Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-05-10
GLEANINGS.

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almost entirely thrown open. while the
interiors have courts that are unrOofed
and unobstructcd to the sky.
Joaquin Miller has swapped off a
manuscript copy of one of his poems
for the duplicate of silver design he
saw at the New Orleans Exposition.
The silverworkcr wanted pay in Mil
ler's poetry
Those persons who are ''peach"
crazy around Quakertown, n. j., are
renting land ut from $S to $40 an
acre pcr annum. The terms run from
ten to twelve years-the usual 'ife of
an orchard in that vicinity.
Over one hundred different answers
have been received to the --latest math-
ematical question" resurrected by New
York and Philadelphia journals: Two
girls meet three girls, and all kissed.
How many kisses were exchangedP'
The somewhat remarkable statement
is made that the city of New York,
covering only 27,000 acres, supplies to
p per cent. of the population of the
country 10 per cent. of all the water
used for domestic purposes through
out the land.
San Francisco has ''lumber bone
yard'-a place where the extensive
syndicate which controls the greater
part of the lumber cut on the Pacific
Coast sends any cargo that may arrive
which appears to be in excess of home
demand, and at the first favorable op-
portunity ships it to any part of tho
world.
A New York lady of leisure and
money sailed for Paris recently to con-
suit celebrated dog doctor about her
poodle's health. The cur has bad
cough, and is described as being "as
ugly as dingy door mat" He is six
teen years old, and his mistress is anx-
ious that he shall live until he is
twenty-five.
The Western weed, loco. acts upon
horses and cattle almost the same as
alcohol does upon man. Upon eating
it they lose all appetite for normal
food, become apparently intoxicated at
times and finally die from disease
strangely like delirium trcmeDs. From
the vice comes the California express
sion: "As bad as lococd horse"
Albert Hector, says the Liberty Reg
lister, is quite qucerly constituted in one
respect. He sheds all OF his finger
nails and two of his toe nails yearly.
The old nails are gradually crowded
of the fingers by the new and tender
nails growing behind and under them.
Bert is unable to explain why his nails
leave him in this way, but they do.
Two Frenchmcn, the brothers Fore,
have invented new kind of harp, made
entirely of wood. Instead of strings
the inventors use strips of American
fir. The sound is produced, as in the
ordinary harp, by the contact of the
fingers, but the player wears leather
gloves covered with rosin. The tone
of the instrument is said to be of re-
markablc purity.
There Is no financial nonsense about
the Presbyterian pastor at Palmyra,
Mo. On the first day Of each month
his monthly salary in advance, and the
bank regularly honors the check and
charges 1t up to the dcacons, who are
personally responsible for the salary.
Thus no delay or default in paving the
subscriptions can affect him.
As an instance Of the great age to
which elephants sometimes live, il is
said that when Alexander the Great
had conquered Porus, King of India,
he dedicated to the sun a great elephant
which had fought valiantly for the
King, and let him 90 with this inscrip-
ton: alexander, the son OF Jupiter,
dedicated Ajax to the sun" The elc-
phant was found $50 years afterward,
still bearing the above inscription.
Pennsylvania has state tax on
watches, the results of which, as re-
ported by the Secretary of Internal
Affairs, are amusing. The population
OF the state is about 4,5OO,O0O. The
number of voters last November was
100000. But in all this population and
this army of voters there were only
1896 watches, gold, silver and ''com-
mon.' So 1t would appear that there
were last year 4,454, 404 Pennsylvan-
ians, not one of which had watch.
Colonel Napoleon Crosby, of Geor-
gia, relates that upon one occasion his
company was forced to march for scv-
eral days over the unbroken snow, and
his eyes became so weak and inflamed
that he blackened his whole face with
SCOT to counteract tho brilliant reflec-
ton from the snow. He says, of
course, it was failure, but he per-
sisted that it was great relief, and in
less than day the whole company
presented an unbroken line OF black
ened faces and eyelids.
William p. Hopkins, of Lawrence,
Mass, has in his possession love let
ter written 22l years ago by James
Chalmers. one Of the judges in the
time OF Charles l.. to Lady Ursula
Fairfax, whom he afterward married.
The letter, of whose authenticity no
doubt can, it is stated, be raised, is
sthi in perfect condition. 1t is dated
Lon, lS Nov, 1861" and it is ad-
dressed: "To his entirely loved and
highly honored Mistresse Ursula Fair
fax"
The most peculiar part of a wedding
festival among the middle classes ia
Persia is the closing. At the moment
the bride leaves her fathers house a
shout OF 'Kel lei lei" announces tho
iact. All the guests carry lanterns on
high poles to lead and light the way.
AS the procession approaches tho home
OF the bridegroom several sheep are
sacrificed in honor of the bride. They
are slain at her feet as she steps over
her husbands threshold for the first
time. Then invoking blessings on the
pair, all wend their way home, and the