Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-04-05

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ing In q coal mine, and seeing more
monsy inait. eqnippsA hsrssf with q
horse and truck and now supplies con-
,uner vfh cea- ,She is besides a.
good performer on the violin.
Yorkey Pete, the famous ST. Louis
bootblack, who founded slboys home
in that city and was for years regarded
as q model leader Of the wielders Of the
brush. has gone wrong. While on .
trip further west he BOARDED q railroad
train at Truckee, Cal, robbed the. pas
sengers Of o sleeping car. and has been
sent 70 prison for two years. - ,,,
The Presse Medical Beige declares thai
although undescribed BY alienists. a dis
ease exists which has committed great
rsvages, especially in Germany. II is
''mania for new medicines" leading
to the indiscriminate employment OF
them in diseases of the most opposite
character.
The question, How long is it necessa-
ry to keep children away from school
afterNan infectious diseaseP was an-
swered some time since by the Acadc-
my of Medicine, Paris. With scarlet
fever. diphtheria. measles and small
pox, isolation is TO lie maintained for
forty days. Chicken-pox and mumps
lose their contagious power after twen-
ty-five days.
The arrest of an elegantly-dressed,
graceful and handsome woman in Phil
adelphia led to the discovery that she
had pair of dummy hands, which
were thrust into her mnff. Her own
hands were busy appropriating dia-
mond jewelry and anything else she de-
sired to steal.
When man wakes up in . boarding
house with an unpleasant series OF
Jumps all over him, he knows that his
mattress has been put on the bed OF
some new conner who has rented one OF
the inexpensive rooms. 1t is fortunate
for the occupants of hall bedrooms that
clearinghouse napkins are all equal.
Dispatches from Egypt state that the
wives of the Bedouins who murdered
Prof. Palmer have been captured and
will be held as hostages for the murderers,
1t is not believed by married men, how.
ever, that any of the Bedouins connect.
ed with the tragedy win become lame
from running in the direction of the
British Embassy.
Ostrich farming has its drawbacks
The ostrich does not set. She dom
have time. She does not squat dowT
over something and insist on Matching
it out if it takes all summer. but she
just lays couple of porcelain cuspi
dores in the hot sand when she feel
like it, and then goes away to the sea
side to quiet her shattered nerves.
A book agent wandered into Bow
cry museum the other day and talked t.
q wax figure of Gen. Jackson three hours
trying to induce him to subscribe for I
work in 142 parts, price so cents each
no subscription taken for less than th'
entire work. WELL" he said. as b.
turned to go, IF you didn't want it
why didn't you say so two hours agog
When two gentlemen call on tn
same lady the same evening, one arriv
ing earlier than the other, whose plac
is It to leave first?' asks correspond
ent. The inquirer should have figures
this out while going home, instead G
trying to console himself with the re
probably miss the last car.
Once upon q time an editor in scare
of food was compelled to pawn his dia
mond shirt-studs for q loaf of bread
While conveying the humble meal t.
his castle hungry dog ran off with it
and few moments later robbers de
prived the editor of his watch Instea,
of being ratified by these untoward in
cidents, the editor smilingly remarked
Il thank the gods that still have m
appetite left" We are taught by thi
little fable that true contentment is tn
greatest of all journalistic boons.
A clerk of an eminently respectabl
house, the head of which is a deacon
was instructed to prepare an advertise
ment and have it inserted in the papers
He prepared one which read: 9TH
pot scooped! We hold four aces to tn
bob-tail flush of another house in tow
on fine table-cloths." When the deacon
saw that advertisement it positivel
made him dizzy, and the fact that h
was called upon by the church to ex
plain it didn't make the clerks act O
resignation any more pleasant for hin
to go through.
At dinner party the little son of tn
hostess was allowed to come down t
dessert. Having had what his mothe
considered sufficiency of fruit, he wa
told he must not have any more, whel
to the surprise of every one of tn
guests, he exclaimed: ''If you dom
give me some more, I'll tell" A fresl
supply was at once given him, and a
soon as it was finished he repeated hi
threat; thereupon he was suddenly ant
swiftly removed from the room, but h
had just time to convulse the compan,
by eNclaiming. MY new trousers ar