Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-04-12
WAIFS AND STRAYS.
CurlOas Items that Have Come to the
Surface Here and There.


Surface Here and There.
One Paducah, KY, hunter has
killed 9,l6O rabbits in the last six
months. ..a.
The peanut crop in many parts OF
Tennessee will be increased the COM
ing season.
Mary Stuart Face Powder. Harmless
Price % cents : box at Humphreys.
nov2-ly.
Nearly 100000 barrels will be
needed to carry out the truck raised
around Norfolk, Va, to market this
season.
Did you read how Josiah Pitkin OF
Chelsea, VT, was cured of terrible sore
leg, by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the blood
purifier?
An estate Of some $4,000, all hon
est savings, is left by Mary Freeman
an aged colored woman, who has just
died at Bridgeport, Conn.
Anaheim, CAL, is said to have
formed a company with $4,000 to
establish an ostrich farm, and the
BIRDS now at Woodwards, near San
Francisco, are to be taken there.
The first real skin cure ever discovered
was DR.. Benson's Skin Cure. 1t cures all
rough and scaly skin diseases and makes
the skin smooth and healthy. 1t is an
ornament to any lady's toilet. mo
A snake was found frozen in solid
block of Ice that was cut recently from
a millpond in Roslyn, Long Island.
On being thawed out and warmed it
was found to be alive.
In county in Nevada is a hill OF
moving sand four miles long, a mile
wide, and from one hundred to four
hundred feet high. Within few
years the hill has travelled mile.
Excursions from Monterey to points
on the Mexican National Railroad
are becoming very fashionable. A
party composed of more than five hun,
dred people recently visited Pesqueria
Chica,
A Rome, N. Y, team ran away, ia
king the railroad track for course.
They ran upon and through a bridge,
and were suspended between the
beams for several hours before being
rescued.
MIS-. Peter Snyder, of Plattekill, N.
Y, cut her hand slightly a few days
ago, and in knitting with blue yarn
some of the coloring matter entered
the wound and poisoned her blood. 1t
is feared that she may die.
A story comes from Newark, N. j.,
that thousands of chickens have been
killed there when only four days out
of the she'll, and stuffed for sale as
Easter novelties. This cruel business
calls for Jersey justice.
:. A law passed by the Vermont Leg
islature four years ago has decidedly
reduced the number of divorces. In
1879 the divorces were one to every
fourteen marriages, and in the two
succeeding years the proportion was
one to twenty-one.
One of the substantial farmers of
Sparta, Ga, when he was married,
twelve years ago, had to borrow
money to pay for his marriage license,
and not having decent suit of clothes,
the young woman whom he was to
marry tore the wool from sheep skins,
spun, wove and made him n suit Of
A boy with a top tried to spin it,
But his hand got thorn right in it,
The sport didn't spoil,
For St. Jacobs Oil,
Cured his hurt in less than mint.
A red. haired clerk in Savannah,
Slipped on piece of banana,
Great pain he endured,
But st. Jacobs Oil cured,
He now goes dancing with Hannah.
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Planters
Journal describes five apiaries whose
total product last year was 55,287
pounds of honey, 40, pounds of
was extracted, and 6,ls2 pounds comb
honey. The whole product was sold
for $5,G2s. The yields ranged from
SLOT to $40 81 per colony. Bee
culture is proving profitable in the
Southern states.