Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-10-18
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"A delaware county IN. L. farmer
cut thirty-three tons of clover from q
seven-acre field.
Pennsylvania has 1856 public
schools, New York 1855 Zone iess).
Ohio l6,473 and Illinois 10, 203.
For ''cold in the head" the snufiine
Of powdered borax is said to be sure
relief
The largest fleece of wool reported
for this year was taken from French
Merino ram owned at Los Angeles, Cal.
1t weighed 62I rounds.
A wonderful mineral is found only in
Missouri. 1t is called Adams cobte,
and it is so hard that it will cut steel
without losing its edge.
DIR. Garnett, of Washington, who per-
formed the final surgical operation ON
Judge Black, was jeff Davis family
physician during the civil war.
The American demand for draft
horses has increased the price in Scot
land and France until there is now no
profit in their importation.
1t has been decided by the Austrian
railway administration to employ wo-
men as road guards on the same terms
as men.
A Coney Island boy picks up along
the shore four bushels of corks every
day, sells them at so cents bushel,
and claims that it is a better business
than blacking boots.
Washington has .'tiger lilv." She
is a pretty Government clerk named
Lillian -, who has established faro
bank in her rooms at Washington, to
which she invites other women and her
admirers to play.
A steamboat made almost entirely of
paper is about to be launched on the
Ohio River. 1t is twenty feet long and
can carry several tons. The sheathing
is of solid paper three-eighths of an inch
thick.
A popular tree was recently cut in
Larue County, Kentucky. which was
seven feet in diameter ut the butt, made
six twelve foot cuts, the top one being
five feet in diameter. 1t was clear of
limbs, knots or wind shake, and made
o,535 feet of tirst-class lumber.
c. P. Huntington, the railroad mag
nate, was poor boy and a hardwork-
ing man. He did not begin to accum-
ulate his immense fortune until he was
past forty, when he staked all his saw
ings on the scheme of the Pacific Rail-
road.
A true glacier has been found in the
Rocky Mountains, about $50 miles
north of Missoula. M. T. The glacier
has frontage of at least mile, and
in some places face estimated at 500
feet in height. From underneath it
flows stream of milky-colored glacier
water.
A Colorado paper asserts that it is
the living truth that certain districts in
the state are Il howling, barren wilder
ness for the want of more g,rls. In
some towns in the New England states
there are eleven women TO one man,
while in certain parts of Colorado there
are eighteen men to one woman.
Mexico has recently contracted for
1000, 900 trees to be planted in the val
ley of Mexico, within the next four
years from March 4, 1854 Willows,
popars, eucalyptus, cypress. locusts
and other species are to be placed in
plantations of from 10000 to 10000
each, the contractor to maintain them
two years after planting.
Jim Smith, II convict. who was re-
Gently released from the Tennessee
Penilentiary, earned for the lessees dur
ing his ten years service the sum of
$40, 745,9 81 net. lie never lost an hours
work by sickness or any other cause.
Smith is Il master mechanic and tool
maker. The day of his discharge the
lessees gave him 1926 suit of clothes
and $40 to pay his fare to Memphis.
The fact that some young women
wear those ridiculous Mother Hub
bards'-a poor imitation of loose
night-gown-in public, because it is
supposed to be ''the fashion, in some
locality lover in Yurrep," gives us
reason to believe that those same
young women would wear nothing at all
if it were to be 1.-the fash on. - Woman
Contributor.
Rev. E. E. Hale pointedly says: "One
can get news now from Pekin quicker
than Dan could hear from Beersheba
Which shows how the world has changed
and the change has happened in the
last few years. Even in this country
we knew nothing of the electric tele-
graph as q working force some forty
years since.
Extract from the speech of a member
of Parliament giving new way of
dealing with an old evil: II am proud
to say that there was only one man in
the famous charge at Tel-el-Kebir who
was under the influence of drink, and
he was promptly chloroformed by the
doctor to prevent his making noise
and so marring the effect of the charge.
With that one exception all those en-
gagged in that went through it upon q
ration of cold tea and without spirits at
all.
The average longevity in England is
increasing. Not many years ago cele-
brated author denied the existence of
such thing as centenaran. The
statistics for 1881 record ninety-one
persons who did not die until they had
completed 100 years or upward. Of
these twenty-five were men and sixty
six women. The Oldest man was 112
years of age. The others ranged be-
tween that and 100: Three of the wo-
men were 107, three 106, two 105, six
l04, five 103, eight 102, and the rest 100
and upward.
1t is wonderful fact that shipping,
as old as civilization and once the great