Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-06-28
GLEANINGs.

Sunshine is like love-it makes every
thing shine with its own beauty alGf,
Whales are becoming common off the
coast of Long Island. They seem. anx-
ious to be taken.
Mr.. Astor, United States minister in
Rome, is collecting illuminated manu-
scripts and ancient missals.
Bells Life deplores the scarcity Of
good thoroughbred brood mares in Eng
land. sl b,. Tex.
It transpires that the school house in
New York where so many children were
killed, was reported eight years ago as
being unsafe. r..
It is said that speculation has SO
far declined in San Francisco that deal
ings in stock scarcely average $780, 900
q day. .,
Mrs. Garfield, it is said, looks ten
years older than when her husband was
killed, and there is asprinkling of white
in her hair. .sti.4 'l
Mrs. B. P. Shillaber, the wife of "Mrs.
Partington, died recently. She was
the daughter of Maximilian John de
Rochemont, Huguenot.
GeorgeWilliam Curtis, Rev. DR.. Eggles-
ton, William Butler Duncan, and others
are trying to raise fund to establish an
eye and ear hospital on Staten Island.
General Robert Toombs, of Georgia, is
blind in one eye and can read with the
other only by the light of student lamp.
He is soon to undergo an operation for
cataract.
An inexhaustible quarry of blue mar
BILE has been discovered near the Dalles
in Polk county, Oregon. 1t is suscepti-
BILE of receiving q high polish, and is
very hard. 4 .4-ie
A board of supervisors of California
recently appropriated $3.50 to provide q
pauper with wooden leg, and charged
the amount to ''permanent repairs and
improvements F
It is said that the deadly malarial eli
mate of the Roman campagna has been
rendered innocuous by planting eucalyp.
tus or blue gum trees from Australia
abundantly therein. tpn
Recent tests of yarn made from differ
ent hemps gives the following relative
strengths: Manila, 245: Italian, 22l;
New Zealand, 143; Russian, 1873. Manila
is evidently the yarn to be hanged with.
There has come into tbs possession of
abank at Danbury, Conn.,, a one dollar
bill, upon the back of which is written,
in purple ink: II, Jenny Cramer, fell
in love with j. Malley, Oct. 5, 1878"
The yacht Namouna, owned BY James
Gordon Bennett, is said to be an uneom-
Portable boat in which to sail, being, as
quantity expressed by the former cook,
''too short for two waves and too long
for one.
If there is any one farm employment
Ia which women can engage with sue
cess it is poultry raising. Incubators
are becoming fashionable, and these a
woman can manage just as well as a
man. There is money in the business,
and it's good way to replenish the
purse. ssgsR lelyass#
A family in York. Pa, owns part of q
silk balloon taken from the Confederate
gunboat .Teaser in 1868, There, were
abont twenty different shades and colors
ii the balloon This was explained by
the fact that the Southern ladies sent
their silk dresses to be made into war
balloons asag ast't aers3s e M. assf4
Anegro in Mobile. Ala, created sen.
satton and caused himself to,be suspect
ed Of murder by making d false grave
and putting near It . corn sack saturat-
ed with bl6od. His object was to shoe.
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