The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-02-21
GLEANINGS.
The Mormon church in Utah recei

nor Of Georgia, got through from Ogle-
thorpe county to Augusta In sixty-fve
days.
The Jews are more numerous in
Hamburg. Frankfort, Amsterdam and
warsaw than in any other European
towns. or all European countries,
Ireland has the least number of Jews
In it, a strong indication of its poverty.
A burglar, who has been interviewed
for the Boston Herald, declares that of
those whom an operator" is liable to
meet while working in dwelling. the
most dreaded is the woman, whom
neither terror nor habit Will permit to
keep still.
William H. Vanderbilt and Mr.. Frank
Work have not spoken for years, and
the old feud between them is as bitter
now as ever before. The veterans of
the road meet quite often while driving.
and race between them invariably
occurs when they do.
II was discovered in Cincinnati that
the numerous chorus of genuine
negro minstrel festival show was in
"a large part composed of fellows who
were not singers ut all, but were put on
dhe stage '"with intent to deceive,
while. the real vocalism was by inter-
spersed professionals.
Titus Sheard, the speaker of the New
York assembly, arrived in central New
York from England in 1856, with his
last possession spent in railroad fare.
He walked, begging his food, from
Syracuse to Mottville, where he found
employment in a woolen mill. Now he
owns a wooden mill at Little Falls.
A suggestion for hotel-keepers is
contained in the following from a let
ter by a young lady in a Vermont
boarding-schoo!: "YOu should see
what we have to live on. A few morn
ings ago all we had for breakfast was
baked potatoes, pickles, bread, butter
and coffeel They say we must not
grow fat, as it would interfere with our
mental development"
The most honored guests in Swiss
hotel, says a writer in a London paper,
are unquestionably the couriers. For
these gentlemen are reserved the
choicest wines and the finest cigars.
They get liberal commission on the
amount of their employers bills, and
when out of place can have free quar-
,ters with any innkeeper of their ac-
.quai1tAnce. "
: The growth of New York City is
shown in no better way than by the
cost Of new buildings erected each year.
In 1874 the value was over $4,000
900: in 1877 it fell to the lowest point
of the past ten years, $13, 800, 900, and
then showed yearly increase until for
the year 1881 the figures reached $44,-
800, 600. During the past year the
value of new buildings erected ex-
ceeded $4S, 900, 900.
e. It. is stated that the mountains of
Gellivara, in the northern part of
Sweden, consist of pure magnetic iron
in immense layers of several hundred
feet. One of these peaks alone is sup
posed to contain 280,000,000 tons.
: Large forests are contiguous, and they
are less than 100 miles from the Allan
!. tic. A railroad is to. be built, and it is
estimated that the iron can be delivered
Oh the sea-coast at cost of fifty cents
Il Signor Francisco, ballet master of
Her Majesty's Opera Company, being
asked: ''Why is the ballet SO fascinat-
ing to young men about town. an
swered: because the ladies of the
ballet are modest in their dress and de-
meanor, and leave something to the
Imagination. The decoHette dresses of
the present day leave tho ballet far in
the Shade, and this has always been the
case with fashionable society in all
opera houses the world over; you will
see moro bare shoulders in the boxes
than on the stage"
Ex-Judge Bleckley, of Georgia, lives
alone in little cabin on Screamer
Mountain, in Rabun county, Georgia.
Now w'and then shepherd looking for
lost sheep calls on him, and OCCASION
ally the Judge runs down to Atlanta.
II have the best of companions, he
said the other day. II have thirteen
umes of Gibbons Rome and nine vol
umes of Thoreau. read Spencer when
/ want work, GibbOn when | want rest.
and Thoreau when want recreation"
Ill health prompts the Judge 10 seek
mountain air.
A German who has been teacher in
England has published II striking book
in which he SAYS that English private
schools are the most inefficient educa-
tiOnal Institutions in Europe. What
with holidays. the time spent in ex-
aminations, and lost at the beginning
and end of the terms, he reckons that
the actual working days in year are
reduced in, the most middle-class
schools to 1876. The teaching and the
discipline are bad; the masters are
frequently changed, and are SO badly
treated and ll-paid that they become
the merest drudges and can take no
personal interest in their work.
Rev. j. A. Cass, a well-known Meth
odist clergyman, writing from Europe
30 the Worcester Spy. says: Vienna,
the capital of Austria, is the most mag
niticent city on the planet Not Berlin
the mighty, not London the worlds
center, not Edinburgh the elegant, not
Paris the beautiful, not Washington the
wicked, can for one moment stand in
comparison il we contemplate the state
ly magnificence of her public and pri-
vate buildings, while if we consider the
beauty of her women, not even Boston
or Worcester can be put on par with
Vienna. 1t was no easy matter to tear
myself away from the great capital
after two-weeks' stay"
- Dr. Steckler, of New Jersey, has
been inoculating children with the
virus of scarlet fever taken from horses
with good effect. 1t is an old story
that scarlet fever originated in horses,
tho first cases being reported in the
royal stables in 1914. Shortly after
that time it appeared among human
beings. 1t is not common now among
horses. DIR. Steckler is reported to
have inoculated young colts in order to
procure the equine virus. OF twelve
children vaccinated with this virus all
escaped on being exposed to the dis
ease. II. as is supposed by many ply
sicians. the germ OF scarlet fever is the
same as that of diphtheria, and if Steck-
ler's discovery averts both, he will de-
serve TO rank as high among the bene-
factors of the race as Jenncr himself.
Women are thoroughly successful as
students at Michigan University. Presi-
dent Angel says in his latest report:
"As we have now for thirteen years,
without the least embarrassment. adj
mitted women 10 all the privileges OF
instruction in the university, we cannot