The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-17
GLEANINGS.


station: mo loafers allowed here, ex-
cept police"
Tho highest rate of the Western
Union Telegraph company at present is
q for ten words between Portland,
Me-, and San Francisco.
Under the laws of Maine, q person
who procures divorce cannot marry
again without permission of the court
tnat granted the decree.
Syria has ninety-five silk factories.
which give employment to about Is, 600
lnen, boys and girls whose daily wages
range from 8 to q cents.
Grape culture in California is rapid
ly increasing. and it is thought that at
least 5000. 600 vines will be planted in
Los Angeles county this spring.
Henry w. Miller, of Worcester,
Mass. has, as apprentice and proprie-
tor. occupied his place of business as u
tin and hardware dealer for seventy
years.
Among the inventions recorded in
the Patent Office is one styled ''life-
saving coffin" 1t is so arranged that
any movement by a person accidentally
buried alive is registered above ground.
Ann Lewellyn, of Pottsville, Pa, has
wooden leg. Her late husband had
one. Her older son took one to the
grave with him. Her other boy and
only child is stubbing around OH one.
When transplanting the strawberry,
an expert forbids the removal of tho
runners and recommends the leaving
of six inches of them attached to each
side of the plant. The ends of these
runners are to be bent down and buried
with the roots. Plants thus treated
are provided with means for drawing
nourishment at once, and will thrive in
adverse conditions which prove fatal to
plants stripped of their runners.
After driving well to the depth of
176 feet at Trent, England, without get
ting water, firm of artesian well en-
gineers was consulted. A spot only q
short distance from the old hole was
selected and an immense vein of water
was struck at q depth of ia feet.
These parties say that they have SCI
entific method of finding water or min
erals.
There are but few housekcepers in
New Orleans, says the IicGyune, ''who
dare demand obedience from their SER
wants. Their servants are impudent to
them. positively refuse 10 receive any
orders or instructions; are untruthful,
Z dishonest The mistress who has n
good cook puts up with hundred dis
agreeable or disgusting traits of char
acter in the cook rather than take the
risk Of going further TO fare worse !"
According to the Chinese, cask-
making has been known to them for
many thousand years. They labored,
however, under this drawback: they
did not know how to give the final
touch by which the lid is fastened in
the only method that struck them as
feasible being to place boy inside while
the cooper ightened the hoops and Sc
cured the head in its position. But how
was the boy to be got out? This re-
mained an unsolved problem for 5000
years.
A novel feature in the hotel line of
the New Orleans Exhibition will be the
steamship Great Eastern. Major Burke
has chartered it ut Liverpool, and it
will leave some time in September with
n load of exhibits for the exhibition,
and after these have been landed the
vessel will be moored at the exhibition
wharf 1t will be thoroughly cleaned
and will be used as q hotel, under the
charge of skillful caterer. 1t has $50
state rooms and will be located almost
within the exhibition grounds.
DIR. Farr. an English scientist says
that II one could watch the march of
100000 through life, the following
would be obscrvable: Nearly $50, 900
would die the first year, SO, 600 the sec
ond year. $4,000 in the third year, and
less than 1000 in the thirteenth year.
Al tho end of forty-tive years 100000
will have died. AT the end of sixty
years $40, 900 will be still living; at the
end of eighty years. 1900; at eighty
five years. 81, 900, and ut ninety-five
years. 2.10O. At the end of 100 years
there will be 223, and ut the end of 10S
years there will be but one survivor.
Some years ago Mr.. Dana. of the
New York Sun, took it into his head
that he would like to experiment with
mushrooms. So. at great cost, he built
great mushroom cave, got French
man, to whom he paid large salary,
and began his experiment. The first
year it cost him about $4,000. but to-
day he is not only raising all of these
delicious fungi that he wants for his
own family table, but his cave yields so
many mushrooms that the gardener
has been able to sell enough to pay
with interest for the expenditure.
According to a Vatican authority,
this is how the Pope spends the day:
He rises at 6, and Mt celebrates holy
mass. At 8 he looks over his volumi-
nous correspondence. At IL he holds
his public receptions. At half past IL
he takes walk in the garden, chatting
with his favorte Cardinal. At 2 he
dimes. his repast consisting of one plate
of meat and two plates of vegetables;
he drinks Bordeaux wine by his doc
tors orders. At half past he receives
the secretaries of the various congre-
cations, with whom he confers on
church matters. AT o'clock he reads
the papers. home and foreign. At half
past he tells his beads. At 10 he sups
ON an egg and soup. and retires TO his
rest
Denver has struck another bonanza
800 feet under ground. 1t does not
create as much excitement as the Pts
gah Mountain fraud, but the sickly
denizens of the foothills stand show
of being benefited. 1t has been shown
by analysis that the water from the 900
foot vein of the artesian well, which tho
county commissioners are sinking in the
court mousse yard, possesses the same
properties rs those of the famous Spa
water in Germany. 1t is impregnated
with carbonate of iron, and carbonic
acid. 1t is free from all organic impu-
rites, and contains, further, many of
the most famous qualities of the
curative waters. The waters flow
at the rate of 2.100 gallons per
diem. but its pressure shows that
it can be raised in a pipe to the height
Of 120 feet above the surface. The
main flow yields 5000 gallons per diem
and can be raised seyenty-one feet
above the surface of the earth. Den
Ger NeWs.
Recent years have been usually pro-
life in discoveries of the remains of the
prehistoric inhabitants of England. An
Interesting discovery of this kind has
lately been made in the valley of the
Ancholme. near Brigg. in Lincolnshire.
Some laborers who were eXcavating
brick earth came upon a corduroy road
at depth of seven feet below the sur
face. Above the road is a stratum of