The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-02-19
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GLEANINGS.

Clara Louise Kellogg has mania
for real point lace handkerchiefs.
John Montgomery Sears pays the
largest individual tax in Boston.
Mrs Chief Justice Waite frankly tells
visitors she cannot return their calls.
Henry James, the novelist. is some
times mistaken for the Prince of
Wales.
The welcome announcement is made
that paper cigarettes are going out OF
fashion.
Mrs. George Bancroft is said to
WELD the needle as ably as her husband
does the pen.
Sergeant Mason, who shot at Giteau,
is living in peace and quiet on his farm
in Virginia.
Maine claims 5000 books and PAM
phlets written by Maine people or re-
lating TO Maine.
Swinburne, the poet. has a small
body and big head. This is failing
of poets generally.
The Mormon Church has more mis-
sionaries than the American Board OF
Foreign Missions.
Jules Levy frankly said to a Louis
vile reporter: 81 am the only great
cornetist in the world"
Wooden shoes keep their wearer's
feet warm and dry. But it must be
confessed they are not pretty.
There should be no pardoning power
TO save from the gallows the wretch
who deliberately wrecks train.
General Sherman is heavy eater,
and occasionally the guest who comes
in after him finds the pie all out.
A human iawbone of great size and
perfect state of preservation has been
found sixty feet below the surface in a
Georgia limestone quarry.
The eldest daughter of Rev. Tai
mage is said to be one of the prettiest
girls in America. 1t is needless to add
that she resembles her mother.
In Western Nevada prospectors pile
mp vast quantities of snow on the
mountains and cover it with brush, in
order to provide water supply for
summer use.
A Hartford man. now aged eighty
years, who has smoked for over sixty
seven years, has kept an account of his
expenses, and finds that if he invested
the same sum every six months and
placed it at compound interest he
would now have $500. to his credit.
A lecturer has been down in Nan
tucket lecturing on the whale. 1t is q
town of old whalers, and when he un-
dertook to tell his audience how whales
were harpooned he wasn't exactly ''all
at sea-" He showed very plainly that
he had never been thereon a whaling
cruise.
An English shoemaker has patented
. reversible boot which may be worn
indifferently on either foot 1t buttons
by q series of tongues repeated on both
sides of the opening, and can be fasten-
ed so as to look as if the pair were
s.rights aud lcfts.' Its inventor thinks
it is the only boot which cannot "tread
over to one side"
The American steam brake is now in
use upon nearly all the railways of both
England and France. These brakes
are in most cases manufactured abroad
but Americans hold the patents.
Though no account of this appears in
the export figures, American brains
are exchanged for European cash in
considerable quantities.
The boss cold wave is that discov-
cred by Professor Hiscox, of Brooklyn,
which he said is advancing from the
pole to the equator, reducing the mean
temperature at the rate of tentn of q
degree in 10000 years, and is likely to
freeze US all dead in some millions OF
years unless somebody can start up a
big fire at the earth's centre.
The census bureau reports that in
1850 there were 16 Mormon church or.
ganizations and 10. $50 sittings; in 1850
Is church organizations and l3,500 sit
tings; in 1870 189 organizations and A.
e3S sittings; in 1880 267 organizations
and 65, 1862 sittings. The actual men,
bership of tho Mormon Church. accord
ing to the census of 1880, was 79.
1856.
There are nineteen known metals val
ned at over 81, 600 per avoirdupoii
pound. The most costly is vanadiuH
which is said to be worth $4,000 pei
pound. OF these nineteen metals. only
one is produced or used to any consid
cradle extent, and that is iridium
which is valued at $1,000 per pound
1t is sometimes, but very sparingly
used in electrical experiments.
Instead of the muffier commonl,
worn in Nebraska in cold weather
man OF Ooranville put on fur-covere,
bears head which had been left benin.
by pantomine company With, thi
concealing his own head to the should
ers he went out Of an evening for ,
promenade. He declares that he hat
no other motive than to secure warmth
and thinks it an outrage that the au
thorities arrested him, and he regard
the children that went screaming ava,
from him and the women who had fit
offright, rs ridiculous.
Mrs. Allison, mother of Joaquin
Miller, lives at Eugene, O:e.; and ac
cording to the Portland Oregonian ha
been deserted by her % year-old lover
whom she married about a year ago
''She is entirely alone and trying t.
take care of few half-frozen cows an.
horses, and by the aid of the neighbor
TO keep herself provided with food AM
fuel. She resolutely wipes away he
tears, that at times will fall, and de
clares that she will not think of he
present condition and the future. whicl
short time ago looked bright"
Taking all the facts into considera
ton, it appears clear to Mr.. II. c. Sor
by that all the bright and beautiful
tints of leaves in autumn are merel
the earlier stages of decomposition. AM
are due to the more or less considera
BILE triumph of chemical forces over tn
weakened or destroyed vitality of tn
living plant. He adds that one canno
but feel that this is very unpoetica
way in which to regard the magnifi
cent tints of fine autumnal landscape
but it Is not less true that the colore,
clouds of evening mark the departing
day.
In Orange Mountain, N. j., has bee
discovered q counterpart of the famou
Giants Causeway in Ireland. Th
opening of quarry brought the curios
ity to light. The formation is eviden,
ly due to repeated volcanic eruption
that forced the trap rock while in
molten state through the old red sand
stone upon which it now stands. Tn
columns are from fifteen to forty fee