The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-05-01
GLEANINGS.


prices among watering place hotels.
Last year forty-six bodies were Gre
mated at Gotha, Germany, at cost of
&144 for each.
Abe Buzzard, the Pennsylvania out
law, is back in his old haunts. The
Missouri climate did not agree with
him.
A ''cow man" is the owner of
hcrd, while cowboy" is one who is
employed to drive and take care of the
herd.
Every year some $1,000 reproduc-
tons OF the Venus Of Milo are made in
marble plaster. terra Gotta, etc., and
sold in Europe.
The Duke of Westminster, whose
wealth is estimated at 5000, 600, 600,
averages 2 per cent interest on the
whole sum yearly.
A Bangor woman has Just discovered
that the man to whom she was married
eight years ago is q mulatto, and she
wants q divorce in consequence.
A New York doctor explains how a
drug store flourishes at every corner.
An outlay of $1.55 in quinine is retailed
at s cents a grain, and yields $14.4O.
Near Salt Lake has been discovered
q limestone that produces flash OF
light-blue light-with every stroke of
the hammer. 1t is called the hell-fir"
rock. r.f.. ... .........
Signor Salvinis London auditors
laugh to hear the actors talk about
Macduffo. go on, ye Macdufferw
said voice from the gallery the other
evening.
Ewing Isbell, of Warren county,
Kentucky, was born on Washington's
birthday, his wife was born on the 4th
of July, and their only child was born
on Christmas.
It is said that in the best circles of
England society flowers constitute the
only gifts allowable in the ''cotil-
lion," and that costly favors are de-
nounccd as vulgar show"
A Stockton, Cal, couple who have
been married thirty eight years. during
which time they have lived together in
apparent peace and harmony. are now
in the courts seeking to be divorced.
While digging grave in the town
of Plymouth. Mass, for the remains of
Miss Judson, sister of the famous mis-
sionary, the workmen came upon the
foundation of the Pilgrim watch-tower
erected In 1643.
King Humbert, of Italy seldom par
takes Of food at the family table. He
suffers much from dyspepsia, and has
the little that he eats-and he eats only
20 live-especially prepared and served
In his private room.
The mind cure is considered super
Tor to the hot water cure in Boston, the
latter not being intellectual enough.
Patients are Instructed to think, and
real hard. too, that their pains are
gone, and they are
Miss Gabrielle Greeley will occupy
the old Greeley homestead at Chappa-
qua during the coming season. She is
still lovely young woman, exceed
ingly retired, and has. it is said, re-
fused many ambitious suitors for hel
hand. .......... .........
Colonel G. S. Perkins, Of Norwich
Conn, Treasurer of the Norwich anC
Worcester railroad, is now in his 96tf
year, and yet enjoys excellent health
In q recent interview he said: 81 have
buried six family physicians and still
live"
1t is stated ON good authority that
cats die off rapidly in India during
epidemics of cholera. They exhibit
the same symptoms that humans do.
No other animal is know to be subject
to this disease, the hog and chicken
cholera being different
A New York letter gives this graft
flying bit of fashion news: women
no longer paint and powder to excess.
A man may walk from one end of
Fifth avenue to the other without see
ing q single face that is artificially illu-
minated. The reign of artificial color
In Berlin, police edict has been
published, warning the people against
eating raw pork. 1t points out that
perfect cooking destroys trichina. This
may seriously interfere with the tradi-
tonal German luxury of raw ham and
rye bread sandwiches, as the can only
be safely eaten in America.
A towel folded several times and
dipped in hot water and quickly wrung,
and then applied over the seat of the
pain in toothache or neuralgia will gen.
orally afford prompt relief. Headaches
almost always yield to the simultan'
eous application of hot water to the
feet and back of the neck.
A new and formidable fighting ship
has been built in England for the Gov
ernment of Brazil She is named the
Riachuelo, and Is steel-armored tur.
ret ship. sos feet long, having a dis
placement of s. 700 tons. She has fifty
eight water-tight compartments and q
belt Of steel-armor IL inches in thick
ness. r'
Metaire the most fashionable GENE.
terry in New Orleans, was n race course
N few years ago. 1t then belonged tc
An aristocratic club, which blackballed
fhe president of lottery company
when he made application for member
ship. By way Of revenge he bought
the grounds and gave them to the city
for a cemetery.
The estate of Mr.. Jones Griner, who
died some time ago in San Felipe, N.
NJ. about seventy miles up the Ric
Grando from Eagle Pass, comprised
over 10000 head of sheep. with con
siderable herd of cattle, and number
of horses. Mr.. Griner fifteen years
ago started out in the world with Q
capital not exceeding $1,000.
The great drainage system for thI
IOCOtcEy VI buo IlOElud S"oAupc uON
covers q tract 200 miles long and 81
miles broad. Nearly 100000 acres
halt of which goes to the syndicate
and half TO the State, are wholly re
claimed. Land that one year ago wa
two feet under water is now four fee
above. and is being planted with suga
cane.
Rev. George w. James. of Reno
New, can rccite the whole of Southey'
Cataract of Lodore." forward ant
backward. give the number of any lin'
quoted, or recite 1t by alternate lines
It is regarded as the most Difficult
poem in the English language to com
NIT to memory or recite. but he claim
TO have mastered it in less than tw
hours.
Children In the Brooklyn publ
schools addicted to eating rock and rs
drops suffered from bad breath.
chemical analysis of these drops ol
dered by the School Superintendent
disclosed the fact that it was the pres