The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-01-15
GLEANINGS.

There are $3.50 postoflices in tht
State of Pennsylvania
The new American Episcopal churct
In Paris cost 500, ,0OO.
The Chinese have known the use oil
artesian wells from tine immemorial.
There are only eight lawyers in Phil
adelphia that have been in practice over
80 years.
Bismarck wants to have established
more direct passenger communication
between Berlin and London.
There are $40 hunting packs in En-
gland, comprising 10000 hounds,
Their annual cost is S1,750.0O0.
Englishmen eat brown bread with
their oysters, while Americans only eat
lemon juice and pepper on them.
The Brewer gold mine in North Car
olina has yielded more than 81, 600. 900,
and the Dora Mine $1,1OO, OQO and up
ward.
By paying his daughter 800 year
to run his kitchen, Lord Coleridge
saved enough money to make the trip
to America.
John Swinton says the saddest sound
| heard in New York is the hammering
of the tough beef-steak set on boarding
| house tables.
A Chinese doctor at Victoria, B. c.,
is reported to have made some remark
| able cures in cases where white phys
icians have failed.
Hundreds of people are said to be
actually starving in the North of En-
gland, with many thousand more hum
cry and destitute.
The hot water cure has become a
craze. A New York druggist claims
he has LOCO disciples now swallowing
tumblerfuls before breakfast.
Miss NJ. E. Braddon, the most prolif-
ic of English story writer's, in private life
is Mrs. Maxwell, and owns up to have
reached the mature age of fifty-six.
The total number of hogs slaughter
ed annually in the United States is esti-
mated at 10000, 900, the average Dress
ed weight being IT'S pounds each.
Pearl-rimmed eyeglasses of violet
color are now used extensively by FASH
ionables of both sexes in New York.
The originator was q Vassar school
girl.
Bacon at 16 cents pound, saws the
Fort Worth Gazette, is greater barrier
to the advancement and growth of
Texas than either short crops OF lack of
water.
Eating a small piece Of soap at stated
intervals is recommended by Berlin
physician as a better remedy for dys-
pepsia and sour stomach than soda,
magnesia or lime water.
The best cabinet Rhine wine of the
vintage of 1868 is reserved especially
for the imperial table at Berlin. 1t is
worth $3.50 bottle. 1t is made
from grapes picked one. by one out of
the Rhineish vineyards on account of
their perfection. .,at....
Many towns on the Pacific coast
forbid Indians to come within their
limits after nightfall-not because
the noble red man is dangerous, but be-
cause he is thief and a sneak, and his
wife, who accompanies him, more upon
his order and for his profit.
General Berdan, of sharp-shooting
fame, to whose daughter Mr.. F. Mar
ion Crawford has Just been married,
was sometime ago offered field mar
shalship by the Sultan, but he declined
it, saying he could never wear any 9TH
er than the American uniform.
Dom Pedro, when recently starting
on pleasure trip on a small steam
yacht down the Bahai ell Todos Santes,
from Rio de Janeiro, fell overheard,
and was hauled out of the briny bv
naval engineer officer and an army Off
Ger. Both were made Barons.
Recent vital statistics show that un-
der the age of fifteen there are more
boys than girls, but after the fifteenth
year there are more women than men,
and between the ages of ninety and
one hundred the proportion is three to
two in favor of women.