Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-04-20
GLEANINGs.

NOinlAouOlo ShCJuO CAPOOoc. uh'
from the dominion government for his
expedition to the Arctic regions.
At last we have fathomed the depth
of the mystery. The Kelley motor is
run by "crank. "-Neso Hdven Regis
ter.
Longfellow's physician has ordered
absolute rest in his case, and the poet is
not likely to appear in public for some
time.
Col. Arnat Won Steuben is busy pre-
pairing report on the centennial cele-
bration at Yorktown for the Emperor
William, of Germany.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says that
o. Wilde likes Philadelphia because its
streets and sidewalks are so utterly gut
ter
A Washington speculator has paid
Guiteau $3.50 for 1000 autographs,
thinking he will get $3.50 apiece for
them the day after the hanging.
Out of 100 samples of wines and
whiskies sold over the heightened bars
in New York, only two were found free
from poison and gross adulteration.
The farmers of New South Wales are
troubled with kangaroos, wallibies, wall
aroos, dingoes, wildcats, bandicoots,
rats, snakes, and eagle-hawks.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe reports an
improved condition of health during her
Florida sojourn this winter, where her
two daughters are with her.
The son and heir of the Sultan of Zan-
zibar, is said to be a dusky Apollo in
person, and to be possessed of an unus-
ual amount of intelligence and ambition.
Kentuckians are actually praying for
rain. That people in that State should
ask for water in any form is surprising.
Nothing makes SO much noise as a
rickety wagon with nothing in it, unless
it be man who insists on talking when
he has nothing to say.
G. E. Parker, Pittsfeld (Mass.)
crockery dealer, has fallen heir to ST.
100000 fortune in Texas real estate by
the death of awealthy cousin in the Lone
Star State.
"What is the worst thing about rich
esp" asked the Sunday-school Superin-
tendent. And the new boy said:
having any"
The musket of Private Taylor, who
was killed in the Baltimore mob of Apr.
10, 1861, is placed in the room of the
governor of Massachusetts, and over it
hang the colors of the 9th regiment.
Edward A. Freeman, the historian,
looks like typical Saxon. He is short,
stout, heavily-bearded; his eyes are
shrewd and his manner often abrupt and
independent to the last degree.
1t is probable that Queen Victoria and
Princess Beatrice will go to Germany
for the Easter holidays, to the villa Ho-
henlohe, at Baden, where they stayed in
the spring of 1880.
Among the neighbors of Samuel J.
Tilden, on Gramercy Park, New York,
are Gen. Mcclellan, Cyrus w. Field,
John Bigelow, Peter Cooper, and Abram
s. Hewitt.
The Mormon authorities are reported
as stating that the magnificent white
granite temple at Salt Lake will be COM
pleted in seven years. 1t has already
cost several million dollars, and is not
yet much more than half finished.
Eastern Oregon butchers have no diff
ficulty in finding cattle fit for the mark
ct on any of the hills. The grass has
continued so green that stock have not
only managed to live without extra feed,
but have really fattened.
Ancient Structures in Norway.
It is plain, from M. Du Chaillu's OBJ
servations of the domestic architecture
peculiar to Scandinavia, that few dwell
ling-houses in Continental Europe can
rival in antiquity the farm buildings of
Norway. The log walls of the latter
have proved more durable than those of
stone, and still seem able to defy the
ravages of time. They were built Of fir
trees hewn in the primitive forests, and
some of them date back to the year one
thousand, and even to the eighth and
seventh centuries. The timber has be-
come SO hardened through the absorp-
ton of the resin by the fibres of the
wood that the axe has hardly any effect
upon it. The logs are often of great
width, showing size of trees not at
present prevalent in Scandinavia. Many
of these old farms have remained in the
possession of the same family from the
time of Canute to our own day. The
reason why Norway can boast of SO
many old houses is that its inaccessible
mountains have been safe from the de-
vastations of wars, for when conflicts
have taken place they have been chiefly
on the water, or on the shores of the
sea. Most of these ancient dwellings
are situated in valleys and dales, which
but few years ago were approachable
only by bride paths, and where the life
of the isolated inhabitants is still most
primitive. On many an old farm are
found chests of different shapes and
sizes, made centuries ago, long before
closets were built, and in many districts
they are still in use. You also meet
with movable cupboards and wardrobes
which are interesting on account Of their
age and elaborate carvings.