The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-19
GLEANINGH.

TIE one ltlit all Ifc WOiIcIl
noses at.-Salen Sunbeam. -
Professor Tice, who knows all about
the weather, was sun struck. 1t is more
than likely that Vennor will be caught
out in . shower some day and drowned.
Item from a plumbers bill: ''For
labor trying to thaw a supply-pipe, with
out success, FIR. IA TO-" What amount
would have been charged for succeed
ingp-Lc Figaro.
Z The state of Georgia has one town
Macon-in which there is queer super
stition. The merchants say that when
an Organ-grinder enters the town the
price of cotton falls.
Campanani lost his voice while sing
fng the other night in New York. He
rushed in behind the scenes and ''wet
his whistle" came back and sung like a
bird.
The I4eavenworth Times reports that
many people who were carried. away
with the mining craze and drifted out to
Colorado, are returning to their old
Kansas homes with lots of experience.
Celery boiled in milk and eaten with
the milk served as beverage is said to
be n cure for rheumatism, gout, and n
specific in the case of smallpox. Nerv-
oas people find comfort in celery.
A case of miraculous cure is reported
from Kingston, where a chronic rheu-
matte sprang to her unused feet and
walked at the mere promise of matri-
monial engagement with an eligible
widower.
When Mr.. Stephens was asked years
ago why he had never married, he an
swered, decidedly: pride. / have
always been too proud, knowing that
should always be an invalid, to ask
any woman to marry me, to be my
nurse
A fiannelclot dipped into warm soap
suds and then into whiting and applied
to paint, will Instantly remove all grease
and dirt. Wash with clean water dry.
The most delicate paint viii not be
injured, and will look like new.
Somebody has started the rather inn
prnbable story that a bug is now eating
up the anthracite coal crop. If that
bug would set to work and eat up the
men who charge $3.50 n ton for the
same, it would please us better.-Ar-
dre1's Queen
The bar-rooms of Texas are now re-
quired by law to beclosed from 9 9o'clock
to 3 O'Clock on Sundays. ''This ar
rangement" says an advocate of the
measure in the legislature, Twill give
liquor and religion just about an even
chance, and may the best of the two
win,"
AT Lawford, Essex, England. lately,
lad died Of n wound from pitehfOrk.
One of the witnesses being asked if
there was blood on the fork, said he had
wiped the fork, creased it and laid it
away 1t was elected that supersti-
fion prevails that if this course be taken
the injured person will recover. The
fork must not be laid up until the wound
Is healed
A man who wanted to buy horse
asked friend how to tell horses age.
by his teeth" was the reply. The next
day the man went to n householder, who
showed him splendid black horse.
The horse-hunter opened the animals
mouth, gave one glance, and turned on
his heel. Il don't want him." said he.
'.He's. thirty-two years old" He lRd
counted the teeth.
"No," said Miss Dashwood, 81 don't
care about seeing Patience again, I've
seen it six times already. But that hor-
rid Kate Carleton, whom detest, hasn't
seen it once, and when found out that
she was going, learned what seat she
had bought, and bought the one Just
in front of it, and / shall wear the big
gest hat I've got, and you can be sure
she won't see much of the play"
Woman's hate cannot be thwarted.
A curious wager has been won by the
Vicomte de Civry, He made bet with
the Marquis de Peiflitz that he would
swim his mare, Gphelie, one of Gladi-
ateurs progeny, across the Seine. The
mare, taking kindly to the water, started
with her rider from the Bois de Bou-
logne side and got safely over to the
Aar oI. H.. Il,
lower down, having been carried that
distance by the current, which is toll
erably strong at this point of the river.
Catharine Doyle, of HobOken, is
heartless young woman. She was a
school-teacher, and ran away with a
policeman. OF course he deserted her,
and her mother, condoning her fault re-
ceivcd her with open arms. The girl
professed sincere repentance, but while
her mother was asleep she gathered to-
gether all the portable property she
could find, including the old lady's en-
tire wardrobe, and disappeared
Brains do not always depend on the
size of hats, as witness the following
list: Lord Chelmsford, 81 full; Dean
Stanley, 81; Lord Beaconsfield, z; the
Prince of Wales, z full; Charles Dick
ems. az; Lord Shelbourne, "a; John
BRIGHT, ~; Earl Russell, "a; Lord Ma
cauley, 7s; Mr.. Gladstone, "a; Louis
Philippe, "a; the Archbishop of York,
8 fun.
This is the style of poetry the papers
publish away out in Washington Ter
ritory. We quote from the Walla-Walla
Union:
Mary had a vaccine scab
Upon her snow W hite arm,
She warned her beau To this effect
For fear hs.'d do IN harm
But when they came to part that night,
She gave mighty grab
And whispered, thug awful tight.
And never mind the scab,'
matter-of-fact young man from
New York during a recent visit i'm Bos-
ton received an invitation from n lady
an old acquaintmce-who has just bios
soined out into = typical specimen of the
Boston aesthetic, requesting his presence
mt her house on n certain evening ''to |
meet two minds" 1t happened that he |
had Just accepted an invitation to dine |
elsewhere on the same evening, and so |
he replied, expressing his regrets that |
he could not avail himself of the oppOr-
tunity Ito meet two minds owing to |
previous engagement Ito meet four
stomachs."
The old Duke of Wellington carried |
his punctiliousness into every transac-
ton He was very desirous of purchas-
ing a farm adjacent to his estate of |
Strathfieldsaye, and gave his agent or
ders to negotiate. A few days later he |
was congratulated by friend upon
having obtained a bargain, rs the owner
of the farm was in difficulties. ..What
SORT of n baTgain?" asked the Iron Duke
..Well, the property was valued at |
Ell 200, but the man was glad to take |
5000" .Is that sop asked yelling
ton. turning to his agent. Receiving
an Affirmative reply, he said quickly: |
.sThen take the extra f3, 1000 to the
last owner. and never speak to me of
cheap land again.
The gigantic new bell for ST. Pauls,
London, weighing II. tons, was recent
ly cast at Loughborough. About 81 tons
of metal were prepared, and when the
three furnaces had been opened, the
streams of molten metal poured out for
42 minutes before the huOe caSfinO was |