Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-05-31
GLEANINGS.


Of tho corniields of the hole world.
ILL.,, with ono of It's legs entirely black.
II is estimated that a ton OF gold is
buried each year with those who die In
this country.
Out OF the word "incomprehcnsibil-
ity,' Connecticut lady made 2,248 diff
ferent words.
A walking-stick concealing a match
box and a cigarette holder is late
English device.
A statue of Garfield, TO be set up in
San Francisco, has just been cast at
Nuremberg, Germany.
Tho ties and wood fuel used by tho
railroads of the United States cost an
nually about 1925, 100000.
A freak Of nature owned by q farmer
at Derry, N. H., Is a calf with two
noses, two tongues, and three eyes.
The royalty received by the inventor
OF barbs on fence wire is said to DO
$4,000 month, or $1,000 year.
Drunkenness Is greatly on the in
crease In Mexico, according to n state
ment in tho 7Wo Republics Of that city.
A Manitoba farmer who tills $4,000
acres Of land communicates with his
employees by the use of the telephone.
From an estimate made by Miss Kate
Field, It appears that Brigham Young
has now over 1,5OO living descendants.
Mrs. George II. Pcndlcton was Alice
Key, daughter of Francis Scott Key,
who wrote the "Star Spangled Ban
ner."
In New York jewelry store window
Is exhibited large knot, cut from
tree, which is the exact counterpart of
| a human ear.
The municipal schools of Moscow, it
Is said, will accommodate only 1000
pupils, although there are in the city
10000 children of school age.
What is said to be the largest dia-
mond in the world is about to be cut in
Amsterdam. 1t was recently found in
South Africa, and weighs 475 carats.
A room at Harvard is decorated with
the handkerchiefs snatched by the Har-
ward boys in the Blaine torchlight pro-
cessions from the hands of the girls on
the sidewalks.
Yale, Harvard and Columbia col
leges are the most expensive in this
country. The minimum expenses are
from S40O to 5000, while the maximum
are put at $4,000.
Hop vines, usually waste product
in this country, are said to have proved
not only good stock for fine paper. but
the best substitute yet obtained for
rags in French paper-mills.
A late device for checking the colcc-
tions Of street-car conductors is n pho
tographic apparatus that at intervals
photographs the interior of the car and
, its passengers. .-B0ston Post
The oldest ex-Congressman in the
United States has been found in the
person of David Fisher, of Colum nus,
Ohio. He is in the nincty-tirst year Of
his age, and is full of "reminiscences.
A down-East veteran named John
son undertook to collect some pension
arrears lately. and was amazed to find
that his widow had got ahead of him
on two occasions, as far back as 1868
and 1867.
A fountain is to be erected in Back
Bay Park, Boston, to commemorate
the early visit of the Norscnen To this
country. 1t will cost $1,000. ana will
be ornamented with Norsemcn, ~ galleys
and bas-reliefs.
Western lumbermen are poking fun
ut Tom Nasts picture in harper's,
where single span Of horses are rep
resented as drawing a sled loaded with
fifteen large logs-a quite impossible
and improbable feat
A new building. 130x15O. has Just
been completed for the use of the Sitka,
Alaska, public school. There are now
forty boys and sixty girls in the school.
the full quota provided for by the Sec
retary of the Interior
Near Cairo. H., resides a man VINO
claims to have discovered pure paint in
large quantities on his farm. 1t is OF
several different colors-red, white,
blue and yellow-and requires no pre-
pairing but to mix with oil, after which
it is ready for use.'' .a,
Recently, In Tallahassee, a couple
were married who had only been per-
sonally acquainted for the brief period
Of ten minutes. The courtship had
been carried on through the aid Of the
mails. The groom, widower, re-
sides in Florida, while tho bride, halls
from Texas. "a -
In some sections of New Hampshire
children Of school age are remarkably
scarce, according to the following item
from a Boston journal: In Warner
there is one school district which con-
tains but one pupil; four districts have
but two pupils each, aud two have only
six between them.
The sign Of Libby prison is in the
possession Of Edward j. Bartlett, of
Concord, Mass. He took it from its
place on the building on the morning
OF the first occupation of Richmond by
the Union troops. The sign is q small
one, made Of tin, and bears simply the
words, Libby & Co."
A four-year-old boy fell distance of
eighteen feet, near Eugene, Ore, late
ly, and, alighting on his head, was
thought to have been killed. The little
boy was prepared for the grave, but
symptoms Of life were apparent. Res
torative treatment was applied, and at
last accounts the little fellow was fully
recovering.
The wood of the 'jarrah" tree, an
Australian product. growing principal
Iy In the western section, Is stated to
be about the ne xt thing to everlasting.
1t appears to defy all ordinary form, of
decay, under the most trying circum-
stances; is left alone by the white ants,
and ships built OF it do not require to
be coppered.
Bookkeepers will feel updor obiir,-