The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-17
GLEANINGS.

NTS. freu. FlSk, Oh CdndSIOUd, IN I'S
has set of lace-embroidered curtains,
the work of her own hands, for which
she has refused an offer of 81, 600.
( Oscar Wilde has petered out COM
ipletely. No one responded to the an
nouncement of his recent lecture in
Dublin.
North Carolina will levy no State tax
next year The Western North Carroll
ma Railroad will pay into the treasury
5000, 600, which sum will carry the
State government.
A New York bookseller says that
women do not buy such books as
''Guides to Gentility," and "'Habits of
Good Society" Men buy them. Wo-
men prefer "How to Beautify the
Skin" and 1.-The Art of Dress"
Leo Daft, the inventor of the electric
motor which has Just come into notice,
was born in England about twenty
years ago, and was trained in science
under the late Sir William Siemens.
He has lived in this country about
eighteen years.
The total number of desertions from
the British army in 1882 was 4, 145, of
whom 1897 reioined. In the house
the 200; in the foot guards, Is; in the
cavalry of the line, 25; in the infantry
of the line "a.
Shooting cats with air guns and pea
rifles has been indulged in by men and
boys at Virginia City, New, until cat
is scarcely TO be found in the town; but
swarms of rats are, and now there is n
demand for more cats and less air gun
sport of that kind.
according to the Wytheviile (Va.)
Enterprise, Miss Willie Withers,
daughter of ex-senator Withers, of
that State, can handle a shotgun with
an accuracy of aim that exceeds that
of many pretentious sportsmen, and
many birds are brought down on the
wing by her seldom-erring aim.
The st. Ignace (Mich.) Neaos tells q
story of young man who went into the
lumber woods of Canada last Summer
weighing only ninety six pounds, and
has come back, after season or breath
ing the bracing breezes of Pine River,
with his avoirdupois increased to 202.
The curiosities exhibited in the win
dow of New York pawnbroker's sale
shop arc IL huge gold medal of 1910
with President Thomas jefferson s face
engraved thereon, and a bible printed
in the Irish language, said to have
como from the press in 1880.
One of the survivors of the Black
Hole of Calcutta was Sir David Birch.
When his mother, canny, undemon-
strativc old Scotch lady, was told OF
the awful horrors of the Black Hole on
that awful night by the survivors, she
merely remarked: Lord help the mon
that was chained to ma Davie!'
Maria Van Zandt; the famous vocal
ist now in Europe, was born and
brought up id Brooklyn, N. Y, and is
now p years old. This corrects the
Paris story that she was born in the
South, afterwards taken to the Indian
Territory, and there ''cut up all sorts
of capers with the redskins.
II. B. Philbrick, who recently deliv-
cred lecture on the subject OF kissing
in New York, declares that the reason
kissing is so pleasant is because the
teeth, iawbones and lips are full of
nerves, and when the lips of two per-
gons meet an electric current is
senerated.
John Huntington, of Cleveland,
some wears ago put $26, 900 into the
large dividends ever since. The other
day, in New York, he was offered ST.
100000 for his interest and sold it. He
went home with the deed for $780,,
600 house in one pocket and drafts for
5000, 900 in the other.
It is related of the late Joseph II.
Blackfan, Superintendent of Foreign
Mails in the Postoffice Department,
Washington, that when his attention
was called to the complimentary men
ton made of him in Anthony Trollope's S
autobiography, he was surprised to
learn that Mr.. Trollope, whom he had
known only as a postal officer, was also
a distinguished novelist.
Old Jubal Early is q character in
Virginia. He is drawn up in hard
knot with rheumatism. and has a face
like hickory nut. His voice is pitch
ed on q very high key, and he is n COM
pound of shrewdneSS and sarcasm in
equal parts. He was strongly opposed
to secession at the beginning of the
war, although he fought valiantly
when fighting was inevitable.
Fannie i. Ward writes from Saltillo
that at whatever hour a person dies in
Mexico, it is customary to appoint the
funeral just twenty-four hours later,
and that as the mortality is greatest
all over the world 1T night. the most of
funeral ceremonies in Mexico are per-
formed at night, no women be permit
ted to attend. The poor hire collins in
which their dead are borne to the
grave.
There are in France thousands of
windowless houses, supposed to have
been built when the window tax law
was in force. There is no such law in
kentucky or Tennessee, but there are to
be seen along the Southern Railroad Il
great many houses that have no win
dows. The chimney tops of not few
of these houses are decorated with
hcadless old barrels to improve the
draft Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
William and Mary College, of Virgin
In, has closed its doors, having but one
student at the beginning of this school
year. Next to Harvard this was the
oldest college in America, having been
founded in 1893, and was the only one
that received Il royal charter Among
the most eminent men educated in its
halls were Washington, Marshall, Ran
dolph, Tyler, Breckenridge, and Cen
eral Scott.
A recently published statement of
the yield of precious metal shows that
in 1882 the output of gold in the entire
world was valued at $4,000, 900, and
of silver Mt $94, 900, 900. 1t is n fact
not generally understood that Russia is
the third greatest producer of gold, the
yield of that country being $50, 600, 600;
only $21, 10000 less than the United
States, and $2,000,000 less than Aus
1ralia.
Prospective brides may be interested
to know that there are thirty-two days
in the year on which it is unlucky to
marry, according to manuscript dated
in the fifteenth century. These days
IRE Jan. /, 2, 4, 5, Z, 10, Is; Feb. 6, Z,
Is; March /, 6, 8; April 6, Il; May 5, 6,
z; June Z, 10; July 5, 10; Aug. Is, 10;
Sept. 6, z; Oct. 6; Nov. 10, 16, and Dec.
Is, 16, II. Consequently January is
the worst month and October the best
month in the year to marry.
King Charles of Roumania shows no