Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
GLEANVNGS.

Arab Pasha is teaching school at
Colombo, in Ceylon.
Statistics show that women graduates
are about year older than men on the
| average.
The word "helr' appears eighty-six
times in Shakspeare's writings. and
heaven 306 times.
Mrs. Diaz, wife of the Mexican presi-
dent, is only % years old. She was a
Rubie before her resetting.
One of the Washington Treasury
clerks is able to count 1000 new notes
an hour for seven hours a day.
John Bright says that Queen Victo-
$3.50, 100000 and $4,000 lives in war.
The old moss found more than foot
thick in various parts of Sweden proves
an excellent material for paper-making.
Old, broken-nosed pitchers which
during the recent "ancient' craze
brought S400 are now worth only 80
cents.
Practical anatomy is taught in some
of the public schools of New Haven,
CT, by the dissection of dead cats and
rabbits.
Miss Anthony, it is remarked, seems
to grow younger as her years pile up.
She is now 64 years old, and her face is
no more wrinkled than at so.
In Madagascar no one could read
sixty years ago, but now there are near
ly 800, 900 on the island who have some
part of the bible and read it.
A postal card is not mailable with
any writing or printing on the address
side, except the address, nor with any
thing pasted or pinned to the other
side.
A tendency to build cheaper houses
is noted both in New York and in
Brooklyn, in the anticipation that low
er rents will be imperatively demanded
during the next year or two.
The Congregational Year Book of
England. just published, shows that
there are now 4,347 Congregational
churches in England and Wales, with
a total seating capacity of 1,56S, 1857.
A Georgia editor concentrates some
ideas thus: "Gold is found in thirty
six counties in this state, silver in three,
diamonds in twenty-six, and whisky in
all Of them, and the last gets away
with all the rest"
White and gold china, the pretty, old
pattern, with the wedding ring in the
center of every piece, has suddenly
come into favor; and this is reasonable,
as nothing can be in better taste than
that old French china.
1t is claimed that the best apples to
be had On this coast, and as good as
there are in the world, are raised on
the western slope of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, at an altitude of from 1000
to 5000 feet.-Sdn Francisco Aitd.
DR.. Evans, the celebrated American
dentist, of Paris, says that crammed
children are always destined to early
toothlessness, and that the best thing
to do with bantling is to treat it like
young colt, and turn it out to grass.
Among the people who inhabit New
Britain, which has just been annexed
by Germany, is said to be a race of
men with tails. They live in the inter-
ior and are shy of visiting the coast.
This being travellers story shouldn't
prejudice one against it.
The Bostonian bruiser is not fool.
He fully appreciates the expensive ma
ture of the law. When mulcted in
500 and costs for abusing his horse he
said to his counsel, I'D a blanked
sight rather pay than appeal" There
are sermons in other dense matter as
well as in stones.
Crime is increasing at fearful rate
in Italy. In 1874 there were 3,210 serv-
ing life sentences in their penal estab-
lishments; now thereare 5, ,S63, of whom
204 are female prisoners. Italy pays
sc, 900 for the maintenance of its
penal system. while for education only
$5, 400, 900 is set aside.
The sum of 81, ,93S, $50 was spent by
Americans for pictures by French art
lists in 1888, and only 1854. $40 in 1884.
The artists, if they will recall the casu-
alties in Wall street last year, will at
once perceive that they cannot infer the
Americans no longer want French
pictures.-Ihe Current.
Harrison Hahn. of Wind Gap, North
ampton County, Pa, is the father of a
two-year-old girl whose ears are bent
forward and grown to the face. Both
ears are without the orifice, but deaf
uess is prevented by the girl hearing
every sound, no matter how light,
through her nose and mouth.
The Eastman (Ga.) Times says:
''Take blade of bear grass and boil it
forty minutes. Then beat it with q
hammer and scrape it until the threads
are smooth. Suspend it to whip for
= cracker, and after it has worn little
and becomes dry it will strike fire like
aint and steel when struck against dry
sands"
George Dolby. the historian of Dick
ems American tour has incurred the
wrath of Buffalonians by recording
that the novelist was struck by the alb
sence of female beauty among his Buff
falo audiences, and that the faces of
the girls of that city were of ''a sort of
German-Irish- Scotch mixed with In
dian type"
We have been favored with another
piece of sheet-music, says the New
York World. This is "a Cry of Love,
an Idylle by LIE Marquis de Leuville."
1t is not dedicated to anybody in par
ticular, and we accept it as peace-of-
fering to the World. The refrain is,
20, kiss me once and let me die" Un-
der the circumstances We give our re-
luctant consent.
A New England man who inherited
the estate of an uncle, which included
some papers he did not know much
about, presented the papers at the
Treasury at Washington and was in
formed that they were part of the ''old
debt" which ceased to bear interest in
1886. The amount was $4,000, and |
the interest up to 1886 $4,000. The |