Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-08-30
GLEANINGS.

40.
Mr.. Burnett, husband of the VEL
known novelist, is clerk in the Sur
geon Generals Office, in Washington.
The largest milk-pan on record, hold
ing 800 gallons, has just been made for
an Iowa creamery.
In a recent speech the Prince Of Wales
said London had now about 5,000,0 900
inhabitants.
Every man who carries pistol ought
to be obliged by law to wear 1t in a belt
at his side, and have it labeled "emo-
tional insanity. ."-Springfeld Union.
The sword presented to General An
drew Jackson by the General Assembly
of Tennessee, in honor of his victory at
New Orleans, is to be placed in trust
with the Tennessee Historical Society.
Myopia is spreading to an alarming
extent in Germany. OF $4,000 school
children recently examined, one-half
were near sighted. If this continues
the German eye may so degenerate as
to be merely rudimentary.
Theodore Tilton's once fair brown
locks, says contemporary, now hang
over his shoulders in ragged tangles of
gray, his eyes look heavy and jaded,
and there are deep wrinkles all over his
face.
We are sometimes disposed to think
that the administration of justice in
modern society is a vast absurdity.
huge reminiscence of the middle ages
cumbering the nineteenth century,
Buffalo Courier.
There is new French gun twenty
nine feet six inches long, weighing fifty
tons, costing f25,000. 1t is wire-wound,
and is expected to put II ball through
fifteen inches of armor at distance of
seven and a half miles.
A woman writes to the Boston Globe
that, finding she could earn more in
business than her husband, they revers-
ed the usual order of things. She now
goes to business, and he does all the
home work, and does it excellently. The
plan works very satisfactorily.
A butter maker, writing to the Iowa
Homestead, says the best butter color is
| pailful of corn meal mash, fed warm
once day, the corn to be of the yellow
variety; adding that it will increase the
milk and butter, as we'll as give good
color.
The San Francisco Post is responsible
for the story that during the latter part
of the war David Davis was challenged
to fight duel by a tire-eating, Southern
ex-member of Congress. The former,
it is added, very properly declined, be-
cause his antagonist refused to permit
him to stand three-fifths behind stone
wall.
Business is duller at Denver at pres
ent than it has been for several years.
Every department of labor is over full.
1t is estimated that there are now 5000
people in Denver out of employment,
and this state of affairs applies to clerk
ships and such occupations as well as to
the day laborers that WELD the AK and
spade.
In 1858 the rich alluvial lands of Ash
ley County. in the southeastern portion
of Arkansas, readily commanded from
S25 to $50 per acre, and the uplands
from S5 to $40 per acre, but now these
lands average only about So to $15 per
acre in the lowlands and the hill lands
can be bought for from 81 to S.. The
excessive cultivation of cotton is the
cause.
An architectural paper, says the Bos-
ton transcript, prints plans of a cottage
''for young man of unexcepSonable
position" Next issue will probably
contain drawings of a ranch for an old
fellow of no position to speak of, and
with a character blacker than stack
of black cats in y moonless night. The
unexceptionable young men needn't ex-
pect to have all the good things in ar
chitecture.
The nature of the bite of the leech has
been examined by M. Carlet. He de-
tached the animal from the shaved skin
of rabbit at different stages. Suppose
q scarifier with three toothed and eoui-
blades withdrawing from one another
while they press into the skin, and oper'
ating several times successfully in the
the same place; this gives pretty ex-
act idea of the mechanism.
President McCosh may be right in his
estimate of the.infuence of Carlyle up
on the English language, but report:
published by leading American Journals
of prize fights. chicken mains and dog
: matches show that the rugged elements
: of our mother tongue are not to be sap
ped by the demoralizing slush spatteret
over the domain of literature by the au
thor of 1.-The French Revolution.
i 1t is now proposed to change the nam
i of Washington Territory upon her ad
= mission into the Union as State to Tia
= homa, which is said to be the prope
s photography for the name usually writ
e ten Tacoma. Tahoma is an India
/ word meaning ''Almost to heaven" an
s was the name given by the Indians t
It Mount Rainier on account of the grea
$ height of that mountain.
:, The people of Pittsburg, Pa, hav
just discovered that they have an intel
J. esting relic of the colonial times in the
j. city. 1t is old Fort Duquesne bloc
L house, for which nations strove Ger
|, tury and a half ago. tbs now SUI
U rounded by all kinds of dilapidated ter
IS ements, and is itself a domicile for
poor family. There is movement @
u foot to acquire the property and creat
: public park, of which it shall be tt
u principal attraction.
! The proprietor of one of the finest vi
~ ~ las in Newport this season will have
Il bed of the new ornamental leaved plal
known as AltermanttorG Major, col
tanning 10000 plants, which will CO.
# $1,000. The plant is now growing, Ri
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