Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-04-27
GLEANTEGs

Miss Annie Louise Cary Is said to be
worth S450,00O.
The new editor Of the Boston AdUer-
Rser Is relative Of Mrs James G.
Blaine.
There Is talk in Baltimore Of building
n music hall capable Of seating 1900
people.
The Herdic coaches in use at 81. Louis
are said to be running the pleasantest
drives in the city.
A Boston man proposes TO start a pa
per and call it the Umbrella, because
everybody will take il.
The Prince of Wales, it Is said, has re-
Gently taken to American whisky, and
IS now addressed as ''Your Ryeness."
Out Of ninety convicts hanged in the
United States in 1881, Arkansas heads
the list with fifteen.
In Plumas county, California, geese
cover the plains and are nuisance to
farmers. There has not been so many
since 1861, the year of the drought.
The coal has been so intense on the
Sahara frontier that single French
column is said to have lost 100 camels
and many men in one day.
The Chinese do their cOurting by
proxy. If the proxies pay the bills,
there are many young men who would
like the system introduced into this
country.
The disciples have laid the founda-
ton for new church ut Gibsonburg,
Sandusky county, o., to be called the
Garfield Memorial chapel, with consent
of Mrs. Garfield.
The Niagara Falls paper-mill, on
Bath island, burned on the night of May
11,1S81, has been rcbuiltso as to be nearly
fire-proof. The new mill is much su-
perior to the old one.
Several rich men in Albany, N. Y,
have offered to assist in buying and fit
ting up building for public library.
1t is the design to concentrate all the To-
cal libraries in this general public one.
Arizona is being flooded with defaced
and mutilated coin to such an extent
that in the principal towns the business
men are holding meetings to agree up
on united action to abate the nuisance
Tommy said mother to her 7-year-
old boy, 'syou must not interrupt me
when am talking with ladies. You
must wait till we stop, and then you
may talk" "But you never STOP" re-
torted the boy.
1t is feared that the enormous manu-
facture of wooden toothpicks is utterly
destroying the forests of America; but,
then, the young man who spends all his
salary for good clothes musthave some
thing to eat.
A South American plant has been
found that cures bashfulness. Itshould
be promptly tried on the man who
leaves the hotel by the back window be-
cause he is too diffident to say good-by
to the cashier and clerk.
DR.. Hammond says when you stick
your finger in your ear the roaring
sound you hear is the circulation in your
finger. Probably when you stick in a
lead-pencil the same roaring which you
then hear is the circulation of sap in the
pencil.
The late storm was simply terrific in
Los Angeles county, California. The
wind drove the sleet and snow with
such violence as to make it impossible
to walk or drive. Large numbers of
sheep were destroyed, mary being
blown from the ground and rolled along
by the wind till they were dead.
Leonard Losee, Greenwich Point, L.
l., Tuesday morning, found his horses s
legs bleeding near the fetlocks, and up
on closer examination he saw that the
flesh was lacerated. He subsequently
ascertained that rats had bitten the legs.
The Sun says: The life saving crew on
the beach have to wrap their horses
legs up in cloths to keep the rats from
gnawing them.
When the Dunkers of Indiana made
up their minds that the study of gram
mar was frivolous, they protested
against their children being taught it in
the public schools. The teachers re-
fused to be bound by the protest, where
upon an appeal was made to the State
Superintendent, who has decided that
teachers may omit the offensive study.
He insists, however, that they shall inn
part orally to all bunker pupils ''all
that is practical on the subject"
A Gilroy (Cal) man had spread a
pound and half of damp powder on a
bed to dry, and his two daughters were
examining it, one of them with light
ed cigarette in her mouth, from which
the powder was ignited. and both girls
were severely burned.
A lawyer once asked the late Judge
Pickens, of Alabama, to charge the jury.
''It is better that ninety and nine guilty
men should escape than that one inno-
cent man should be punished" 'Yes, :"
said the witty Judge, 81 will give that
charge, but in the opinion of the Court
the ninety and nine guilty men have al
ready escaped in this county,"
California flour is now competing
with the Illinois and Missouri mills in
the Memphis (Tenn.) market This is
regarded as an Indication of the value
of the Southern Pacific and Texas Pa
cific line across the continent to the
Southern States, and inspires the expec-
tation that the whole Southwest is here
after to carry on large trade with Cal
ifornia.
A Maryland sportsman is having
manufactured in Baltimore a complete
suit of rubber clothing by means OF
which he expects to slaughter number
less wild geese. The head piece, which
will be the only part kept in view, is tc
be made exactly in the form OF a wild
goose sitting upon the water and fur
nished with magnifying glass eyes
through which the wearer can see his
way among the game.
The Connecticut school fund, which
used to be matter of wonder, amounts
to little over $2,000,000. The com
missioner of the fund, in his report to
the legislature this year, sharply blames