The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-02-14
GLEANTNGS.

Jacob kile. aged 72-years, are living in
Bucks county, Pa.
> Millais, the painter. is worth about
| $1,000. 600. He is said to be anxious to
| be made baronet.
Two of Brigham Young's sons have
| died drunkards, two of his daughters
1 are married to the same husband, and
! another son writes poetry.
Mrs. Susan Garfield, of Nashua, N.
H., has mania for collecting buttons
of odd patterns. She has l, 160 but
tons of different kinds on one string.
Cleveland's 1856 mills, with $21, ,202,-
50U capital and III hands, turned
out S32. All, 600 worth OF manufactured
iron this year.
Joo Howard says that William II.
Vanderbilt would give SO, 100000 for
new nose and 100000 more to
have the curl taken out of his fat lips.
The claim is made for Cleveland, O.,
that it shows lower proportio:a :al
death list for 1888 than any other city
in the union.
The official report of the committee
appointed to investigate the earthquake
on the Island of Ischia fixes the num-
Der of persons killed at 2,313 and of the
seriously wounded at 762.
Six hundred and fifty bottles of wine,
bought in different parts of Paris, have
been anaiyzed at the municipal iabora-
tory, and the wine was pronounced
pure in only sixty cases.
The Boston Co'sgregationalist wishes
that ministers afflicted with drawing,
drowsy, clipped or other Objectionable
habits of utterance, could have business
talks through a telephone half an hour
every day.
Mr.. Gladstone has been discoursing
learnedly and volubly on jam as sub
quence further enhanced his claim,
in the estimation of his admirers, to
Immortality.
The daughter of an Orange Earl in
Ireland has eloped with her groom.
| The wretched experience of a daughter
of an ex-governor of Connecticut, in
the same moon-calf business, had no
deterrent lesson for her.
Mrs. Merkleham, Jefferson's favorite
and only surviving daughter, who lives
at Georgetown in utter destitution, was
seventy years old Thursday, and Con-
gressman Potter sent her $3.50 rs a
present and said that if congress didn't
| take care of her for life he would.
Robert Laird Collyer, writing from
London, says: "Religion is not dead
in England 1t is not dying in En-
gland. Nor has the Established Church
OF England in the least lost its hold
upon the reverence and affections of
the people of England
The hairs of ones head are all num-
bered. but the rabbits of Australia have
got beyond that. Until they are killed
| off farming will be u most impossible
About three millions have been poison
ed without making the slightest i'm
preston upon their swarming, teeming
proliticness.
The sale of secondhand food is an
industry conducted profitably by -
German citizen of New York. He
gathers up that which is left over from
meals at the large hotels, and sells it
to the poorer classes at nice though
modest profit.
| In the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers there are now 237 divisions,
! including the United States, Canada
and Mexico, with membership of
| II, 900 10 1900 active members. The
object of the Brotherhood is the per-
sonal elevation, mutual relief and pro-
lection of its mem bers, the rules being
especially rigid as to the moral char
acter and abstemious habits of the
men.
| A Massachusetts editor has the Bos-
! ton Guzctte of 1869; the Essex Journal
1,& IL II n - e
1885: Massachusetts, Gazette, 1885; Es-
Eek il uraal and Salem MercurH. 1888:
Ncu Hampshire Gnzettee1, 1891; Salem
Gazette, 1894; Coumbian Ccmtinel, 1895;
Political Gaz 'ttc, 1896; CGlun5jnm Cen
tine 1897; Newburyport Herald, 1898,
and one or more papers for nearly ev-
cry year from 1900 to 1884.
Somebody has been unearthing
lot of old dispositions in Kentucky
clerks office, and taking notes of the
bad spelling of some of the great men
of the past. A deposition in the hand
writing of Andrew Jackson contains
such spelling as reference" 'depo-
nants," 'untill," '.ballance," "sal-
lue," and difficult" Old Hickory's
use of capitals was quite remarkable.
Such words as dollar" and Money"
he capitalized, while he also wrote
almighty god.
Speaking of the new hotel to be
| built in st. Louis, gentleman from
that city says it will have accommoda-
tions for 5000 persons. 1t will be the
largest hotel in the world, but will not
design to do transient business, as
really its position will unfit it for that
kind. The hotel will be for the ac-
commodation of those families and per-
sons who wish the surroundings of
comfortable home but do not find them
in the ordinary flats or boarding houses
of the city.
A group picture of ten of the hand
soonest youpg ladies of Port Jervis, n.
Y, was offered recently as q prize to
the young man writing the best letter
to the postmistress of the fair of Car
roll Post, G. A. R., in that village
The prize was awarded to Isidore Co.
hen; but Judge of his surprise and cha
grin when he received the picture to
find that every pretty face had been
carefully concealed behind veil, fan
or parasol before the photograph was
| taken.
AT intervals dating back over half
century strange parties have made
searches in the bed of Wolf Creek, near
Comstock's Landing, N. T., for ira
ditional cannon filled with guineas that
is said to have been sunk at the time of
Burgoyne's fight with Colonel Longs
American troops over that ground.
| The last Intellectual searcher was
man named Collins, from New Jersey,
VINO worked about a week and left a
few days ago saying that he would be
back again in the spring. He claims
to have located the placer" by a mag
| net.
Professor C. w. Hutson, of the Uni
yersity of Mississippi, who has taught
both young men and young women,
declares that the girl student is, in the
great majority of cases, sooner and
better able to acquire knowledge than
the boy student; that her mind is, gen.
orally speaking, quicker, brighter. and
more alert than that of man at the
same age-between twelve and twenty.
1.-The average girl student" he adds,
is also more ambitious, more devoted
to study for study's sake, more re-
sponsive to the effort to excite her in