The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-04-03
GLEANINGS.

The ladies are instructed in carpenter
work.
80 Many of the new ladies' hats for
spring have a tiny stuffed cap on top
1.-The latest thing in millinery.
Five men have disappeared from Bay
City. Mich, in the last three years, and
nothing has been heard from any of
them.
Jefferson, Davis has erected fine
monument over the grave of Mrs. Dor
sey, the New Orleans lady who willed
him q fortune.
During the last year Mrs. Horace
Turner, of South Adams. Mich, has
broken one of her legs twice and made
600 yards of cotton.
~ The Niagara Suspension Bridge is
2,260 feet long, that of Kief, Russia, is
1852 feet, and that between New York
and Brooklyn $3.50 feet.
lo do not think it would be wrong for
me to say that the religion of the Uni
ted States is the worshiping of the
golden calf Mgr. Capel.
Vandals have much mutilated the
soldiers monument on Boston Com
mon, and loud demand is made for a
close fence to protect it from further
injury.
Il has been figured out that there is
enough railroad travel in this country
TO give every man, woman, and child
in the United States ride of ia miles
each year.
81 9 The New York Hour says: 1.-The nov
4 elites for next season here will be Mr..
Barnum's elephant, which is sacred but
not white, and Sara Bernhardt, who is
white but not sacred.
, The Mun, curious New York publi-
catien, demands that all women, on ar
irving at the age of twenty-one, be per-
mitted to use the prefix ''Mrs." to their
names, whether married or not.
The proposed Constitution for the
State of Montana provides that the
Governor shall be paid $3, 600 per year,
the Secretary of State 81, 200. and the
other executive officers $4,000 each.
Nearly $4,000 gallons fewer of sher-
ry and claret were imported by En-
fBnt the figures for port show total of
65,7SS pipes. which is the largest on
record.
The counterfeit presentiment'' of
70 General Hancock is to be found in the
Philadelphia Rogues' Gallery, the pho
tograph being that of John Clark, the
+. shoplifter. The likeness TO Hancock
is startling.
Fifty partridges Gagged in q Charles
ton, S. c., restaurant window are
constant nuisance to hunting dogs, who
stop and point" the birds. and bump
the window glass when they try to
FLUSH them.
Mr. Dimitry, of the New York Mail
and Express, has captured the $500
prize offered by Swinlon's $ Story Teller
for the best story. The author is the
son of the late Professor Dimitry, of
3 New Orleans, long one of the most
prominent educators of the South.
The man whose 'heart is in the right
place has been frequently heard from.
r But Philadelphia has man, Major in
a the United States army, whose heart is
on the right side. 1t is the second case
of the kind known to medical men.
According to japanese custom, age
is counted from the first day of the
January succeeding BIRTH At that
date child is one year old, whether
born the previous January. mt mid
summer, or on the 31st of December.
Eighty-thrce per cent of the popula-
tion of the United States is composed
of white natives and the immigrants
from Germany and Great Britain, leav-
ing per cent from other countries
and 13 per cent for those of African de-
scent.
"a L4Q. C. Lamar is said by his Miss
issippi friends to be one of the few poor
men in the United States Senate. OF
1ota ~ hiC on lor.x hos
TO pay old debts. obligations of na-
ture that only a man of scrupulous in
tegrity would think of paying.
In Henry James recent article on
Turgenieff the personal pronoun, first
!: person, singular, occurs seventy times
on the first four pages. The average
is certainly no lower throughout the en-
tire paper, the writer using ''I'' fifteen
times on the last page, always in allu-
sion to himself.
England's wealthiest heiress now is
Miss Hamilton, lady of about 40. She
has some $3.50, 900 year, and fine res
licences in Scotland. The great heir
esscs are not prolific. Lady Holmes
dale, the last CORVALLIS, died childless
last year. Lady Lindsay. who inherit
ed Lord Overstone's millions, is also
CHllultSS, anu lIduy ID. OOuIIS has HOI
yet become mother.
Missouri is making rapid progress in
wealth and Industrial matters. The
statistics for last year have just been
made public, from which it appears
that the taxable property in the state
was $656. $50. AIS, an increase of So
983, III over the valuation of 1882, and
$54. 4.528,000 over that of 1881. The
state taxes collected last year amount
ed to $3,345. 37S.
No bureau of the Government ex-
cecds in Importance the United States
Patent Office. From the start it has
been self-sustaining, and now has an
nneXpendcd balance to its credit of
about 81. 500 900. This money is the
result of fees paid by inventors to Sc
cure the patents which protect their in
vention. The business of the Patent
Office has increased with each year of
its existence.
There has been started in Berlin a
|'share company for the removal of
trichine from pork" A patent is being
applied for to exploit a recently haven't
cd process 10 that effect, consisting of
picking pork by means of highly
heated brine in which muriatic acid
forms large ingredient, Whicn pro-
cess, it is claimed, will kill any trichi-
nae that may be in the meat, and pre-
serve the latter permanently.
Stewart, of Texas. is the tallest man
in the house of representatives, meas
nring 6 feet inches; Tillman, of South
Carolina, never wears an overcoat;
-'Richelieu' Robinson, of New York.
has not cut his hair since last session,
and says it is not to be cut again until
Ireland is ''free;" McAdOo, of New
Jersey, wears the tightest fitting
clothes in the house; John S. Wise, of
Virginia, a,-born in Brazil, his
hair in the middle; and Cannon, of Illi-
nois, is the only representative who al
ways gesticulates with his left hand.
Now that the proposition to erect a
statue of Wendell Phillips in Boston
) has been given up in Difference to Mrs.