The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-03
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GLEANINGS.

Ia greater than the standing army of the
United States. 1t is no wonder that Ire
land Is discontinued.
President McCosh, of Princeton Col
lege, has written a letter to show that
the tendency to athletic sports at Amer
ican colleges has had bad results. The
craze has been carried too far.
The editor of Michigan paper prints
a striking likeness of himself with re-
volver in each hand. and beneath:
with our office door last Friday nightP"
''Come, now tote fair" is the express
sive negroism employed by the Rich
mond Dispatch in asking to be correctly
represented by an esteemed cotempo-
rary.
General Ross, of Baltimore, has come
into very curious war relic, it being
nothing more than common fence rail
with twenty bullet holes in it-s souve-
mir of Antietam.
A queer and an easy method of shoe
making is practiced by the dwellers on
the Island of St. Helena 1t consists of
wrapping around the feet the soft, warm
skin of the pot-fish, which, in drying,
retains the shape of the foot.
I, That celebrated white elephant, the
Great Eastern, cost its unfortunate pro-
prietors $4,000 for maintenance in the
past year, while her total earnings are
represented by the miserable sum of
$65, which was received as visitors fees.
A Pittsburg firm has just received a
large order from India for heavy
quality of barbed wire. The order
states the wire is to be used for confning
elephants, lions, tigers, and other large
animals.
Mrs. Bowers is three feet high. She
lives in California, with her husband
and four daughters, all of whom are
ordinary in size. At the table she sits
in high chair. But she is rigid dis
ciplinarian, and the children submit ia
being whipped by her.
1t has been discovered that the pri-
mary cause of the break in the canal at
Windsor Locks, Conn.,, by which break
mills were shut down. 1000 men thrown
out of employment and 100000 lost,
was the work of a muskrat that bur-
rowed through the embankment.
Farmers in Pennsylvania are organ
izing clubs for the extirpation of spar
rows. These clubs propose to offer 2f
cents for every dead bird brought in.
Such movement organized throughout
the country would soon bring the spar
row nuisance to an end.
Frequent requests for "a little (boo
hoo) money to help (boo hoo) me to
bury my (boo hoo) son, who died at the
(boo hoo) hospital" have enabled a
New York hag, who never had a son,
to eke out very comfortable existence
for several years past. She has just
been exposed.
After Portland, Oregon, couple had
returned from an elopement tour which
they had planned and carried out with
the utmost secresy and success, their
parents astounded them by welcoming
them home with the remark that there
never had been, so far,as they knew, any
objections to the match.
Charley" remarked Jones, ''you
were born to be a writer. "Ah," re-
piled Charley, blushing slightly at the
compliment; '.you have seen some OF
the things have turned?" NO" said
Jones; II wasn't referring to what you
had written. 1 was simply thinking
what splendid ear You had for carry
ing a pen. Immense, Charley; simply
immenset"
The staining of bricks red is effected
by melting one ounce of glue in gal
lon of water then adding a piece of
alum as large as an egg, one-half pound
of Venetian red, and one pound of
Spanish brown; redness or darkness is
increased by using more red or brown.
For coloring black, heat the bricks and
dip in fluid asphaltum, or in hot mix
ture of linseed oil and asphalt.
Away, them" said Professor Parish
% the thirty-five young women to whom
ne was giving diplomas as graduates of
;he Philadelphia Woman's Medical Col
.ege, with the fallacious reasoning that
woman may with propriety devote her
capabilities to the study of the lily or
.he rose, the spider or the beetle, but
cannot study man, the noblest work Of
God"
The Health Committee of Wheeling
had two bills before it, one for SO cents
for tobacco and cigars for smallpox
patient, and the other for Is cents for
candy for a sick baby. After heated
discussion of nearly two hours, it was
decided that the candy was all right,
out smallpox patient was not entitled,
under the act of the Assembly, to luxu-
ries.
Nothing is more generally useful on a
tarm than sweep or tread horse power.
1t can with proper machinery be applied
10 many purposes, saving wood, cutting
feed in winter; and grinding grain for
stock. A good horse power will thus
save each year many times the interest
IN its cost, and with proper care will
last many years. A small steam engine
will answer the same purpose, but most
farmers have horses that must be fed
whether worked or not.
Edward Atkinson, of Boston, sug-
gests a remedy for 'school-house dam
gers. His plan provides for continu-
Gus balcony connecting all the windows
at each floor of every school-house, not
even excepting the first floor above the
level of the street, such balconies to be
connected with another at several
points by easy flights of steps, fitted
with wooden treads.
1t has become fashionable of late for
artists of worldwide fame to marry
their beautiful female models. James
Whistler married his model, so did
Cabanel, of Paris; Makart, of Antwerp,
and Gregory, of the London Graphic.
1t is darkly limited by cynic that econ
omy has more to do with this artistic
romance than has love; but it was prob
ably Scotchman who originated the
idea.
1t is said that Roscoe Conkling hap
pened in the library of Congress, few
days since, when Mr.. Blaine was work
ing away in side alcove, but the libra
rian answered his questions quickly,
produced the works of reference and
placed the New York lawyer at safe
distance from his old antagonist. The
two men sat within twenty feet of each
other for nearly an hour, and neither
apparently knew of the other proximity.
A rich Chinaman of Rock Springs,
Wyoming, to whom his wife lately pre-
sented Il fine boy, has been entertaining
his friends with an exuberance cores
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