The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-07-31
GLEANINGS,

| GLEANINGS.
Mrs. Sarah Hackleman has been for
sixteen years Postmistrcss at Rushville,
Ind.
M. De Lesseps predicts that the
Panama canal will be opened before
1885,
Justin Mccarthy, the novelist. is a
native of Cork, Ireland, and 54 years
of age.
The coinage in this country since the
foundation of the Government amounts
to $3.50, 000.OO
Miss Minnie Hauk, the vocalist, goes
to Berlin shortly, where she expects to
reside permanently.
Over $1.017, 900, 900 taxes on distilled
spirits have been collected by the Gov
ernment since 1862.
A scientific writer says that the
American of to-day is not the bilious
man of fifty years ago.
| New Mexico is wild over the reported
discovery of IN alum mountain in the
western part of the Territory.
Az - ouuouuCcu LuaC CIlc Duho u0
Morny is to marry the daughter of
Baron Rothschild at Frankfort.
Mrs. Livermore, in a recent lecture,
said that in the West she finds "a per-
feet network of wOmen's clubs"
Queen Victoria saves annually from
her Parliamentary allowance $500, 900.
And she has $2.75O. 600 in rentals.
Mrs. James, of Brocton, Mass, now
thirty-nine, was married when she was
fifteen. and has twenty-seven children.
Several well-to-do colored men in
tend to start magazine in New York
which will be called the Negro -An,eri-
can.
In the British House of Commons
one member recently referred to an
other as "a bigoted, malevolent young
pup"
Apreacher atWellington, Kan, made
the prediction that some of his parish
toner's would ''enter hell on roller
skates.'
One physician in Lawrence, Mass,
has nine patients whose illness was
caused by over-exertion in skating
rinks.
A New Haven baby with two noses,
is to be ru: on exhibition in the dime
museums is soon rs it is old enough to
travel.
Mrs. S,ratton, the widow of Tom
Thumb. has applied to the Mayor of
New York for permission to open a
museum.
Tobacco raising in North Carolina
beats gold mining. A Warrenton
farmer refused $1,000 for his crop of
seven acres.
Gas is sold in London at 20 and IS
cents a thousand feet, and dividend
of 12} per cent. per annum on $7.0Oo,-
GOO capital is paid.
Central Park, New York, requires
more money to the square acre TO keep
it in repair than any other large public
park in the world.
Gladstone regards the reading o:
Dante mot only u pleasure, I'm effort.
a lesson; it is strong discipline of the
heart, the intellect, the man"
In 40 colleges of this country there
are $1,000 students. OF this number
ID, OOU are church members, 1,40O hav-
ing joined during the past collegiate
year.
Some one writing from New York to
Il London journal SAYS that the fame of
the dead Delmonicos will live as long
IN New York US that of Washington or
Hawthorne.
The last day that Wendell Phillips
spent outdoors he gave his attention to
tery at Milton, where he expressed a
desire to be buried.
The Worlu's Fair Committee, of San
Francisco. wants Congress to give them
81. 10000 for their show. The cheek
of AN army mule is no longer available
for cnm nariSnnS- Rochester Dennrrnt
There is strip of country in Hous-
ton county. Texas. one mile wide and
ten miles long, where the wells ordin-
arily furnish plenty of wa:er. but a
north wind takes it all ont. The wells
are from sixty to eighty feet deep.
The Merchant Trarelcr SAYS right
good thing thus: 1.-The man whose busi-
ness so occupies his mind that he can't
be civil 10 people he meets, should
either have more mind or less business.
and most folks don't care which it is"
In a case before the NJ chigan Su- |
preme Court where the point in con-
was whether the eiopement of |
a wife from her husband, with another
man, bars her from claim to her
deserted husbands estate, the court |
claimed that it did.
Mrs. Albert Day. of Boston, Young
and pretty. wanted to keep boarders.
Her husband, aged seventy objected.
The bOarders came in the form of sew
eral nice young men. and when Mr..
Day made fuss his wife put him out
doors and kept him out.
Dio Lewis says that 'sif Vanderbilt, |
with his 5000, 900, 900, were as happy |
in proportion to his wealth, he would |
climb to the top of Trinity steeple, face
Wall street. yell and shrek his tumul-
Luous emotions, and in the madness of |
his Joy leap into eternity"
England received one-third more
wheat from Russia in 1888 than in 1882, |
and from India the imports last year
we're double that of the previous year.
Russian and Indian competition will
reduce the price of American
grain in the English markets in the
future.
1.-The only misgiving 1 had when
eft the cutter, said Lieut.. Rhodes, the
Gay head hero. ''was about my baby.
You didn't know that had one. did
you? He is bright little boy about 2
years old. His mother died some time
lgo. and as left in the boat called
out to the captain to look out for him if
happened to me-"
E. o. Slanard. once Governor of
Missouri, is visiting Washington. He
ellis reporter that in his belief wheat
never will be high in America again.
He thinks that the British producers in
Australia and India, with labor at IL
cents day, will soon take the wind
rom our sails with respect to that in
lustry.
'.All this hard wood you expert" the
English tourist asked the Indiana lum-
oerman, '.all this maple and beech,
,ou know, where does it go?" And the
nan told him that most of it went
lirect to Scotland, where it was worked
I'D into boxes and churns and paper
OIders from the rafters of Burns cot
age and tine home of Sir Walter Scott.
And the tourist said "Haw," and wrote
omething in his notebook.
1t is proposed by the German Govern !
ncnt TO cut a canal across Holstein,
the Baltic with the North
,ea- It's lcnpth will be sixty and One- I