Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-05-17
GLEANINGS.

ILFANIN0Ss
Mrs. Southworth's numerous grand.
children call her "Grandma Emma"
Steel instead of wooden supports
have been introduced into many col
leries.
A Rockingham, N. c., gentleman
has pair OF elks that he drives to 0
buggy.
In Persia no son ever sits in the
presence of his father unless ordered to
do so
During the reign of King James l.
not one Englishman in a thousand
wore stockings.
The enamel of the teeth is the hard
est tissue of the body, and contains
only 2 per cent of animal matter.
A charming young widow Of Bir-
mingham, Ala, is but thirteen years
old and attends the public schools.
Numerous flint rocks with peculiar
CLINT. and found to be gold bearing,
have lately been picked up in various
portions of the south.
The University of Cairo, in Egypt,
is said to be 90J years older than OK
ford, and has ten thousand students
an missionaries.
London jewelers. are in raptures over
the Guaymas pearl, which weighs 80
karats, was found by an Indian in
Lower California, and is supposed to
be the largest pearl known.
The old corduroy road, built early in
the seventeenth century, which led to
the fort in Schenectady at the time of
the massacre of the Indians, has been
discovered sixteen feet under the
ground.
A Minnesota farmer reports that he
can keep one stove going" during six
months with the sunflower stalks pro-
duced on one acre of land. The seed
produced is fed to fowls, which pays
for all the work Of cultivation.
Recently at Lincolnton, Ca, the
postage stamp on the envelope of an
apparently innocent epistle was acci-
dentally removed, and under it was
discovered a warmly affectionate mes
sage written in very small characters.
A Wisconsin farmer recommends as
sure cure for potato bugs to plant
one or two flax seeds in each hill Of
potatoes. He says the bugs will shun
it every time, and for ten years he has
been successful in growing potatoes.
General Grants great misfortune
gives terrible warning to excessive
smokers. The abolition of tobacco
from the human mouth would be q
hap pnft tn a ar rt nf hn ~
an injury to none of its members
NeW York Mail.
Miss Lucilla Y. Dudley was for some
time model in the London art world.
Among those to whom she used to sit
is Mr.. Edward Burne Jones. Her
name and address still ornament the
pre-Raphaelite studio door, on which
he writes his models names. She also
used to sit to Sir Frederick Leighton.
The degree of accuracy in scientific
measurements is rarely appreciated by
laboratory at Yale College the catheto-
meter, for vertical measurements,
made by Grunow, OF New York, which
is the finest in the world, will measure
to one two-hundred-and- fifty -thous-
andth OF an lnch.
The procession of decrepit little boys
who smoke cigarettes has begun to de-
posit its victims in the insane asylum
in New Jersey. If it goes on increas-
ing there will have to be more prisons,
poor-houses, and pauper insane asy-
lums than all other buildings put to-
gether in few years.-Springfeid
(Mass.) Republican.
Recently letter arrived at the
Berlin Postoflice addressed to s'Guilil-
elmo Imperiali. 1t was handed to the
Emperor, who was not a little amused
to find it containing most enthusias-
tic expression of undying love, appar-
emily for himself. After inquiry 1t was
found that the letter was meant for an
Italian artist, who now doubly treas
ures the document.
The Gainesville (Ga.) Press makes
the following astounding announce
ment: Numerous diamonds have
been found in our county of princely
value, and are in existence to-day, or
namenting the bosoms or fingers OF
American people. We know Of one,
picked up on our streets few weeks
since. for which the owner has been Of
fered $4,000.
DIR. Mann, of this city, stated in his
sermon on Sunday, that he believed
the time would come when public opin-
ion would be as strongly opposed to q
persons having 5000, 600, 900 as it now
| is to his having POO wives. He also
took the position assumed by Abram
S. Hewitt several years ago, that there
should be some limit to the vast ac.
cumulation OF wealth. Rochester Dem.
| Ocrat.
once met farmer on township
road who, on being asked what news.
paper was taken in the family replied
that no newspaper was taken; that ht
did not believe in newspapers; that
their only effect was to keep the womer
from working. ! have no doubt thai
this is a comparatively isolated case
for the better class of farmers now tax,
half a dozen newspapers. - Toronto
(Ontario) Mail.
Gas is used in few bedrooms in Eu
rope and in very few upper-class houses
II is being taken out Of pretty nearly
all the old houses in England and OF
the Continent. II Is deemed unhealthy
consuming the fresh air Of the rooms