The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-03
GLEANINGS.
Charles O'Conor, just before his
death paid the whole debt of Nantucket

NnnrteS OCOnOr, Just DeIOro MS
death paid the whole debt of Nantucket
town.
Mason county, West Virginia, has
the richest tin mine in the world, and
thousands of people are flocking to the
place.
Miss Fairy G. Shafer, of Madison
burg. Pa. recently patched quilt con-
tanning 4918 distinct pieces. The
young lady is doubtless the champion
quilt maker of the Keystone state.
Cassius M. Clay lives quietly on his
Kentucky farm. taking little notice of
current politics. '.I'm not alone" he
says. "I-have my sheep, cattle, dogs,
birds, flowers, and books, and / am
writing book-my memoirs.
A ''humpback' turtle was found
floating in Monterey Bay. California,
the other day, and captured. 1t was
seven feet seven inches long, four feet
across the back, and had two fins three
feet long. 1t weighed one thousand
pounds. ts >ss.E-
A limestone cave with beautiful sta
lactite and stalagmite formations, like
that Of Luray, Va, has recently been
discovered by chance in the depart
ment of Ain, near the road from Gene
va to Lyons. 1t has been explored for
800 yards.
One thousand pounds of strictly ''gilt
edge" butter are sold every week in the
Boston market at from go to 80 cents
per pound. New York takes from 5000
TO 1900 at the same price, and in both
cities the demand is not equalled by
the supply. ....'.. ..--.
1t has been officially ascertained by
the French government that every sug-
gestion proposed for the cure of the
vines infested by the phylloxcra has
proved to be abortive. A special COM
mission to investigate the several pro-
cesses has lately been established.
g Built-up wood. like that employed
for O good many years back in bottom
ing chairs. already completes with can
vas for the purposes of the artist. and
with binders board for book covers.
Its lightness, almost entire absence of
cleavage lines and non-liability to split
are among its most commendable fea-
. lures.
There has lately been constructed by
MN. Challiot and Gratiot. of Paris,
new tool to which they have given tho
name of the bi-radlal drilling machine.
The arm Is jointed or hinged in the
middle 80 that the drill can be brought
TO any point ON the table without lift
ing the latter. Bevel gear transmits
the power.
The new port recently opened at
Trieste, Austria, has cost altogether
about $7, 100000. Three ietties 700
a. ~ h.
built, and thus has the former north
eastern harbor of Trieste been convert
ed into three basins with nearly two
miles of quay. These basins have n
depth of water varying from 25 to As
feet.
One of the high caste families in jap
an possesses o stone called a ''barome-
ter stone," which changes its color
when change of weather is imminent.
1t Is naturally of q pinkish white hue.
and several days before it rains it be-
comes green, while storm is indicated
by dark aspect. 1t is to be presented
to the emperor when he moves into his
new palace.
We mentioned last week the death of
Mr.. Wyatt Hare. Mr.. Hare had some
peculiarities, among them this one: He
never bought a match. A fire. either
open or banked, was kept up continu-
ally on the hearth. In this he trod in
the footsteps of his father. and the fire
upon that one hearth was continuous
fire for more than one hundred years.
Nelson IVA. Examiner.
= CAST iron may be so hardened rs to
resist cutting by an ordinary file by the
following method: When the iron is
brought to a cherry red heat, sprinkle
some cyanide OF potassium on it, raise
the temperature then little above the
red heat, and, lastly, dip in the tenn
pering tank. Cyanide of potassium
may also be used for case hardening
iron with decided effect.
Henry Bergh believes 'that on hy-
gienic principles the cemeteries should
be gradually removed and abandoned.
The water flowing through the earth
should be uncontaminated and not car
ry the refuse of decaying and lifcless
humanity. As we advance in human
iity and civilization the cremation prob
lem will be solved just as the relief of
suffering animals has been solved"
A dentist at Calgary. has been busy
lately extracting teeth from Indians.
1t Is stated that before the advance of
civilization, when the natives subsisted
solely on buffalo meat, decayed teeth
were unknown among them. Braves
who stand the tortures of the sun-dance
without fiinching are reduced to state
of abject terror when they feel the cold
grip Of the forceps. Winnipeg Times.
An old Arkansas darkey who has
spent his life in the cotton fields, in cX-
planning to Northern man the neces-
sity OF keeping the grass and weeds out
OF the cotton patch, said: ''De little
cotton am mighty easy discouraged.
Jes one little blade or foxtail will skeer
1t outen a weeks growth. Dcy is aw
full shy. De eazies' touch O. dc baby S
fingers ain ez soft ez natur. Nobody,
makes no difference how genie, ken
shove de ten'er cotton sprout in de dirt
without mashin' it, but natur ken shove
1t through n hard clod."
From experiments made upon the
pulse and temperature rs affected by
smoking, IL has been found that the rate
of both Is Increased. Let the average
temperature of non-smokers be repre-
sented by 1000, then that of moderate
smokers is .008, and while the heart
Ot inc IOTIucT clhSS was mdklnG 1,UOU
beats, in the latter there would be l, 1S0
in tho same space of time. This quick
ening of tho action of the heart is con-
sidered dangerous symptom.
Senator Pugh, of Alabama, who trav-
eled extensively through New England
year ago rs member of the Senate
Labor Committee. has expressed him
self as very much interested in the won
derful achievements of the New England
people. I'm going from Albany to
Boston / hardly saw an acre on the
way that our southern people would
live on, so rugged and hard seemed the
land. yet it supported one of the most
successful and energetic populations on
the globe. Ihave very high respect
for the sacrifice and genius of the peo-
pie of New England, and l am glad to
have seen them more Intimately"
Editor Herman Raster. of Chicago.
says of the beer law in Germany: ''The
breweries are under constant surveil-
lance of revenue officials, and the beer
is frequently subjected to chemical
analysis by health officers. The retail
vender is compelled to give certain
amount of beer-no foam-when a