The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-08
GLEANINGS.


Old Ned, the alleged last domestic OF
Henry Clay, and who assisted in Dig
ging the grave of the Sage of Ashland,
Is said to have died recently in Texas.
The works of Zola have been sup
pressed in Germany, and now the Ger
mans are, of course, so interested that
the books will have large surreptitious
sale.
Liberty enlightening the world will
set her torch ablaze on Bedloe's Island,
in New York harbor, November 25, the
centennial anniversary of the evacua-
ton.
Canada is recklessly piling up its
debt. In three years it has increased
S45, ,000,0 900. Perhaps the mother country
will pay it-when she pays her own
debt.
The late Louis Blanc has left SIS, 900
to Partisan children who have been de-
serted by their parents. The deserving
OF each year are to receive savings bank
books with 500 set down to their credit.
An English nobleman, who died late
ly, left instructions by will that his fun
eral should not cost more than ESQ.
"My father's," he wrote, "cost f500,
which consider a shameful waste OF
money"
Albert Hires, who is prominent in po-
litical affairs in Nevada, once saved his
life by the use of a Masonic sign. He
was attacked by Indians in New Mexi-
co, and was recognized by an Indian
Mason, when about to be scalped.
The hair of girl employed in the
Elgin watch factory was caught in the
machinery and violently pulled. From
that time all the new growth was white,
and now the receding color has reached
point half way to the ends.
There are about 10000 working wo-
men in Boston whose average pay is 81
q week, and whose board costs them an
average of $3.50 week. This leaves
them $26 year for clothing and Incl
dentals.
The ups and downs of life were never
more strikingly illustrated than in a
Georgia village, few days ago, when a
poverty-stricken young man died at the
house of an old negro woman who was
his fathers slave before the war.
An American went to see M. and
Mime. Damsla, in Paris, and asked Sa-
rah's husband what he could wish him.
The ex-actor (for he will never tread the
boards again) responded, after reflect
ing for some seconds: ''Wish me pa
tiencer' Sarah is trying when in bad
temper.
The children of public school at
Hamilton, Can, had been told what to
do in case of a fire, and so, when some
woodwork broke into flame from the
heat of a stove-pipe, they coolly and
steadily formed files under the direction
of the teachers, and marched uncon-
fusedly out of the building.
A West Virginia maiden walked thir-
ty miles to wed her lover, and then
started to walk back to whence she
came. Three miles out she gave out.
The new husband left her at wayside
house, with instructions to " come on in
the morning." He trudged along alone,
and she followed next day.
1t is said that the ordinary Hindu OF
to-day has vague impression that after
death he will be absorbed, body and
soul, into supreme being who is be-
yond all the gods and goddesses. f-you
look around, says the Boston Herald
man you will find those who are not
Hindus that seem to have similar inn
preston.
In Nashua, N. H., large part of the
best society is made up of those who
have sometime been employed in the
mills. One writer says that, among the
leading people, woman over so years
who has never worked in the mills is an
exception. And yet nowhere in New
England is there more culture and re-
fnement, and it speaks triumphant
proof that labor and culture are not in
any degree incompatible.
Ex-Gov. Seymour, in long letter on
canals TO The Buffalo Express, states his
belief that the canals in future will be
chiefly used to transport coarse and
cheap articles, like lumber, stone, clay,
and coal, which railroads cannot carry
as well, and which, as our population
increases, will grow in tonnage i'm
mensely. He is disposed to think that
increased efficiency lies in the direction
Of faster boats, rather than in enlarging
the canals.
Uncle Fielding billiard, one of the
most esteemed citizens of Oglethorpe,
Ca, has pointer dog that takes the
cake, not surreptitiously, as hea4hen
% dogs do, but piously and on the square
His master is a sincere Christian, and
has family prayers night and morning,
and when this dog sees his master open
the bible to begin services, he comes
and lies down close to him; then when
Mr.. ID. kneels down to pray, he will
stretch out on the floor and groan as if
he we're responding.
Russell Sturges was poor Boston
boy, and became ten-millionaire in
London through his connection with the
famous banking house of Barring Broth
ers. He always attributed his success
in life to the fact that he got on the
wrong steamer by mistake, and thus led
to make the acquaintance of the firm in
which he made his money. If the name
of that steamer were given it might
have practical interest to other fortune
hunters.
Among the many amazing things told
by Professor Langley about the sun is
that if bed of coal of the size of the
state of Pennsylvania, and ten feet thick,
were suddenly showed into the sun, it
would be used in keeping up the pres
ent energy of the sun for just one-hund-
rcdth part of second Another Illus
tration is his estimate that the rainfall
on Manhattan Island for three months,
loaded as ice, would fill train extend
ing from Jersey City to San Francisco.
Samuel Scott, Of Wartburg, Tenn,
has just died, his weight being $50
pounds. 1t is thought that his death was
due to his extreme obesity. He was
about five feet eight inches tall, but his
body was puffed out to an abnormal
size, and he could scarcely walk. His
physicians would not allow him to be in
bed, and he slept in very peculiar po-
sition, usually kneeling, with his head
resting on chair. 1t is said he would
sleep as well in this apparently uncom-
Portable attitude as any one in bed OF
down. He disregarded his physician S
advice, however, and went to bed as
any other person, and died during the
night, it is thought, of asphyxia.
There was new departure, few
nights since, at McMinnville, Tenn, tc
raise money to buy church organ. The
plan devised was sale of the young
ladies to the highest bidder. The young
men were out en- masse, and one by one
the fair ladies were knocked down by