The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-05-25
GLEANINGs.


md work, conducted in galleries ex-
I NC 5S,744 miles.
spect every body's feelings, even
washerwoman's. However much
may want to know her address, nev-
G ask her where she 'hangs out"
Out of salary of SO per week the
conductors of the Brooklyn City Rail-
way company will have to buy bright
C san uniform, else they will be dis
charged.
Since the discovery of oilin Allegheny
county, New York, a large number of
farmers, having sold their farms at %
good figure, have migrated to the West
ern Reserve.
A San Francisco man has been arrest
ed for deceiving q widow. While his
crime is 10 be abhorred, it must be adj
mitted that his genius commands admi-
ration.
Yes" said lady, complacently, 81
expect we II get rich now. My husband
has just been appointed one of the re-
ceivers of an embarrassed savings
bank"
An Iowa woman wrote to Queen Vic
toria asking her if she intended to wear
hoops the coming summer, and she has
been to the postoflice over twenty times
without receiving a reply.
Not an egotist: "Pa," asked little
Johnny, what does the teacher mean
by saying that must have inherited my
bad temperp" ''She meant, Johnny,
that you are your mothers own boy"
Brown says he hates inquisitive peo-
pie; and tho worst kind of inquisitive-
ness, he thinks, is that exhibited by the
man who stops him in the street and
wants to know when he is going to pay
that little bill.
A company is organizing to establish
an uptown restaurant in New York on a
very large scale, where fifty-cent dinners
will be served, with claret included, the
service being at the same time unexcep-
tionable.
Forty thousand acres of land in Ar
kansas have been secured for an Italian
colony. The immigrants are to come
from the Tyrol, principally, and will be
agriculturistS. About a thousand Ital-
ians have already settled in that region.
The Brittany manufacturers warn for
eign buyers against buying sardines ex-
cept from houses of the highest repute
Unprincipled packers have been lately
putting up the poorest fish in vile cot
ton-seed oil, expressly for expectation.
A London paper says that after the
present season the Prince and Princess
of Wales will visit Canada by the way
of New York. 1t is about twenty-five
years since the Prince, then little more
than n lad, visited the United States.
Paterson, N. j., is supposed to pos
sess more one-eyed men than any other
city in the United States. except, per-
haps, Pittsburg. Nine-tenths of those
thus afflicted are workers in iron and
steel, and haye been struck in the eye
with the metal clippings.
A Kentucky girl, describing a visit to
Longfellow, says there were two of his
own portraits in his library, one taken
when he was quite young and the other
recently. and when they were alluded to
he playfully remarked: Eyes; l am not
an advocate of self-depreciation."
John II. Austin, of Clifton, Staten Is
land, has u record showing the sales
made by his father and himself, since
1898, as auctioneers. Since 1921, the
sales have amounted to S104, ,518, 775. 80,
of which sum 81 ,034, ,656.02 was paid to
the State in duties.
A remarkable rough diamond has
lately been brought into England from
India. 1t is pure, white stone, sixty
seven carats, in form nearly a drop, and
when cut and polished would be about
the size of the. Sancy diamond. The
surface is slightly indented, but there
..I,
of this precious stone is estimated at
$4,000.
The fishermen on the American side
OF the lakes and st. Lawrence have adj
dressed memorial to congress asking
Tor protection against Canadian fisher
men, who, they allege, are in possession
OF privileges they themselves do not en-
JOY, and are thus enabled to cut them
out in the American markets.
Milais, the artist, is a remarkably
handsome man, of lofty stature-he
measures six feet two inches-and keen,
refined face. He is married to Scotch
lady and has nine children. He paints
all his landscapes out of doors in the
shelter of Il three-sided hat, smoking
away industriously at his pipe the while.
A recent homily on married happiness
says: married folks would be happier
if they kissed and made up after every
quarrel." The writer has no basis for
his argument. Married folks do not
quarrel. 1t is lovers only who quarrel
Married folks fight If you don't believe
it, get married.-Net0 HdUen Register
Most of the so-called ''cat-gut'' of
commerce is formed from the twisted
intestine5 of sheep. In Italy there is
small native breed of sheep, from which
the best strings are made though very
likely the skill of the manufacturer has
quite as much to do with the merit of
the article as the particular animal from
which the material is procured. Great
skill Is required for producing the best
article used in musical instruments.
1t may interest great number per-
sons who are compelled to depend upon
dentists for the mastication of their food
TO know that Mr.. Andrew Biscounier, of
Saranac, Clinton County, Mass, now in
his one hundred and eighth year. has
just succeeded in cutting new set of
teeth. This is one of the most lawful
pieces OF information it has been our
good fortune to record in a long while.
Camphor is well known in the mar
kets of the world as an article which is
apt To be freely adulterated The most
imaginative mind would hardly be pre-
pared, however, for the statement in
recent number of the american Rharnia-
ct@ that Boston importer ''found the
head of negro in chest of this sub
stance"
The Dominion Government is consid-
ering project for exploring Hudson
Straits and Bay, to ascertain whether
the state of ice and open water in them
will permit of a reasonable exit for pro-
duce during sufficient period of the
year to make their navigation profitable.
The opening of n short sea route from
the shores of Hudson Bay to Europe is
considered of the highest Importance.
In Western town, recently, the
''star'' who shoots an apple off a mans
head missed his cue and killed the ap-
ple-holder. The audience was SO de-
lighted that it demanded an encore. and
the manager came forward and said
that owing to the prodigious expense of
shipping corpse East they would be