The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-03-19
GLEANINGS.

GLEANINGS. /
For half century no Cabinet officer
has reached the Presidency.
Preston County, West Virginia, boasts
OF fivc-legged two-tailed horse.
Tho pulsation of cats heart is said
to be from 110 to 129 per minute.
Statistics show that clergymen live
about two years longer than lawyers.
1t is estimated that the forests of
Scotland yield 10000 deer annually.
The Arab compels his horse to feed !
from the ground in order to maintain |
the curve of the backbone.
The latest rumcr regarding the earth |
Is that it will be one huge globe of ice
in 5000, coo years from date.
The longest continuous fiber known
is that of silk. An ordinary cocoon of
a well-fed silkworn will often reel 1000
yards.
Queen Victoria's private fortune is
only $50, ,000.t 90. 1t is believed it viii
suffice to pay the debts of the Prince OF
Wales.
with pen of gold dipped in the
oil of gladness is the way the Nebras-
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editorial.
Senator Scwell, of New Jersey. is
said to use more ink in signing his
name than any man in that lranch OF
the Congress.
Billingsgate, the great market
through which London buys her prin-
cipal fish supply, delivers monthly an
average of 900 tops.
The coldest weather ever experienced
In the Northwest was ut Fort Benton,
in 1880. when the thermometer marked
So degrees below zero.
novel ground for divorce is offered
by an Indiana husband. no counts up
eighty-one times when his wife has
scalded him with hot tea.
Chinese exports of tea to Great Bri-
5 tain last year fell off /. coo. 900 pounds,
and to the United States 100000
pounds, as compared with 1883.
At the Calcutta exhibition the second
prize for butter was awarded to q fine
sample of American olcomargarine.
Some one spoiled a good joke and the
Judges reconsidered the award.
Not high-toned. but human-the
quiet satisfaction with which the in-
dustrious- editor beholds his ruthless
contemporaries stealing his glaring er-
rors along with his valuable facts.
Tennessee has 10000 square miles of
timber land which is as yet practically
untouched; tract larger by 1,500
square miles than Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island and Connecticut put together.
Statistics published by the Ohio Di-
vorce Reform League show that over
ewo thousand divorces are now granted
annually in that State. This is an in
crease of 233 per cent. in nineteen
years.
The City of Mexico has five railroads,
q splendid street ear system, telegraph
wires to all the world. a telephone ser
g1ce with 700 subscribers, six daily
newspapers. electric lights ard the best
bath houses in America.
The British drink bill for 1888 foots
mp 1928, ,3S6,3115. The quantity aggre-
gates 1,O32, l42, 1913 gallons. This would
make lake ii mile long and mile
wide. with depth of thirty-tive feet, or
sufficient to float men-of war.
The London NeDs has adyices to the
effect that the American Government
has advanced claims to land in the Fiji
Islands, in behalf of its subjects who
settled there before the annexation of
the territory by this British.
London mail carriers now call at
private residences for parcels, the same
as do express messeng, rs in this coun-
try. A scarlet card is furnished by the
postal authorities. which, when display
ed in the window, insures a call from
she postman.
A mechanical curiosity has just been
completed by shoemaker in Utica,
D. Y, consisting of two houses, each
six feet square, and containing wooden
figures working at trades. There are
nearly 200 of these figures, and the
motive power is small three-horse
power engine.
Deodorized crude petroleum as an
ingredient in soaps opens up new field
for that commodity, and at the same
time reduces the cost of soap manufact-
ure at least one-half. At least, so
claims the inventor of this deodorizing
and converting process.
A pamphlet has lately been published
in London advocating the timing of
people who have moro than three chill
dren. There is no question but that
the theories advanced by Mrs. Besant
hold on the people of England.
When Thibetan lover parts from
his sweetheart. after calling upon her,
he twirls his cap over his head, bows in
reverence, and then puts out his tongue
having the same affectionate significance
rs the parting kiss between lovers OF
0ther countries.
Aproperly developed, full-grown man
weighing 154 pounds ought, according
90 Professor Huxley. to consume daily
5000 grains of lean beefsteak. G.00o
grains of bread. 30 o grains of milk,
5000 grains of potatoes. 600 grains of
butteraand 22.90) grains of water.
Outside of 2, 200 or 1000 German and
Frenchmen who brought communistic
theories with them from Europe, tue
New York San docs not believe that
there are 500 Communists in New York,
and in the Union us a whole the num-
ber is insignifcantly small in compari-
son with the total body of workers.
In Dakota town curiosity in the
shape of a chicken heart was. from it's
large and peculiar size, opened for cy-
animation. and in the center of the
heart was found grain of wheat or
rice, with sprouts shooting out from
the small white grain, which, of course.
caused the enlarged, odd-looking heart.
The marble trade of San Francisco is
worth $4,O0O,000 annually. one-fourth
of which sum has heretofore been paid
to the Carrara Quarry, of Italy. With
the new San Francisco company ope-
rating in the Alaska qnarries. the city
hopes to purchase hereafter its entire
supply from its own citizens, and at the
same time to get marble of equal
beauty as heretofore.
ALI Pratcr, of Gainesville, Ga, has
constructed model of the Brooklyn
bridge. 1t is four feet wide, thirty feet
long, and weighs $50 pounds Three
hundred and fifty figures are kept NOV
ing on it. representing men, women.
drays, carriages, cars, etc. and under
the bridge are boats in real water, max