The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-11-02
GLEANINGS.

The south will make seven million
gallons of cotton-seed oil this year.
Edgar Allan Poe's house in Rich
mond, Va, is to be used for hotel.
A lot of mountain trout have been
placed in the Vermillion river at Hast
ings.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor gives more
money to the poor than any lady in the
country.
Bootblacks are licensed at Jackson,
Tenn, and assigned to stands through
out the city.
There are about 220, 900 telephones in
use in the country, and the number is
increasing at the rate of over 500
month.
The most astonishing thing about the
disappearance of a man from Cleveland
is that he had paid in advance his board
for full week.
Mrs. Garfield has no intention of
abandoning the Mentor homestead, her
removal to Cleveland being but tenn
porary, to continue while her younger
children are at school there.
A factory for the manufacture of inn
itation sealskin is to be established at
Holyoke, Mass, by men from Bradford,
England. 1t is stated that 100000
will be invested, and that one hundred
men will be employed in the business.
Duying the past year several thousand
acres of foot-hill land around Union, in
eastern Oregon, has been fenced for
pasturage. Those who have tried it
pronounce hill pasture as good for
winter stock as a stock of hay.
John Most, who was sentt to prison by
q London jury sixteen months ago for
publishing seditious matter in his news
paper, the Freiheit, will pay q visit to
this country upon his release, and will
speak in the principal cities.
A North Carolina clergyman has been
living for the past eleven years on
salary of $3 per week, but now an
nounces that he must have a raise of 81
or ten shillings. or be compelled to ac-
cept call to do cooper work.
M. Saint-Paul has offered the French
Academy of Medicine sum of $4,000
francs to found prize for the discove-
petition is open to all the world, and
not confined to the medical profession.
When hear it said of a man whose
body is being conveyed to its last rest
ing-place that ''he had not an enemy in
the world" feel like attaching this
epitaph to his tomb: Here lies buried
a flint that never struck fre!'-Henry
Ward Beecher.
The devious ingenuity of deviltry has
been illustrated in New Orleans, where
some petty counterfeiters have been
making bogus saloon drink checks tC
such an extent that several of the rum
shops are threatened with financial
ruin.
1t has been found that lime juice OF
itself will not produce scurvy at sea, anC
that too much reliance is placed upor
it to the neglect of other food. Lime
Juice, however, in connection with fresf
or preserved meat and vegetables, may
prevent scurvy.
Probably the largest and best paiC
army in the world is that composed b,
the railroad employees in this country
they numbering about 100000, witt
100000 at work on railroad construc
ton, or 100000 in all. This is abou
one-eighth of the working force of tn
country, reckoning only adult males.
Senator Lamar is alleged to have ex
pressed willingness to pass the re
mainder of his days as professor il
the university of Georgia He coul
have the chancellorship if he desired il
but prefers the less responsible position
which, in all probability will be ten
dered him.
A Buffalo gentleman waiting for
train at Aylmer, Ont, saw woma
slip upon something and nearly fal
He hurried to assist her and helped he
to rise, and as he did so she dropped
valise which proved to be his owl
which he had left in the depot fey
minutes before, and which she was a
tempting to steal.
Df. R. G. Alexander, writing in q,
English medical paper, says that neu
ralgia is disease arising from debility
that it is increased by disease, menta
or bodily, but is relieved by food, an
sometimes by stimulants. Pure all
night and day, and perfect cleanlines
are advised.
lington, Iowa. and borrowed hatche'
Then he went out to the front gat
and, using one of the posts for chol
ping block, deliberately chopped off on
of his fingers. He departed leaving th
finger on the gate post, the hatchet O
the ground, and the entire populatio
lost in wonder and surprise.
The depth and strength of Nevad
dust is shown in the case of the ma
who had kept his seat ON the top of
stage 80 long that be was crusted a
over to the depth of an inch with Law
dust, and was unable to get down {
even move hand or foot until the cru:
was removed with a hammer and chise
1t was like cutting the scale off set (
boiler tubes.
mine tailors do not make man,
and, it seems, never did. The origin;
word was 'taler," meaning the tally {
tale of strokes upon the bells tolling f(
the dead. One stroke was for an il
fant; three for girl; nine for man.
So passers-by would say: "Nine tale
make a man," which, considering th
it was the unmaking of the man, was
curious thing to say.
Some interesting relics were exhibi
ed at the bi-centennial celebration
Bucks County, Penn. Among thel
were the original bill of sale of Easter
Pennsylvania by the Six Nations
William Penn; a powder-horn presen
ed by Uncas, the last of the Delaware
to Black Hawk, in 1887; a reflectir
telescope that was once the property
the ill-fated Blennerhassett; some q
cient stage-coaches. and, of cours
some blue and white china more than
century old.
Oscar Wilde, while riding in a Ne
York horse car the other night, had
poetic reverie rudely interrupted. /
was enjoying cigar meanwhile, VIII
the unesthetic conductor approach
and, in a gruff voice, said: You mu
git outside if you want to smoke" c
car ''got," and then relapsed into
reverie, during which he cogitated he
he would bring heincident into his nt
book on America.
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