The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-24
GLEANINGs.

quite their disobedience.
If Mrs. Carter, of Bellair, Ohio, had not
applied for O divorce no one would have
suspected that her husband had COM
PEELED her to swallow spools and buttons
10 punish her for smiling at railroad
man.
Rutland, VT, elected Miss Isabella M.
Brown town clerk at the recent election.
She is the first woman ever elected to
Office in Rutland. The office has been
virtually in charge of her family for
nearly quarter of a century.
Large baskets of artificial violets are
now used to decorate the center of the
table at dinner parties, and are sprinkled
with perfume somewhat like that of
violets to heighten or make better the
fraud.
1t Is said that Mr.. Burnand, the editor
of Punch, has been married twice, is
the father of fourteen children, and is
an incessant Jester. Herein lies an ex-
PLANTATION of the righteousness of that
alleged funny publication.
When Gen. Spinner was asked by
Florida man, a few days ago, how old
no was and if he was in good health yet,
he said: II am 81 years of age, still in
good health, and believe can whip men
of my size yet"
Hoodlums in New York are said to be
thieves and villains, and hundreds of
them are growing up to be our worst
criminals. Here is a chance says the
Boston Globe, for missionaries from the
South Sea Islands.
The late Col Gilmore met Gen. Grant
in New York, and approaching the ex-
President, saluted him and exclaimed:
General, / suppose you forget me?"
mo-" replied Gen. Grant, ''you are one
of the hornets who stung us SO badly
during the npleasantness."
Atwo-year-oldg a girl fell fiat while play
ing with her little brother, and she
thought that sharp stick punctured
her neck. So did her parents; but, af-
ter the wound refused to heal, and a
physician had extracted bullet, the
boy confessed that he had shot her with
toy pistol.
The Prince of Wales is, it appears,
to be held responsible for the popularity
of the cigarette. Fifteen years ago they
were not only questionable, but were
considered ''fast." Albert Edward con-
tracted tho habits of smoking cigarettes
in his travels, and, presto, 1t became the
fashion of Pail Mall and St. james.
According to the Boston Herald, it was
at firstproposedt to sentence young Cush-
man, who swindling the wise men OF
Concord, to attend three full terms of
the Concord School of Philosophy
After mature deliberation it was decided
that the proposed punishment would be
altogether too severe, and Cushman was
sent to States Prison for three years in
stead.
New England thrift is highly CON-
mendable in many respects, but when it
embraces the cleaning of ordinary wood
en- toothpicks, that they may be used at
the next meal, as is done by St. AL
bans, VT, housewife, the average man
will discard it for the reckless eXtrava-
gence of the community where napkins
nre used at every meal and butter may
be had at dinner.
1t was not many years ago that the
best American dictionary defined the
familiar word "boil'' as ''circumscribed
subcutaneous Inflammation character
lied by a pointed pustular tumor and
suppurating in central core; per-
uncutus.' What was simple and famil-
lar was made ludicrously complex. In
the 'Imperiar' the same word is dis
and painful suppurating tumor."
Some time ago gray squirrels placed
on the Boston Common killed the song
birds. Neighboring cats made nocturnal
warfare on the squirrels. Next day the
policemen killed the cats. Then the old
maids who owned the cats event for
the policemen. 1t was like ''The House
that Jack Built" regularly ascending
series. How the war came out the Bos-
con newspapers never reported
There was a servants ball at the Angel,
and Mary Jane went. Pretty early in
the evening she founded in with an in
famed countenance. "Why, Mary
Jane" said the missus, "surely it's not
all over yet?" mo, mum, but I've been
insulted! AS l was comm out of the
supper the bakers young man he says
TO me, 4 hope, miss says he, your
programs not quite FULL and me that
had eaten hardly anythink?'
There was once in Georgia a most re-
markable old man who, at the age OF
one hundred and one years, became the
father of n boy whom he lived to see
cast ballot. This son is now seventy
five years of age, is as full of vim and
energy as person in the prime of life,
can split rails as well as anybody. and is
said to be able TO outrun any man of his
age in the world. His oldest brother,
were he living, would be one hundred
and fifty years of age.
Experiments lately made at Leipsic
with a cuirass made of steel, the formula
of which is not stated, indicate that the
new material combines both tenacity
end ductility in the highest degree. The
steel plate of tho cuirass in this case was
only .06 inch thick and lined inside with
n layer of wool; and of eleven rounds
from Martini breachloading rifle, fired
at distance of 175 yards, only two of
the bullets pierced the metal, and even
these were completely flattened and
stuck in tho lining.
The whistling craze is spreading
among tho women of Texas so rapidly
that 1t Is now estimated that not less
than 80 per cent of the entire female
population whistle like mocking birds.
A young lawyer recently went from
Palestine up to Jefferson to call on his
aflianccd Thinking to surpris him she
slipped up behind him as he sat in the
parlOr, CiappcG ncr MINUS over MS eyes
while she whistled the ''Mocking Bird
beautifully. He was so disgusted when
he saw who it was that the only words
he uttered was: ''Good-day."
The brightest and best of the after
dinner stories with which Oscar Wilde is
RECALLING his Partisan friends is that old
chestnut about the sign. "PleaSe
don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his
best" which he claims to have seen
hanging over the piano in Leadville
dance hall. This entertainment resur-
rection sets the company in roar, gives
the hearers high opinion of Oscar as
an observer and thinker, and prompts
one distinguished Frenchman to remark
that "there is freshness of originality
about the man that is absolutely fasci-
mating"
Two policemen in uniform recently
called at the house of a gentleman in
Boston, who was giving a fancy dress
ball, and insisted that the company must