The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-11-30
GLEANINGS.

G. d. Neff, of Greeley, raised LOO
bushels of potatoes from thirteen acres
and without irrigation.
Canon City papers are indignant be
cause mountain sheep in that vicinit,
are being mercilessly slaughtered.
An Italian organ-grinder, enraged b,
bad business, smashed his organ witt
an AK at Springfield, Ohio, and made
bonfire Of the pieces.
Ex-Cohmissione lie Due thinks th'
great desire i'm Europe to emigrate t.
America will ultimately cause troubl,
on both continents.
The Macon Telegraph is protesting
against the modern practice of som,
Georgia papers of talking about ''corn
huskings." 1t says that the north's vic
tory did not impose that word upor
them, and that nothing but ''corn-shuck
ing is ever done in Georgia.
A Boston tramp informed the police
magistrate that his occupation was ''vot
ing and trying to get office, whoopine
il up for purity and reform, and point
ing with pride to the abundant .har
vests" The Court ''whooped" him uE
hOA SOOu UhS OOiH III Oho houoo vi
Industry.
Near Winchester, Mass, is tomt
from which the door has rotted away
The small boys of the neighborhoOd
make the deserted place their play
ground. They pile the bones of the foul
persons buried there in fantastic shape,
and knock them down with the grinning
skulls.
A small space of ground near the
main entrance of Castle Garden settled
few days ago and disclosed the mouth
of tunnel or sewer-like passage lead
ing toward the old fort. 1t was con-
structed and used in the war of 1912 and
had long ago been forgotten.
Reuben Simms, an old colored man
who died recently at Roanoke, claimed
to have made the first plug of tobacco
ever made in Virginia. In order to
leaves and with mallet forced them
into an auger hole bored in block of
wood.
1t will cost 3 cents for one of the new
postal money-orders for a sum less than
$5, and the service is SO extended as to
raise the limit of orders from $50 to
800. Persons will not be required tc
fill out blank, but will receive an or
der payable to the bearer at any desired
money-oilice.
A novel question is agitating the resi-
dents of Tucson, Arizona. as to whether
female who went through the mar
riage vows with man on his dying bed
is maid or widow. The technical pro-
position is that the physician exclaimed,
just as the minister was pronouncin9
them man and wife: '.My God. he's
dead"
II do" said young man at Col
orado wedding, when the minister
asked if anybody knew any reason why
the couple should not be united. The
objector explained that the bride had
promised to marry him; but that was
not considered sufficient reason for
stopping the ceremony, which was con-
cluded amid the tittering of the assem-
blage.
1t is related that fine cedar planted
by the late Senator Hill, and in the
growth of which he took much interest,
began to show signs of disease stimuli
taneously with the prostration of the
senator. and that in spite of the garden
er's care, few days after the death of
Senator Hill there was not green leaf
upon il.
A lawsuit in Fulton county, New
York, involved the sum of cents. A
man bought two penny pears, and ten
dered a coin in payment. The seller
gave him l cent in change. The buyer
said the coin he rendered was a dime;
the seller asserted that it was Scent
piece. They went to law about it and
the jury disagreed.
A San Francisco policeman who got
nothing but curses for rescuing would
be suicide from Il watery grave is said
to have soliloquized: 'If you are crazy,
the world won't miss you; if you are
not crazy and want to put an end to
yourself, you are a fool not fit to live. |
ought to throw you in again" Which
lie did. and the lamp of the once rescued
laan's lie went out beneath the salty
water OF the bay.
From being the dryest and one of the
,nhealthiest towns in SouthwestGeorgia,
Albany has become, perhaps, the best.
watered town in the State, and while the
country round about is as full of sickness
as ever, it has had very little, indeed, of
the customary sickness. All this has
been brought about simply by boring
two artesian wells.
Fifty drunken colorcd men from Coates
vile, Pa, descended upon camp
meeting near Honey brook and insisted
upon kissing all the bouncing colored
girls and fighting all the men who OBJ
iected. A riot ensued, and in the fusl-
ade of pistol balls bad negro was kill.
ed. Singularly enough, his name was
Togood.
Bishop Huntington is of the opinion
that one prolific cause of malaria lies in
the action of mill owners who draw of
their ponds or allow the water to run
off in dog days, leaving the bottoms with
all their filth and decaying vegetation to
poison the air around. AS malaria is
on the increase in certain parts of Mas
sachusetts, it would seem that this mat
ter was proper subject for Legislative
investigation.
According to the report of the Scot
tish herring fishery for 1881, the yield
consisted of LII, 115 barrels of cured
herrings. This number has only once
been exceeded-in 1880, when /, ,473, ,6OC
barrels were obtained. In 1881 14,8O9
boats were employed in the fisheries,
with 1872 men and boys, being an in.
crease over 1880 of So boats and $50 fish.
ermen.
The ex-Empress Eugenie is about to
quit England. having bought chateau
in Styria for 100000. She is mad be-
cause the queen showed so much atten-
tion to Cetywayo, the Zulu king, who
she considers responsible for the death
of her son, the prince. She is justified
in getting huf1y, after the queen had
given her so much taffy. The idea OF
treating that colored brute with any
thing but kicks is repulsive to many be-