The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-01-11
GLEANINGS.

nishing maple logs to be shipped. to
Belgium. They are quite curiosity
over there.
Miss Mary Probyn, the girl author of
many dainty verses, has new volume
in press. 1t is entitled Gentleman
Jack, and Other Poems,"
A fine pointer dog died at Charlotte,
N. c., very mysteriously. An autopsy
revealed over quarter of a pound of
nails in his stomach
Sixteen years ago Syracuse girl in
trusted lamb to farmer. A few days
ago she was awarded a Judgment of
$3.50 for the increase of the lamb.
"When l was student" said dis
tinguished professor of medicine, II
thought had remedy for nearly every
disease. At present l only wish pos
sessed a sure one for a single malady."
1t is stated that carp pond in She
nandoah county, Virginia, has in it
thousands of carp from six and eight
pounds down to those of last summers
Matching. The pond was stocked only
two years ago.
The attorney general of Pennsylvania
has written an opinion to the effect that
the governor has not the power to re-
store to citizenship person who has
lost the franchise by reason of convic-
tion for violation of the election laws.
Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, gives to
his official duties the closest personal at
tention, has no redtape, Eno circumlocu-
ton. His office hours are all the hours
of the day, and he listens patiently to
every one of his many visitors that con-
stantly throng about his rooms.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that
goats are the best land cleaners known.
1t mentions that a herd of ten hundred
entirely cleared piece of brushland,
consisting of five hundred acres, in three
years. So complete was the work that
not .vestige of underground was left.
A Philadelphia man has invented a
doll which creeps, sings and, if wound
up at bed time, will yell like wild In
dian right in the middle of the night.
The Philadelphia Nea0s man advises all
young fellows contemplating matrimony
to buy one and see how they like it.
A car factory in Georgia is alleged to
have paid 25 per cent. cash dividend
and passed II per cent. cash to q reserve
fund the first year of its operation. 1t
built six hundred cars that year, and
has capacity of over twelve hundred
per annum. This year it is doing even
better.
A valuable COW belonging to the Hon.
Harrison Bailey, of Kentucky, broke
into corn-ield and gorged herself so
that she was about to die. A surgeon
made an incision in her side and took
out over six bushels of corn, corn-stalks
and grass. The opening healed up,
and the COW is doing as we'll as ever.
A California farmer hunts wild geese
with COW. He has trained the animal
to walk slowly out into the field where
flock of geese has settled on the grain.
She browses meanwhile and he walks
alongside on the side away from the
geese. When within shooting distance
he gently murmurs, $500, boss" and
the obedient bovine lies down. He rests
his fowling piece over her back and
blazes away, both barrels at once, and
bags thirty or forty of the geese.
The value of Tennessee mountain
lands, of which Col. Sellers held title to
vast estates, is illustrated by story
told by The lockwood CTenn. Republ:-
can. Col. Duncan this week made a
present to Mr.. Stith of one thousand
acres of mountain land by way of COM
pensation for the preservation of his life
last week. Mr.. Stith shortly afterward
gave Col. Duncan five hundred acres of
the land for drink of apple brandy,
and within the next half hour gave him
back the other five hundred acres for
the same consideration.
Queen Victoria seems to be treated
with deplorable disrcspcct by the mer-
chant princes of London. Her Majesty j
statue in the central area of the Royal
Exchange is reported by the London
Times to be in disgracefully dirty con-
ditiOn, with the right arm broken off ut
the certainly not an agreeable
object for her loyal subjects to contem-
plate.
According to comprehensive statisti-
cal return lately published in Germany,
there are in Europe ninety-two cities
with more than 100000 inhabitants, out
of which four capitals show each over a
million population, rs follows: London,
1892, ,440; Paris, 2,225,9 Berlin, L.
125,500; Vienna, 1,103, 110. Out of the
ninety-two cities and towns referred to,
England claims 26, Germany 16, Italy
II, France 10 and Russia s. The others
are divided among the smaller states.
There were in the United States in 1880,
twenty cities having 100000 inhabitants
and upward.
Parallelism between the Bible and the
works of Shakespeare is the proposition
which the compiler of a small volume,
lately published in London, aims to
establish. His work is bringing to-
gether of corresponding passages, but it
is not always that the parallelism ex-
tends to the thought, being often merely
similarity of subjects. 1t is pretty gem
orally known, says the Boston Herald,
that Shakespeare, among his many
sources, drew freely from the rich store
house of character which the Scripture
contains.
Little drops of water and little grains
of sand do not amount to much individ-
ually, but when collected into an ocean,
or as the componentparts of the beaute-
Gus land, their Importance is acknowl-
edged. Five years ago capital of
SS0,0W was invested in the industry of
bringing sand into New York City. At
the present time $2,000,O00 are thus
eHlplOyeu, uuu lllc utliN TeCClpIS Dy
boats average 4,500 tons. The greater
portion of this great quantity is sup
posed to be used in making railway
''sand'' wiches, though no account is
given of the amount of cement employ
ed to effect the proper consistency.
Herr Won Bismarck had shoemaker
who had often broken faith with him,
despite his most solemn promises, and
he at length resolved to put stop to
this sort of thing. One morning at
o'clock messenger was dispatched to
the dilatorY shoemaker with the simple
question: care Herr Won Bismarck s
boots ready?" Being answered in the
negative the messenger departed, but in
ten minutes there was another ring at
the shop door. A second messenger
thrust in his head with the inquiry
care Herr Won Bismarck's boots ready? ?''
And SO it went on every ten minutes,
the same question all the day through
until evening, when at last the boots
were finished. Never again did that
shoemaker keep Bismarck waiting for
his boots.
Among the immigrants arriving at