The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-08-28
GLEANINGS.


Australia is growing rapidly.
Artesian wells were known at Thebes
1000 years before the Christian era.
Mary Anderson. after Lotta. is the
wealthiest woman in her profession.
Pomegranates are being cultivated in
che South. They yield 800 per acre.
Amos Perkins. at the age of ninety
-FOUR. Is Treasurer of the town OF Unity,
N. H
Any quantity of castles are for sale
In Germany, 10 which fact the atten-
lion of rich Americans Is called.
George Augustus Sala says that he
has written during his journalistic ca
reer of thirty-tive years more than 1000
newspaper essays.
Tho young women of Schenectady
have resolved to girlcott any young
man that smokes or goes out OF the
theatre between the acts.
The United States is now the
wealthiest nation in the world, the in
crease in wealth having been 20 per
cent. between 1870 and 1880.
Alcohol Is said to be an antidote for
snake bite poison only when tho pa
tient is not addicted to drink and his
system already saturated with alcohol.
There are more ways of spelling the
name of Wiclif than of Shakespeare.
Over fifty ways are found in old author
itics, ranging from Wiklift to GuyeO-
clivus.
Whenever a person is killed on
railway In Mexico the ambitious au-
hn
him in prison. especially If no is an
American.
Tho forests In Prussia, unlike those
In any other inhabited lands. arc in
crcasing instead of decreasing. In
Hanover alone they have increased
$1,000 acres.
The Salt Lake Tribune publishes
names and dates to show that polyga-
nous marriages are still frequent in
Utah, although great excrIions are
made to keep them secret.
Over COO lives were lost by boiler
explosions in this country during the
past year. Nearly 800 persons were
Killed outright, and many OF the re-
nainder were manned for life.
A Parsee girl has astonished her
race In India by bringing suit for
breach OF promise of marriage. 1t is
the first episode Of the kind known in
that land, and it has created great
scandal
English farmers now offer cents
per dozen for sparrows' heads, and
the same price per dozen for thcir eggs.
These prices have stimulated raid Of
almost complete determination In some
counties.
OF tho 100 largest cities in the United
States. standard time has been adopt
ed by seventy-eight of them. The
three notable ones that continue with
out 1t are Cincinnati Cleveland and
Detroit.
One hundred and twenty acres Of
the Potomac flats have been reclaimed.
1t Is expected the marshes south and
west of the White House will be con-
verted ere long into q splendid park Of
600 acres.
Since it was made public that Queen
Victoria is very fond of fried hominy
and has 1t every morning for break
fast, the London hotels have fallen in
10 line and now have tho following on
the bill of fare. "Hominy fried. Her
Majesty's style.
1t Is the custom of really stylish
New York shop girls to carry TO their
fields OF labor bundles of school books,
in order to convey the impression that
they are completing their education at
some fashionable institution of learn
ing instead of working for their daily
bread.
A sorrowing widow pledged herself
not to marry again till the grass was
green on her husbands grave. and was
found by tho sexton three months later
planting some grass seed on the mound
and fastening its termination with
daily applications from a watering can,
that no time might be lost in freeing
her from her unlucky promise.
An English paper says that ''during
the first Introduction of cholera into
St. Petersburg in 1882 highly respect
able firm of iron founders, employing
800 men. informed them that all those
who would not take a teaspoonful of
charcoal on entering the works In the
morning must leave their employ.
What was the consequence? They did
not lose a single man, while myriads
were dying around them"
Tine old question whether a smoker
can tell with his eyes shut il q cigar Is
lighted or not is revived by state
ment in the London Graphic that there
are scarcely any smokers among the
blind. Soldiers and sailors who lose
their sight In action sometimes continue
TO smoke for little while, but, as a
rule. they soon give up the habit. They
say II gives them no pleasure when
they cannnt SEQ the smoke; and that
they cannot taste smoke unless they
zee It
An English printers circular candid
1y acknowledges shat job printing in
This country is superior to that done in
England, and attempts TO account foI
u on the grounds Of the great compe-
tition which exists there among The
printers. Ii claims that work is taken
nj such ruinously low figures that the
English printers can not afford TO de-
vote the time necessary to produce the
neat and artistic effects now so prevail
ent among The American printers.
/ The production Of oil from sunf1ower
seed has become an industry of con.
siderable Importance in Russia. 1t Is
expressed on the spot, and the product
Is largely employed in the adulteration
of olive oil; the purified oil Is consid-
cred quite equal to olive and almond
oil for table use. The most important
Industrial applications of the oil are
Cor woOlen dressing. lighting and can
die and soap making. it being regard.
ed. for the last-named purpose. as SUI
periOr to most other oils. Tho Russian
article is of pale yellow color.
Ezekiel Eads. an old man who died
In Green county, N. Y. recently. was
born without ears. Moreover, he had
no aperturos where those very neoes-
sary organs should exist. He was
able, however. to gather sound through
his mouth, and could hear conversation
that was carried on in an ordinary
tone. His hair was black Mt birth, bu,
was fnterspersed with oddly-shaped
gray spots. some of them resembling
diminutive human hands and ears
These singular markings never chang
ed. and his black hair never turned
gray.
The old custom of bottling tears Is
still continued in Persia. II must bt