The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-14
GLEANINGS.

William Schroeder drank ten whisky
cocktails in five minutes to win a wager,
at Denver, and his life was only saved
by the use of a stomach pump and gal
vanic battery.
A New York pastor who is given to
bursts of figurative eloquence says that
this country is "bounded on the north
:. by an iceberg and on the south by a
: banana"
A solicitor in England has obtained a
verdict of $4,000 against town as
compensation for personal injury caused
by drinking impure water supplied by
the corporation.
"a kiss from my mother made me
painter" said Benjamin West, after he
had won fame and hung his pictures in
royal academies. When she looked at
his first boyish sketch she praised it.
A school girl of Skowhegan, Me-, who
was whipped for not telling what case
(. followed transitive verb or preposi-
tfon, brought suit against her prosecutor
and was awarded $500 damages.
Horseshoes made of three thicknesses
of green rawhide compressed in steel
mold are used to some extent in Eng
land. They weigh about quarter as
much as an iron shoe, and are said to
wear longer.
At the time of his death, which hap
pened last month in California, Daniel
Murphy was the largest land owner in
the world. He owned 100000 acres in
Nevada and 100000 acres in the State
of Durango, Mexico.
There are in San Francisco four pala-
.tial houses worth together more than
$3,000,000. Their owners, Ex-Governor
Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mrs. Mark
Hopkins and Mr.. Cotton, represent
about S130,00O,O0O. The magnificent
structures stand unoccupied about ten
months of each year.
Mrs. Banning, of Dunlapville, Ind,
ran away from her home and husband
and left behind her note saying: "Hire
girl and stay with pa this winter and
always, if you can. | left some Canton
flannel. Get some one to make the girls
some underwear. Don't think I went
away with any one, as l went alone.
Don't let aunt live with YOU"
If Mrs. Langtry is to set us some fash
ions. simplicity bids fair to be charac-
teristic. But if simplicity is to prevail
in her toilets, perhaps she will not be
generally followed, for we have not all
her very good reason for it. But there
are as many pretty women who dress
more than they need as there are plain
women who must dress to be attractive.
Probably the smallest and youngest
sea lion in captivity is the one now in the
geological garden in Philadelphia, Pa.
He is only 9 weeks old. When about 4
weeks old, he appeared one morning
ws&I. <~Ir Of L
that time his coat of hair was rather
tough and non-repellant, and not at all
calculated to shed water. The mother
is teaching him to swim.
In Homer Bronson's garden, in Wa
terbury, Conn, was buried the arm he
lost last August, He complained that
the arm felt tired and cramped, but he
experienced instant relief when, with
out his knowledge, the arm was ex-
humed and reinterred in a different
position. Three times the severed limb
has been moved to give relief to the suf-
ferer, and each time successfully.
The following from the Denver Tri-
bane is entitled to the entire bakery and
all its contents: Bill Nuckells, pros
pector, fell down \ prospect shaft forty
feet deep, right into a nest of black
snakes. Most men would have died of
fright, but Nuckells was not that sort of
man. He tied several of the snakes
together and started them up the side of
the shaft, tying on fresh snake as fast
as the rest went up. Pretty soon the
head of the snakes got over the edge
and started down hill. Nuckells kept
tying on fresh reptiles until he had used
up couple of hundred-every snake
there was in the shaft. By this time the
crowd of snakes on TIE outside was
strong enough to pull him out of tho
shaft, and he soon reached Mad ranch,
safe and sound.
English authorities state that youth
full damsel makes use of polarblue pa
per, with lily thereon Inscribed. for
epistolary purposes. Engaged people
adopt orange flowers as fitting en-
blem for their writing paper from the
moment of betrothal to that of mar
riage. Sporting characters are natural
ly lavish of hOrse-shoes and jockey
caps, even where billetdoux are con
cerned. A successful menage proclaims
its happiness to the world by choosing
two partridges contentedly sitting side
by side on the tuft of greensward, as
the description of the family note paper.
At Warstewstein, near Casselin, Ger
many, is library which is said to con-
tain curious collection of books. At
the first glance one would take these
books to be mere logs of wood, but in
vestigation shows that each volume is
really a complete history of the trees
which it represents, The back is the
bark, in which small place is cut to
write the scientific and common names
as title. One side shows the tree
trunk in its natural state and the other
is vanished or polished. Inside are
shown the leaves, fruit, fiber and the in
sect and other parasites which prey up
on it, and full description of its pro-
ducts, ETC., is added.
Salt lagoOns are met with in several
places in Apacha county, Arizona, the
principal one being near the line of
New Mexico. About one million pounds
are taken yearly from this lake, and
with proper facilities it could be made
to produce an almost unlimited supply.
The salt is precipitated to the bottom
of the lake, wagons are driven into shall
low water, and the crystals, shoveled in.
Thus the supply for cattle-raisers in
hP.hOhC anu POlLiOHS VI uNdJSl 10 OD-
tained, in addition to the large quanti-
ties required for the working of silver
ores.
A statistical writer says: "Rhode Is
land has furnished more men of national
reputation for inherent deviltry than
any other Northern State. Wild Bill
was born in Providence, Billy, the
Kid of recent unsavory renown, came
originally from Watch Hill, and Ca
lamity Jane is native of fashionable
Newport. Texas Jack for whom, like
Homer, seven cities claim the honor of
his birth, was born in Bristol, and
Yellowstone Kelley the scout of Mon
tana, is q native of Pawtucket."
The aggregate wealth of the State of
New York is estimated at $1,000. OOO,-
600. This is about n seventh of the
estimated wealth of the whole United
States. William H. Vanderbilt is sup
posed upon the best of grounds to be
worth $3.50, 100000. This would make
him the possessor of about one forty-sixth
part of all the wealth of the Empire
state and of about one hundred and