The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-09
GLEANINGa.

silver City, N. M, pays It's public
school teachers $3.50 mouth
MnstardYille is the name of new
town in Washington Territory.
The Army of the Cumberland statue
Df Garfield will cost $50, ,000.a 4'sl -
A vegetarian diet is recommended
during hot weather by those who have
tried it. "
A COW insurance company has been
started By several business men in N.Y.
s.srsdale, Pa. ~-t =
In the City of Mexico the general
tprice of admission to the opera is equal
40 about 85 cents of our money. But
then the impressario does not have to
pay the soprano $5,550. pei, night. !,
= Flies, mosquitoes and bullfrogs make
the nights horrible In Chattanooga, and
now the Chattanooga Democrat declares:
'-'rhe increase Of mad dogs becomes
alarmingly great 80,
More than TOO of subterranean
telegraph lines are completed in France,
and 1900 miles are in course of con-
struction, and will be completed by the
end OF the year.
In the next four months 5000 Nor
mon converts from Europe arc expected
in New York sWhy not strain the anti
pnuper immigration order and send
them backP Utica Herald
Z The Rev. Henry Crawford Tucker
served as Baptist clergyman in Geor-
Gia for forty-sevcn years without sal
airy. He had three wives and thirty
one children; but no one heard of him
11nfil ho diah ch0rf fiTaa cinOo
Rosa Bonheur could draw cattle as
natural as life, and Jesse JAMES could
draw blood that couldn't be disti1-
guished from the genuine article. Both
were desirous of getting OH the right
side of the hanging committee.
In Washington Ii is said that poker
Is played at private houses, in the clubs
and at the prominent restaurants, and
il tho truth were known the army and
navy officials are not the only men lin
the government service who play.
Mr.. Frank C. Bangs, the successful
actor, has decided to quit the stage since
marrying an heiress. 1t is given out
that he will invest $25, ,0G0 in a soap fac
tory. He believes that while there is
life there's soap. s-z7 vszs. -.
- No ELupcEONs OA 0dpdu ~ TOOAH4 OUT
The newspapers which have grown to
power under his encouragement. Elev-
en- journals haye just perished under the
censorships and anseditor has been i'm
prisoned for writing aboutthe Emperor.
There are in France I5.057 registered
prostitutes, 1859 belonging In naisons
de tolerance, which number 1928; T.
1913 prostitutes live in their own rooms,
and there are 1900 others, 1t is esti-
mated. o 5a.s, rI{.yf
On McDonough street, Atlanta, there
Is q cat with six legs. The sextipede
Is the property of Mr.. johnson. The
additional two legs are just behind the
cats front legs and are joined to them
by thin skin. The cat moves with
ease and is not at all awkward. ~
The United States Fish Commission
has this year distributed throughout
every state and. territory in the Union
$4,000, 900 white fish, $4,000, 900 Jshad,
and 100000 of the salmonid@ spe-
cjes. The Commission has also distrib-
uted 1900 German carp.
"A traveller through the Merv oasis
discovered seyen Jewish families who
have been established there for an un-
known period of time, and who have
preserved intact the costume religion
and language of their ancestors, who
were probably Chaldean. ''z' = $50 ~
Where an old fence has been remov-
ed, the crop the first season is no sure
test of tho quality or fertility of the soil.
It-takes one year of thorough culture
to clear out the sods, bushes. and rub
hsh that accumulate in such places.
After this is we'll done, the fence row
will usually be as fertile as any other
part of the field.
Referring to the yearly losses BY the
Western floods, n contemporary sug-
gests that probably the time will come
when the low lands along the course of
the Mississippi and the Missouri will
not be occupied by permanent habita-
tions, but will be cultivated as are the
bottom lands OF the Nile-with special
reference to the recurrence of periodic
overflow" -..,-,
IL has been found that -worm-eaten
and partly decayed logs make the best
sounding boards for pianos,. and within
few years piano firms have sent agents
through Connecticut to7imd fallen and
partly decayed chestnut logs, and such
timber has been sold at good prices af-
ter the owners had considered it entire
ly useless.
A court in Ontario, Canada, has made
the extraordinary decision that divorces
granted in the United States are not
valid in Canada. A woman divorced
from her husband in the State of Mis-
souri, has obtained n judgment for ali
mony from her husband, who was DOM
iciled' in Ontario, where he was mar
ried q second time. and had children
by his Second marriage.
The inhumanity of two Pennsylvania
parents in burning upon the hot stove
the hands of their. little boys as pun
ishment for stealing, has created much
excitement in the neighbefhood. They
are parents after Joseph Cooks own
heart. According to his theology, the
totally depraved young ones were SIM
ply getting a foretaste of the hereafter.
A gentle father, who is pillar of So
ciety in the City of Brotherly Love,
went toa harness shop and got a strap
O yard long, one inch wide at one end
md two at the other. With this he
welted his little daughter two or three
times day until the law interfered.
Before he got the strap he useda knotty
cane. fA.
In draining certain land it often be-
comes necessary to cut bitches a long
distance over level spaces. and some-
times through ridge to secure an outlet.
The laws of most of the states allow
this to be done on land adjacent to that
which is most benefited, and if the ditch
Is necessary to. drain the neighbor's
property he may be required to bear his
proportion of the expense.
Experiments have been conducted by
DR.. Masure on the evaporation of water.
from the soil.S The soils tested were
Loire sand, chalky SOIL consisting of
sand, per cent; clay, 95.6 per cent;
garden soil, consisting of sand, 81 per
cent; chalk, 12.5sper cent; clay, 20 per
cent; and clay manure, 5.3 per cent.
The action of the sandy and chalky soil
was very rapid. L
Attorney General Brewster now