The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-05-15
GLEANTNGS.

on oaSIern pursuit.
Travis county, Texas, has a post
Office named Jumbo"
Sewing is now taught in the public
schools of Springfield. Mass.
There are 500 geysers and 500 hot
springs in the Yellowstone National
Park.
Mexico consists of twenty-seven
states, one federal district, and one
tarritory.
Platinum wire has been drawn so
fine as to be absolutely invisible to the
naked eye.
The daughter of Captain Gambia
found his body in the pickle vat of a
Cincinnati medical college.
Four million three hundred and forty
thousand boxes of sardines were pack
ed in Lubec, Me-, last year.
During the present century $50, 00O,-
600 copies of the Bible have been print
ed in 226 different languages.
The new enrolment gives the Ger
man army on war footing 1,487, 700
men besides 340.0 of the landsturm.
All portly street-car conductors in
Philadelphia must go, to give place to
small men weighing less than 130
pounds.
During the twelve years from 1871 to
1882 the number of lives lost by disas-
ter to British ships was 3S, 722, of whom
S5, 5,660 were crew and 3.062 passengers.
An English traveller says that New
York people look one way while they
are walking another. and that strangers
have great trouble in dodging around
them.
The money expended by Americans
for the purchase of pictures in France
within the last twenty years amounts
to 200. 900. 900 francs, which is equal to
$40. 900. 900. ......
A Philadelphia canary bird whistles
yankee Doodle" and waves the Ame-
rican flag. He is valued at 5000, and
has been bought by patriotic gentle
man at Watertown. N. Y.
Henry Ward Beecher says that be-
sides Uncle Toms Cabin" the only
one he ever read of the numerous books
written by his sister, Mrs. Stowe, was
"The Minister'S Wooing."
George William Curtis notices that
the American has lost his extreme
sensitiveness to English comment; that
he is rather an annoying person to a
certain kind of English critic"
Floridians claim that $4,000 North
crners have passed the season in their
State, and that the population of the
State has been increased by 25, 900 per-
manent settlers during the past year.
Eight sons of the late President
Nathan Lord, of Dartmouth College,
were graduated from that institution
during his incumbency of the office.
Only one, Colonel Nathan Lord, Jr.,
now survives.
The city of Manchester, Eng, now
has water reservoirs covering S14 acres
whose mains measure 643 miles, and
they supply 10000, gallons to 900, 900
people daily. The cost thus far has
been G3. $4,000 ....
The census taker of Sherman, Texas,
has unearthed two African centenari-
ans-Uncle Jimmy Atkins, aged log
years, and his wife, Aunt Lefty, aged
100 Both are in good health and sup
port themselves, with some assistance
from their white friends.
John w. Mackey. the bonanza king,
showed his disregard for the value of
money and his regard for his old friend
Tom Ochiltree, by paying a couple of
thousand dollars to have the latter S
speech on the Lasker resolution cabled
to the European press verbatim.
Professor Alexander Agassiz, "wor-
thy son Of an illustrious sire," has al
ready spent $500. 600 of his own private
moneys on the Museum of Comparative
Zoology ct Cambridge. He intends
erecting a. large aquarium, and has
been looking at the mammoth one in
Naples.
S. L. Leighton, of North Pasadena,
Cal, has killed a lioness which was
robbing his corral. An examination Of
the beast showed her to be a powerful
creature six feet three inches long and
twenty-eight inches high. She was in
fine condition. with claws and teeth il
sharp, serviceable order, and weighed
about 200 pounds.
james Russell Lowell writes to +:
friend in Boston that he likes living il
London ''all but the living" He il
becoming dyspeptic, and attributes it t.
tho entire and enforced abstinenc,
from fresh and salt cod, clans, buck
wheat cakes and baked beans, whicl
are luxuries and actual necessities al
most wholly unknown in Great Britain
The editor of the Atlanta Constitution
writes: "When good tea is secured yol
should use one full teaspoonful fo
each person and one for the pot; boi
the water in clean kettle, and whef
1t boils put the required quantity of te:
In the teapot and pour on the boiling
water. allowing it TO stand about tifteer
minutes. Then pour into fine chin;
teapot to serve ut the table. Nevej
make the tea in anything but n chin;
or brown stone pot
A fat ladies ball was given at Balti
more the other night 1t was leap
year entertainment, and conducted OF
the strietest rules governing such af
fairs. Ladies tipping the beam at 20f
pounds and over tripped around a!
gaily and seemed to enjoy themselve.
as much as if they only weighed 100
At the entrance scales were stationed
and each lady was given a card certify
ing TO their avordupois. The ightes
weight allowed in the promenade wa
200 pounds.
A novel and interesting entertain
ment took place in London the othe
night. A number of deaf mutes be
longing to the Hackney Mission to tn
Deaf and Dumb gave a dramatic per
formance. The pieces selected wer
1.-The School for Scandal" and eth
Sorrow of Mr.. Snooks." The charac
ters in both of these plays were repre-
sented exclusively by deaf mutes, ant
the audience was largely composed o
the same class of people. The perform
ance, which was in the sign language
gave great delight to the audience o
deaf mutes.
A new plan of dividing the year i
proposed by DIR. Theodore damon, O
Auburn. who says it should begin wit
March /. the beginning of spring. Thi
he urges would bring our artificial
',eivic' year. so-called, into harmon.
with the year of nature. 1t would be
gin its s.March" with the awakening G
plant life; September, October, Novem
ber, and December would, in reality
be the seventh, eighth, ninth and tent
months; and the year would come to
ol1sa nth Eabrro rxy which uOI1ld he