The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-17
GLEANINGS.

1OurIn Oh all Jn6 nallS uSeu IN Cno OnlIed
States.
Judge Clayton, of Eufaula, Ala, has
decided that dealing in cotton futures is
gambling.
Twelve million bushels of corn were
last year made into glucose in the
United States alone. Brewers were the
largest consumers.
The more sociabIa and less dangerous
tricycle. is fast gaining in popularity
among Britons upon the more rapid BIZ
cycle.
1t is reported that a slate quarry
equal to any in the United States has
been discovered on the Arkansas river
forty miles above Little Rock.
The Philadelphia Record has moved
into its new building, which is said to
be the handsomest and best arranged
newspaper Office on the continent.
The great seal of Great Britain and
Ireland is affixed to yellow wax for En-
glish documents, red for Scotch, and
green for Irish.
According to a writer in the ReOue
deS DetIT M0ndeS, the United States,
judging from its previous advance in
population, should have, in 1882, pop
ulation of nearly 200,000,000.
Florida butterfly hunters get an av-
erage of cents piece for their cap
lures. Some rare specimens bring much
more, and one kind, that is very scarce,
brings $40 a pair.
Cornell students are protesting against
the admission of ladies'. They spoil the
fun for the boys, who are compelled to
behave like gentlemen-a thing they
are not accustomed to.
Mr.. Adam Hefner, of Lenoir, S. c.,
has the honor of being the oldest man
on this continent. He is 116 years old,
as authenticated by the family records,
and his mind is still bright.
Pineapples grow to an enormous size
in Key Largo. One recently exhibited
at Key West from that place measured
n foot in length and twenty-three inches
in circumference. 1t weighed eight
pounds.
The grave of Emerson, at Concord, is
always covered with fresh flowers. This
is done by the young people of the
town, who have regular system about
it, SO that the flowers are never wither-
ed, but always bright and beautiful.
An eminent local naturalist has made
the discovery that the swallows of San
Jose, Cal, are faithful observers of the
Sunday law, remaining mostly within
doors on Sunday and abstaining from
the work of nest-building.
Banjo playing is becoming fashion
able accomplishment in Connecticut,
and some of the prettiest young ladies
and matrons of Hartford display much
proficiency. They do not display No.
18 shoes, however, as most banjoists do.
Professor Henry Morley, level head
ed man, who never mistakes mere fan
cies for opinions, prophesies that the
age will soon produce a great intellec-
tual figure. Men of brains will at once
begin to look in their mirrors for the
predicted prodigy.
The Boston Post says there have been
more lynching bees in the United States
this year than in any for the past four
teen years. Folks have come to the con-
clusion that it's cheaper to lynch OBJ
noxious persons than to send them to
the Legislature.
The Green River (Ky.) Courier takes
the calico off the shrub in the matter of
snake stories. 1t tells of q reptile that
swallowed a rabbit and then tried to
crawl through rail fence, but stuck.
While in this position it swallowed
bunny numbers two and three, and un-
able to get either backward or forward,
hung on the rail until it died.
At Little Rock, Ark, Paul Earl and
Jim Young were testing the strength of
their arms by locking fingers, placing
elbows on the table, and waiting to see
whose arm would bend and give way
first. In one of the efforts Earl had his
arm broken about two inches above the
elbow.
There has been presented to the Ten
nessee Historical society piece of an
oak tree, dug up from the bottom of the
Upper island, Cumberland river, near
Nashville, twenty-five feet below the
surface, or an extreme low-water mark.
1t is supposed that the tree has been
there from period reaching back be-
fore the island was formed-say thou
sand years ago, or such a matter.
At Whitestone, L. l., father has
just been sentenced to the Penitentiary
for six months for theft; his stepSon dit
to; his wife to jail for fifty-nine days for
receiving stolen goods; and her daugh-
ter-in-law for the same length of time
for breaking the peace. Depravity in
this case does not seem to run in the
blood, but apparently was infectious.
The ''year without y Summer" was
1916. Cattle were killed by freezing
weather in June that year in the New
England and Middle States. In Maine
and Vermont the snow was ten inches
deep. July was Wintry and icy. Au-
gust was the same, but in September it
was little warmer, and then came bit
ter cold weather until the end of the
year. The next year was fine pro-
ductive season.
The longest term of service of any
bank President in Boston is that of Mr..
James w. Converse, who has served as
President of the Mechanics Bank since
August Is, 1856, when the bank was or
ganized. Alvan Simonds, the Cashier
has also served like term. This bank
for the forty-six years of its existence,
has never made a change in the Office
of President or Cashier.
When President Arthur was a school
teacher he did not punish the big bad
boys by seating them with the girls; he
placed them on the lowest bench in the
primary department and made them re-
cite the alphabet with the little children
BY this simple method he permanently
reformed one very bad school in exact
ly two hours by the watch.
George Dawson, who is always going
a fishing, complains in the Albany Jour-
nal of the increasing scarcity of his grace
the salmon in the Dominion rivers during
the past two or three years. The scar
city is attributed to the unusual run of
sharks and porpoises near the mouth of
the rivers, and the opinion is based on
the fact that large numbers of the
netted fish have been found SCARED, as
if recently bitten.
There is still one adventurous Arctic
explorer unaccounted for His name is
Leigh Smith, and he is an Englishman
He left England just one year ago in
his fragile yacht, Ezra, to run up and
fake peep at the North pole, and has
not been authentically heard from since.
He expected to return last November.
He had provisions for fourteen months,
but was not prepared to spend six
months night amid the ice foes. He
had with him a companion. Captain