The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-20
GLEANINGS.

Boston has a cremation society al
most ready for business.
A new brand of lard just put on the
market in California is called the Lille
LanStry. 8
Numerous purchases of cart horses
in England for American account are
reported.
Boston has female hygiene club
thIt goes about inspecting the plumb
ing in houses.
The Smith family occupies fifteen
closely-printed pages of the London
city directory this year.
Tho British Columbia Assembly pro-
poses a law limiting the amount of
land that one man can own to GAO
acres.
The National and Mercantile banks,
in the City of Mexico, are to be consoli-
dated. Their combined capital will be
$4,000. 000.s
Matthew Arnold will write book
about America when he gets back He
will pay us off for our failure TO ap-
preciate him.
Crows first appeared in Russia after
the e.Frenehretreat from Moscow, and
the people still hate them and call
them. Napoleon's scavengers.
A Worcester. Mass, fiddler named
Riedl took his old instrument to be re-
paired, when the repairer found it to
be an Amatis of 1870, worth $1,000.
The largest school in the world is
probably the Jews Free School in
Spitalfields, London. 1t has daily
attendance of nearly 5000 people.
A Detroit man, who has not received
n valentine in nine years, wants con-
gress to pass law authorizing letter
carriers to dump all old valentines
through an air hole in the river.
'Fifty years hence" says a Detroit
lake captain, ''the sight of bark, brig
or schooner on the inland waters win
draw 4 crowd as a curiosity. Steam is
Knocking out the sail-craft by the doz-
en-
Two colored members of the Texas
Legislature, sit apart from the other
members, and appear to be spectators
merely of the proceedings. They never
Join in the debates, but vote without
molestation.
There is big shoe on exhibition in
Providence, r. l., made for negro
preacher in the West. The sole meas
Ires 81 1-2 inches in length, around the
iHstep 21, and around the sole 1Sinches.
The future wearer weighs 41O pounds.
The supreme court OF Iowa decides
that wife deserted by her husband.
without her fault, and left with no
means of providing for her family OF
young children, has authority to sell
the personal property of her husband
t0.obtain money.
1t is now being found out that the
terrible. volcanic eruptions which took
place recently In Java were not an un-
mixed evil, as the enormous masses Of
ashes hurled out of the craters are ex-
cellent fertilizers, which, with proper
treatment, may make Java bloom
again.
A friend of Jay Gould says: Il don't
believe there is soul that confides Ill
him. Thousands fear him. And yet
he is one OF the nattiest, most agree
able little men, perfect in polish; but,
after all, Fra Diavolo in business.
With him the human heart is a hollow
muscle"
.sOuida'' writes of life in Italy:
'sHere one wants so little; the air and
the lipht. and a little red wine, and the
warmth of wind, and u handful of
maize or of grapes, and an old guitar,
and niche to sleep in near fountain
that murmurs and sings to the MOSES
and marbles-these are enough IN
Italy"
The Hungarian patriot, Kossuth, is
now 81 years of age, and lives quietly
at Milan. He neither believes in the
alliance of the Latin races, nor in that
of the Teutonic He fancies that Aus
irIa and Russia will ere long be at
daggers drawn. and hopes that, as he
has no infrmities save those of old
age, he may live to see it.
The Boston Post tells of some col
lege boys who after dark took an en-
tire load of wood from farmers sled,
left in the street over night, and with
great labor piled it up in n citizens
wOodshed under the impression that
he'd be charged with stealing it. They
found the next morning that the citi-
zen had bought that wood the night
before.
On the authority of lady in Wash
ingtop Mr.. J. r. Randall relates the
following: "a rich master machinist,
Il
boiler anu about to burst. He throws
himself prone upon the floor and in-
sists upon his family drenchlng him
with cold water. They always so hui
NOR him. When about half drowned
his right senses return. and, to all in
tents and purposes, for weeks at a
time, he is a sober, clear-headed, mon
Hy-making business man."
Mr hn int
of the government notwithstanding
operations in Bengal, who speaks with
more authority than any other Euro
pean, states that there is not, nor
ever was, such creature as Il white
elephant, in the ordinary acceptation
of the term" The so-called sacred
white elephants of the kings of Bur-
NAH and Siam are ordinary elephants,
possessed of marks" analogous to
those which may be seen ON the speci-
men now in the gardens. In that one
the pinkish color extends all over the
trunk half WY up the forehead, and
the same marks are found on the tips
of the ears.-LORdOn Field.
Fifty years ago. said Earl Cairns
mt a neeting Of the Church Missionary
Society," ''if n man had been ship
wrecked on some of the islands of the
Pacific, he would have been killed,
cooked and eaten; whereas if g man
were shipwrecked there now he would
receive - Christian hospitality. Miss
Gordon Cumming, who is not mis-
sionary, and who did not write for the
purpose of crying up missions, de-
clared that while in 1885 the people of
Fejee were cannibaIs. there are now
400 churches and 400 schools there
Lady Brassey writes that anybody who
wants to see the last traces of heathen-
ism in Japan had better 90 soon. as
they are rapidly giving place to Christi
anity."
Ex-Secretary- Robeson told the fol-
lowing story the other day about a
pale stone which he wears in his watch
chain: ''It was worn by my grand
father long before l was born, and ono
day while surveying in the woods on
the ,old property around Oxford he
lostit. Forty years afterwards my
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