Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From our otrn Correspondent.

NEW YORK, January 26.
Some great and gifted ackass of an alleged sport
ing turn of mind are deeply interested In the ques
tion as to whether certain expert can or cannot get
away with brace of quails per day for thirty davs
in succession. With solemn foolery an inhuent al
daily paper devotes third of q column every morn
ing to the record of the supposed feat and the bet
ting is getting grand in its dimensions while the psr-
former goes through all the necessary motions Of
bogus invalid, nauseated by the monotony of his
Diet has valet to lean upon as he feebly totters
along in the last stsges Of his battle, worries down
his morsels with pepsin, gn cider and other quee
mixtnres and altogether makes a ''holy show" of
himself Your Radix isn't In the hippodroming BUS
ness but has eaten quail every day for three months
and is perfectly willing to do 1t again II someoody
else will foot the bills. The toothsome little oi rds
are more expensive here than in India or Centr al
America.
Other sporting characters agog about the we'll
heralded arrival Of Jem Mace auda multitude OF im'
ported and indigenous plug uglies who are occupy
ing considerable space in the papers just now. fne
great and good Joe Coburn s back from State pr1s-
| on where he sojou ned for time to expiate the
killing of policeman, and bids fair to becom
wealthy. His friends have rallied around him, and
he will it is said start toney mill like the other
murderer who killed Jim Fisk.
still other sports have gone to Ccnada to see the
Montreal ice palace and indulge in toboggan ing,
,nowshoeing and the bonspiel generally, and then
outlank Uncle Sam by laying in stock OF cnea
clothing Our tailors are waging dire waron each
other with no little literary and artistic skill in 81 ao
orate advertising but the tariff gives the Canucks
| khapnt In M nd N
of prices. A crosslegged and crooked hearted eapi
tast of the writer's acquaintance after any unsuc
cessfui bit Of nckeEplated Jay Gouldsm, inVesu hg
in bogus mines something of the sort, inVariaoy
hies himself to Canada for consolation Tor dsy OF
two and comes back in raiment most cheerful at
dodginr the customs. The custom seems likely to
spread, and we may expect our northern neighb ors
vH be oyerrun with vacation tourists who will save
heirexpenses by replenishng their wardrooes where
clothes are cheap.
The farmers of a scientific turn of mind have been
holding convention here to have good time IN
and discuss the glories Of eusage in partic-
ular. This system of storing green fodder und er
pressure has met with great favor and seems to be
pronounced success but 1t is by no means the ov-
city people are apt to consider it. In 1854 violent
, tempest wrecked the standing crops all over Aus
tralia. The ruin apparently complete, but some
smart but unknown genius took notion to 50 We
symething from the general ruin and baled lot Oh
the green oats and wheat subecting it to hydraulic
pressure lust like so much cotton and then exported
IL TO India The writer's father, colonel in the
British army bought the first bale ever sold and 1t
was good horse feed The governments tried it aft err
ward and ever since this oat hay has been staplt
Jrdi Australia. IT ia iOpn
teal with ensilage fodder and has the advantag that
it can be pressed anywhere and stored In any par
thus doing awav with the expense of specially con
structed pits.
Twelve dollars day is pretty good pay for a me
' chanic. That is what the boss hammerman gets a
the Patterson iron works. His little tool hits 4uo'
pound stroke and while he could make horse shoe'
with it, 80 skiful is he, he is usually engaged OF
more important work. Just now he has fin ished NJ
new rudder. forty feet long, for the great ocear
steamer the City of Berlin which lost her ste ELM
apparatus in heavy gale recently, and is now out
water for repairs in the great dry dock at the Fri
BASIN There is such perpetual howl about tn
absolute deafness of our shipping interests that 1t
l. somewhat of surprise to find we have such admira
Bile appliances in full working order and fourlshing
e It costs money to run dry docks, iron works etc,
and people don't run them for the fun ofthe thing
!, by large majority.
The good people of city are getting more ickl
= minded every year II is not long ago that suite il
e modern apartment houses were quite In deman d. tn
y result was that speculative builders have filed tn
a uptown avenues and streets with them. Now tn
average New Yorker is getting tired of living in fat
They are not private nor exclusive. They are N
longer considered the thing especially since the ut
iouitous janitor is becoming quite despotic. He
really the boss Of fifteen twenty families, dictate
who shall supply the coal, who shall furnish the mill
" and who deliver the bread. 1t is openly whispere
that the favorite dealers and traders pay him regl
lar commission which, added to his salary, increa Sc
!. his income SO that in many instances the drawing
room of Mrs. Janitress is superior to that Of tn
i madam on one of the upper stories The result
all this is that on quarerday next week many apar
ment tenants will give notice to the landlords th'
they will quit these kind of habitations unless tn
are allowed to remain at greatly reduced rates OF ren
a And yet we have not a sufficient number Of sma
~ housesto accommodate this large class of our pop
a lation. hADiA'