The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-11
GLEANINGS.
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on the forests of Maine.
Il have been," says an American
gentleman, Ito Spa, Ems, Homburg,
Fichy and all the most extravaganza
watcring-places in France, Italy and
Germany, but for expense and discom-
fort none were like an English water
ing-placc.
DIR. Schweninger. of Munich, has dis
covered a new mode of reducing the
bulk of the human frame. 1t is, never
to eat and drink at the same time. but
to let two hours intervene. He has, it
is said, cured Prince Bismarck of
tendency to obesity in. this way.
An Italian has been studying the
relation of malaria fever at Rome
TO the weather, and finds that wet
spring is followed by an excess of
fever in July and August, while those
seasons which enjoy the longest vista
tion of the dry sirocco winds show a
minimum of fever.
Mohammedans in Morocco have dis
played almost rs much brutality to-
ward the Jews as Christian Russians.
Because an aged rabbi refused to draw
false deeds of debt against Jews in IA
yor of 4 Governor, he was whipped and
pilloried in the scorching sun. Another
rabbi was dragged through the street
by the hair and then logged.
The law about the admission of
the Chinese is so rigidly enforced on
the Pacific coast that Chinaman resi-
dent in San Francisco found, on going
across the line into British America,
that he could not get back without
making the journey to China and re-
turn in order TO obtain certificate that
he was merchant and not laborer.
The Oneen snubbed the Prince of
Wales and one or two other persOnages
pretty severely when they proposed to
her Majesty that Baker Pasha should
be connected with Lord Wolseley's
Egyptian expedition. She informed
the Prince and the rest that her decis-
ion in regard to eS-COlonel Valentine
: Baker was unalterable. and that she
wished to hear no more about it.
e. A Charleston. 5. c., paper says some
sailors caught a queer fish in the har-
bor there. 1T is foot long, has a
6 head like a frog, its body being like
that of any other fish, except that in
stead of the fore lin there are two large
wings, eight inches long and five inch
es across. The wings are speckled
like those of whip-poor-will, and are
formed of a very thin, transparent 1ilm,
instead of feathers.
A remarkable decrease has taken
place in the exports of tea and silk
from China. In the season OF loo0-1
the export of tea reached its maximum,
being not less than 174.514, 900 pounds.
1t was only 80, ,066. .000pounds in 1860-1,
L, - fn 1E1 1I0
600 pounds, showing decline since
1851 of 23,374, 900 pounds. But the
falling off in the shipment of silk was
even greater still. The highest point
reached was 9.l99 bales in 1862, and
last year the quantity had fallen off to
1860 bales.
The Importance of adding the county
and state to the address of letters or
other mail matter, even in the case of
the most important cities, is apparent
from the fact that there are in the
United States IL st. Pauls, 20 Bridge
ports, IS Buffalos and Newarks, II
BrOoklvns, Clevelands, and Rochesters,
16 Hartfords, 10 Louisvilles. Is Bostons
and Pittsburgs, 8 Cincinnatis, and
Philadelphias, 6 Chicagos, Detroits, 8
Milwaukees and st. Louises, 81 Wash
ingtons, and New Yorks and Balti-
mOres. New Orleans and San Francis
co are not duplicated.
David S. Horst has shown us a watch
which his brother lost in the fall of
1881 while plowing in a field on his
farm. In the spring the field was har-
rowed and planted with corn, during
the summer the corn was cultivated,
and the next spring the field was again
pl9wed and sown with oats. That fall
, it was again plowed and wheat was
put in, and the ncAt summer, while
harvesting, the watch, which was lost
three years before, was found in good
condition. 1t was an open-faee one
and the glass not even broken. 1t was
wound up and was found to run all
right. The watch is still running and
in good condition.-Mouat joy Star.
sykes is the name of big white
bulldog which boards at the Oscar
House at Midland. He is by no means
the prettiest dog alive, and has never
given evidence of extraordinary intelli-
genee until of late. However, a few
days ago he heard cries of pain and
sounds of struggle in the hotel barn.
He entered the barn and took hand
in the affray, which was between an in
furiated stallion and a man named
Thomas Scott The stallion had the
man under foot and was biting him
terribly when Sykes seized the horse
by the nose and held his grip until he
let up on the man, who escaped, saved
by bulldogs courage.
During the siege of Paris hippophagy
was d matter of necessity. Since 1871
the consumption of horse flesh has
gone on steadily increasing. In 1874
the number OF horses slaughtered for
food in Paris was 4.6S2. Ten years
later the consumption had more than
doubled. In 1888 Paris ate 9,485 hors-
es, 307 asses and 40 mules, or not far
short of 100000 pounds weight of
horse. ass and mule meat. The ex-
planation of this increase is the high
price of beef and mutton in the French
capital. While the artisan can pur-
chase 4 horse steak at less than II
cents pound, he has to pay three
times as much for cut of beef or NUT
ton. Among the hippophagists of Par
is the flesh of the ass and mule is eS-
teemed even more highly than that of
the horse, those delicacies fetching a
price IL to 20 per cent. higher than
simple horse flesh.
A recent visitor to Longfellow's IL
brary writes: There was the open
fireplace to the left, but no cheerful
fire burning therein, as on my last Wis
1t. The two great easy chairs on either
side seemed to stand just as they did
then, when Longfellow occupied the
one to the right, and in his happy way
told of how he wrote his best verses
and the stories of his frolics with Haw-
thorne in their early days. The large
square table upon which he wrote
stands now as it stood then. but it
lacks the delightful confusion which
says: The master is at home and at
work. The scraps of writing. the
other evidences of toll, and those
charming positions for objects which
genius always finds are no more The
pen which traced SO many beautiful
thoughts lies idle, and will never again
put in enduring. form the works of so
great man. The books are all ar
ranged in order about the table, and