The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-09
GLEANINGS.
}, Toronto's population is &c, ,445.
Leavenworth, Kas., is thinking about


Report says new daily papers will be
started at Dayton, o., and Atlanta Ga.
Michigan peach-growers are already
blowing about good crop this season.
Over two thousand five hundred men
in Utah have more than one wife apiece.
The latest New York snobbery is to
distribute flowers to coachmen at we'd
dings.
The church "debt-raiser," Mr.. KIM
ball, has eased 175 churches of their
financial burdens.
A delegate from AlaskaP What right
has that $12, ,0OO,OO0 icicle to a delegate
in congress? ?-BoSton Post.
Louisville talks of establishing free
art gallery, where citizens may pass the
time between drinks.
A dog-kilIer would be popular with
Iowa wool-grpwers. They want 1,000,-
900 killed and as many moro taxed.
The cotton crop of Arkansas is claim
ed to h:Gve greater money value than
the wheat crop of Minnesota.
-7Chattanoogas council has declared
war on English sparrows. Ten to one
the sparrows come out ahead.
1t is stated that Col. Mosby, of Vir-
ginia, will marry a well-known society
lady of Alexandria on his return from
China
The total value of farms and farm i'm
pleInents in the United States is $13,-
1861, 200, ,4SS, being two-thirds of the
productive wealth Of the nation.
Owing TO the great increase of manu-
factories and the abandonment of poll
teal agitation, Poland is now called
''the Belgium of Russia"
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, of New York,
daughter of D. o. Mills, the California
millionaire, it is said, has been rendered
cripple for life by an attack of rheu-
matism.
Money often leads mon astray. Some
of them will run after q dollar; but Il
hound dog is more avaricious. He will
follow n scent.
A United States commissioner in San
Francisco has decided that man who
takes q newspaper from the top of a
street letter-boX commits no crime
against the United States, even though
the paper be stamped.
Trout and perch have been success
fully introduced into the rivers of New
South Wales, and an effort is now be-
ing made to naturalize salmon. The
oya, numbering 10000, were received
from the United States fish commission.
Since the law against the socialists came
into force, on Oct. q, 1873, there have
been altogether in Germany 225 soce-
ties dissolved and 758 publications sup
pressed or prohibited, including two in
the English language.
One boy is boy; two boys are half a
boy, and three boys are no boy at ALL
Ben. FTanklin 1t is different with girls,
Benjamin. One girl is girl; two girls
are more than a girl, and three girls are
an entire circus.
The Board of Health of Arcade, N.
Y, has served a notice on farmer liv-
ing near that village to wash himself.
He has not done so, it is claimed, for
forty years, and so filthy had he become
that committee was appointed to abate
the nuisance.
A gallery boy'' writes to the New
York Sun, complaining of the admis-
sion to the gallery of Wallack's Theater
of q man who wore a swallow-tail coat.
Every class in the community has its
rights, and even those of the gallery
boys should be respected.
When mans hair stands on end, an
ordinary person says his hair stands;
but you can't get a doctor to talk in
that way. The doctor calls it horripila-
ton. This makes the patients hair
stick up worse than ever, but it gives
the family confidence in the doctor
The Philadelphia council proposes t.
impose a license fee on all ticket scalp
ers, whether in the railroad or amuse
mcnt business, and the newspaper.
thoroughly endorse the scheme.
Senator Pcndleton's house is said t.
be the most beautiful in Washington
IL is wholly American in the material
all the wood being pine, maple, ant
poplar, polished and oiled so as to show
the beautiful grains. There is not
marble mantel, nothing heavier thai
wood, simply carved in light, graceful
designs.
A man in New jersey attempted t
vaccinate bull dog, the other day, jus
for an experiment, said man in cafe
the other evening, ''It took, presume,
replied his companion. "Tookr' Well
l should say it did; the bulldog crouch
ed like ball, and, letting himself sud
denly out, took n couple of fingers of
the man, who took to his heels. 1t was
one of the supremest cases of took OF
record.
Ihe L0keUIea0 (Or.,) Herald says that
the remnants of the MOdoc Indians that
were transferred from the lava-beds tC
the Indian Territory are now among the
quietest, most peaceable, and industri
Gus in the country. There are only 10(
left, but they cultivate 460 acres of land
have established schools, and are thirty.
ing generally. Scar-faccd Charley, one
OF The heroes of the Modoc war, is now
respectable. well-to-do farmer.
some ladies of Ardmore, Pa, were
relieved from dangerous predicamen
tho other day by means of a telephone
" While q gentleman was away from homo
drunken farm hand became so demon
strative that the ladies were obliged t.
lock themselves in the house to escape
his violence. One of the ladies be
thought herself of the telephone connect
ing with neighbours house about ;
mile off. An alarm was given, and in ;
few minutes man arrived to their re
lief, just as the drunken rascal wa.
breaking through the kitchen window
According to an ordinance of Port
land. Or, only string instruments may
be played after midnight. The musi
clans of the Chinese theater violated the
law recently, and were arrested ant
taken from the stage. The large au
dicnce of Cinnamon present were in
dignant at being deprived of few min
utes amusement, and readily converted
themselves into mob. The gas was
turned off, and they were left in dark.
ness to scramble out. They collected
in the street, and threatened to gut the
building, but were finally dispersed by
the police.
1t is believed that the Central Pacific
Oakland ferry depot, which was formal
ly opened with a public ball, is the larg
est of any in the world. The train Sheds
OH either side are 660 feet long. The two
open sheds at the sides are each $50 feet
long. The total represents the original
estimated length of the whole building
But to these were added two thirty-feet
sheds, or, as they are termed in railroad
phraseology, "bents," SO that the total
length of the depot building is close
upon LOO feet The breadth is 24O feet
The mole is 6.650 feet long from the
Oakland shore. For distance of 5, ,4OC
feet it is wide enough to carry four rail
road tracks and carriage-way, or a
width of about one hundred feet. Thence
to the end of the mole it increases to a
width of $50 feet. 1t is estimated at the
offices of the Central Pacific Railroad