The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13
GLEANINGS.


ceported as saying that the Pilgrim
Fathers fell upon their knees and ither
upon the aborigines.
Men who can swim easily elsewhere
hre often drowned in the lakes of Wyo-
ming Territory, where high altitude
feddces the buoyancy of the water.
The Portland Oregonian says thai
persons accustomed to the climate OF
Oregon no more expect rain there in sum-
mer than they look for dry weather in
winter.
The Davenport Brothers were once
ooted as Spiritualist mediums. One
tired from business; but now the survi-
Eor has started out again. He will
travel in a gorgeously painted car.
The Cunard Steamship Company has
contracted with the Clyde firm of John
Eldred & Co. for two steamers of 5000
tons for 100000, being the largest
price ever quoted. They are to do
nineteen knots an hour and accomplish
the Atlantic passage in six days.
A poisonous gas hole among the stall
nctite caves in the Yosemite is called
Stygian Cave. Birds drop dead flying
over the mouth, and small animals en-
tering perish Mt once. It Is filed with
crystalline pendants Of deep emerald
hue.
General Thomas E. Eckert, the real
executive officer of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, is an Ohio man,
who began at the bottom of the ladder,
and was once on country newspaper.
His countenance is of boyish cast and
his address pleasing.
Munk Murphy, brakeman, with a
claim to eccentricity, has established it
by riding into Boston coiled up on the
truck under car, to win a bet that he
could not steal passage. Lacking n
flag to wave in token of victory, he took
off his shirt and flung it to the breeze.
There are now in England and Wales
between 100000 and 100000 women
who possess the franchise-that is to say
one woman to every seven men. More
than 103, 900 women possess, as house.
holders, the municipal franchise. The
number of women landowners in Eng
land and Wales is 37,806.
The consumption of coffee in this
country in 1882 was 1925 pounds for
each person, and of tea, LAC pounds.
In 1879 the French used only s. O4 pounds
per capita, and the English but SO of a
pound; but the people of the Neither
lands consumed 1870, those of Belgium
9.13, those of Norway 8.73 and those of
Cape Colony 7.72.
A report that there are no state lands
for sale in Florida is contradicted. 1t ap-
pears that there are from 100000 to
a.000,00 acres of swamp lands subject
TO sale to actual settlers. These lands
have been granted to railroads, but un-
I'll the law granting them has been COM
piled with by the companies they are
still for sale.
The famous "Sun Cholera Mixture"
Is said to be an excellent remedy for
ordinary summer complaints, but will
probably not do to depend on in case of
Asiatic cholera. 1t is as follows: Equal
parts of tincture and opium, rel pep
per, rhubarb, peppermint and camphor.
Dose, five to twenty drops in three or
four teaspoonfulls of water.
Father Bosco, a famous Italian Cath
olic missionary is now in Paris. He has
erected seminaries which contain 1000
poor boys. He furnishes 600 priests
every year to the church. Over 10000
priests educated by him are now preach
ing in various parts of the world. He
Is almost blind and very feeble. In
manner he is child-like, simple and
gentle.
Speaking of Henry Rochefort, a
writer from France says: IAN odd face
Is his-long, thin, eager, cranky; no
Oeard except light mustache and goa
zee; an eye like the headlight of loco
motive, the white showing all around;
high brow and turbulent grayish hair,
nmbling in cataracts over his ears and
ising in geyser on top"
A Charleston church steeple finds it
self suddenly in commercial demand.
The owners of few tug boats in the
narbor learned that an incoming bark
could be sighted from its summit while
yet afar off. Business prospered with
theA1, while their rivals. despite indus
.rious cruising of the bar, could get no
vessels. At last the secret of the look
out was discovered and now the steeple
IS to rent to the highest bidder.
The inhabitants of Rugby, Tenn.
scem to have acquired the American
power of invention. One of them says
that he was out in a thunder storm,
wheeling wheelbarrow, when there
suddenly descended ball of fire. When
his dazzled eyes could see there was
nothing left of the wheelbarrow or its
load but twisted tire.
A citizen of Boston, whom the Ga
Eette of that city does not name, but
loosely describes as "a well-known gen
sleman," has made three wills during
the last twenty years, appointing three
different sorts OF executors-nine in all.
One after another every one has in some
way or another shown himself unwor-
Thy of an important trust, and the tes-
Gator now finds it necessary to select a
fourth set of executors.
The Rev. John Jasper, who still in
sists that ''de sun do move" is so pop
dlar i'm Richmond, Va, that when
stranger inquired the way to his church
che directions are to take car to a
ertain corner and then follow the
crowd. DIR. Ludlow describes him as
one of n very few of the old-time color
ed preachers left in the South. "As
such he is an historical study. But he
IS of still greater interest as showing
the capabilities of the negro mind. If
forceful oratory, such power to sway
men of his caste, be compatible with
utter ignorance, what might not Jasper
nave become had he been educated in
the forms of truth and trained in the
arts of expressionP" These impress
lions were given by sermon on JAS
per's favorite belief that ''de sun do
move"
He was lamb from the country and
ne fell into the clutches of a couple of
Baltimore wolves, but they didn't fleece
MIN by "a large majority" George
Anderson was his name, farming his
and Anne Arundel county
lis home. 1t was the old story of a
friend of your fathers my dear SIR"
and he consented to take lunch and play
. game of cards ''just for fun" But
when he lost S75 and saw that he was
swindled, the lamb was instaneously
into a lion of the most for
bidding aspect: He arose, grasped
one swindler with each brown paw, and
shook them until their teeth ratified like
:astanets and his money fairly jumped
but of their pockets. When they had