Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-05-23
GLEANINGS.

Elephants won't take medicine unless
it has drop of the 'craythur" in it.
One of the New York papers has IA
cilities for printing twenty-six copies
per second.
Baron Nordensjold is preparing for a
fresh attempt to reach the North pole
by way of islands south of Siberia.
An effort is being made to cultivate
the nettle. with the object of obtaining
from it material suitable for weaving.
The expenses at Vassar College run
from $500 to $1,000 q year. The girls
have no football teams or rowing
crews to support.
An athlete advises stair-climbers not
to hurry nor to spring from stair to
stair They should step firmly, leisure
ly and keep erect.
The largest prune orchard in the
world contains 16, 600 trees. 1t is situ-
ated one mile from Saratoga, CAL, and
was recently sold for $4,000.
San Francisco has a citizen, the own
er of considerable real estate, from
which he derives large income, who
peddles fruit about the streets.
Dakota is also proud of millionaire
Chinaman, who resides at Rockford.
He owns mines, United States bonds,
horses and carriage and warehouse.
A long-haired elephant. larger and
more perfect than any specimen hithcr-
to secured, is being extricated from the
ice at the mouth of the Lena Delta.
A book is said to be in process Of
publication entitled 1.-The First Fami-
lies of the United States" wealth be-
ing the determining consideration.
1t is said that of the 1900 boats that
were engaged in salmon fishing in the
Sacramento river last year not more
than 100 will make their appearance
this season.
Floating sawmills are common on
the lower Mississippi. They pick up
the drifting logs, turn them into lum-
Der and sell the product to the planters
along the shore.
There is no such officer as Lieutcn-
ant-Governor in the States of Mary.
land, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware,
Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Oregon, and West Virginia.
Victor Hugo. although over 80 years
of age, is said to have the teeth of a
wolf and the stomach of a lion" He
has as many hairs on his head as when
he was one and twenty, only they are
white.
The Colosseum at Rome had seat
ing capacity of over $1,000 The build
ing having the greatest seating capac-
ity in the United States is Madison
Square Garden. 1t has accommoda-
tions for SAB persons.
The railways in England are severely
affected by the general depression.
People don't travel, because they can't
afford it. First class pas engers ride
third, and third class passengers hide
under the seats and dodge the ticket
collectors.
The charcoal burners of New Jersey
inhabit long strip of wooded hills
running parallel to the coast for miles.
1t is said they put their dead in the
coal pits and cremate them, and the
pits also give evidence Of having receiy-
ed living victims.
No machine Of travel that man ever
invented can equal the speed of wild
fowl. The canvas-back duck flies two
miles minute. The broad bill goose
slightly slower. Teal can fly at the
rate of 100 miles an hour, the wild
goose about ninety.
The dude collar, the tall. stiff choker,
resembling wristband, which has
been SO much caricalured, has had its
day. Though not entirely extinct, it
only flOurishes as a last relic around
the neck Of few supcrannuated sports
and second-class masliers.
A fire in an Iowa church was ea,in-
guished in novel manner by quick
witted druggist The fire was raging
in the floor under the joists. and no
water was at hand. He quickly mixed
up pailiul OF common soda in IA lot of
sulphuric. acid and poured i, down.
Sufficient gas was generated TO imme.
diately extinguish the flames.
Luminous trees are reported to be
growing in a valley near Tuscarora,
New At certain seasons the foliage
gives out sufficient light to enable any
one near ut hand to read small print,
whiie the luminous general elect may
be perceived some miles distant. The
phenomenon is attributed to parasites.
The word Vcnzucla means Little
Venice. The explorers Of old, like
tourists Of modern times. we're given to
tracing resent mblances in America TO
what they were familiar with in Eu-
rope, and they imagined that the hnts
of fMaracaibo. rising on piles above the
water, looked liked the city Of canals
and gondolas.
The Medical Times thinks there is
something anomalous In an age which
is at one time charged with eultyating
muscle at the expense OF mind. and at
another with forcing the brains And
neglccting the bodies Of the rising gen.
Grafton. A judicious care Of both
brain and muscle would be common
sonse solution Of the difficulty.
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