The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-05-21
GLEANINGS.
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Great Britain contains 1000, 900 more
women than men

Oi nallS.
: The value of the shipbuilding indus
try of New England for 1884 reached
SO, ,000,0
Tombstone 'front.' is the term ap-
piled to a ''biled" shirt by the poetic
citizens of Arizona.
1t is stated that queen bee, during
the five years of her existence, lays
about one million eggs.
The life of quadrupeds generally
reaches its extreme limit when the
molar teeth are worn down.
Writing of noses, an authority says
greatness of intellect has in all ages
been closely allied to greatness of nose.
Four beavers with heavy sixteen
foot timber in tow afforded an anus
ing sight recently on California
stream.
A sponge measuring eight feet in
circumference has been taken off Kew
3 West, and it is said to be the largest in
the world.
i The Philadelphia Times suggests a
huge pair of roller skates as pedestal
for Bartholdi's statue of the Goddess
of Liberty.
AhSAS 1iS S"ASC 40 manly uoCtOIS
the United States as there were ten
years ago. The population has in
creased, perhaps, Is per cent.
From 1868 to 1883 the lottery play
ers turned into the Royal Italian Treas
AIRY 1925, 900, 900. Count Cavour used
to call the lottery ''the tax on FOOLS"
Connecticut is now reported to have
recently flooded the Australian colonies
with cigars made wholly of paper,
carefully colored and veined, and flaw
ored with nicotine.
The villa ON the Island of Elba
which was occupied by Napoleon after
his abdication in 1914 was recently
purchased by the Jesuits, who intend
to convert it into a college.
A little more than one-half of the
railway mileage of the world is in
America. The United States alone has
a greater number of miles than the
whole of Europe.
An interesting controversy is going
on in the columns of the New York
World as to how long person can
hold out his arm. 1t depends ON what
he holds around it.
treasure hunters nave FOUND en-
ployment near Walker Lake. Nevada,
searching for sack of gold, said to
have been buried by miner many
years ago under a boulder in that
neighborhood.
Henry ID. Green, who died few DAYS
ago, was one of the wealthiest men in
New England. He was the owner of
the gas-works and water-works of the
City of Portland in Oregon. He was
worth about So, 900, 900.
/ 1t is estimated that the agricultural
lands of California are capable of sup
porting 4,300, 900 people, providing the
land be divided up into 160-acre farms
and allowing eight persons to each
p farm.-San Francisco Examiner.
DIR. Flint is reported as having said
that many lives are lost by starvation
owing to an over-estimate of the nutri-
tive value of beef tea and meat juices.
In typhus and typhoid fevers, he says,
there is no good substitute for milk and
eggs.
The French commander at the battle
of Austerlitz is said to have buried
there number of military chests con-
tanning more than a million francs, and
the owners of the ground are now in
dustriously excavating the battle field
in search of the treasure.
A New Yorker writes to his paper
asking for cure for short memory
He says: Il find it the hardest work
to remember the number of nv house
or my wife's name. / also invariably
forget, when | owe man money, eY-
actly where his office is. y
TO have been a wife, widow, a
mother, and again 4 bride in one year
may be crowding good deal into life.
but it is what, with various other
things, a pretty little lady now in this
city has succeeded in accomplishing
Jacksonville Times Union.
There are to-day over one hundred
families living together in Burlington
and being received in society as honor
able and upright people, says the
Hdd06eye, when the facts are the heads
OF these families have never had the
rites OF marriage performed over them.
Romeo, mastitf weighing 40
pounds, imported at cost of 500 by
the late Judge Munson, of Waterbury,
Conn, now attends a Bridgeport
,watchman. The dog persists in follow
ing every passing vehicle, attempting
to discover the wagon belonging to his
late master.
Mime. Mariscal, wife of the Secretary
of State of Mexico, who is on visit to
Washington, is said to have caused
sensation by her beauty She is de-
scribed as .'superbly-molded woman
& of the blonde type" Her maiden name
was Laura Smith, and she was brought
up in Baltimore.
1he block of stone Which was quar-
( ried last Autumn out of Beryl Noun
tain, in South Acworth, N. H., to be
used in the memorial for Ralph Waldo
Emerson, has been shipped to Concord.
1t is composed mainly ofs pink aud
white quartz, and its weight is esti-
mated at eight tons.-BOstoa Common
s0ealh.
Many of the shoes worn by the
miners in California and elsewhere are
made in Athol, Mass. The number of
Hungarian nails in eachpair is 862; the
number of blows struck in making a
pair, 2,374. The shoes when ready for
nse weigh five and one-fourth pounds,
and look as able to stand any amount
of wear and tear.
A writer on English gvpsies says that
the hedgehog is their favorite animal
food, and it is cooked in peculiar
manner. The animal having been
stunned by a heavy blow, slit is cut
into the skin the whole length of the
back; it is then enyeloped in a coating
of clay, about half an inch thick, after
which it is placed in a hole in the
ground and a fire is made over it.
When the clay is well baked it is taken
out and broken, but the heat has
caused the spine to adhere firmly to
the case, and SO the body comes out
without the skin.
In lecture on the use of camels in
war, delivered in London the other
day, Lord Napier of Magdala said that
a strong, well-fed camel could carry
$50 pounds, including two riders. and
even 400; but there mast be great care
in padding the saddle, for a sore back
tends to undermine the constitution of
the animal. No animal should he in
trusted for driving to any one not
thoroughly accustomed to the work,
and the rear seat should be taken by
soIdiers The men foo ShOUld have q