The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
GLEANINGS.

Easton, Pa, counts up twenty-five
boys who have been rendered permanent
cripples by attempting To jump ON rail-
roadtrains while in motion.
Australia imported English sparrows
TO kill worms. but 10 is found that the
birds arc the worst pests of the two, and
bountics aro offered for their destruction.
A farmer in blowing recently over the
site of a granary burned by Indians in
1856, in Douglass county. Oregon. found
q quantity of wheat in q good state of
preservation
Miss Florence E. Cory, of the new
Woman's Institute of Technical Design
of New York, has salary of $4, 600
year for making designs for acarpet fac
tory.
Miss Davis. the daughter of the Presi-
dent of the late Confederacy, is tall
young woman, with dark hair and eyes,
an extremely pale face and an express
sion of intense reserve
According tn some experiments which
were mentioned mt late meeting of the
French Academy of Sciences, one can
cause an unusual number of tadpoles to
turn into male frogs by supplying them
with special diet.
A portrait of Luther. until now un-
known. has been discovered in an old
H.
leather and bears an inscription which
identifies it. IL is well preserved and is
a good likeness and a fine work of art.
A parcel of San Francisco girls who
were photographed in carnival cos
tunes are troubled because an enter
prising theatrical agent bought Il lot of
the pictures and is exhibiting them as
veritable representations of his variety
company.
Edward Payson Weston. the great pc
destrianic failure, is lectpring in Eng
land on temperance He says he has
walked 81. 600 miles during the lastfour-
teen yeais and that the training he has
undergone has improved his constitu-
ton.
The Shah of Persia, when Teheran
was recently lighted with gas for the
first time, had a platform erected for
himself in the public square, that he
might witness the operation. -Cannons
were fired and the national hymn was
played.
A Boston man at theater asked
Gainesborough hat with girl in it
whether she would not allow him to
have \ momentary view of the stage =
The girl replied that it was the only hat
she had. He gallantly offered TO con-
tribute a half-doliar toward new one.
Col John s. Mosby is said to have
written home tn a friend in Alexandria,
Va, that a good dentist could make
fortune in Hong Kong. China, in less
than ten years, as good dentists are hard
to find there, and the charges sor any
kind of dental work are enormous
Dog-steaiing has lately become very
common uptown, Among the latest
victims is Mr. Louis l.. Lorillard, of l
East Fifty-fifth street, whose valuable
French poodle Flora has been stolen.
With a view to furnishing the criminal.
Mr. Lorillard has offered reward of
$500 for his arrest and conviction, with
out reference to the recovery OF the
dog.-NeU York Ereaing Post.
Letters received in Hartford from the
Chinese students recently ordered home
say that on arriving in Shanghai they
were sent to confinement in remote
part of the town, the Governments in
tention apparently being to examine
them as to their belief or disbelief of
Christianity before they had a chance to
scatter through the country. None Of
them had been much inclined to the
Christian religion.
Complaint is made in England that
the enormous amount of money left by
the late Mr.. Peabody to be spent in pro-
viding decent and cheap dwellings for
the extreme poor has been misapplied,
and that the houses that have been built
have been rented to superior artisans
and clerks instead of the class for which
they were intended.
just listen to the two innocents The
Boston Post, finding it stated that whis-
Ky and glycerine will cure a cold, says
it's a strange medicine, and wants to
know what glycerine is like. In re-
sporse to which the Detroit Post and
Tribune says: .'Glycerine is like glu-
cose; and in return for our kindness in
this explanation, will the Post please
tell us what whisky is?''
John A Kickham, one of the men
wounded by powder explosion in the
Great Sierra hoisting works, in Mono
county, California, was carried on q
stretcher by five men distance of elev-
en- miles, to Lunda, where competent
physician resided The journey lasted
from daylight until dark, and involved
an ascent and descent over mountain
ranges of fully 1900 feet.
George c. Bancroft continues to de-
vote several hours day to his History
of the United States. His health despite
his advanced age, is excellent, and he
takes his regular exercise every morning
unattended In his literary work he
employs two amanuenses and a secre-
tary who has been for several years in
his service.
The weekly story papers are dying
out of the land Ten to fifteen wears
ago they had circulations of 100. 900, and
up to 500, 600 for the most popular. At
present they have not half, and some
not 4 quarter of the distribution. The
cause of their decay began with the is
sue of novels complete in pamphlet form,
sold at 3. 10, and 20 cents.
Three new war ships which England
is about to add to her fleet will make
heavy demands on her treasury. For
the steel-faced armor of the Colling-
wood, nearly 100000 will be required,
and the revised estimates provide for
the huils of the Colossus and the Males
tic the total sum of $500, 900.
1t is said that Mr.. Leopold de Roths-
child and other English owners of race
horses purpose purchasing American
bred yearlings to race in England. The
London Racing Cdienddr, of Saturday,
contains the pedigrees of three yearlings
belonging to Mr.. Rothschild, which
form the first consignment. These will
be followed by others. The repeated
victories of the Americans during the
past season have caused English owners
10 greatly respect the American breed of
horses for racing purposes.
The skeleton of a man was recently
found i'm a swamp on the farm of Mr..
Culkeen, in the third concession of
Tyendinaga, Ontario. The remains
were covered with remnants of clothes.
which crumbled at the touch. 1t is
supposed they had laid where they were
found for about twenty years, as the us
derbruslI had grown up to a considers
bic height around them.
The Overshadowing size and strength
of Prussia, as compared with the other
States that compose the cOnfederacy of
the-German Empire, are shown by the
recent budgets submitted to the Federal
Council in relation to the Imperial
army. The total standing force is 425,-
PA soldiers and nOn-commissiOned of