Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-10
GLEANlNGS.

One OF the New York papers recently
used quarter of ton of ink in print
ing one days edition.
When you hire a servant in Mexico it
is with the understanding that his or
her entire family reside with you.
In the '.bill' of mosquito there are
five distinct surgical instruments.
These are described as lance, two neat
saws, suction pump and small Cor
liss engine.
The Mexican stage coach always has
two drivers. one to hold the reins and
the other to do the whipping. The lat
4 ter carries bag of stones to throw at
the leaders.
I The North Carolina Commissioner of
immigration says 140 families, number
ing 700 persons, have settled in the
State. mainly from New England, in
the last year.
The most universally diffused organ
ism in nature. the least size with which
we are definitely acquainted, is so small
| that SO, 600, 900 of them could lie togeth-
er in 1-1OO square inch.
David Allen, farmer of East Bridge
water, Mass, has eaten but one meal a
day for thirty years. He is "a years of
age, perfectly healthy, and does as
mush work as average farmers around
him.
In deep test bore at Bloomington,
Ind, Potsdam sandstone has been
reached at depth of 2,45O feet. 1t is
supposed to be the stratum of fine
stone which crops out in Michigan and
elsewhere.
A New Haven gentleman has one of
the old 1852 Spence pieces coined in
Boston, and as to which it was recently
said none were known to be in exist
ence. The first American coinage was
of this year.
Indian Territory contains 6S,991
square miles and has an Indian popula-
ton of S7,946. The Territory is larger
than Missouri by 10000 square miles.
The vast tract should not long be
devoted to few Indians.
The Japanese prison color is pink, as
constant association with this color is
supposed to create peculiar impressions
upon the mind OF the criminal which
will exert an influence for good after he
has regained his liberty.
The square in New York City bound
ed by Fourth street, Fifth street. Avenue
A and First avenue is said to be the
most crowded spot on earth. Each
side of this square is solidly composed
OF siX-story tenement houses, each 25-
foot frontage and representing four
families on each floor.
For many years a sealed box with
instructions that it should not be OPEN
ed for twenty years from date of its
sealing was "kicked around in the
Massachusetts Secretary of States
office, nuisance to everybody until
the allotted time expired. 1t was then
opened, and found to contain papers
relating to the potato rot.
In the plains Of India at the COM
mencement of the monsoon, storms
occur in which the lightning runs like
snakes all over the sky at the rate of
three or four flashes in a second, and
the thunder roars without a break for
frequently one or two hours at time.
Yet it is very rare that any tree or ami
NAL is struck by the electric current.
The coachman mania has spread to
Canada. A wealthy old lady residing
at st. Rochs, a suburb of Quebec, and
who has already been twice married,
her last husband having been promi-
nent physician, is said to be about to
take third husband in the person of
her coachman. The youthful bride is
only "a. while the groom has reached
the mature age of 90.
Marmalade made from banana skins
is novelty in Philadelphia. An enter
prising Italian has opened factory and
employs about twenty Italian boys who
gather the basis of the marmaladc.
banana skins, from the cutters, and
carry them to the factory. After the
skins are washed they are ground up
and put through press, the pulp is
thrown away. and the meat of the skin,
after going through cooking process
with sugar and favoring, becomes .
toothsome-lool ing jelly.