Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-11-30

This was the shrewd dodge Of west
ern one-legged man who. went on
crutches: Hopping along on q Lead
vile street, he suddenly caught one OF
his crutches 10 hole. He fell. be rose.
he sued the city and recovered 5000
damages. He did likewise in Kansas
City. and recovered $500; in Terre Haute
$500, and in St Louis $500. =
The annual production Of Canada
NAH is about 10000. 900 pounds OF
this nearly 2S.000. 900 pounds are ex-
ported TO the United States. The i'm
ports-almost wholly confined TO British
Columbia, barely exceed 150. 50.000pounds.
In Toronto alone there are 1900, 900
gallons of beer .brewed, while the capi-
tai employed amounts to $4,000, 900.
Part of the tusk of mammoth un-
earthed in Box Elder is on exhibition in
Miles City, Montana. Il is said the en-
tire tusk was about twenty feetin length.
On Powder river. sixty miles from Miles
City, 1t is reported, q whole skeleton of
a mammoth has been brought to light,
and a party of scientists are organizing
to visit the spot to secure il.
the Chronicle estimates the number
of Chinese in SanFrancisco at thirty
thousand. A large number of surplus
Mongolians are reported to be looking
for work, the organized effort on the
part Of the whites to stop the purchase
of Chinese-made goods having had the
effect to throw many Of them out of en-
ployment.
The publishers of a German novel
scored a hit recently in the line Of, ad-
vertising. They had inserted in most of
the papers notice stating thata certain
nobleman of means, anxious to obtain q
) wife, wanted one who resembled the
description of the heroine in the novel
named. OF course every manageable
woman who saw this announcement
bought the novel to see how much she
resembled the imaginary beauty.
Concerning the death of his wife, Fred
erick Douglass recently wrote to a friend
in the west ''The main pillar in my
house has fallen. Four and forty years
have passed since our union. Life can
not hold much for me, now that she has
gone. Still feel that the lesson taught
BY this death, as by all such, is silence,
resignation, humility and hope. We
are all strangers and sojourners."
American vines are not, after all, proof
against attacks of phylloxera. On the
Island of Monte Cristo, where the Italian
government established depot for the
growth Of American seeds and trans
planting and accumulation Of American
vines, seven hundred vines out of the
first years shoots were found to be, fa-
tally affected with phylloxera.
On the farm of Judge Bronson, Of
Seymour, Allegany county, New York,
is q natural curiosity. A maple tree one
foot in diameter grows out of solid
rock, three feet from the ground and
out of this tree about foot from the
base of the tree is a cedar limb about
two inches in diameter, which is as flour.
ishing as any of the branches Of the pa
rent tree.
The eye of steer, when prominent,
bright and clear, with mild and gentle
expression, is an indication of health,
with quiet disposition and good feed.
ing quality. H'the eye isdull and sunk.
en- the capillary circulation will be de-
fective, and the. functions of nutrition
imperfectly performed, and there will
not only be deficiency in the ability tt
fatteu, but lack of strength and con
stitutional vigor. A. restless and wild
expression of the eye indicates pre-
dominence of nervous action and un
quiet disposition that is not compatible
with good feeding quality.
.Old Bach" who writes to the New
York Sun, gives a reason why he is no
married, which is a reason. Il am
he says, "35, an old bachelor, they say
and have been wanting wife these ter
years. Some of my friends suggest tina
I want to marry rich, and am too pecu
liar. Now do not object to riches i
other things are all right. But. homo
bright, if Iwere to find woman wht
would bring nobler thoughts, make mt
q better man, think less OF gossip abou
her neighbors. and more about iiersowl
home affairs, woman well cdaeafe(
and not helpless, / should like toaaari'
her, even if she did not own u copper