The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
GLEANINGS.

'Dutch Hank, Well-knOWn gam
bier of Syracuse. N. Y, has died, leav-
ing hard-earned fortune of $500, 900.
Mr.. Blaine has refused an offer of
800, 900 for his history Prom Lincoln
to Garfield" and will collect a royalty
of so cents on each volume sold.
A young lady at Blissfeld, Mich,
claims to have pared bushel of apples
in three minutes. Michigan girls never
lie.
A Brooklyn man has run away from
his wife for the fourth time, leaving a
note stating that this is positively his
farewell tour.
The Earl of Cashel, the oldest mem
Der of the British House of Lords, is to
marry girl only nineteen years of
age! He is ninetv-two.
A young Austrian inherited 10000
francs, spent all but two of them in ten
days in dissipation, and then sui
cided.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart is eighty years
old, but correspondent who has seen
her frequently this fall says she is
''merry as a cricket and gay as a but
terfly."
The full name of a young woman at
West Fork, Iowa, is Iowa Dakota Min
nesota Bennett. The truth leaked out
when her young man applied for a
marriage license.
After Chinese laundryman in Phil
adelphia received his naturalization
papers he invited the court and all the
officers to take a drink. The Judge
alone refused.
Prominent colored citizens of San
Antonio are petitioning for the removal
of the colored policemen from the
force, claiming that they are officious,
rough and insolent.
Texas boasts of young woman who
has planted and attended an acre of
cotton, which made nearly bale, the
proceeds of which she will devote to
dress.
An ex-conductor of Boston street
car company has started conscience
fund by returning to the company 5000
for fares that his bell-punch never
registered.
Two Connecticut farmers went to law
over n barrel of apples. The case has
been tried five times. at an estimated
cost to the litigants of $4,000, and they
are still at it. |'I
A Brooklyn merchant made his signs
and windows so attractive that the
gazers blocked the streets, and his
competitors asked the courts to haul in
his attractions, and the court actually
made the order,
Over the door of a cabin in Montana,
on the line of the Northern Pacific
road, is written with charcoal these
words: "Only nine miles TO water and
twenty miles from wood. No grub in
the house. God bless our home"
The first Chinese child ever born in
the city of Washington is the daughter
of the Chinese minister. She is named
Mi Ju. Mi means America, and Ju is
the name of the father, although he is
not Hebrew.
There are souls in my church so
small" said Mr.. Talmage TO reporter,
$50 infinitesimal, SO mean, that fifty of
them could dance a schottische on the
point of cambria needle without touch
ing each other"
The story of the suicide of young
man in an Eastern city was briefly told
by the following sentence: There was
ber of pool tickets on horses which had
lost in recent races"
At Bellevifle, Ont, a breach of
promise suit was to have been tried,
but while the Judge and jury were get
ting ready 10 listen'to the story of love
grown cold and hearts estranged the
plaintiff and defendant adjourned to a
preachers house and were married.
This is preferred creditorship: We
fail for $500,0 900. A is the preferred
creditor for $250,0OO. Between A and
ourselves is the private understanding.
Between ourselves and the other credi-
tors it is only public understanding.
-Ne'o York Graphic.
In Yazoo County, Miss, party of
hunters killed deer that had a human
skull impaled on prong of his horn,
supposed to be that of a negro. The
prong had entered the cavity occupied
in life by the eye, and had grown up
around the bone, showing the skull had
not been put on recently.
In the Austrian Empire the produc-
tion of beer amounts to 81 quarts per
inhabitant. In Great Britain each in
habitant is credited with 115 quarts of
strong beer, in the United States with
40 quarts, in Denmark 112, in Belgium
II, in France "a, in the Netherlands
81, in Norway 43, in Sweden, 40, in
Switzerland 39.
DR.. Ensor, district medical officer at
Port Elizabeth, took an opportunity to
weigh the informer Carey's brain. He
reports that, in the whole of his long
experience, during which he has given
special attention to such subjects, he
never knew brain at once SO heavy
and so bulky as Carey's. 1t weighed
siXty-one ounces.
The OmGha Indians have a curious
custom. When the father dies the
mother loses all right to the children.
Every child, unless of very tender age,
is separated from the mother, and will
go into the family of some one of the
fathers relatives, and may be claimed
as his own by the male head of the
family. This separation of the mother
and her offspring is permanent.
A Mormon settlement in Idaho is five
miles long, extending from Clifton to
Oxford. 1t is called Stringtown, and
the homesteads are so taken up that
the residences of the homesteaders are
within 300 feet of each other, and the
farms are mere strips of land from 25e
to 800 feet in width. This land was
taken up in this manner to give every
settler frontage on the public road.
Stanley. the explorer, introduces ali
the travellers he meets with in the wilds
of Africa to.the natives as his sons, in
order that they may proceed with
safety D Recently an explorer came
along with colored servant. and Stan
lev was asked howhe came TO have two
sons of different color. ..'Oh, that is the
son of my old wife, not the new one, "
he replied. 40
John Du Bois, of Du Bois, Clearfield
County, Pa, is said to be worth $l4,-
600, 900. Six hundred men are en-
ployed in his lumber mills, 1000 get
the timber from the woods, and 600 are
mining coal for him. He offers to
erect court house and public build
ings if new county is made of parts
of Clearfield. Elk and Jefferson coun.
ties, and called Du Bois.
In Marysville. Cal, the street car:
are run to make money. You tender
the conductor 50-cent piece or &
standard dollar, and he gives YOU the