The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-12-24
GLEANINGs.

Thirty American girls arc teaching
normal schools in the Argentine Re-
public.
A Boston firm has spent $17,0 in
getting out a fine edition of '.Lalla
Rookh.'
A German statistican finds that there
are 100000 blind persons in the
world.
A firm at Bartlett, N. H., turns out
1000 bushels of shoe pegs each work
ing day.
There are 6. S32, 954 Roman Catholics
iu the United States and 10, 1877. 764
Protestants.
In London proper land is very dear,
having recently been sold at the rate of
$15. .000. 900 an acre.
The curious discovery has just been
made that vegetarians are never aff-ct-
ed by sea sickness.
A single chandelier in the mountain
castle of that spend hrift, the King Of
Bavaria, cost f4,80
The mortality of chioroform is l to
$500; that of either. l 10 1862; that
OF nitrous oxide, to 100, 900.
Sixty murders and only three oon-
victions since the war is the criminal
record of Sumter County, Tenn.
Jay Gould's family have an income
of 81, 400, 900 year for their invest
ment in Missouri Pacific Railroad
stock.
1t is now said that the over-draw
check rein, by reason of muscular strain
upon the eyes, produces blindness in
horses.
Icelandic women have for ages voted
in church affairs. The custom is kept
up by the Icelanders who have come
to this country and settled in Dakota.
There are no fewer than sixty -four
volumes of the German Bible for the
blind. 1t costs 1926. The letters are
in haut-relief and the paper very thick.
An old regulation at Yale is that
student shall lift his hat at q distance
of ten rods from the president. eight
from professor and five from a tutor.
Father Hyacinthe, in q recent SER
mon in Paris, declared that war could
not be dispensed with, and that those
who advocated its abolition were dan
gerous people.
Cardinal Newman was received into
the Roman Catholic Church over forty
wears ago the 9th of October, 1845.
He had been vicar of St Mary the Vir-
gin at Oxford.
Robert Toombs has personally known
every president of the United States
except Washington. Jefferson, John
Adams, Grant, Hayes. Garfield, and
Cleveland. He was the first secretary
of state in the confederacy, and later
served in the field as brigadier gen.
eral
The proposed universal day meets
with no encouragement from astrono-
mers. Upon the proposition to count
the hours of the day from to "a in
civil life one of them says that it will
scarcely ever bo adopted. for nobody
(excepI, perhaps, sick people lying in
bed), will have patience to count the
strokes of the clock up to twenty-four.
Doctors say that mothers who have
pride in the weight of their newly
children should weigh them as soon as
possible after birth. Children lose
weight during the three first days of
life, and the loss sometimes amounts
to twelve ounces or more. 1t takes
them nearly q week to regain the
weight they had at the time OF birth.
When Rubinstein was in this country
Josh Billings" was introduced TO HIM.
and the pianist in conversation present.
1y endeavored to impress upon the
Yankee an idea of his high family rank.
.s'Indeed,' he said, Il have uscrrtaincd
shat my ancestors wero prominent men
in the Crusades, and one of them ac
companied the Emperor Barbarossa.
''On the piano. l suppose. said Josh.
Mime. Annie Louise Cary Raymond,
while in Scarboro, Me-, last summer,
learned of little girl in town who had
hip trouble that threatened to cause
permanent deformity. Mrs. Raymond
had the child sent to the Maine GeIer-
al Hospital, where she maintains free
bed, and under the excellent treatment
there the little patient seems likely to
be entirely cured.
A writer in the Eastern Medical Jour
mai says that the medical idea of tea
spoonful is one fluid drachm. This is,
in fact, about the measurement of that
article as used by our grandmothers.
But this and the dessert spoon are now
made SO much larger than formerly
that they hold nearly two drachms,
and people who measure medicine by
them overdose themselves. The table,
spoon remains as in the old days.
Justice always falls on somebody in
China. A barber in Haukow threat
ened his assistant with prosecution on
the charge of stealing 27 ceats, where
upon the accused man took opium. An
official investigation was ordered, but
the barber bought up the mandarin,
who acquitted him, but, as it was
necessary to make an example of some
body, ordered the policeman in whose
beat the barber lived to be fined and
severely whipped.
It is said that the first restrictive
liquor law ever passed in this country
was enacted in little town in Rhode
Island and read as follows: Every
saloonkeeper who sells more than one
gallon of liquor to minor shall be
fined 81 and costs" The first temper
ance pledge remembered in circulation
in New England was thus worded: 81
solemnly swear to abstain from the
use of intoxicating liquors on all occa-
sfons except on training days, wedding
days, banquets, and other great occa-
sions."
Auc pOpulhE OIu UdiIaU OF bilI06
Taylor" is said to have been written in
honor of one Hannah Smell, who lived
in the last century. She pursued her
lover, not to kill him, but to tie him
firmly to her apron strings. She mar
ried Jim Lums at Mapping. Lums
was Dutch sailor. who squandered
her money and then ran off and left
her. She donued mans clothing and
pursued, enlisting as marine and do
ing valiant service in Admiral Boscow-
ems feet. Learning that her husband
had been executed for murder, she re-
turned to Wrapping and long kept a
public house there.
Houses in Finland are built by first
raising Il substantial foundation of
stone several feet above the ground.
Upon this beams are piled one above
the other, dovetailed at the corners,
and packed with moss and other good
non-conducting material, and firmly
fastened to each other by wooden pegs