Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-08-09

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Richmond, Ind, where the other night
bottle of phosphorus, dissolved in oil,
burst in the coat-tail pocket of the
medium" who stood with his back to
the fire preparatory to beginning his
seance, and producing handwriting in
characters of fire upon the wall. "The
conditions were not favorable to get
ting any heavenly message that night.
A hen may be calculated to consume
one bushel of corn yearly, and to lay
ten dozen or fifteen pounds of eggs.
This is equivalent to saying that three
and one-tenth pounds of corn will pro-
duce, when fed to hen, fve-sixth of a
pound of eggs; but five-sixth of pound
of pork requires about five pounds of
corn for its production. Taking into
account the nutriment in each and the
comparative prices of the two on an av-
erage, the pork is about three times as
costly food as the eggs, while it is GER
tainly less healthful.
Kate Field thus describes the Ameri-
can dude: "Take strip of something
tR-t, for the sake of convenience, we
will call man-which, by the way, is
a gross libel on man. Around its neck
place tight collar, enshrouded with a
hideous scarf and breast-pin. Put upon
1t silk hat and a cutaway coat. Clothe
its lower extremities wherein the calves
were never meant to grow. In its hand
a cane, and on its feet boots that creak
at every step in limping measure. Place
cigarette in its mouth; teach it brief
vocabulary of verbs and adjectives, COM
mencing with immensely clever and
sec you later, you know and in my
humble opinion you obtain q fair con-
ception of the brains and capacity of
the American dude.
A visit to the Concord prison by the
Rev. Mark Trafton convinced him that
the solitary cell is a frightful place. He
stepped inside and said, please close
the door," Darkness, silence and suf-
location. "Open, open," he cried. He
could not have lived there an hour, he
thinks. All the air circulating passed
through space under the door about
two or four inches. The wretches con-
fined there recently stripped themselves
naked and lay down upon the stone
floor, putting their mouths to that
small aperture to get breath of air.
''What are those ringbolts in the wall
for?" he asked of his guide. "They
were put in to chain the culprit up by
his hands so that he could not sit or lie
down." was the reply.
To make paint for outdoor work, the
Iowa Agricultural College gives the fol-
lowing receipt: To three parts crude
petroleum and one part linseed oil add
sufficient mineral. paint to give the de-
sired body, and apply with a brush.
For better buildings, white lead may be
added in the proportion of one pound
of lead to five of mineral paint. Crude
petroleum costs only from six to eight
cents per gallon by the barrel, and can
be easily obtained through any druggist
or dealer in oil in any town or village.
A barrel would be handy to have in the
house of any farmer, who could then do
a world of painting at odd spells. Not
only ought barns, fences, hog-pens and
stables to be painted, but the roofs and
floors of these buildings as well.
The increase of speed in American
trottin@ horses during the last decade,
due to careful selection and breeding,
has been remarkable. According to
record, it is found that, while in 1871
there were ninety mine horses that could
trot in 2:27, there was only one that
could make mile in 2:17. In 1875
there were five horses who coulddo this,
and in 1880 fourteen. But additional
speed was obtained; for, beginning with
1874, there was one horse that could
trot in 2:15, two horses in 1877 that ac-
complished this, and in 1880 this num-
ber was increased to six, and, overtop-
ping that, one animal that made her
mile in 2:11. About two seconds TO
the mile have been gained by the trot-
ting horse in every three years since
1871, and it is believed that the fastest
horse of 1890 will trot his or her mile in
about 3:08.