Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-05
GLEANINGS.

The Milwaukee brewers have decided
to buy no more barley raised in Iowa
The deepest well in Connecticut is
situated in Fairfield and is only 95 feet
deep.
Sallie McCollum, of Allentown, Pa,
claims to be the handsomest woman in
the state.
Tennessee now has thirty-three cot
ton mills, with 1,161 looms and 1887
spindles.
A trip across the salty ocean and
back gives the Maine sardine the true
foreign flavor.
In thirty-eight years the number of
English daily papers has increased
from IA to 179.
Walt Whitman has purchased a house
in Camden, N. j., which he says he in
tends to die in.
There are fifty Illicit distilleries and
only three licensed ones in one district
in North Carolina.
Mr.. Charles Oakley has lived in New
York for ninety-seven years, and is
now approaching his 102nd birthday.
1t requires three days in which to
complete the marriage ceremony in
China, but when it is done it is strong
job.
A Boston gas manufacturer asserts
that the demand for gas has increased
in that city since the introduction of
electric lights.
Buffalo Bill's suit to recover sixty
one acres of land in Cleveland, valued
at several million dollars, has been
thrown out of court.
Wolves are so tame in the northern
part of FL Paso county, Texas, that
they come right up to the settlers
doors to eat children.
DR.. Vessmayer, an English vegeta-
rian, tried to live on food costing no
more than a penny day, and he
is now at the point of death.
A Michigan minister who was about
to be married asked the official to
whom he applied for license if he
didn't make q discount to the trade.
Hundreds of young women work for
45 cents day making shirts in New
York City. They think it more re-
spectacle to do this than to 60 out to
service.
Pittsburg boasts of the possession of
a marvel in boy who ''from sunrise
to sunset enjoys good health and romps
around like all children of his age, but
at dusk becomes entirely unconscious,
and remains so until morning"
Tiller and McFadden remained for
three days q few doors from the scene
of their express robbery in St. Louis,
and mingled freely with the crowd. 1t
never occurred to the shrewd detectives
to LOOK right under their noses for the
thieves.
When the Indians of Chill desire rain,
they plant sacred tree, which sorcer-
ess climbs to pray, while the others
dance around and howl. Then they all
get drunk. If it doesn't rain, they get
drunk again, and remain drunk until
they fetch shower.
A prize of $4,000, open to all ma
tionalities. is offered in France, in De-
cember, 1877, for discovery enabling
electricity to be applied economically
either as a source of heat, light, chemi-
cal action, mechanical power, or as 4
means of transmitting intelligence.
During the year 1889 there were
posted in Great Britain 100000 let
ters, of which one in every thirteen
was franked. Next year the number
arose to 169, 100000, although franking
was abolished. At the present time the
number reaches the grand total of L.
$50, ,0O0,0 year.
BY the last official returns, 244 per
cent. of the births in Nairnshire, Scot
land, are illegitimate, while in Aber-
deenshire so per cent are of the same
kind. In the county of Wigton 1.24 of
the births are illegitimate, and most of
the northern counties present an un-
clean bill of health.
About $50 miles north of Missoula,
NJ. L., region has been discovered by
an exploring party in which are twen-
ty-fve cascades over 500 feet in height,
and true glacier with mile of 'front.'
age and five hundred feet fall. 1t is
said to be more wonderful region
than the Yellowstone.
The Chattanooga Times says that
that city is now really but nineteen
years old. The war left it q wreck. In
1867 it had not q single wholesale
house. Iron mills and furnaces began
in 1871. In 1872 the population was
5000, now 24O00; manufacturing capi-
tai in 1880, So, $1,000; in 1884, 81, ,O0O,-
900.
On the occasion of Baker Pasha's
battle at Ell Teb an English officer plac-
ed revolver to the head of an Egvp-
tian and commanded him to advance.
The Egyptian, quietly putting aside the
weapon, said, in an astonished tone: Il
advance!' adding proudly, mo; am
an Egyptian" and he took to his
heels.
Nearly fifty years ago woman
named Lois Lyman, of Cabot, Vermont,