Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-05-22
GLEANINGS.


the year 1888.
From 1884 to 1881 sumptuary edicts
as to dress were issued at Berlin. The
last forbade women without rank to
wear silk dresses.
There are eleven states in which wo-
men vote for school directors. Most
people will be surprised to learn that
Kentucky is one of the states.
Theodore Irwin, of Oswego, n. Y,
is ranked among the greatest living
book collectors. Among his other
treasures is Gutenberg bible.
Mr.. Peel, the new Speaker of the
British Parliament, sitting in official
dress, is said to look exactly like one
of the sculptured warriors of Ninevah.
The Empress of Austria has learned
to set type, and she glories in the fact
that she can keep up with the smartest
of the Viennese compositors of the other
sex.
Captain Waddell, who commanded
the famous Confederate cruiser, the
Shenandoah, has been elected command
er of an oyster police-boat on the Ches-
apeake.
Miss Susan Fennimore Cooper,
| daughter of the dead novelist, is mod
ell maiden lady, who conducts at Coop
erstown an industrial school for 100
orphans.
In Paris there are hundreds of cases
ofinvoluntary suicide by absinthe month
by month, which are passed by as un-
noticed as cases of death from phthisis
or pneumonia.
The German Admiralty now thinks
that it must alter its coast defences,
inasmuch as Krupp's improved mon
ster guns are found to penetrate easily
tine strongest armor plates.
There is great drop in the price of
patent medicines, owing to rivalries
among apothecaries. The $1-a-bottle
species, for instance, now sell at Is
cents apiece and still yield the seller SO
per cent. profit after the manufacturer
has taken out his Is.
The Boston advertiser says that the
State of Massachusetts has made net
profit of So, 2S5, ,602 from its enterprise
of filling the Black Bay lands in Bos-
ton, and that the filling of the South
Boston flats, although only partly COM
pleted, has nearly paid for itself.
Astronomers are respectfully refer
red to the theory of the Maya peasantry
of Yucatan in regard to the asteroids.
They say the sky is inhabited, among
other tribes of spirits, by q friendly
race called Balams, who are great
smokers, and the shooting stars are the
cigar stumps they throw away.
A critic in the Russian IUa i'd asserts
that seventy miles day may be contin-
uously done by Russian cavalry with
out any fear for horses or men. A few
wears ago General Gourko, at Warsaw,
inspected couple of sotnias OF Don
Cossacks, who had cleared $40 versts
in three days-about seventy-tour miles
day.
A lady from interior New York,
while recently in Washington, visited
the House of Representatives, taking a
seat in the gallery. She was quickly
driven out by the tobacco smoke rising
from the lobby and cloak rooms below.
She thinks Congress the biggest smoke
house in the United States.-Ulicd
Hrdid.
DR.. Otto Krummel, of Gottingen,
who has been investigating the area Of
oceans, estimates the superticies of the
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans al
1874, 1877, 425 square miles, and the total
superfces of all the seas on the globe
at 231, 915, 905, while the total superb.
cies OF the continents and islands he
puts al 34,354, $50 square miles.
Noah Chenoworth, of Cowboy, Kan,
has horse which he can send to the
store, three miles distant, when he has
not time to 90 himself. A note con
taining 4 list of the articles wanted is
tied to his name, and the packages are
placed in sack and tied around his
neck. He goes and comes in hurry
not even stopping to nibbe a nice
,unch of grass or gossip with the othel
horses along the road.
The population of Ireland is now
very nearly the same us it was in the
year of the Union, 100000, the grea
increase up to 1S41, when it reached g.,
1000, having been entirely lost. But
whereas, in 1882. on the passing of the
reform bill, Ireland had 81. 80 per cent
of the population of the United King
dom. it has now but 14.91 per cent.
and its electors, who were ll.32 pei
cent. of the whole in 1882. are now bu
7.45. ....
The Lancet reports a lecture on te;
and coffee, in which people are advised
to put the coffee for breakfast in al
earthenware vessel, pour cold waite
over it, let it stand over night, ant
bring it to the boiling point by putting
it in water bath or double boiler il
the morning, thus preserving all thu
aroma. AS the editor pronounces the
lecture as being ''perhaps the mos
brilliant since it's series was begun,
the writer has no doubt tried the plan
The Western Magazine-one of tn
editors of which is u lady-declares il
all seriousness that, as o rule, womel
; .never-or hardly ever-shut the doc
behind them when entering or leavin!
q railroad car. 1t declares that it
; statement is the result of acute person
al observation, and that railroad brake
, men and conductors corroborate th
; fact, vowing, furthermore, that not on
woman in hundred ''knows enoug
to know" what car door is made for
Vanity Fair is disposed to take the sid
, of the women, declaring that all thos
, who are real ladies "by instinct an
{ education" do shut doors behind ther
habitually We are inclined to sid
with the Y f.