The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-04-24
GLEANINGS.

weighs only 100 pounds.
Mime. Modjeska supports school
Cor Polish children in New York.
Senator Miller, from California, owns
the finest residence in Washington.
The largest city in Japan is Osaka,
which contains 1885, 695 Inhabitants.
M. Tourgeneff's brain is to be pre-
served in the museum at ST. Peters
burg.
The Ohio Legislature authorizes Gin
cinnati to raise the flooded district by
filling in.
DR.. AL Watts, of Boston, has caught
and killed 4,052 dogs during the past
seven years.
A correspondent writing from Mani
toba says the country resembles huge
bankrupt sale. Fl
A factory with facilities for making
100, 900 wooden dishes per day is to be
erected in Chattanooga, Tenn.
In q Chinese city when q man, goes
out after dark he carries q paper lam
tern with his name and address upon 1t.
1t is estimated that the scheme pro-
posed for filling in some of the low
lands at Cincinnati will cost $10O, ,OO0,-
900.
The man who buys the wood burned
by the Maine Central Railroad says that
wood is growing faster than it is cut In
Maine.
Archibald Forbes says that the great
weakness of the Australian character
is the hunger after titles, and decora-
fions.
A Georgia nurseryman is said to have
realized already this season $4,000
from the sale of fruit trees grown on
one acre Of land.
Bonanza Mackey has given his old
Aloe gulch friend, Ike Hardenheimer,
now In Texas, $500, 600. Some years
ago he gave him 100000.
An Anti-Starvation Club is q novelty
of Cedar Rapids. Iowa. The object is
20 provide for members the best board
ing accommodations at the lowest
terms. FL
Resolution by the miners of Alene,
idaho: mot a Chinaman shall ever en-
ter the diggings unless he climbs q
a tree, with one end of lariat over q
limb"
President Taylor, of the Mormon
church, said the other day: when
they come West to wipe out polygamy
they will find 100, 900 muskets pointing
eastward"
Russia, which has an area in Europe
two-thirds as large as the whole United
States, with population of more than
10000, 900, lies almost entirely north Of
the latitude of St. Paul
: At ameeting of the Irish National
League in New York, the other day,
one speaker recommended that bal
looms be sent up over English cities
and that dynamite be dropped from
them.
A resident of Cover, VT, has the dis
tinction of possessing the largest sole
In the state. He wears a shoe that
measures twenty-five inches in length
and is eight inches wide. His friends
have no difficulty in keeping track of
him.
An effort is being made in New Or
leans, La, to establish and maintain
there the same facilities as exist at Cas-
tie Garden for receiving, accommodate
ing and forwarding foreign immigrants.
Charleston, S. c., also desires the
same.
Mr.. Goshen, of England, distin-
.puished statesman, learned historian.
and q philosopher of the pessimistic
school, calls attention to the circum-
stance that the two final decades of ev-
cry century are invariably consecrated
TO revolution.
A young man sends the following
advertisement to the Boston Globe:
.'Wanted. by handsome. virtuOus
eyoung man In easy circumstances, Of
brilliant talents. refined tastes and low
ing disposition, situation as son-in-law
in wealthy family"
A Michigan father objects to his son
taking up the study of physiology.
which is in the regular course of the
schools. The authorities insist The
parent thinks he can select what stud
les he chooses for his boy, and will
take the matter into court.
Hugh j. Jewett is a director in
twenty railroad companies; Samuel
Sloan in twenty-three; Jay Gould in
twenty-four; George B. Roberts in
twenty-six; Augustus Schell in twenty
eight; Sidney Dillon in thirty-six, and
Frederick l.. Ames in fifty-two.
A good story is told about resident
of Brattleboro. VT, finding a yale"
lock key that bore the imprint of the
company's name, and how he very
conscientiously advertised for its own
or, saying that ''Mr. Yale can have his
key by calling on the undersigned in
person"
There il a type of social life in Amer
ica which hold AS inestimably higher
than that of any other land. 1t is as
quiet, as self-respecting. as well-bred
as any. and. added to these, it is more
genuine. more human. more loyal in
friendship, less at the bidding of Mrs.,
Grundy, than any social life know
. Robert Laird Collier.
Good shellac varnish is made as fol-
lows: Take of very pale shellac 5
pounds; mastic, l ounce, and alcohol,
3 or pints, and dissolve in the cold to
prevent the evaporation of the alcohol,
stirring the mixture meanwhile. This
10 good varnish for furniture, and it
is much employed in France by cabinet
makers.
Opium smoking is tho issue in the
mayoralty campaign now being waged
in Vallejo, Nevada. One candidate
pledges himself to support the evil,
: while another plants himself on what
he calls ''the broad Constitution Of
this glorious country" and will allow
every one to smoke or not to smoke, rs
a he pleases.
A Frenchman writes to the New York
Star: '.Mr Bismarck will atfront the
United States. Very good. So shall
we then take him into tho hands and
play on him the hose now. When that
he cannot love the hog American. then
shall we defend from the powerful Ea-
. gle American his bald head. Bis
marck. bahp'
A leading member of the New YorE
Prison Association claims that the
number of criminals is increasing fast
er In proportion than the population of
this country. There are, he says. over
10000 persons now confined in jails t
New York state, and he claims that
one man out of every seventY-tive men
with in the city is criminal.
Pretty Mrs. Wise, of Virginia. says:
stWhan INV husband WAS elected to