The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-08-16
Gleanings.

\ lady entered drug store and asked
for Il bottle of James Experience
In New Orleans, Prof La Hache died,
and his daughter was hOpelessly blinded.
/ by drinking water that had passed
through leaden pipes.
The Cincinnati minister who was
hateheted for kissing 4 fair parishiOner
will recover. 1t is paying pretty dear
| for kiss, but it might have cost him
more.
Mrs. Somerville, the well-lnown au-
thoress of the "COnnectiOn of the Physi-
cal Sciences" b" now in her niuety-seeOnd
year, was present and saw the late erup-
tion of Nesuvius.
Woman blacksmiths abound in Stat
] fordshire, England, and the hammer, be
| it ever so heavy, is welded by their
/ brawny arms with such force that an
anvil scarcely lasts the muscular Nul-
Gamers n week.
a man at camp-meeting bOasted that
he had been married twenty-five years,
during which time he had never given
his wife a cross word or look. He omit
ted to tell his heaters that he dared not
do the one nor the other.
"Owing to the peculiar arrangements
OF the programme, no piece can be re-
peated," was the answer Mr.. White re-
ceived from his landlady with whom
he bOarded) upon asking for the second
piece of pie at dinner.
Woman govern US; let us render them
perfect; the more they are enlightened
so much more shall we be. On the cul-
tivatiOn of the mind of women depends
the wisdom of men. 1t is by women
that nature writes on the hearts of
men.
An exchange SAYS that Mrs. Gratz
Brown Is winning lady. y more in
teresting question just now is whether
Mr. GratZ Brown i a winning gentle
man, and we don't know of anybody
that il interests rs much as GratZ him
self-BOStOh GlO5c.
The city of Brighton, England lately
paid out 5000 for the conviction of a
woman for murder; but Just as she was
nearly off their hands, the doctors pro-
nounced her insane, and the treasury
of the town is now responsible for her
support as long rs she lives.
\ Rock county, ILL.,, farmer recllessly
publishes the following challenge: 81
will bet Sll y that my hired man can
take longer to go to the harvest field,
get back TO dinner quicker, eat more, do
ltc-f anu LtelA NVN II hlAhEL Oll Il l1tltl
of fence, than any other hired man
within fifteen miles of a flagstaff in
Janesville."
"Why does the operation of hanging
kill man?" asked medical professor
of his class. Because" replied one oi
the students, ''inspiratiOn is checked
circulation is stopped, and the blood
suffuses and congests the brain.n
"Fudge," said another, sit is simply
because the rope isn't long enough to
let his feet touch the grOund.n
THE WARM GRoUND.-''She died, -
said Polly, ''and never was seen again,
for she was buried in the ground where
the trees grow" 'The cold ground, +"
said the child shuddering. "NO, the
warm ground" said Polly, "where the
ugly little seeds are turned into beauti-
ful flowers, and where good people turn
into angels and fly away TO Heaven. u
DaUid CoPperfeid.
New Jersey has done good thing in
committing the sentence of IIibbie Gar
abrant, the half-witted murderess, from
hanging to q life-term in the State Pris-
on; and she has entered on her penal
career in the most uncOncerned manner
il is possible to imagine. Evidently
the prison is the best home she can
have. But is there not something idi-
otic society which requires a convicted
homicide to be an idiot to escape the
hangman's rope?
We met Scruggins this morning with
a bundle of nuts and raisins under his
arm. We asked him if he wasn't get
ting luxurious. "rve got six ministers
at my house." he said. "But you do
not feed them on nuts and raisins ?' we
rejoined. mo" he said, refectively; /;
''but when l get about half done, at
meal time, l shove back, and they fol-
low suit. Then l come down stairs and
fill up between meals. BY this means
I save about one mans board, and it is
better for the ministers not to eat too
much. u IFiscasset Oracle.
Kansas City rejoices in the possession
of prOcocious four year oldster, who
being placed in 4 closet by his father
the other day, for disobedience of pa
ternal authority, instead of crying, put
his wits to work to get out. Calling to
his father to come in and see what he
had found, the unsuspecting pater-fam-
ilias walked in, while the four year old
slipped out and quickly turned the key,
leaving him to sweat it out. Presently
the yOungster called to his pa to know
if it was not hot i'm there; nor did he let
his father out until lie replied in the af-
firmative.