Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-05-08
GLEANINGS.

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A basement boolblack in Cortlandt
street announces: mo waiting inside.
Five artists constantly in attendance"
No less than los, 200 human beings
have been transported to Siberia dur
ing the past ten years.
Since the act Of Congress went into
effect against the importation of spuri-
GUS teas. 225.O0 pounds of the vilely
adulterated stuff has been condemned.
A boy in New York bought and read
fifteen 5-cent novels, and then deliber-
ately murdered his employer-all in
four weeks.
Chang, the Chinese giant is to be
married in five years to Chinese wo-
man nine feet high. They will then
open q tea store in New York.
Since the oDening of the Suez Canal
tea has. 1879 excepted, declined each
year in price. 1t has never been lower
in England than now.
Charles De,monico was the owner of
valuable library, which includes
books on cooking from ancient times to
the present day.
The search for pearls in the mussels
of Ohio has been . considerable indus
try for years. Pearl hunting has lately
been reported in Tennessee with favor
able results.
John Harris, ''the Cornish poet"
who has just died, was so poor in his
youth that he used the juice of black
berries for ink with which to write his
rhymes.
In Mulhall's Dictionary of Statis-
tics" just published, the total number
of Catholics in Europe is estimated at
147, 430. 900, wnile the Prostestants are
put down at IS, 302,060.
The best macaroni consumed in this
country is, according to the Philadel-
phia Press, made of California wheat.
New York, Philadelphia and San Fran
cisco make more macaroni than is i'm
ported.
Harvey o. Parker" says the Ok
ford, Me-, Democrat, lis remembered
when he sold apples from the Hiscoe
farm in Oxford county. The same
Parker is taxed this year on about
$1,000, 900 work of property in Boston"
President Porter, of Yale College, is
reported to have advised graduating
students, in q recent address, thus
wise: Don't marry until you can
support wife. Read the papers. Ad-
verlise your business. Love your God
and feliow-man."
Thomas Van Valin. of Syracuse,
who recently celebrated his 104 birth
day, comes of q long-.ived family, his
father having been accidentally killed
at the age of 105 years. His grand
father lived to be lis, and brother of
his grandfather lived to the aye OF 112
years.
Joseph K. Emmett, the actor, who
some time ago lost valuable and
highly-pr.zed St. Bernard dog, has
bought another of E. R. Hearn, of Pas
sale, N. j.. giving $4,000, sad to be the
highest price ever paid for a dog. The
dog is thrty-seven inches high, and
weighs 1875 pounds.
T. Thomas Fortune, the colored edi-
tor of the New York Globe, the only
newspaper in the world devoted to the
interest of the colored race, is about
35 years old. feet high, has thin
oval face, Roman nose, thin lips, and
his entire pnysiognomy, barring the
color, is that of the Caucasian race.
Every seventh year has been dry
year in California for long period.
The last dry year was in 1876, when
only nine inches of water fell in the
rainy season. This year the quantity
is very small, and unless all precedent
is overturned this will be dry wear,
in which case there will be short crops
of grain.
Red Jackets bones lie in the vault of
a savings bank in Buffalo. Red Jacket,
q Seneca chief, was famous as an ORA
.or. Some years ago wan ering
phrenoiogist robbed his grave, but the
remains were recovered. 1t is the pur-
pose of the Buffalo Historical Society
to inter the bones along with those of
other Seneca chiefs.
Last year not single passenger
riding in 3 passenger train on the
Massachusetts railroads was killed, ex-
cept from his own fault, and there were
over 61,000,000 passengers carried an
average distance of fifteen miles each.
This is probably the most remarkable
record yet made in the way of safety in
travelling by rail.
The editor of an English scientific
paper satisfies correspondent as to
why he does not print his article: l.
Your original theory was propounded a
quarter of century since, and proba-
bly, not for the first time. 2. 1t has
been refuted over and over, and proved
logically unsound and physiologically
impossible. 8. We have no room for it.
Matters must have come to pretty
pass in Boston, when the Herald talks
out in this strain: Between garroters
on the streets and bald-headed old
'mashers' in the horse cars making
themselves disagreeable to ladies. Bos-
ton is not improving her reputation. A
few straight shots or long sentences for
the footpads, and woman or two with
spirit enough to grind the corns or slap
the faces of the salacious old wretches,
will help to restore good order and de-
cency."
The magnificent feet of Ironclads
which the Italian Government COM
pleted few years ago, at an immense
cost, proved to be much less formidable
than was anticipated. Itseems that their
draught of water was miscalculated,
and that they cannot carry their heavy
guns with turrets without sinking too
deeply. Their armament will there
fore have to be changed and the tur-
rets be replaced by lighter ones. This