The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-07-26
GLEANINGs

Kansas City has mule 18i hand
high that weighs 1875 pounds.
:, Pine trees are being killed rapidly b,
an insect in Arkansas. ~
Portland, Me-, has added 1000 to he
people in three years, and now her popu
lation is about $4,000. - -
The electric light on the tower of tn,
Grand Union. Saratoga. can be seen
distance of ten miles.
Boston's exports are largely on the in
crease. while her imports have decreas
ed.--Bostoa Traveller.
Walter Evans, who died on his farm
gnear Reading, Pa, recently, at the age
OF 80, lived on that farm all his life, never
left it, and never saw a railroad train
Georgia woman killed, duck {
few days Ago which had scale of gold
nearly rs large as grain of corn in its
gizzard.
Some holders of Confederate bonds in
Georgia refuse to sell at present prices,
as thGy believe the bonds will advance
in two or three years.
Ebcn E. Rexford, the Wisconsin poet
lives a retired life in the dull village Of
Shiocon. He SAYS no gets all the way
from $5 to $40 for stories and SO to $25
for poems. -
sCanker worms are despoiling the elms
OF their foliage in New England. Orch
ards and shade trees in other parts oi
the country are suffering from the same
pest. f
The New York Mail says that nine
ont Of ten. ahdprobably ninety-nine out
of ahundred, of persons who solicit aims
on the streets spend what they receive
for drink.
The Athens (Ga.,) Banner says: awe
don't want the Colonels ruled ont of DO
litics They could not be ruled out of
the bar-rooms and hotels during the war,
and now they must have some showing,
80 let them stay in politics; they are
harmless.
The Philadelphia Ledger thinks that,
on reasonably fast railroad time, train
should run from that city to San Fran
cisco in four and one-half days, instead
of the proposed six days. of which some
people have been Dragging. For about
a dozen years the time from ocean to
ocean has been seven days.
Florida is said to contain mysterious
and unknown region never yet visited
by white men, and inhabited by a rem
nant of the Seminoles, as yet untainted
by civilization. A party of New Orleans
journalists propose to explore this terra
Mr. r. II. Wadlow, Brooklyn, Ga,
man, after three years hard work and
study, has finally invented and patented a
new method of making shoes. The en-
tire uppers of these shoes are of one
piece, with no seams that touch the foot.
They are made with an adjustable in-
step, and fastened with buckles of his
own invention. asAf ~ ~.
Professor jaeger, the soul-smeller, :" as
he is familiarly called in nGermany, late
1y delivered a lecture IN which he in
sisted upon the expediency of wearing
animal iibers, and only them, next the
skin. He would not have cotton or linen
even for the lining of clothes. Profess
sor jaeger can amuse, if he does not in
struct s -
Mrs. Anna E. Thayer, who died in
Newark, recently, was thought by many
persons to have been at one time the
handsomest woman in New JERSEY. She
was about 60 years old, and even in her
last days she attracted attention wher-
ever she went by her beautiful face and
stately bearing.
1t is said that the way to fight the
canker worm, which robs elms of their
foliage, is to dig up the ground under
the trees in Winter, when frost, birds
and hogs may get at them. The moth
that lays the eggs in the branches can
not fly, and anything Kept about the
tree from January till May, that will
prevent her ascending, will do the work.
Two young men of excellent address,
and their wives of equally good appear
ance, offered their services as clerks in
o Missouri store. As they showed q
familiarity with the business, and were
willing to work for half Of the usual
wages, the four old employees of the con-
cern were dismissed to give places tc
the strangers. One dark night at the
end of a month they disappeared with
$4,000 worth of goods. rsPhF
We don't know where it got the news,
but, this is what the Philadelphia Iele.
graph says: david Davis, since marry.
ing and settling down in Bloomington,
has conceived great fancy for flute
music. He used to play a flute quite
well when a young man. and he has now
returned to the paStime. Persons pass.
ing his house of an evening now catch n
glimpse of him at darkened window
evoking soft melancholy strains from an
elaborate flute"
have been acquainted, under cir.
cumstances of more or less intimacy,
with most of the prominent men in every
department of life during the past quar-.
ter of ~ century, but in readiness and
versatility of resources, in the power OF
instant and intense industry at will, in
the ability to bring. at once and upon
call all their resources and information
to the question at hand, in the rare
faculty of watching and thinking at the
same moment, none of them have COM
pared with Horace Greeley, and Henry
j. Raymond.-C ChGitscey M Depes,.s -
Near the famous Kanawha Falls. w.
Va, an immense cliff overhangs the
river. For some years past this cliff has
had tenant. who dug hole under its
huge wings and lives there all alone.
He isl very old darkey, and he has the
den divided off into apartments, one for
sleeping, another for dining-room and
one for kitchen. He does his own cook
ing, and lives by fishing and hunting
AA0 oSCiAb pCkAOCttJ o4LAo-
fed, and can almost always be found un-
der the rocks of this cave.
! Miss Rosalind A. Young. who couple
of years ago wrote an article about Pit
CAIRNS Island for ,Scri6ner's Magazine,
Is still living in that out-of-the-way spot.
Her father is pastor of the island church
and teacher of the school, and she Is or
ganist and assistant teacher. She is,
about twenty-six years old and, writes
retired sea-Captain who not long ago
visited her at her home, ''she weighs
two hundred pounds, never had shoe
on her foot, and if necessary could swim
off to a ship four miles from the island
and back again to shore. and then go
into the little church and play the Or
gan nearly as well as any young lady
In the States. r.
Church,going in the United States is
not diminishing, it is Increasing gin what
ratio to the increase of population can
only, at present, be "a matter of estimate.