The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-09-21
GLEANINGs.
A first-class American hotel is to be

rainfall.
Pearl-hunters are numerous along the
Caney Fork river, Tennessee, just at
this time.
A.$1.50 goat near San Francisco did
damage to farm that made his owner
subject to a verdict for $500.
1t is estimated that there are three
thousand industrial establishments in
the republic of Mexico where steam
power is used.
Twenty thousand pounds of red fish
have been packed this season by fisher
men on Silver lake, Wallowa valley,
Oregon.
The Free Kirk of Scotland is threat
ened with schism by movement look
ing to the introduction of music at pub
lie worship in the conventicle.
! A Chicago firm has negotiated for
thousand acres of land in Madison coun-
ty, Tennessee, for the purpose of estab-
fishing strawberry and fruit farm.
The number of fires on Cuba sugar
estates during the past crop was 1879 of
which 167 were accidental, 20 intention
al, and the causes of the rest unknown.
While 14-year-old boy. of Bushkill,
Orange county, N. Y, was cutting one
of the strings of his shoe the knife slip
ped and entered his eye, destroying the
sight.
A stone weighing fifty tons is being
FURNISHED in Vera Cruz, and is to
serve as the cornerstone of the sea-wall
which, among other improvements, is
to be commenced shortly.
A colored baby in Lee county, Geor
gia, was found the other day with a
large rattlesnake coiled around it. On
being discovered the snake uncoiled it
self and was Immediately killed.
A man in Clark county, Virginia, re-
Gently killed chicken, in the craw of
which were found twenty-four copper
caps or shells used in making cartridges
for a small pocket revolver.
What is said to be the longest bar ev-
er manufactured in the country was
rolled at Phenixville, Pa 1t measured
three-quarters of an inch in diameter,
and was 286 feet long.
A wonderful snow and ice cavern has
been discovered on Mount Tecumseh in
Thornton, N. H., the existence of which
has heretofore been unknown to men
living within two miles of the place.
At every station on the Russian rail-
roads is a grievance book, in which the
traveller may inscribe his wrongs in any
language he likes, and which is period
ically read by the authorities.
The largest diamond-cutting house is
in Amsterdam, employing 400 persons,
where the Koh-i-noor was cut. The
trade is difficult, and the wages are
from 81 to $12 or even $14 day.
Up in Manitoba there is fierce war
between the staid and steady Mennon-
ties who believe in hooks and eyes and
the younger and more worldly portion
of the sect who demand buttons.
A farmer in Henry county, Kentucky,
has eighty stalks of large white corn
that have 265 shoots on them. 1t is the
"Bessarabia corn," of Russia, and will
make at the rate of forty-two barrels
per acre.
The Chico (Cal.) Record says that q
party of Good Templars, while out fish
ing in Iron canyon, saw crimson-col-
cred snake eight feet long and as thick
as q mans leg, which was catching fish
for his breakfast
Fashion rules the candy trade almost
as much as the trade in female apparel.
Gum, however, is not subjected to its
caprices. There is as little change in
the form in which it is sold as in tobac-
co.
More trout have been hooked in
Northern Vermont and New Hampshire
this year than in any season of recent
years. The catch is over, with hardly
flesh enough left in the brooks to pre-
vent their extinction.
A convict says he was sent to prison
for being dishonest, and yet he is COM
PEELED every day to cut out pieces OF
pasteboard, which are put between the
soles of the cheap shoes made there and
palmed off on the innocent public as
leather. Philadelphia NesoS.
A woman was bathing in the surf at
Rye Beach. A COW. objected to the col.
or of her bathing suit, which was red,
and patroled the shore waiting for that
suit to come within goring distance. Ii
was necessary to kill the COW in order
to get the woman out of the water.
A private detective of San francisco
is suing a reporter for 1925, 900 damages
for calling him blackmailer. The sup.
position that n private detective could
be damaged $25 900 is rs preposterous
as the notion that reporter could pay
that sum.
A band of one hundred vagrants who
have been attracting considerable atten-
tion at Philadelphia. upon the strength
of their representation that they were
gypsies, proved to be but a gang o
more than ordinarily impudent Englisl
tramps.
The Nashville (Tenn.) World says
1.-THE locomotive General, which wa.
the one that pulled the train that wa.
stolen by the Mitchell raiders in 1861
is still in use as freight engine on the
Western and Atlantic road, and is il
good condition"
On principal street in Council Bluff
stands tombstone establishment be
tween two handsome residences occu
pied by physicians. Directly opposit,
is an undertaker's establishment anC
another physicians office. Until re
Gently a hospital stood near this com
bination. All are doing a fine business
The owners of large number of Cub,
sugar-estates, especially at Cardena
and Matanzas, are actively pushing tn,
construction of narrow gauge railways
the advantage of these roads having
been satisfactorily demonstrated during
the past crop for hauling the cane from
the fields to the factory, and thence tn,
sugar to the nearest railroad stations.
In the redemption bureau of the
Treasury Department at Washington
where mutilated currency is counted
before it is destroyed, the female clerk
complain that the bills which come from
Chicago are horribly filthy. One CIR
who wanted an unusually long leave O
absence gave as an excuse that she hat
been working on Chicago money for si1
months and it made ersick.
The Sacramento Record Union tells
strange story of an insane Chinese you'll
whom the police officers found chainet
to the floor in one of the tenements il
the Chinese quarter of the city. H,
was taken before the proper magistrat,
and regularly committed to an insan,
asylum, but in some unexplained man
ner his countrymen again gained pos
session of him, and he is still chainec
to the floor, making all Chinatown re
md xrysH tn Ill