Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
GLEANINGS.
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He pulls as far as it will go

| aiO DCiuS nduuldctuTcu.
Natural gas in Pittsburg sells for 123
cents per 1000 feet, possible explosions
thrown in.
Henry Irving says much of the NOR
tality of this country is due to buck
wheat cakes.
| A pamphlet has been lately published
in London advocating the fining of peo-
pie who have more than three children.
| Eggs packed in well-dried ashes and
so as not to touch each other, have been
kept perfectly sweet for twelve months.
The genius of the American work
man tends toward the rapidity of man.
lpulatiOn rather than to labOrious pains
taking.
1t has been proposed at Harvard Un-
iverslty to advise with the students as to
rules Of order. Possibly it would be
better to advise with their parents.
1t takes the new member of a Legis-
lature about two weeks to understand
that not ten members in the house know
him from the fourth assistant superin-
tendent of ventilation Topeka Lance.
Another true source of the Mississip-
pi River has been discovered. Probably
the vOyageur of the future, who shall
set out in quest of the North Pole,
may be led there by the Father of
Waters.
| 1t is now suggested that the sewerage
which flows into the rivers, lakes or sea
does not represent just so much wasted
! fertilizing material, but that it is more
profitably utilized as increasing the pro-
duction of fish.
The One-man power, lodged in the
hands of an unscrupulous manipulation
like Gould, and controlling the great
systems of transportation, is standing
menace to the business interests of the
country.-NashUille american.
Woman suffrage has become politi-
cal issue in England and Scotland.
Women have already municipal suffrage
there and it is only question Of q very
short time till they will vote just as
men do.-Ida a. Harper in Terre Haute
Mail.
'It is doubtful" says the Graphic,
IF there are fifty men in the United
States who speak and write the English
tongue correctly" 1t is quite probable
that every one of these fifty or less is
teaching foreign language in q uni
versity.
There has never been a government
in any age of the world till now, in
which organized incendiaries and as
sassins were allowed to plan publicly
and declare with impunity schemes for
the wholesale destruction of property
and fe.-Indianapoiis NeWs.
Colored men will do well to give heed
to the wise counsels of Fred Douglass.
If they want to be considered the equals
of white men. they must make them
selves such by their own personal en-
deavors, and not depend upon legisla-
tive acts.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The average abuses and the average
injustice. through the usual prevalence |
of might over right, and the impunity |
of the governing element as compared |
with the governed, run pretty much in |
the same proportion in the east as they
do in the Hobart Pdsha's paper
on Turkey.
The Almighty has done much for us,
giving us prolific soil, rich minerals, q
temperate climate, and every advantage
at our very doors except population to
develop our resources, and money to
enable it to do so. These two essentials
We need and We need them badly
Mobile Register.
The Chinese are the importers of much
evil, and are the initial promoters of
one of the most vicious habits ever in
stItuted. But the Chinese question will
never be settled in the United States as
long as this country receives with ap-
parent welcome all the pauper refuse Of
other nations.-Mnneapolis Tribune.
A prominent theatrical manager Of
London holds that no person, save .
genius or low comedian,
has right in the dramatic profession
unless possessed of physical beauty. 1t
ought not to have required q very pro-
tracted mental effort to arrive at this
sapient conclusion. 1t will be gener-
ally admitted that a person who cannot
act should at least be good to look upon.
A new grammar has Just been pub
llshed in England which has some new
among them Sound Alpha
bet. The author gives the following
of its use, which will be of in
terest to the students Of phonetics in
his country: II
swete AuburnI luvliest vilaje ov dhe plane:
hare helth and plenti cherde dhe labOring
swane:
Whare smiling spring its erliest WHIT pade,
Ind parting sumerz lingering blooml delade:
Dere luvli bancs of inosens and eze.
let's ov mi yoothe, when everi sport Good plezs,
aou ofen hav loitered ore thi creme
"hare humbil hapines inderde eche seneI
The Brooklyn Eagle reports . theat-
'ical manager as saying: II don't know
you know it or not, but nearly
very prominent star, and many of the
most successful theatres, are not run by s
he men whose names are printed as l.
managers, half SO much as by some n
luiet individual who holds the position e
# the power behind the throne, and c
Who is not generally known to the pub g
ic as the head of the firm So it is v
Nth nearly all commercial and politi- il
al enterprises. The world does not n
now the men who are really moving it. o
A Washington dispatch says: "A new h
Irinkle in telephones has been discov- p
red and is endorsed by Professor Bell, g
y which messages transmitted by tele- o
hone are taken down automatically
pom paper in the same way that the G.
elegraph prints the Morse alphabet II
pom paper. This telephone i'm "
rovement is being kept close secret, :"
My two or three having been given
ny knowledge of it, while Professor
ell is working to perfect it in order to
btain patent upon it. Those who d1
ave knowledge of what it is expected pt
} do declare that it is the greatest de- v,
elopment of the telephone since it was al
riginally patented. m
A letter from Hartford City, Ind, bl
lys: ''Viola McDermot, one of the per- @
is,