Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-26
GLEAN1N0S.


| Wisconsin than from any other State
in the union.
The potato, introduced into England
In 1000, was first eaten as sweet-
meat. stcwed In sack.wine and sugar.
II is said that the average yield Of
petroleum wells in Caucasia is sixteen
times rs great as that of American
wells.
| A physician of Monroe county. Ca.
has among his collections a potato
through which blade of grass has
grown.
Boss Tweed's former dwelling
house at Greenwich, Connecticut, is to
be torn down to make room for larger
mansion.
In glass works near Paris air stored
under pressure has been made to sue
cessfully supersede glass blowing by
the mouth. except in afew cases.
1t is not generally known that Great
Britain buys her postal card supply
from Germany; the last order given the
successful bidder being 15O,000.000
cards.
After serving ten years in the peni-
tentiary for murder, a Memphis negro,
after his release. called at the police
station and demanded the gun used by
him In committing the crime.
West Virginia has two tin mines in
successful operation. One is near the
city of Huntington. Cabell county, and
the other about five miles from Grants
vile, in Calhoun county, on Laurel
| river.
Sixty thousand New Workers. use
roller skates. and there are over five
hundred Of the manufactures in the
United States, who sell 10000 pairs a
week. The business gives employment
to 200, 900 men.
Before l left Vienna they told me
that the Americans were a nation of
liars; that l would find them all brag
and bluster. Now, when shall 20
back and tell them all have seen they
will say am liar, too. Herr Som
nenthdl.
Fig trees flourish everywhere in Cal
ifornia except high up on the noun
tains. and the cultivation of them is an
exceedingly profitable industry. A
man in Los Angeles county last season
sold 1852. IA worth Of figs from only
one acre.
An experienced theatrical trainer, an
Englishman, says that American girls
learn the elements Of the profession
much more rapidly than do their En-
glish sisters, and manifest, what is rare
abroad, desire to master every branch
of the art. including stage manage
ment.
The gold ring which a Hoosick, N.
Y, man lost in his stable several weeks
since, was folnd few days ago press
that was being shod. The horse had
been driven all over the neighboring
country every day in the meantime,
but, singular to relate, the ring was
not injured.
A little Schenectady girl plays nice
| game this way: She rings house bell
about dusk. When the door is opened
she sobs violently, saying that she has
lost cents near by, and wants Ian
tern to look for it. Instead of Ian
| tern. which she does not want, she is
| given the cents which she does want
Then she goes on to the next house.
Newbury Register.
Sardou is thus described by the Paris
correspondent OF the Philadelphia Iele-
graph: He is very peculiar looking,
is the author of 'Theodora,' small and
spare in figure, and alert and bright
eyed as lizard. The lower part OF his
face has something of the fine antique
tenance Of Edwin Booth. He spoke
,v;th t;o Ja1iuht nf t,,yo of thn
| interpreters of his work-namely: Sar-
ah Bernhardt and the elder Coquelin."
Nottoway county, Virginia, the re-
gion inhabited by the first settlers, and
made interesting by "reminiscences Of
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas. is
fast returning to its primeval condition,
"ln twenty years 1t will be a wilder
ness, prophesies visitor. The resi-
dents are old and sad. Tho young
| have gone to more promising regions.
| Deer browse where cattle fed, and the
oak and pine cover great plantations
where the negro once cultivated corn
and tobacco.
The Duchess of Norfolk claims the
possession of the finest rubies in the
United Kingdom. Any woman of
| reasonable means may wear diamonds.
but only an imperial wealth ever per-
| mits her to number rubies among her
jewels. The Duchess of Norfolk would
undoubtedly give all these priceless gems
to obtain sight for her little son, whose
| future is shrouded in mental as we'll as
in physical darkness; but the Oldest
and richest Dukedom in England can.
not buy health for its sole heir.
1t is said by some one curious in
these matters that there is not a chin
ney nor . cooking-stove in Havana;
| not q carpeted room nor feather pill
| low. This is but another way OF saying
that there. with good sense. the people
know how to adapt their domestic
| economy to the torrid character of the
climate; but here in our Northern cities
the cooking-stove, the chimney the
carpet and other heat-engendering par.
| aphernalia are in full blast lust the
same when the mercury is 80 in the
shade as when it is below Zero (Which
is the barbarian?"
A new" method of dressing
wounds, BY which their healing is said
to be fastened, and the pain made to
disappear at once, has been brought
INTO public notice by a French surgeon,
though 1t has for ages been practiced
Dy skillful old women. who used to
dampen the soft linen cloths for cover
lhg the dressings OF superficial wounds
with weak infusion OF valerlan root.
Ihe french surgeon applies the COM
presses wet with decoction of thirty
parts OF the same root in 1000 parts Of
water. He states expressly that this
treatmenf is of M avail l., -