The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-05-11
GLEANINGs.
The man who loves to free his mind
J himself a slave to temper.

but an eating school would be more pop
ular.
The weight of the Egyptian obelisk il
Central Park, Now York city, is 219&
tons. - '-as- ~ IS
A Atwo-year-old tootsy-pootsy told her
aunt it was ''yaining," because she
''heard its feetsteps on the gallery"
Tommy asked his mother if the school
+ teacher ferule was apiece of the board
of education.
In the State of California there are
not less than forty million acres OF land
lying idle.
Smiles is the lengest word in the Ian
guage. Between The beginning and the
end Of it there is just a mile.
Sir Walter Raleigh made his way to
p fortune and fame bypoliteness. He was
not one OF the Elizabethan ruffs.
OF all the criminals and paupers that
were sent to our shores by the Govern
ments of Europe last year, only forty
five were returned to their native land
Translated from the Omnibus: Lady
sit is Just awful--two wash-basins
and neither is cleanr' Cookess-''O,
my Lady, that is the housemaid; l wash
myself the whole day notn'
Out West, whenever an impulsive
vigilance committee hangs the wrong
man, they atone for the little mistake by
buying the widow a handsome suit of
mourning.
In Germany pecuniary damages can
not be awarded by the courts in case
of breach of promise to marry, but the
defendant who is found guilty must
marry the plaintiff or else remain un-
married.
Luminous-First swell: Il never did
like 'May'-not nearly so pretty as
Mary wonder they don't change the
name of the month to Mary" Second
swell: ''Clevaw ideaw, by Jove! make
awystaws good to June, you known'
Bulwer, Dickens. Thaekeray, as well
as Byron, were alike unhappy in their
marriages Thackerays wife was in
sane nearly all her married life. And
yet in all cases the wives survived the
husbands.
Post Dispatch: Gentleman, by request
of lady Conductor, put this lady off
: at the next corner" Polite new con-
ductor- -"Excuse me, sir; seems as how
she's behaving of herself; don't seem
no occasion forproceedin' to extremes"
Since Parisians learned the merits of
horseAesh rs an article of food during
the siege, hippophagy has made steady
progress in the French capital In 1875
the butchers disposed of 1000 horses, in
1890 of 8, 900 and in 1881 of $500. Last
year the supply of meat was further in
creased by the carcasses of 400 asses
and mules.
ri Nine massive Norman collins have
been discovered under the floor of the
schapter-house of Bristol Cathedral. The
sculpture Aipon the covers of some of
them, although very old and somewhat
rude, is exceedingly interesting. One
of these covers, which is said to be at
least 700 years old, has been carefully
preserved and now stands in the YES
try. rrr r...
Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns:-''That
lady was evidently intended by nature
for a Chinese, Sir Charles! / wonder
who she can be?'' Sir Charles:-''She
happens to be my sister. May l ask
YOU why you think nature intended her
for Chinese?' Mrs. de Tomkyns
(equal to the emergency)-''Sh struck
me as having such exquisitely small
feetr'-IWnch.
New Mexico, in an address in Boston,
showed an amazing appreciation of the
merits of his hosts. Il am happy to
look upon the American people," he
said, ''for they smile on me, which shows
the goodness of their hearts. We re-
gard the Americans as great gods-as
we DO the sun. They are like our ami
NAL gods, However wonderful and
precious they are, they show by their
kind looks that they have room for us
in their hearts.
1t is said that Henry M. Stanley, the
African explorer, when on the staff OF
the Omaha Herald, dozen years ago.
was rejected by a bewitchng little act
ress then known as Annie Ward. She
married an actor named Baker, and foul
years afterward committed suicide al
st. Louis, driven to desperation by the
neglect and desertion of the man she
had chosen in preference to the ex-
plorer .-..
A Munich painter, who was formerly
blacksmith, has recently produced a
picture which has stirred the whole
town. lie exhibited it in miserable
little back room of a place, but it has
been visited by throngs of people, many
price for the work at 100000 marks, and
by Paris dealer has been already offer
ed $4,000 marks. The artists name is
Leibl. His picture represents the inter-
ior of a village church.
Cazenova will send humorous little
picture to the Paris Salon this season,
representing the interior of barber S
shop in Spain. The barber has Just
lathcred the face of customer who has
come to get shaved, when pretty girl
enters the shop. The gallant barber has
deserted his unfortunate client to wait
on this fair new conner. Meanwhile the
poor man in the background holds up
the basin beneath his well-soaped chin,
and looks anything but comfortable and
happy.
Mrs. Members appeal to her long
delaying husband:
Husband, dear husband, come home to me
The garden needs spading for pears,
The boys should be picking up stones in the
And you should be trimming the trees.
When will you get through with bills and re-
solves,
Stop talking of license and rum,
or railroHhs and bridges and other such things
And tend to your business at home?
Hartford C0Urant. u,
Pauline Markham; in an interview,
says: 1--WE on the stage are like workers
on tapestry-we see nothing but the
wrong side. We are in the shadows, as
it were, and however exhilarating a
spectacle or burlesque may be from the
chairs, it is not very heavenly from the
wings, i can assure you. 1t has its fas-
cinatiOns, but a woman in that class OF
entertainment need never expect tc
pass through life without being talked
about, and the more prominent hel
name the more exaggerated the stories
told"
1t is claimed in England that the uni
versities themselves have long since alb.
dicated their teaching functions. Mos
of the real teaching, it is said, is provid
ed by the unauthorized and outside pri
vate tutors, who exist independently O
the colleges, and have, in u great de
gree, superseded them. In too many
cases the candidate for an ordinary de
gree, if he wish to pass. is compelled tt