The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-09-25
GLEANINGS.
The gum on postal notes has been
found to be poisonous.

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The Pullman shops located at Elmi-
IA, New York, are to be removed to
Pullman, Illinois.
1t is estimated that typhoid fever
causes l5 per cent. of the annual deaths
in England and Wales.
In a telegraphic contest at New
York, the other day. 500 words were
sent IN ten minutes ten seconds.
A San Diego turnip measured twenty
seven inches in circumference and
weighed seven and half pounds.
Common chamois skins are only
sheep skins carefully tanned. Real
chamois skins are very expensive.
The Germans have succeeded in
making the finest and most delicate
wheels of watches from paper pulp.
nj. Leon Roches, who has done the
pilgrimage 10 Mecca, estimates the
population at 60. 600 and the camels at
10000.
MIR. Labouchare says that probably
the strongest feeling in Beaconstield's
heart was contempt of his own fol-
lowers.
Ignorance of reading and writing is
SO preealent in Mexico that tho letter
writer is an established institution OF
the country.
Lieutenant Grccly was troubled with
a slight hemmorhage of the lungs when
he went North, but it has now entirely
disappeared.
The season at the seaside has pro-
duced new adjective. The ''not-
enoughness" of bathing suits is fire.
quently mentioned.
An animal has been discovered in
the West which is said to be half buff
falo and half iackass-must have stray
ed from Wall street.
Railway cars drawn by camels, 1t Is
said, will shortly constitute one OF the
peculiar features of travel and trans
portation in Central Asia.
The island of Cuba is completely
bankrupt There is no money OF cred
it, and the planters have been compell-
ed to discharge their hands.
A man at Enterprise. Miss. has tax
en- out patent for an invention for
hitching horse to buggy without
any harness except the collar.
A substitute for genuine hair is now
made out of the inner lining of tho bud
OF the palmetto tree. 1t can be made
of any length and dyed any color.
The aggregate production of coal in
1883 in Great Britain. the United States,
Germany, France and Belgium was
81, 1000, 900 tons, in round numbers.
For many years it was a rule that no
officer in the Italian army should be a
married man, but complaints became
so numerous that the King relaxed the
rule.
John Derringer. of Philadelphia, has
become insane because his wife twice
disappointed him by presenting him
with girls when his heart was set ON q
boy.
Puscher. the Nuremburg chemist,
says paste composed of starch. gly-
cerene and gypsum will maintain its
Elasticity longer than any other ce-
ment.
Mrs. Skidmore, of New York, is 120
wears old, has had five husbands, has
smoked the same pipe for ffty-five
wears, and was once kissed By George
Washington.
George Semple, of Green Island, n.
Y, dug up in his garden crock filled
with ancient Spanish coin, valued al
$4,000, which had evidently been buri-
ed 200 years ago.
1t is believed that artificial tails may
be grown on animals, since the Cni-
nese have succeeded in raising gold
fish with exceedingly long appendages.
Darwinism in reality.
Pulmonary consumption is the cause
of one death in twelve in New York
State, and the State Board of Health
has laid the cause TO the bad ventila'
tion in school rooms.
A Scotchman proclaims himself as
the champion poSt-hole digger of the
world. He exhibits a Notwithstanding
cd record of seventy-nine post-holes.
three feet deep, dug in one day.
The frankest lawyer in the profess.
ion is one who advertises at Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio, that he ''gets time to at
tend to a limited amount of profession
nj business, to vital he can get"
A young man in Ohio wanted some
ammunition for his shotgun. So he
put some giant powder in a coffee
mill and began TO turnSthe crank. He
will never repeat the experiment.
Pennamaquon Lake, at Charlotte,
Maine. has developed q sea-scrpent
which glides along showing twenty
feet of its body out of the water. Per-
haps it's merely the name of the lake
swimming around.
Three bulldogs werc set upon a wild
cat few days ago by some West Vir-
ginia men, the cat being chained to
prevent its escape. 1t was the dogs.
however. that did not escape, rs the Cat
killed all three of them.
Among the exhibits that will be sent
to the New Orleans Exhibit from Choc-
taw County. Alabama. is hewcl stick
OF pine. 81 feet long. ~ inches square
in the middle. and containing 11,760
feet, board measure.
If two submarine divers, down in
the water together, desire to converse
they must lie fat on their breasts.
While standing up they cannot make
themselves heard. So says an old div
er. who ought to know.
The climate of Montana is said to be
changing. Formerly the summers were
cool. with cold nights, and winter set
in as early as October. with late springs.
Now they have warm nights in sum-
mer. late falls and early springs.
1t is estimated that 5000. 900 sheep
have been killed by the drought all
over Australia this season, with pro-
portionate 4oss in cattle and horses.
In one part of Queensland no rain, ex-
cept passing shower. has fallen for
seventeen months.
General Carol Tevis, of PEiladel-
phia, who served in the armies of the
United States. Turkey and France, is
one of the finest swordsmen to be found
either in this country or in Europe.
One of his feats is TO fling silk hand
kerchief into the air and cut it to pieces
with Turkish saber before it drops to
the ground.
Grasshopper soup. favorite dish of
the Piute Innians. is an economical
dish. because bushel of grasshoppers
will make soup enough to last ten or
fifteen persons week. The hoppers
are left in the kettle after the first
meal. and reboiled with fresh additions
of water. When they have lost their
flavor in soup they are eaten.