The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-05-18
GLEANINGS,

A man in Knox county, Maine, who
wanted to vote against q projected high
school, wrote his ballot ''know."
A committee of councils estimates for
needed sewerage in Pittsburgh, Pa, will
cost from 10000 to S3,O0O,OOO.
The St Louis grand jury recommends
that saloons be limited to one in each
block.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, forcibly
says that parsimOny toward education is
liberality toward crime.
Maple sugar is made by tapping ma
pie trees with gimlet and grocery store
hogsheads with an auger.
II takes 100000 elephants yearly to
supply the ivory of the world. When
the elephants are gone the cows will
have to lock up their horns to keep 'em.
.4s The ''Unscen Hand'' is the title of a
new book. Probably the other man
didn't have anything better than a pair
of trays, and didn't dare to call.
Some one who has been there remarks
that young author lives in an attic be-
cause one is rarely able to live on his
first story.
A boy baby, recently born in Lancas-
ter county, South Carolina, has been
achristened John Franklin Thomas Ed
man Andrew Calvin Wesley.
There are now in the three southern
provinces of Ireland as many troops as
Lord Ragland had when he landed in
the Crimea to fight the Russians.
A. drive-wen sunk at Vancouver,
Washington territory, was found to
bring up grain of coarse gold, so cents
worth being got in four barrels of water
George Biggerstaff, of Glasgow, Ky,
having lost an eye in an election day
row in November, 1880, sued his assail-
ant for $4,000, and a jury has just
given him $1,000.
Counsel for prisoner-"Did you see
the prisoner ut the bar knock down the
deceased?" Pat-"No, yir honour; he
was alive when / see him knocked
down."
John Miller bought planning mill at
Dunkirk, N. T., month ago. He lost
a finger the first week, two fingers the
second, and whole hand the third.
The mill is now for sale.
Russia has "a, 746 mobiles with an av-
erage of $4,000 per annum; 123,OO0
merchants with a yearly income of ST.
500 each, and 16, 254.O00 peasants with
an annual average of $3.50.
The Boston and Albany railroad has
begun work on four newly y-designed post
III ears for the United States mail SER
vice. They will be of the largest posi-
BILE dimensions.
The Buffalo NcaOs announces that
Guiteau, the. comedian, will make his
final appearance at great benefit for
the United States on June 80.
A Utica man bought locked .combi-
nation safe at a sheriff's sale and the
former owner refuses to give up the
combination except upon payment of
500.
The Connecticut senate have voted
that the German astronomers might
erect buildings ON the capitol grounds to
observe the transit of Venus next De-
cember.
Longfellow's conception of death is
given in these lines:
There is no Deathl what seems so is transition;
This life OF mortal breath
Is but the suburb of the life Elysian
Whose portals we call Death.
Reports from Delaware and six coun-
ties of Maryland indicate that the peach
crop this year will be about 5000, 600
baskets against 100000 in 1875, when
the weld was enormous. The hard Win
ter impaired many trees or there would
be a full yield.
The dallodil is in great favor just now
in England, and will remain so until the
''roaring moon" is past. A debutante,
al the Queens last drawing-room, car
ricd a large bunch of ox-eyed daisies,
and wore diamond daisies in her hair.
There is nothing in this wide world
that makes young man crazier than,
after arriving at a party with Il young
lady, whom he has got there at consid-
cradle expense, to have some old bald
headed Individual get her off into cor
ner and talk to her all the evening on
the peculiarities of the Gulf Stream.
A widow called at the sculptor's
studio to see the clay model of the bust
of her husband. II can change it in any
particular that you may desire, mad
am,'' said the artist. The woman re-
garded it with fearful eyes. ''The nose
is large" "a large nose is an indica-
ton of goodness" responded the artist.
The widow wiped away her tears, and
sobbed, well, then, make the nose lar
GER
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Newcastle Chronicle says of Gen.
Skobeleif: II have never come in con-
tact with any man who has left so
charming an impression upon me. An
interview with Skobeleff would have
made Mr.. Carlyle young again. 1t
would have revived the extinct fires of
his hero-worship. As for Thackeray,
think if he, had known Skobeleff he
would have made him his ideal of per-
feet gentleman" tH. $3.50
Lady Wilde, (Speranza), the patriot
ic mother of Oscar Wilde, writes: "No
Irishman returns from America loyal to
monarchy. On the contrary, he laughs
to scorn the old bonds of servile feud-
alism, with all its superstitions of class
worship, and his opinions soon gain
many followers. The American flag
holds the place of honor at all popular
demonstrations in Ireland, and is al
ways greeted with enthusiastic cheers,
while the flag of England is nowhere
SEEM
Reports received from persons who
are not interested in selling Russian
mulberry trees and seed are unfavora-
BILE. The fruit is represented as nearly
worthless, or at least inferior to that of
varieties of the mulberry that have long
been cultivated in this country. There
are now no trees of large size in the coun-
try, so that it is difficult to form cor
rect idea of their worth for any purpose
The small trees do not present u prOmis-
ing appearance. They throw out sprouts,
and constant attention is necessary to
keep them in check.
No intelligent breeder will pin his faith
TO pedigree alone, but a good pedigree is
one that usually produces meritorious
animals; and upon that fact the value
of pedigree depends. Pedigree, prop
erly considered, is the history of the an
cestry of an individual; and if we find
the ancestry good, we can depend upon
it that individual excellence will be
transmitted. The record of pedigrees
enables us to ascertain the quality of the
ancestry; and in this particular it is in