Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-02-16

has been completed bv the artist, Will
son Macdonald and the same has re-
ccived the unquaitiel appropriation of
Mrs, Garfield. An iron firm has secur-
ell the sole riehl to manufacture and
sell copies of the bust in bronze and
iron.
Lorenzo Bassett. of North Haven,
Conn.,, proceeded in company with a
clergyman to the house of his inamora-
ta to be married according to agree
ment, but the girl insisted on postpon-
ment until later date, but when that
arrived she fatty refused to marry, not
with>tanding Basset had made all pre-
paration, even to lighting the fires in
tie new house which was to be their new
home.
Mr.. Guilford Onslow. on the occasion
OF recent visit to the Tichborne claim
ant at Portsea convict prison, found him
in state of great depression. He fire.
quently remarked, They've got me
here and mean to keep me here" The
claimant has completed, under the
''mark" system, ten of the fourteen
years to which he was originally sem
fenced, though he has actually been in
prison less than eight years.
Speaking of the full surrender" by
which heartless mothers deprive an in
FAINT of its kith and kin, New York
doctor says: You hardly see afashion-
able woman nowadays with large FAM
lily. l don't mean. of course, to include
all American women who move in good
society in the category, but l am afraid
that the percentage of those who are
willing to surrender their infants bears
a largo proportion to those who are
not.n
The Philadelphia musical academy
has refused admission to colored girl.
The director admits that her piano
touch was. beautiful, and he was about
to get her an application paper, when
she suddenly sail; Il suppose my color
won't make any differencep" This con-
fession, influencing the decision of the
director, who thought her a Spaniard,
proved the death Of her hopes. Fore
seeing the objections of his patrons,
should he take her, he consented to in
struct her privately. The poor girl
never replied. but crushed from the
house like a frightened DEER" Equal
rights are social fiction.
DIR. Lewis Balch, of Albany, N. Y.
has printed n review of the medical evil
dence in the second trial of Jessie Bill
lings, Jr. Two of his conclusions are
as follows: That leaden bullet pas
sing through bones loses lead in pro-
portion to the amount of bone traversed,
and that ball fired through glass may
make hole enough smaller than the
full size of the bali before firing rs to
prevent an untired ball Of like caliber
passing. In an experiment with ball
it was found that the hole made was too
small by one-third to let the ball pass
through.
A widow of two months standing in
Sullivan county, New York, took it in
to her head to marry again. She found
her man, and when the couple appear
ed before the dominic TO be made
twain, his reverence suggested that, as
her husband had been dead only two
months, it didn't look well for her TO
marry so soon. "Ah, dominic" replied
the widow, "you forget 10 give ME
credit for the ten months my husband
lay sick" The woman was ahead, as
usual, and the couple were married then
and there.
In Brighton, Eng, lately a self-act-
ing organ was put in a church. The
sexton learned how TO starti but not
how to ST. p it. The music went we'll
with the first hymn. 1t stopped then,
but just rs the clergyman com pleted the
words, Let us prav," the organ click
ed and started q fresh tune. The audi
ence and minister sat it out patiently,
while the unhappy sexton grew red in
the f ce trying to find out how to stop
it. At tile en' of the fifth verse of the
second tune the minister got up and
again said, LET us pray" when .click''
went the machine and off it started on
another tune. So four of the stoutest
men in the congregation carried the
Thing out Into the rhurchyard. where it
Continued to "lirk and play away for the
rest # tie day. getting to is fortieth
tune nj the end of its rope towards
evening.