The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
GLEANINGS.

William Lobe, St. Louis, is whiting
duplicate Strasburg clock with 1S0,-
OO0 pieces.
Sixty-four of Ill New Jersey school
teachers say in reports that whipping
is Indispensable.
More than $4,000 homesteads have
been entered in Florida during the last
two years.
Newbern, Tenn, has law that i'm
poses fine of not less than $25 or more
than $50 on any person who goes into
saloon on Sunday.
This was the very concise verdict of
coroner's jury in Idaho: 1--WE find
that the deceased came to his death by
calling Tom Watlings liar"
The ebony tree grows to be Is feet
i'll circumference. The outer wood is
pure white. the heart only being per-
fcctly black.
In a game of foot ball at Annapolis
n muscular cadet kicked the ball fifty
yards. His friends are willing to back
him against any opera singer in the
country.
A Saratoga, New York, man is quite
certain that he has invented wholly
successful electric motor for railways.
BY some odd chance his name is
Daft.
Samuel Jones, of Philadelphia, has
had his old father arrested for en-
bczzlemcnt. He sent him out with a
little money to buy fruit and he failed
to return.
The first railway in Spain was laid
in 184S. 1t was but fifteen and half
miles long. The system has not grown
very rapidly, however, and now only
covers 5000 miles.
Texas farmers have sold this year
$50, 900, 600 worth of cotton, $53, 900, 600
worth of cattle, $7,000,0O0 worth of
wool and mutton, and 81, 200, 900 worth
of horses and hides.
DIR. Bliss has over 1000 letters re-
ceived by him during the eighty days
he had charge of the wounded Garfield,
all of them bringing suggestions, and
some of them bearing threats of yio-
1ence.
1t is standing joke in Italy that
Salvini carries about with him the
Kings pardon, to be used in case his
realism on the stage should carry him
to the point of an actual smothering of
SOmc De5uemOna.
At stations on Russian railroads
there is a grievance book, in which the
traveller can inscribe his wrongs in any
language, and which is periodically
read by the authorities. Whether
results follow the perusal is not stated.
On July there were II, $50, 900 cat
tic in France and $4,000 in Great
Britain; there were 2,750.0 900 pigs in
France and $500, 900 in Great Britain;
there were 500, 200 sheep in France and
26,000,0 900 in England.
An old lady in Portland, Me-, who
was acquainted with Ralph Waldo En-
erson, and knew him well in later life,
SAYS he was so indolent that she was
not at all surprised when he gave up
preaching and went to live in Concord
simply to think.
A pair of Queen Elizabeth's gloves
can be seen in an English museum.
She had hand like brakeman. The
thumb of the glove is five inches long
and the palm measures three and a
half inches across. No wonder the
kingdom trembled when she brought it
down.
Hanlan, the oarsman, says that he
owes Ills SuCCcSS III SICdJ pttIG W nstf-
ing hit upon n winning stroke, for it is
there he shows his superiority. 1t is n
thing which cannot be governed by
mathematical calculation, though, but
is more the result of an accident or in
born knack.
{ A tribe of Indians having tails from
six to eight inches in length is said to
have been discovered in Paraguay.
Should this announcement prove true,
the journal Of Science protests in adj
vance against their being paraded as
sfhe missing link" since the anthro-
poid apes have no tails.
Surgeons probed Intellectually for the
bullet that entered the hip of George
ii. Fredericks, of Fort Wayne, in the
battle of Okolona, Miss, twenty-one
years ago. The other day he felt a
sharp pain just above the right knee
JOINT. He worked the flesh with his
finger and out came the ball.
An inventor in Brussels claims to
have contrived perpetual clock. 1t
was started in that city about one year
ago, and up to Il recent date is said to
have been running perfectly. An up
draught is obtained in a tube or shaft
b. exposing il to the sun. This draught
Il rms a fan which winds up the weight
of the clock.
For the first time since the invention
OF printing, n German book has reach
Ell its 1,000th edition, each of them
numbering 5000 copies, thus making
il ali 5000, 900 copies. 1t is primer
by IIaester. published by G. ID. Bae-
decker, of Essen, which first appeared
IN 1853, and reached its Tooth edition
in 1868.
In England there is more land lying
Idle in sporting grounds, game re-
serves and landlords parks than the
whole kingdom of Belgium, which sup
ports in happiness and prosperity g.
900, 900 people and sends large food
exports TO London. An income of
$l75, 100000 year is received by 8,l42
landlords rs rent on 46, 500, 900 acres of
land.
Three-fifths of the cotton now bought
bv Chinese importers is in the shape
of yarns, which they manufacture to
suit themselves. 1t is predicted that
when cotton mills with proper machin-
cry are once established in China there
viii be an end of importations of cot
ton clothes. With her cheap labor she
will make clothes to export instead ol
buying them.
Kissing means different things, ac-
cording to where you happen to be at
the time. In West Africa the natives
hiss when they are astOnished; in the
New Hebrides when they see anything
beautiful. The Basutos applaud pop
uiar orator in their assemblies by hiss
ing at him. The japanese, again. show
their reverence by hiss, which has
probably somewhat the force of the
.'hush" with which we command ST.
1ence.
Some of the conclusions of science
would indeed be appalling but for their
practical harmlessness. Thus, geolo-
yists assert that if the continents and
the bottom of the ocean were graded
down to uniform level the whole
world would be covered with water a
mile deep, so much greater is the de-
preston of the ocean bed than the ele-
walton of the existing land.