The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-13
GLEA-NTNGS.

In one of tho mountain counties of
Kentucky woman has held the office
of Justice of the Peace without legal
authority for the last ten years
They have captive wild cat in Vir-
ginia which has whipped ten of the
best fighting dogs in rotation. and now
has her back up looking for another.
Russia possesses 19,674.723 horses.
and is yet so alarmed at the export.
which has risen from 5000 in 1873 TO
$4,000 in 1882, that tax is talked of.
English and American papers are
said TO be very dignified. Yet here is
Montreal journal with an editorial
bearing the title. Hello. Hello
Hello"
In New York bachelor can live on
$1,000 a year: if he marries his annual
expenses become $1,000 As most of
the bachelors don't have $1,000 they
get gloomy and 60 it alone.
A gigantic earthworm has just been
sent from the Cape Colony. Africa. to
the Royal Geological Society of En-
gland. 1t is six feet five inches in
length and thick accordingly.
The topography of the moon is well
known to astronomers, and has been
carefully outlined on detail maps.
There are five mountains in the moon
more than 90, 900 feet high. the highest
measuring $3.50 feet.
The amenities of journalistic life in
Nevada are spiced with originality.
One editor recently declared that his
esteemed contemporary has been
known to kiss a child and inoculate it
with delirium tremens.
Annie Whitney, the sculptor. whose
last work is Harriet Martineau' stat
ue, has a farm of 175 acres, over which
the white mountain range towers, and
through which the Androscoggin runs.
and which she farms practically.
Great Britain is better supplied with
newspapers than any other country in
the world. Belgium comes next and
the United States comes third. There
are $4,000 newspapers published in the
world. of which 32.00O are published in
Europe and North America alone.
Some time ago eleven Cinnamon
were killed in a railway smashup near
Heron, New. Their relatives soon after
brought suit against the railroad COM
pany to recover $44, 900 damages. The
case was compromised by the company
agreeing TO pay So-p Il Hetu ioi luc uc-
parted Celestials.
Among the edible fishes collected in
the waters about Charleston for the
New Orleans exhibition. by the State
Fish Commissioner of South Carolina,
are the following: Amber fish, sailors
choice, croivale. sheepshead, croaker,
skipjack, drum. snapper club Dream.
black grunt. mullet. bass, salmon, trout
and black fish.
One of the best evidences that the
American people of this generation live
better than their fathers did is found in
the steady and rapid growth of the
trade in tropical fruits. 1t is not many
years since the great majority of the
people scarcely knew what banana
was, and considered oranges and lem
ons as Injuries to be afforded only in
sickness or on great occasions.
A citizen of Tarrant County. whose
wife was sick, wishing to go for his
daughter, who was sixty miles distant
on a visit, in the absence of a horse.
rode a two-year-old bull, making the
round trip-l20-in 48 hours. He said
the bovine was rather too poor to ride
without saddle, and, as he expressed
It, putty bad gitin' on agin after the
wind strikes me awhile. Colorado
Clipper.
The English language is not studied
in France, on the assumption that the
French vernacular is destined to be-
come the universal tongue. This. too,
in spite of the recently published fig
nres proving that the number of French
speaking people is declining, and that
French is not now spoken by more than
50.OO0,0O0, whereas English is rapidly
spreading, and is already known to
150,OO0,OO0.
According to the Knowledge there Is
a sulphur deposit at Djemsa, Suez, in a
perfectly rainless desert on the African
coast, very near the sea, and constitut
ing hill 600 feet high, whose sides are
blasted down as in quarrying stone.
Some 200 Arabs employed under French
engineers, succeed in mining ten tons q
day. A similar deposit occurs at Ron
ga, 500 miles from SueZ, also near the
coast of the African continent. which
differs only in being buried under other
strata.
In Mexico as in Spain and other
Southern countries. a lady retains her
maiden name after marriage, and
though she annexes to it that of her
husband by means of a de. she is uni
versally known by her own family
name. 1t is considered more corteou>
to address even elderly married ladies
Senorita Miss. instead of Sonora
(madame.) The lady of the house is
always called by her servants and de-
pendants La Nina 0he little girD,
though she may have attained the age
OF eighty.
Particulars have been published re-
garding the proposed ship-canal across
ireland. The length is intended to be
127 miles, with thirty locks. Naviga-
tion would be effected by towage sys-
fem, and it is estimated that the pass
age from Galway Bay to Kingston
would be accomplished in thirty hours
For ships of l.500 tons the cost would
be $4,000 900; for ships of $500 tons,
S6o,0OO,00O. and for ships of 5000 tons,
S1OO,OOO,O0O. The projected width al
the surface is POO feet, and at the bot.
tom 100 feet.
Some of the customs of the Thibe
fans are very curious. At parting 8
junior person takes off his cap, bows
and puts his tongue out. They pull
their cheeks in order to show surprise.
Turning up the big finger means APP.
proval, and turning up the little finger
means the contrary. The rest of the
fingers signify an Indifferent quality OF
things or person. All the men and wo
men smoke. The nomadic Thibetans
do not bury their dead, but throw them
to wild beasts and birds of prey. In
the capital of Thibet the clergymen de
eide as to the disposal of dead body
whether it shall be burned or thrown
into a river or buried or left as a prey
for beasts and birds.
There is sunken forest of white ce
dar in New Jersey which has been min.
ed for timber over seventy years. The
industry of digging the sunken logs is
carried on by the people of Dennisville
village which was brought into exis.
tence through the buried wealth oi
lumber in its vicinity. Over the forest
trees of large size are growing, and in