The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-22
GLEANINGS.

MOr0 Dlliiaru LADIES are m use IN v en-
ezuela in proportion to the population
than in the United States.
American furniture is coming into
use in Scotland s'because it is so COM
Portable and easily kept clean," says
Consul Wells of Glasgow.
A San Francisco grocer had a woman
prosecuted for theft, though she was
ninety-six years old, and what she stole
was handful of snuff, worth cents.
The Oldest person ever arraigned for
murder is woman seventy-five years
OF age, now on trial in Paterson, N. j.,
for poisoning. Herindifference denotes
her familiarity with crime.
Here is the portrait of Gambetta at
nine years of age, drawn by one of his
schoolmasters: .'Leon Gambetta is a
dirty little pig of violent character,
but intelligent and witty"
The people of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
whose town. was first settled 333 years
ago, are making arrangements for a
grand tertio-millennial celebration in
honorof the event.
The Encyclopedias Britannica, work
OF $4,000 pages, is to be eclipsed in size
by the works of Samuel Arden Smith,
who is going to write complete history
Of the Smith family.
Central Park, New York, is said to be
In such an unhealthful condition that
5000, 900 must needs be expended to
remedy the evil. The sewers and drains
are defective.
The new Produce Exchange now build
ing in New York will contain about 49,
600, bricks when completed, and will
bc the largest brick building in the
world
A busy doctor sent in certificate of
death the other day, and accidentally
signed bis name in the space for "Cause
of DEATH" The registrar says he wishes
the profession would be as accurate
generally.
London 7r'uth: 1.-THE masher Gn
America) is the man who, in the Rom
any or gypsy language, has the 'masha-
vE or fetching eve. The mash is the
maiden who quails under the wicked
orb" M
In the opinion of Professor Hutton, in
his recent lecture on the growth of the
locomotive, the honor of first utilizing
the traction engine in this country be-
longs to the engineer, Howard Evans,
and the event dates back as far as 1904.
One of the most attractive places in
the country to-day is that Georgia towR
where an epidemic is carrying off the
cats by the score. The nature of the
epidemic is unknown, and the citizens
have made no efforts to ascertain it.
A man in Blacksburgh, Va, imagines
himself horse He runs wildly through
the streets, beats himself with switch
and increases his speed at his own COM
mand to s.gee up there" Hehas ..gone
20 grass, as it were, in theuppor story.
Just as the Rev. Elisha Blackshear, of
Thomasville, Ca, pronounced James
White and Delilah Aderson man and
wife they fell into the arms of the attend
ants, dead. They were both affected
with heart disease.
Verdict of Baltimore Coroner's jury
over dead colored woman: 1--WE find
that she came to her death through nat
ural causes-cramp collie, produced by.
eating sausage for breakfast-and in the
opinion of the jury the sausage was
good"
The practical joker evidently is abroad
in Prince Edwards Island. Recently,
while lecture was being held there,
nailed up from the outside, and the au-
dience had to climb out through the
second story windows.
The New York San assumes the re-
sponsibility of the interesting statement
that women, childless in Europe after
years of marriage, often have families
In Australia. California is not, then,
the only country which has glorious
climate.
The wife of the Rev. George Barkers
was bitten by q rat while a guest at the
Markham House, in Atlanta, Ga, one
night last summer. Inflammation set
ting in, she suffered greatly. Her hus-
band now brings suit for $4,000 dam
ages against the proprietors of the hotel.
An Auburn sportsman is said to have
captured an immense owl of the arctic
species while hunting in Broome Coun-
ty, New York. 1t is nearly white and a
huge-looking fowl, being SO completely
enveloped in feathers that the long,
sharp claws and hooked beak are hard
" visible,
Under the head of BODILY Deformities
in Girlhood," it is remarked in the Pop
aldr Science Monthly that ''the ingenu-
ity of an Edison could not devise q ma
chine SO favorable to the production of
fat-foot as the tight-fitting, high-heeled,
long-topped boot at present worn by
girls.
There is power even in a small hair
pin. A New York woman produced a
strange one in court, which she had
found in her husbands bed, and a di-
vorce was readily granted. The whole
neighborhood had previously testified
against the brute, but the hair-pin did
the business.
Louisville is making great prepara-
tons for an industrial exhibition to be-
gin next August Residents have sub
scribed $780, 900 to put up building
covering thirteen acres, and the rail-
road companies likely to be benefited
are expected to give as much more.
The show will last 100 days, and cotton
will be the chief feature.
There are now living in San Francis
co, within few blocks of each other,
five generations of one family. The
reat-great-grandfathe is seventy-one
years Of age; the great-grandmother
fifty-six; the grandmother, thirty y-eight;
her son, twenty-one, and his baby daugh-
ter, six months. They have been pho
tographed in a group.
A hardware merchant of Liberty
street, Pittsburg, has Become insane
and possessed of a peculiar mania. He
imagines that he is dead, and he will
not take any food. He declares that as
he rs corpse it would not be proper to
eat anything, and his physicians have
been compelled to pour soup and beef
tea between his clenched teeth to pre-
vent him from starving.
The .'Household Hints" contributor
Of the New York Post says: There is
probably no moment in young moth
er's life when her past education ap-
pears soinadequate as the moment when
she is left alone for the first time with
her first baby; the sense of responsible
ty which she then feels weighs upon her
like a great burden, and one that is not
to be lifted.
Whatever the internal anDlication of