The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24
GLEANINGS.

A man in North Tisbury. Mass, says
he has recently drawn up eighty-nine
snakes from his well.
Boys at the forks of Coos River, in
Oregon, receive 81 for each crane killed
In that neighborhood.
The Pennsylvania Medical Society
have admittd women to membership
and indorsed vivisection.
Jews have been so prosecuted in
Limerick, Ireland. lately that numbers
of them have left the city.
1t has been found out that Bartholdi
has made an idealized portrait of his
mother in the figure of Liberty.
OF the 1928 who graduated from
Middleburg College since 1900, GIG are
still living, and 509 became clergymen.
Political arrests continue daily in
Russia, and the question of new and
larger jaiIs will soon come up for seri-
Gus consideration.
Thousands of painted sparrows are
sold in London for canaries, and the
fraud is seldom detected until the new
feathers begin to sprout.
There are over 700 lighthouses and
25 floating light stations on American
coasts and rivers. supported by
yearly cost of 81, S89, 900.
Dc Voc, the New Jersey weather
seer. says we are to have cold weather
In July. some very hot weather in
August. and long, mild Fall.
Mr.. Whistler admits that it took him
only twenty minutes to make some of
the drawings recently sold at from
twenty 10 eighty guineas each.
Governor Stanford and Remi Nadeau,
of Los Angeles, are rivals in the vine
yard business. Nadeau is now !, 1000, 900
vines ahead. having 3,0O0,000 in all.
A Cincinnati paper says: There is
one square on North Fourteenth street.
in Richmond, Ind, where reside twenty
one young ladies of marrageable age"
The Boston Wdtchman says that
within the last nine years nearly 800
churches have been burned in America,
mostly through defective heating appa-
ratus.
j. f. Hall, of Marietta, Ohio. ninety
one years old, is said to have built the
first wharf on the Ohio river, and his
son is married to granddaughter of
Mhrtha Washington.
DIR. Cuyler. writing in the Evangelist,
says that cheap pews, and even free
pews, are very desirable for all who
have a scanty purse. But cheap re-
ligion he pronounces an arrant delu-
sion.
It is said that only one small herd
of buffaloes, the remnant of what was
known as the ''great Southern herd"
in hoi
killed as fast as their flesh can be dis
posed Of.
The number of horses in the United
States in 1884. according to the latest
official statistics, is IL, 1G9. 683-show-
ing an increase over 1883 of 3S1, 577
head. The number of mules In this
country is now estimated at ], ,914, 126.
Twenty-eight years ago Henry Clark,
of Hankinsville, Ga, put q catfish in
his well, and it has grown from two
inches in length to sixteen. Every year
when the well is cleaned the fish is
carefully caught and replaced after the
cleaning.
A man in Spokane Falls, Montana,
didn't like his wife, and his wife liked
a charming imported Frcnchman. The
little family trouble was adjusted by
the Frenchman paying the husband
o., 200 in good spot cash, and taking
the woman. The first circles of Spo-
kane Falls are in tlutter over the
affair.
In Dana's anecdotes of the early his
tory of Vermont story is told of q
man who, standing in the hollow stub
of o tree, fell backward and hung
downward, with one foot lodged in the
tree. In his desperation he cut his
foot of Mt the ankle with his jack-knifc
and crawled toward home, some two
miles before he obtained help.
Not long ago a big whale got strand
ed on one of the Shetland Islands. A
venturesome small boy thought he was
dead, and sat down on his snout The
whale showed that he objected to this
liberty by giving a snort-which sent
tho small bov flying into the water fifty
feet away. When he swan ashore he
knew more about whales than he ever
did before.
Tucson is the pride of all Arizonians.
They even claim it to be the oldest city
in America, and declare that its origin
antedates that of Santa Fe. Before the
advent of Americans it was a Mexican
hamlet, and still earlier it was an In
dian village. No traces of its first oc-
cupants are to be seen to-day, but the
adobe houses and narrow, winding
streets are Mexican.
! Mr.. Bookwalter, the democratic can
didate for governor OF Ohio whom Gov.
Foster defeated, is said TO be worth
42.0O0.000. He derived his fortune
from his invention of turbine water
wheel Several years ago he had built
q magnificent house at Springfield, o.,
and had in it the best private art gal
lery in the state. When his wife, 10
whom he was most dcvotedly attached,
died. he left that house, and has never
entered it since, and has only been in
Springfield but once since.
Only nine sovcreigns of England
have lived longer than Queen Victoria,
who Is now sixty-fve. and only three
Henry ILL.,, Edward III. and George
III.-havo relgned longer than she.
Vietoria's reign has extended over
forty-scven years. Three European
monarchs are older than she is-the
Emperor of Germany, who is eighty
seven; the King of the Netherlands.
who is sixty-seven, and the King OF
Denmark, who is sixty-six.
From French state paper, lately
brought to light, it appears that in 177O
the following Parliamentary decree was
solemnly passed and duly registered
under King Louis XIV: "WhOsoever.
by means of red or white paint, per-
fumes, essences, artificial teeth, false
hair, cotton, wool, iron corsets. hoops.
shoes with high heels, or false hips
shall seek to entice into the bands OF
marriage any male subject of his Maj
esty, shall be prosecuted for witchcralt
and declared incapable of matrimony." "
1t has been stated by Captain Galton
in his work on 'Healthy Dwellings"
that a new house. containing 100000
bricks (each brick sucking up from I
20 10 per cent of its weight of water),
contains, at reasonable calculation,
10000 gallons of water in it. All this
quantity of water has to be removed by
evaporation, and the rapidity of this
process will depend on the tension Of
the vapor at given temperature. Tho
rate of transmission of heat through
building material depends upon thcil
&oxfr,a and onmnOcifion