Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-12-21
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Fla, S7il worth Of fruit has been sold.
Il Is proposed TO make seaside re-
sort Of a stretch of Florida beach near
jacksonville.
The directors Of the east Boston fer
ries estimate the travel over the ferries
the present year at five millions
Seventy mills in the south now work
up 100000 tons Of cotton-seed. making
7.0oo.O 900 gallons Of oil. worth s2S. .0OO.-
600.
A new bullet-proof treasure car has
been put on the Southern Pacific rail-
way. One part Is for carrying money
and the other for guards.
In the records Of the old church at
Taos, N. NJ, 1t is shown that $l0.0O0,-
900 was collected by the priests as tithes
from single mine in the Taos noun
tains.
A cargo Of pig-iron sunk in Long Is
land sound, OIL Saybrook, twenty-seven
years ago, is now being recovered by
divers. The iron comes out from under
the sand in good condition.
A drum, 20 feet A inches and 10 feet
broad. weighing 44,000 pounds, and be-
lieved to be the largest ever made in
this country, was cast at Pottstown, Pa.
1t was ordered by Canada concern.
The first balloon was invented in
1783 OF all inventions of modern
times those connected with aeronautics
have the least demonstrated their use
fulness to mankind.
A newspaper in Maine, in soliciting
donations for prison library. says:
"Anyone having q copy of Gates Ajar'
or Gates Wide Open will confer a
favor by sending it to the librarian of
the prison."
Oak Hill, the old home of Chief JUS
tice Marshall, in Fauquier county, Vir-
ginia, is now the property of a Mr.. Mad
dux, who made his money by keeping a
bar-room in the neighboring town Of
Salem.
The twenty paper-making concerns
of Holyoke, Mass. pay taxes amount
ing to over $45, 900. an indication of the
tremendous stride made in this industry
at that town since the first mill was put
up there, twenty-eight years ago.
Washington has a cannibal in the
form of a mnllatto nurse girl, whose
chief delight is to bury her teeth in the
tender flesh of the infants intrusted to
her care. She has been given chance
to gnaw the bars Of the jailfor twenty
days.
A one-legged man carrying sack OF
flour; his wife wheeling baby in a per-
ambulator; his father-in-law carrying a
codfsh--all drunk except the baby, the
perambulator and the codfish-was one
of the sights on the streets of the civil
lied town Of Fulton, N. Y, one day re-
Gently. =.
A man who has been herding sheep
near Dripping Springs, Hays county,
Tex, became suddenly insane, and
without known cause attacked a lady 80
years old and literally tore her eyes out.
He then attacked two young ladies, but
they escaped him. He was arrested.
The Portland Press reports that a
great falling off from last years work is
noticeable in the corn-canning industry
of Maine this year. The sweet-corn
crop in many sections of the state,
especially ON light lands, is almost to-
tai failure, on account of protracted
droughts.
There seems to be no doubt among
experts that artesian wells will prove
successful at various mining-camps in
New Mexico, and will be very impor-
tant agent in the development of the
mineral resources of the territory. Gold.
en- is trying the experiment, and its ex.
ample will be followed by other camps.
The gum-chewing storm has struck
Louisville, KY, with fury, and now
threatens to assume the proportions Of
an irresistible tornado. There have
heretofore been gates of a similar kind,
street crossings been besieged by ''tolu''
venders, and the entire female popula-
ton turned into miniature wind-mills.
In Russian exile known as mo.
| H." Siberian traveller recently recog-
nized at Yakutsk the Grand Duke Mich.
olas Constantinovich. In 1875 he was
exiled to Orenburg for stealing hi:
mothers diamonds and insulting the
Gar. Afterward he plotted with the
| Nihlists to assassinate the present Gear
and his banishment soon followed.
A Brooklyn servant girl, mad aud re.
| vengeful because she had been dis
charged, set fire to her mistress house
and then fed. Had not the mistress
been thoughtful enough 10 repair i'm
mediately to the room just vacated BY
the girl, the whole house would hav,
| been ablaze, and doubtless two sleeping
children would have perished. Th,
rash servant will get her just deserts.
All Florida hogs are not of the razor
back variety. The local of the Tallahas
see Floridian has found some in tina
city which. for babies. are hard to beat
One Berkshire Poland China pig. tel
| months old, weighs 1928 pounds; on
Berkshire, II months old, weighs 46'
pounds. while another Poland China
about the same age, tipped the beam o
547 pounds. 81
An Oswego man has peculiar kittel
which in appearance and habits partake
of the character of the rabbit and tn
kitten. Its hindquarters are exactl,
like those Of the rabbit, even to TIL
short tail, and when frightened it sit
on its launches and erects its ears ex
actly as the rabbit does. The hind leg
are long, giving it the peculiar gait 0
the rabbit family. 1t has the playfu
habits of the kitten.
One of the hardest woods in existenc
is that of the desert ironwood tree
| which grows in the dry wastes alon,
the line of the Southern Pacific Rail
i road. Its specific gravity is nearly til