The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-31
GLEANINltS,


Almost within sight of the Court
House at Monticello, Fla, there are 800
acres in watermelons and ninety acres
in potatoes, which crops are expected
to realize $4,000 for their producers.
When the Tennessee papers sent in
their bills for advertising, according to
the published rates, the state authorities
cut down the charges fifty per cent.
This was a taste of the sweets of repudia-
ton.
Theilongest word in the English Ian
guage is honorifcabilitudinity, which
has eleven syllables. 1t is appropriate
to Congressman and such dignitaries,
since itsignities the state Of being hon
orable.
Tho free libraries recently established
in every reimbursement of Paris had
totalissue last year of 1868, 900 volumes.
But of this total no less than 200, ,00O
were fiction, 10000 poetry and $4,000
history or science.
The subscriptions raised in Great Bri-
tain after caIamities are often astonish-
ingly large. That for the relief of the
families of the 167 fishermen who per-
ished in 1882. off Eyemouth, amounts to
over $250,O00.
Queen Victoria's Park estate on the
Harrow Road has 2.17S comfortable
houses to let to workmen, laborers and
railway men. On the Shaftesbury es-
tate arc 1,200 dwelling houses, rented.
On an average, six and half persons
live in one house.
Only eight insane asylums had been
built in the United States in 1904, be-
ing state institutions; by 1910, sixteen
were built; by 1850, twenty-five; 1860,
forty-four; and by 1880, ninety, of which
sixty-six are supported wholly or in part
by state aid.
The sword of Hampden, who was kill
ed while waving it to cheer his msn for
a charge against Prince Rupert, has re-
Gently been sold at auction for EGO. 1t
is a rapier OF steel, with cross .hilt and
scroll guard, and is thirty eight inches
long from the hand plate.
Miss Belle Bryan, of Lafayette, Ind,
who had one-quarter of her skull torn
out in q sleighing accident last winter,
is in fair way to recover, although she
lost more than cupful of brains Her
mind is clear and she suffers but little
pain.
Out on Texas prairie, several miles
from the coast, lies the remains of a
Spanish-built ship. No one appears to
know anything of its history, rs it was
there before the "oldcst inhabitant.' % 1t
is supposed, however, to have been car
ried there by a tidal wave.
Tho cultivation of the olive in Cali
fornia promises to be a great Success
The trees begin bearing in three years,
and continue to yield for centuries.
Some of the olive trees are already eight
years old, and produce $50 bushels of
fruit to the acre. representing $3.50 in
oil.
Loo Chin Coon, the famous Chinese
actor, was asked what ne thought of the
Chinese drama in America. His eyes
took on u dreamy, far away look, as If
he were thinking of other days in the
Flowery Kingdom. Then he said with
great emotion: mo" ''No what?'
"No sabbe"
At the railroad station in West Corn
wall, N. Y, the travellers were stupe-
fled at seeing young woman attempt
the difficult feat of entering the car
through the window. She had never
before seen a railroad train, having liv-
cd in the inland country, and said she
thought that was the regular method of
ingress.
A young lady of Lincoln, Neb., has
sued well-to-do young man from the
country for breach of promise, they hav-
ing been formally engaged and the day
set for the wedding. He says that he
discovered that she powdered, and he
did not believe that any girl who did
that would make good wife for farm
er.
America supplies the world with Cos
Samer water-nroof garmantS The
of Boston, Mass, turns out 5000 gar
ments day, and their drying tables
cover forty acres of ground. The goods
are sold in Australia and South Africa,
in Europe and Asia, South America and
in the Sandwich Islands.
1t is told of General w. 7. Sherman
that when he was Lieutenant of artil-
lery stationed in Upper California, he
once undertook to brew big bowl of
punch. He used 100 gallons OF Califor-
MIA agaurdient, but spoiled the punch
by mixing it with salt water and for
getting to put in any lemon or lime
juice.
Immense reservoirs of naphtha have
been struck at Balachana and Sabunt-
scha, in the neighborhood of Baku, in
Russia. There are ut present twenty !
springs in full flow. Tho gush is de- |
scribed as extraordinary. Tho price at |
present is II little less than 2 copecks
per pood, or fraction less than half, |
penny per thirty-six pounds English.
Connecticut is accused of stinginess
in investigating crime. A man was re-
Gently found dead under some railroad |
ties, and there was reason to believe |
that they were piled on him by murder |
ers; but he was only Tramp, it would |
cost u fcw dollars to search out tho |
truth, and the matter was coolly drop |
ped. This is said to be fairly illustra- |
tive case.
One of the special features of the Lon
don Fish Exhibition is TO be fish din |
ner. provided at very low price, and !
which will be served every day from II |
to 8. Some kinds of fish will be fur
nished as low as a penny. The object |
of this is to introduce fish as food among
the lower classes of English, who have, |
1t appears, an intense prejudice against
it.
1t Is alleged that careful statistical |
80 'S'SAcSsS'NA ''iiA'iAS2 UIIO NO'N ASIl JldtlS !
of an entire county in England has prov
ed the smoking tcetotalcrs to be over
five times more liable to break their
pledges than those who abstain from
tobacco. Consequently, the newest
craze in the ranks of the hydropads is a
''thorough-going badge of blue, with a
white stripe down the middle, "the mean
ing of which is that the wearer has
taken pledge not to uso tobacco.
T1e latter half of the present century
is period of gigantic undertakings
The Suez canal is marvel of engineer
ing skill, and in addition to the present
Panama canal and the scheme for flood
ing the desert of Sahara, it is proposed
to drain the Valley of Mexico at cost
of 100000. This work will be
continuation of that begun in the sec
ond century after the conquest, and
when completed will completely change
the sanitary and agricultural conditions
of the valley.
In tho nrisOns 0f RucSia hy1ilt for tho