The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-01
GLEANTNGS.

Ianana canal Will De hnlShed IN 1888.
Tho wild carrot is one of the weeds
that should be most dreaded.
The silk crop in France and Spain is
short
There is no better food for chickens
than skim milk.
This years crop of Rio coffee is now
estimated at from 5000, 900 to $500, 00(
bags.
Joe Jefferson believes in spiritualism.
Old rip Van Winkle" believed il
''spirits "also.
Dead meat is now shipped to England
from Russia as we'll as Australia anC
America.
Kentucky colonels are said to be
amazed at the statement that it tooB
Prince Alexander, of Hesse Cassel, thirty
years to become colonel.
News item in Tennessee paper: "a
dog killed woman near SCOTS Hill
on Sunday. Further particulars next
week"
The Empress Eugene, who has suf
fcred from dyspepsia, walks muck and
continues to improve in health and in
spirits.
An old frame house in Winthrop. Me-,
built Id years ago, was moved for hall
3 mile last week without even cracking
the plastering.
A clergyman who, five years ago, was
paid $40, 900 q year by Brooklyn
church, is loaiing around the seashore
resorts of the Connecticut coast, habit
ually drunk.
According to recent computation,
ihoro are 1910 newspapers and maga-
zines published in this country. OF these
1927 are daily newspapers and 1856
weeklies.
Italy is fortifying the frontier in Pied
mont at cost of from 6.000,000 to T..
900, 900 francs. The work will, it is be.
lieved. render the Alps impossible to
any army, even though led ny Hanni-
bal or Napoleon.
The vast population, traffic and tur-
moil of the world s metropolis are strik-
ingly suggested by the simple statement
that 2,200 trains leave the railroad
stations of London every twenty-four
hours. a
Nearly everybody who lives at New
burg, N. Y, is more or less bow-legged
from walking up and down the hill on
which the city is built. The same pecu-
farity is familiar in Poughkeepsie, an.
other city on the Hudson river bank.
Louisiana claims that during the past
year great success has been achieved In
restoring her levee system to high
state of efficiency. The embankments
resisted the great flood of last year bet
ter than even the most sanguine could
have expected. I1fftf
Timothy Shields, of Howard County,
Maryland, stands six feet eight inches
in his stockings, and weighs 220 pounds
He has four children, three of whom
are sons, averaging six feet two inches
in height, and weighing 228. 230 and
240 pounds, respectively.
The first newsboy who ever sold a
copy of the New York Sun in the
streets of that city became famous and
rich. He was ten years old and from
Cork. His name was Bernard Flaherty,
but he was afterward known as Barney
Williams, the comedian.
A young man living in Leadville
shipped to his brother in st. Louis a
choice donkey of the diminutive species
known as the Mexican burro. The
agent, in making out his manifest, con-
cluded that ''burro" meant "bureau, "
and reported accordingly to his super
ior, zone bureau missing and one jack
ass over"
A farmer in Essex county, n. Y, had
five of the fresh air fund boys from New
York City, and tough lot they proved
to be. The first afternoon they were on
r. the farm they hung the farmers large
pet Newfoundland dog to an apple tree,
and in the afternoon they placed his
light wagon across the railroad track
as the train was approaching, and OF
course the wagon was knocked into
smithereens.
Some one has taken the trouble to find
out how far a farmer must walk to put
in and tend forty acres of corn. Tc
plow the ground with sixteen-inci
three-horse plow he travels $50 miles
to harrow the ground thoroughly be-
fore planting he will have to travel 10C
miles; TO mark out the same he travels
80 miles; 10 cultivate it afterwards he
will have 10 travel 800 miles-making
grand total of 800 miles besides the
gathering
If the farmers who will keep dogs
WOulQ ECb Ol lDclT NOTGIlCSS CUTS
and substitute one well-bred shepherd
pup, not moro, 10 each farm, the wealth
of every farming community would be
vastly increased in many ways. Farm
ers soon find the colly saving them
many step. Eager and anxious to
learn, willing to do anything within his
power. the young dog needs only q
wise and patient restraint, and intelli-
gent direction, to become most useful
hand on the place.
Two years ago lady at Middletown,
N. Y. found little tree-toad on largo
calla lily which she had pottcd in the
house. He was adopted rs the pet of
the household, and made his home on
the lily until last fall, when he disap-
peared, presumably in the depths of the
pot. He was not seen or heard of until
few days ago, when he reappeared,
bringing his wife with him. Whether
he evolved her from the depths of his
consciousness, or whether he found her
in the earth, is problem that is puZ-
zling the household.
The Rural World truly says "there is
not one of the departments of agricult-
ure that if a young man will study with
view of making it life work, giving
himself intellectually as thorough a
training as he would be compelled to
have if he became successful in the pro-
fessions or mercantile persuits, but he
can make money with ten times the
certainty he can in any of the profess
sions or mercantile pursuits. We are
constantly hearing of the struggle for
wealth by those who live in cities.
There is rather an interminable strug-
gle for existence, and not one in thou
sand of the population in all our cities
has the least reason to believe that he
will ever be wealthy, or regard wealth
at all, except as he might long after the
unattainable."
Fifty years ago when Missouri was
but sparsely settled, it was work of no
small difficulty to get jury together.
especially as the inhabitants were no.
toriously disinclined to the pleasure of
litigation. The court had been forced
to adjourn many times from day to day
because the sheriff as often came in and
reported an incomplete panel. Finally
things came to q crisis. The Judge
fixed a day beyond which no further