The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-04
GLEANINGS.

France is now getting large supplies
OF canned frogs from this country.
! Before the war only the sweet potato
was grown in the Southern States.
Osman Digma is noted for his dash
and impudence. His mother was
French.
OF the young ladies in the Normal
College in New York 25 per cent are
,Jewesses.
Mr.. George III. Pendleton's grand
father was Hamilton's second in the IA
tai duel with Aaron Burr.
Tennyson's salary as a poet is but
$3.50 q year. but he has the traditional
tun of wine and the prestige.
Lindsey Muse, the veteran doorkeep-
ier for the Secretary of the Navy, has
served in that capacity for ffty-seven
years.
Among the 1,200 laws regulating the
French press is one, centuries old, which
threatens the proof-reader with death
for even one blunder.
An entomologist has reported having
found 724 species of noxious insects in
the trees, shrubs and plants of the New
York parks last year.
1 MOOAA ~. SullAf oh yOuASOA DAoeASA
issome day expected to knock out
Jumbo, and possibly may aspire to
round with John himself.
The latest puzzle now vexing some
persons is how to place eight checkers
on board so that no two will be eth
:er on straight or diagonal line in
either direction.
The highest chimney in the world is
said to be the circular one built of
brick and stone at Port Dundas, near
Glasgow, Scotland. II towers to a
height of 456 feet above ground.
Caterpillars are eaten in Australia
and at the Cape at the risk of woful
pains in the stomach, and even spiders,
abhorred by every other race, are eat
en- by the Hottentots and New Caledon-
ians, with the same liability.
Interest in politics increases in Ger
many There were sos, 1877 more vot-
ers, allowing for all increase in popu-
1ation, who went to the poll in 1884
than in 1881. OF this increase the So
cial Democratic party polled 245, ,O2s
votes.
/ One of the greatest libraries in this
country is that of Adolph Sutro, the
borer of the famous Sutro Tunnel. Mr..
Sutro has secured Europe in search of
rarities, and has now stored in San
Francisco enough books to bring the
titles alone up to 10000.
Young man, if you are ambitious
don't try for clerkship at Washing
ton. Take warning from the career of
the Oldest Clerk in the Treasury De-
partment. Appointed in 1847 at sal
ary of 81, 200, he is now getting 81, 400
"a rise of 5000 in thirty-eight years.
A Partisan experimenter has discov-
cred that man is more sensitive to the
effects of morphine than is any other
animal. A dog can take five times as
much of the drug and a monkey fifty
times as much in proportion to their
respective weig ghts as human being.
Patents in Mexico cost from $40 to
$780, according to the ideas of the of
fice there as to the Importance of the
invention covered. The usual rate is
$25, but an enterprising Chicago firm
has been sending out circulars propos-
ing to obtain Mexican patent for the
uniform fee of $40.
The growth of Socialism in Great
Britain is not inexplicable. In that
country more than 10000 landlords,
while doing nothing, receive from the
soil more than twice as much as the to-
tai wages paid to $50, 600 laborers fol
working twelve hours through the
seven days in every week.
Washington livery men are exercised
lover the fact of the British Minister.
coachman entering into competition
with them. As he does business or
foreign soil, the British Embassy anC
grounds, being so considered, he cal
not be compelled to pay any license o.
to conform to other livery rules.
A curiosity in the form OF an Orange
weighing twenty-four ounces is excit
ing no little interest in Levy, Fla
where it was grown. A resident neal
'Brooksyille boasts of having gathered
aged in weigh one pound each 1h'
grove is comparatively young on'
this being its first crop.
A company, cultivating $500 acres
of vineyards in the foothills of Sacra
mento county, Cal, has abandoned the
use of irrigation for wine grapes. Th.
company has plenty of water at al
times, but experience has convinced
the management that the best wine i.
made from grapes not irrigated, anC
tion.
1t is related of the famous Bueno
iAyres beauty, Aimee Blanche, that she
once loved a snake-charmer, who, as
proof of his affection, taught her tt
handle and at last to instruct large
cobra. He insisted upon drawing the
reptiles fangs, but she would not con
sent. She taught the snake to STRIKE
q rod iaf Gbtoipi q
proof of her lovers intidelity she spread
Q red silk handkerchief on his face
while he was asleep, and the cobra
struck him repeatedly. He died with
out speaking.
Hattie ketchum, the five-year-old
daughter of a farmer and tobacco
grower near Weedsport, N. Y, is said
to be hopelessly addicted to the use o.
tobacco, and has been since she wa:
two years old. When between one ano
two years of age the girl was afflicted
with colic, and at the suggestion of 6
friend tobacco smoke was blown into
milk and given her. This remedy
proved effective, but created an uncon
trollable desire for tobacco, and By
various subterfuges the child has evel
since found means to satisfy her crav'
ing for the weed.
Most of Mr.. Arthur's Cabinet officer.
were good smokers. MIR. Frelinghuy
sen did not use tobacco, though thu
Assistant Secretary of State, Mr.. Da
Wis, liked good cigars, and plenty o
them. Tobacco was the only thing thai
ever made Secretary Chandler turI
pale. But Gen. Gresham was a grea
smoker. He smoked on the public
streets, at his work, and wherever hi
could. Secretary Teller liked cigal
that would last long time and wa.
not very strong. Secretary Lincoln
smokes good many pretty stiff cigar:
every day, and Attorney General Brew
ster liked one with body to it.
Some years ago story was current
OF woman who applied at Londor
hospital for treatment of a nervous af
fection. After listening to a recital o
her symptoms, the doctor made hel
shut her Inns upOn a clinical thermome