The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-06-14
GLEANINGS.

In Boston shop window Is bridge
made of 100000 miles of spool silk.
A Now Yorker writes that Denver is
far more cosmopolitan than Chicago.
Servant girls in Helena, Montana and
Portland, Oregon, get $50 u month.
San Francisco has a worse record for
divorces than Chicago or st. Louis.
A Dresden artist has made a watch
entirely of paper, which keeps good
time.
Deer hunting is favorito sport of
some of the young ladies ofCentervillo,
Tenn.
The ground upon which Cincinnati
stands was purchased byJ. G. Symmes,
about ninety years ago, for 81 cents per
acre.
There arc said to be 2,20O convicts
in the Texas penitentiary. OF this
number three-tifths are negroes and
Mexicans.
Tho chemist of tho Agricultural De-
partment at Washington says that the
soil best adapted for tho growth of
sorghum for sugar appears to be sandy
loan.
Miss Belle Cushman Eaton, of Boston,
only IL years Of age, grand-niece of tho
late Charlotte Cushman, has entered the
field as public reader, and is said to
be a success.
Tall, slim men, with spider legs,
should wear close but not tight-fitting
garments. Fat men look best in tight
pantaloons; swells wear stripes, gam
blers plaids.
1t is stated that Mmc. Patti will sing
in opera in this country next season,
Mapleson, at a salary of $4,000 per
night.
Fifty thousand bushels Of corn are
used daily in the manufacture of glucose
in the United States. 1t is chiefly used
TO adulterate sugar, syrup, candies and
beer
An authority says there are 81, ,900,-
900, 600 invested in the c. 100000 miles of
fences in the United States, and that
they have to be renewed on an average
once in fifteen years.
Complaint is made at Sierra Leone,
Africa, that tobacco imported from the
United States is, dishonesty packed and
that large proportion of tho importa-
tion is not according to sample
The lato Marshall Jewell, of Con-
nectcut, is TO be honored by the peo-
pie of Denver, Col, who have decided
to name new park on the outskirts
of that city ''the Marshall Jewell
Park"
From the Duchy of Cornwall last
year, tho Prince ofWales received sum
of E63, $40, the total receipts of the
Duchy having been E105, ,052. of which
E10, $50 were balance from the previ-
Gus year.
Krupp's works, at Essen, Germany,
now employ 439 steam boilers and 400
steam engines, with the aggregate of 1S,
500-horso power. There are 80 steam
hammers, carrying weights ranging
from 200 pounds to so tons.
A lady In Providence has, among her
elegant articles of bric-a-brac in her par
lor, large carved wooden spoon with n
wooden chain attached, hung by the side
of the fireplace This unique ornament
is over 200 years old.
Servant-girls in Helena, Montana, T.,
and Portland, Oregon, get $4,000 a
month. They might get it in this State
if they could be persuaded to do suf-
ficient work to earn it--RochcSter De7rs-
ocrGt.
William Knight, who died in Loreina,
Ala, recently, was 100 years old, and
had served through tine war of 1912. He
leaves 165 children and grandchildren.
Besides these n great many are dead,
some dying from old age.
Simmons, of Manson, Ia, dug els
tern for his neighbor, Moody. On set
tlemcnt there was difference of So. Tho
suit following has been tried iiyc times
in several counties and has accumulated
over 1000 costs. :,
In Lyons, France, the cold-bath meth
cd treating typhoid fever has been
adopted with marked success. In the
civil hospitals the death rate was reduced
from rs to 9 per cent, and in private
practice to or per cent
To remove fixed glass shoppers, tap
md then unscrew with this sort of y
wrench made of piece of strong wood:
Have tho wood 3.5 5inches long and ;nch
in breadth and depth, with piece NOR
tised out large enough TO admit the fiat
part of the glass stopper.
Competition between the two gas
companies of Baltimore has brought
the price of gas down to 81 per thou
sand, and 1t is believed by some that
they will be offering it before long at
25 cents, throwing in u beautiful chro-
no."
Rattlesnake skins are much used in
Florida for ladies' belts and slippers arc
also made of the same material, the rat
tics serving as ornaments thcrcupon,
instead of bows or tasscis. Northern
visitors come home bearing numbers of
these trophies of their sojourn.
Bismarck, it is said, was much affect
cd by the news of Prince Gortschakolf's S
death "Beaconsfield and Gortscha-
koif," he remarked to those around him
1.-THE only men whom l could becom-
ingly recognize as aptagonists-both
disappeared! Friends, my turn is COM
ing"
The cut of lumber this season in the
pinerios of Minnesota and Wisconsin has
largely exceeded that of any previous
year The extra quantity OF lumber is
probably no greater than is warranted
by the increased demand, but the in
crease only tends more rapidly to the fl
nal destruction Of the pine.
The Governor of Texas has signed tho
of public lands at 50 for common with
transient water. and $3 per acre with
permanent water; mineral lands to be
leased. A special commission is provid-
ed for transacting the land business con-
nected with the sale of school, univcrs-
ity and asylum lands.
Maj. Low, of Brooklyn, advocates the
Swedish system governing the sales OF
beer and spirituous liquors. Under this
system q city is divided into excise dis
tricts, the number of saloons allowed in
each district is fixed by law according
to population, and exclusive rights to
sell liquor are sold at public auction to
the highest bidder.
Massachusetts has still within its
borders few representatives of its thir-
teen original tribes of Indians, number
ing about 225 families and 1000 indi-
viduals. 1t is thought to be doubtful il
any of them are of pure aboriginal
blood, and their number IS slowly de-
creasing as the years 90 by. Extcr.
rOination snpma tn he their Suro destined