Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
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The Cossacks now serving ia the
Russian army number 305. 900, their
officers, 3,942.
A Jackson, CTenn.) dog goes on two
legs, both on the right side of his body.
The other legs are broken.
Mr.. William Black is supposed TO be
making the largest income Of any Eng
lish novelist living.
Cheesequake Creek, for which $40
600 has been appropriated. is. according
to the Atlanta Consolidation, only twelve
inches deep.
Boston proposes to have n college
which is to educate doctors and pay as
much attention to their moral as to their
medical training"
The report comes from Victoria,
British Columbia, that Chinese women
are smuggled into the United States dis
guised as Indians. Thirty-twO are said
to have crossed the line in that garb.
Moncure d. Conway says that moth
ing is more common than for intelligent
Englishmen to confde to American
friends theirwonder that Americans can
endure such personal power as that
possessed by the President
Madagascar is rather larger than
France. A belt of almost virgin forest
runs around the island The population
is about 100000. and the soil will
easily support 100000. India-rubber
is principal export. The mineral
wealth is enormous.
The inscription "Ysnat' on a jar in
Philadelphia Indian doctors shop. puz-
xled reporter until he discovered that
it was "Tansy'' spelled backward.
With this clue he read other names of
mysterious medicines with a clearer un-
derstanding than before
Is the war over? The Ninth and
Tenth Regiments of Rhode Island Vol
unteers, who were in the service of the
government in 1868 for three months,
claim that they were never mustered
out, and are entitled to full pay to date.
1t will require $5,000,0OO to pay them.
A San Francisco doctor has restored
lady of that city to perfect health by
removing one of her kidneys. This
operation, called rephrectomy, is so
rarely undertaken that the world has
only seventy-three cases of the kind re-
corded.
Two boys have been convicted in Cal
ifornia of robbing Cinnamon, and San
Francisco journal sees in this reaction
from the feeling against the Chinese,
who have hitherto been unable to get
protection from the law against thieves
and bullies.
A Reading (Pa.) journalist interviews
tramp: I'VE read the papers, and the
latest, too. l often feel amused to see
yer editors offerin' rewards for the ar
rest of them persons as steals papers
from doors. It's tramps almost every
time"
A richly attired Boston lady took
from wagon, standing by the curb
stone, a large blanket and carefully
covered the shivering horse attached to
the vehicle. She departed unconcerned
at the applause which spontaneously
came from the crowd which her unusual
but kindly act had collected.
In this fertile land of plenty it seems
Incredible that 100000 bushels of po-
tatoes should be imported in a single
year, and yet this was the case last
year as shown by the government reve-
nue. records. Import duties amounting
to considerably over S1,0O0,OOO were
raid.
Postmaster General Fawcett, who has
been in such ill health that it was ex-
pected that he would die, is one of the
most popular men in England He is
over six feet tall, and is very strong
man. Although he is totally blind, he
rides, rows and skates WELL He will
sometimes walk eighteen miles of an
afternoon. He was born in 1888.
Hereafter the owner of coal land in
Pennsylvania will be more careful in
leasing his property for mining pur-
poses. The Supreme Court of the state
has decided that petroleum is, in the
geological sense of the term, mineral,
and that persons leasing Glands and
minerals are entitled to whatever oil
may be struck below the surface.
A New York artist hits masculine
vanity hard rap when he says that q
man, magnificent specimen, called
upon him in answer to an advertisement
for model. and, after exhibiting his
nude form, said that he was independ-
emily well off and did not care to pose.
The mans only desire was, the artist
thinks, to show his wonderfully perfect
development.
Some of the accounts of the growth
OF the German carp show that it will at
tain very large size in o remarkably
short period of time. The commissioner
OF agriculture of the state of Georgia
mentions carp of fifteen pounds of only
three years growth. The first distribu-
tion of carp in Georgia was in 1879.
Since then the United States fish COM
missioners have distributed fifteen
thousand young fish to various parties
in the state.
Leonardo da Vinci thus forshadowed
the telephone: "When one is upon a
lake, if he puts the opening of trunl-
pet into the water and holds the point
OF the tube to his ear, he can perceive
whether ships are moving at a remote
distance. the same thing occurs if he
thrusts the tube into the ground, for
then. also, he will hesr what is going on
far away"
A movement among Texas stock men
to disarm their cowboys was derided at
first. but is now said to be making con-
siderable headway. Several stock men
announced that they would not employ
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