Great
Britain. The loss of lives amounted to
188-double the number killed during
the entire year of 1881.
One of the most instructive phases of
the Egyptian imbroglio is the evident
disposition of the sphynx to rest his
head on the shoulder of the American
eagle and let the old bird put his arm
around him.-SpringJfeId Republican.
Judge Tilden, of Cleveland, has given
a long decision to the effect that steal
ing dogs is. larceny under the laws of
the State of Ohio. He fortified his po-
sition by quoting similar decisions in
this State, Kansas and New Hamp-
shire.
The Rochester Democrat says that
Captain Paul Boyton sounded the wa
ter below the upper Genesee Falls, and
found it over seventy feet in depth. He
made q search under the falls for Sam
Patch's bones, but failed to find even
a Vestige.
II didn't order that whisk-broom,' -
growled man in Nassau street res
taurant, yesterday, pointing to a plate
the waiter had just brought. ''Why.
that is not n broom, STRIP What is it.
thenP' demanded the guest. ''Aspar.
ergrass,'' was the reply.
The Committee of the British Royal
Humane Society has just had under in
vestigation large number of cases OF
saving, or attempting TO save, life from
various parts of the world, and has
made awards, six of the recipients be-
ing boys ranging in age from 16 down
TO II years.
In several counties of Pennsylvania
the "black-leg fever" Hungarians have
become public charges at the aims
houses. The question has been raised
whether they could be compelled to sup
port these emigrant paupers. The mat
ter will be submitted to the courts fol
decision in two or three counties.
The Rochester Post Express says that
the apple crop in Monroe county will
not average one-quarter the usual
amount. One grower who usually picks
three thousand bushels will not have
fifteen this year. Those that are saved
will be of poor quality. The failure is
due to the louise and the cold rains.
= Jack Slater and Philip Mann, sailors
on Lake Erie, leaped from their vessels
at the same time at Erie to make fast
the hawsers. They were brought face
to face, and exchange of greetings took
place after separation of thirty years
are Englishmen, and were sepa
rated during the Sepoy war.
Magnificent are the presents sent by
King Alfonso to the members Of the
commission that took the order of the
Garter to Madrid last year. The prince
of Wales received tapestries worth more
than S30,000 To the others are sem
some superb specimens of Toledo arms
richly encrusted with gold.
A deadly enemy has attacked the tel
egraph cables in the Indian ocean. L
is slender, fesh-colored worm, from
IL to q inches in length, and provided
with curved cutting tools, that speedily
eats its way through the hemp, sheet
ing, and gutta-percha, and penetrate:
the copper wire, causing "dead-earth'
fault
Mrs. Kate Chase has succeeded in
suit for q division of certain property
on Pearl street, Cincinnati, o., once
owned by Chief Justice Chase, and il
which she has an undivided half inter
GSI, duO COIlIulSSlOH HdS Dccu dppOluL
ed by the court to partition the proper
ty, or, in the event that it can not bt
justly divided, to value the same.
The khedive's wife, the vice queen
as she is called, is daughter of Ell Ha
mid Pasha, and granddaughter of tn,
famous Abbas Pasha. She is beauti
full and cultivated woman, who tender
ly loves her husband and her four chill
dren, and takes an active part in tn,
education of the latter. The eldest boy
Abbas, and his brother are taught by
Swiss pedagogue, and the little girls ar
under the care of an English nurse.
Adam Forepaugh writes to the Gin
cinnati Commercial that his big ele
phant Bolivar is still growing, and a
elephants are said to increase in size un
til 100 years old, it will be impossible
for him to travel Bolivar by railroad
l. -, II, L.,