The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-03
GLEANINGS.

German exports to the United States
are rapidly decreasing in number and
value.
Paper gas-pipes are among the new
inventions TO be brought into use in the
near future.
John Fallan, of Flushing,L. l., bet
81 that he could cat four pounds of raw
steak, and won.
A young South Carolinian claims to
have invented a cotton picking machine
but the planters are incredulous.
AT one of the Cincinnati hotels there
is porter and boot black who has
saved fortune of nearly $4,000.
A Frenchman has patented ma
chine for the use of concentrated solar
rays as a general motive power.
Mrs Ross does not read the papers
for fear she will find something about
Charlie in them.
Eggs bring $1.25 dozen in Maiden,
Montana, and the supply is not equal
TO the demand.
One hundred and seven families live
in one tenement house in Mulberry
street, New York.
Eighteen thousand Indians in Mon
tana occupy 30,00O,000 acres of the
best lands of that territory.
! In England there is great public COM
pl int against the young women in the
postal service. They are described as
inattentive and insolent.
A trout was caught in Lake Mem
phremagog at a depth of $50 feet, and
weighing eleven aud a half pounds. 1t
is ON exhibition at Burlington, VT.
General Bob Schenck's diet is skim
milk and he has lived two years beyond
the time set by his doctors for his
death by Bright's disease.
The Piutes, who are fond of acOrns,
cut down the trees rather than climb
them. The authorities of Nevada will
put a stop to the practice.
The Piegan Indians, in Montana, are
said to be in a wretched condition.
Their attempts at agriculture have
proved complete failure.
John ID. Bullock, once naval agent of
the Southern Confederacy, promises a
book ON how the rebel cruisers were
equipped in Europe.
The tallest men in Great Britain are
in the North of Scotland, and the
shortest in the South of England and
Wales. Ireland comes between.
The largest oyster shell in the world
is in the church of St. Sulpice, in
Paris 1t weighs over 500 pounds, and
is used as a baptismal font.
The Society of Friends in England
has repealed the prohibition of mar
riagc of first cousins, which has been
in force in that body for nearly 200
years.
A New York lawyer was greatly sur
prised the other day to find out that
there was q man named Tom Ochiltree.
He thought the name belonged TO a
horse.
Mrs. Edison is lady of aesthetic
tastes. The floral designs which are
now being utilized and beautifully elab-
GRATED into stands, chandeliers and
brackets of her husbands electric light
company were her original suggestion.
Roast ham is noted Pennsylvania
dish; it is roasted the same as beef, only
being less juicy it requires a longer
time in the oven. 1t is served cut in
thin slices, with brown gravy made OF
beef stock and brown flour.
4.
is seventy-three years of age and still
in good health and active practice, has
lived for years on bread and mill;
alone, and says it is, the best food fol
every one.
In communication to the Academic
des Sciences. III. Krcchel has drawn at
tention TO new method of adulterat
ing milk. 1t consists of an aqueous
solution of glucose having the same
density.
Nevada is indignant because one o
its most prominent young men has beer
rejected at West Point on account o
his diminutiye stature. 1t is not nj
WAYS easy TO combine brains and size
in these new states.
Bishop Green, of Mississippi. now in
his eighty-fourth year. is the only sur
vivor of the Episcopal Convention o
1925. lie has been sixty-three years il
holy orders and thirty-four years il
the episcopate.
A sparrow under full head of steam
colIided with a merchant the other day
us he was briskly rounding the corner
of an old wall in Louisville. The birds
bill entered the corner of his eye and
destroyed the sight.
The star-route business is a little
stale, but the fact is, nevertheless
worth noting that the cost of that kinC
of postal service last year was only ST.,
739, 47S, rs against $7,321, 400 for the
preceding year, and at the same time
the mileage has been increased more
than 1000, 900 miles.
Isabella became Queen of Spain OF
September 20, 1888. She fled from tina
throne and took refuge in France OF
September 20, 1868. And her son AL
fonso was hooted, by a mob in Paris OF
September 20, 1888. There's encour
agcment for people who believe il
omens and evil days.
The water in Hunters Springs, MIN.
possesses the rare property of colorin9
glass through and through delicat'
pink color Fragments of clear whit
flint glass immersed few hours in th
mineral waters becomes covered with
beautiful amcthystine hue. which is no
on the surface merely, but is dissent
mated uniformly through the glass.
One of the curious and amusing ty
biographical errors which creep into tn
newspapers, despite the diligence O
Inc IuOSJ ~ lNnN-cN ca lJIOOi IcutiSi, pCdA
in a San Francisco paper, which mean
10 say that Judge Thomas exchanged
benches with Judge Scott yesterday,
but the cruel types made it read
"Judge Thomas exchanged breeche
with Judge Scott. yesterday"
A simple and useful bolt has been in
vented by Mr.. Arnott, of the LyceuI
Theatre, London, having for its objec
the fastening of doors of theatres an'
other public buildings, so that they ca
be opened by mere pressure agains
the door from the inside, and not Il
all from the outside, dispensing wit
all other fastenings, which cause 5
many accidents in case of panic. On
advantage is that once unIastened
cannot be rebolted by accident.
Longwindcdness is the curse OF Eng
lish journalism. For instance the Pa
lSIU Gazenc concludes review of Ell
Wheeler's poems as follows: ''Perhap
we would be accused of laboring undc
the reactionary prejudice of the Oh
World if we were TO remark that
would not be II worldwide calamity
the Sappho of the West were to find
Lake MichiUau that efipctual remed