Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-03-16
GLEANINGS.

a balloon. Everybody appears little tc
him, and he appears little TO everybody
1t is said that Reuben r. Springer, Oi
Cincinnati, talks of endowing the College
of Music with Sl,0OO,OOO.
Maryland proposes TO grant marriage
licenses free Of charge, as an encourage
ment TO matrimony.
The difficulty with some sermons is,
they are ''written in laudanum on
sheets Of lead."-NetO York Herald.
Gov. William d. Bloxham, of Florida
Is the first native-born citizen of his
state that has won his way to its highest
Office.
Though the guilty man is sure that
no one knows his guilt, he is always
afraid that some one has just found him
out.
A German astronomer has found q
new planet. Anybody who misses any
of his planets should make a note OF
this.-TeraS SittingS.
A cat when pursued by ferOcious
dog may not be feeling quite as well as
usual, but, nevertheless, she presents a
fur-straight appearance. - ldwc0t
Strauss.
The New Orleans Picdyune believes
that psalm tunes should be played on
an upright piano. Which suggests that
Masonic music should be played on the
square. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Col. Smith A.Whitield, the new post
master of Cincinnati, is tall and slim.
He stands six feet two in his stocking
feet. His face is smooth and he has a
pious look.
Nye county, Nevada, is the largest
county in the United States, covering
$4,000 acres. The smallest is the county
of New York, and it has the largest
population.
Boston's two heaviest taxpayers are
Moses Williams and Joshua Sears, who
are assessed for $3,300,000 and So, PA,
600 respectively. Sears is young man
not long out of college.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon says the excess OF
spirituality is, by strange but certain
law, placed next door to sensuality.
"You get up SO high that you fall down
on the other side"
The Princess Louise will contribute
to Good Words a series of drawings
illustrating Quebec and its surroundings,
and her husband will publish poem
on "Quebec" in the same periodical.
They have ransacked the tombs about
Thebes until they have found the num-
mifed remains of Pharoah's daughter.
Now we shall fine out where Moses was
when the light went out.
Florida papers say that the brown or
rusty orange is much the sweetest, and
can be kept longer than the bright fruit,
but it will not sell at the North for half
the price of fair fruit.
An American locomotive engineer
resents the statement that English rail-
road trains make faster time than Amer
ican. He says railroad trains make
more stops in this country and thus
lose time.
According to the census returns the
lowest per centage of illiteracy is in Ne.
braska, 1.73 unable to read, and 2.55
unable to write. The highest is in
South Carolina, 32.92 unable to read
and 97.15 unable to write.
1t is said that the only obstacle in the
way of transporting live hogs from this
country to England is the difficulty OF
feeding them on the passage. Why not
feed them from the trough of the sea-
SomervilIe Journal.
"The bees are swarming, and there's
no end to them,'' said Farmer Jones,
coming into the house. His little boy
George came in second or two after.
ward, and said there was an end to one
'em, anyhow, and it was red hot, too.-
Boston transcript.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island,
lives when at Providence, in a wooden
house, externally of the plainest and
most ordinary appearance. The inter-
ior, however, is filled with rare paintings
and bric-a-brac. Once year the Sen
ator makes pilgrimage ohis ancestral
village of Anthony and delivers q lecture
to the villagers.
A farmer living not many miles from
Toledo has the following warning con-
spicuously posted on his premises: "If
any man or womans COWS or oxen gifts
in this here oats his or her tail will be
cut off as the case may be. "-1oledo
Blade.
1t is said to be o significant fact that
the Irish newspapers contain an average
of five advertisements each for energetic
young men to collect rent, where they
have no advertisements at all from en-
ergetic young men anxious to secure
those profitable and pleasant situations.
Mr. Porter Rhodes is said to have
declared that f100,000 would not induce
him to part with his magnificent diamond
found at his claim in Kimberley Mine,
South Africa, although the stone is yet
uncut and described as looking like q
lump of alum, with a weight of $50
carats.
Having a beautiful daughter to intro
duce, Gen. and Mrs. Mcclellan took the
fine house, No. II Gramercy park, New
York and have followed up their hos
pitality of last winter by giving four
evenings, at which one meets all the
world, the army and navy, and the
literary set, the clergy and the pretty
girls.
Two mysterious attempts have been
made recently to assassinate DR.. Sim
mons, one of the most prominent
physicians in Walker county, Georgia.
The first time the bullets of the assassin
were buried in the wall above his head.
and the second time, while visiting a
patient, his horse was stopped and the
assassin took good aim and pulled the
trigger but the gun missed fire, and the
doctor escaped by putting spurs to his
horse. He does not know why his life
is sought. A number have been arrest
ed, but no light thrown upon the affair.
A new bridge, costing $1,000,00 has
been finished at Albany, N. Y, since
Last June. The main span is nine hun