The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-06-26
GLEANINGS.

The Massachusetts House has passed
bill forbidding companies to discrim-
mate against the colored race in the
rates for ihsuring lives. 1
Some crank has written to the Detroit
Times solemnly asserting that the ire
which recently destroyed it's office was
visitation of Providence. 1T
Holding a cartridge between her
fingers, Julia Pegg, of ST. Louis, be-
gan experimenting with a lighted
match. The explosion cost her two
fingers and thumb.
William Nowland. King of the Ork-
ney gypsies, has just died at the age of
102, and his widow, aged over 80, was
able to smoke pipe vigorously during
the funeral services.
London has seventy-six guilds, en-
dowed by wealthy benefactors for the
benefit of the different trades. and their
trust property alone yields an income
of f200. 900 annually.
1t has been decided that the inscrip-
ton placed upon the bust of Beacons-
field, in Westminster Abbey, shall be
simply: ''Lord Beaconsfeld, twice
Premier of England"
Captain Rodney Baxter, of Hyannis,
Cape Cod, offers to pay $500 Ito any
person who will produce a materialized
spirit in my presence, within my reach,
a witness being present, and that will
there remain even five minutes"
Jay Cooke, whose fortune was swept
away by the crash of 1873, is to-day
one of the wealthiest men of Pennsyl-
vania. He has investments in iron,
coal, gold, and silver mines, and rail-
roads reaching far into the millions.
Justice Massey, of Brooklyn, has
sent Miss Emily Vogel, eighteen years
of age, to the penitentiary to complete
a reunion of the family. all of whom,
father, mother, two brothers, and
sister, had preceded her to that estab-
lishment.
In the city of New York alone it is
estimated that there are at present no
fewer than 400 millionaires, thirty of
whom own from $5, 900, 600 to $50, OOO.-
600 apiece, while there are about ten
VINO possess from $50, 600. 900 to $780,
600, 900 each.
Travellers rave about the soft purple
light which fills Italian skies and gives
a peculiar beauty to Italian mountains.
The light has now been discovered on
the mountains of Southern California,
and tourists are so informed by the
railroad companies interested.
T. b. Aldrich is taken to task for
making the word Mel Gin describing q
Marechal Mel rose in poem in the
May Atlantic) rhyme with s.steel."
His critics urge that the French word
Mel of two syllables might rhyme with
"well" or ''dwell," but hardly with
"steel."
The general rule of law is that
person having a pecuniary interest in
will is disqualified from acting as a
subscribing witness thereto. In re-
cent case before the Supreme Court of
Iowa this rule was sought to be extend
ed to case where the witness was a
corporator of a charitable institution
and a distributee upon the dissolution
thereof, tho will containing bequest
thereto. The Court declined to SO ex-
tend the rule.
A scientific physician says: 'tIn the
morning there is an acrid state of tine
secretions, and nothing is so well cal
culated TO correct it as peaches, apples,
etc. The small seed fruits. such as
figs, bIackberries. raspberries, may be
classed among the best fruits and medi-
cines. The sugar in them is nutritious,
the acid purifying and the seeds laxa-
tive. We should look more to our
gardens for our medicines and less to
our drug stores.
The New York Graphic says: ''San
nd rrCin
cable surface railroads for many years
past. New York now talks about
adopting the system. Isn't this really
reversing the order of things? Does
the star of progress take its way East?
Is it not possible that somebody here
has invented something great deal
better than that which our young folks
out West are calling already half obso-
letei'
Tho president of the French repub-
lie sent some little time ago to the
French ambassador at Constantinople
three handsome cimeters made in exact
imitation of the much-prized Damascus
blades, for presentation to the sultan's s
three sons. An Oriental potentate re-
ceiving present from such quarter
would probably have preferred some
product of European art to q counter
felt of what he can get better at home.
'If you want to make an Englishman q
present." says a French paper, criti-
cising NJ. Grevy's gift, ''you would not
offer him dozen of pale ale, an article
of Sheffield cutlery, or coat made by
Poole"
Utah has now 10000 small farms
averaging twenty-five acres, and the
whole must be irrigated. There is
only one large farm in the territory,
and it is owned by company. The
Great Salt Lake, according to Elder
| Cannon, contains enough salt to supply
| America for centuries. All that is nee
essary in preparing it for market is to
drive to the edge of the lake with a
wagon, and a man with pair of rub
ber boots can load it with shovel.
The salt lies ON the bottom of the lake
in small, coarse crystals. After load
ing it is taken to a grinding machine.
and being run through it is fit for the
table. -..t.r..-e
A French gentleman and scholar re-
Gently visited one of the oldest families
| in Boston, who reside in one of the
oldest houses in the suburbs, which is
heated through registers in the floor.
The visitor planted his chair over one
of these, where he sat sweltering and
sweating for an hour or more, not
knowing where the hot waves came
from, and was entirely too polite to
speak of his discomfort. Noticing that
the others were perfectly comfortable.
he concluded that the temperature was
probably not at all uncomfortable to
the literati of America, which he had
often heard were extremely cold blood
ed. The family were terribly mortified
when they heard of how their distin-
guished visitor had been broiled and
rendered so uncomfortable. He threat
ems to write book on America.
In Germany the young man who
thinks certain young lady's father
would make good fathcr-in-law puts
on his best clothes, calls on the old
gentleman and asks for the hand of his
daughter. He never thinks of appeal