Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-13
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England from Flanders IN l5JO.
The cost of picking this years cotton
crop is estimated at $50.000.000.
Coleridge said that American roast
beef was pretty fair article.
German exports TO the United States
are rapidly decreasing in number and
value.
Paper gas-pipes are among the new
inventions TO be brought into use in the
near future.
John Fallan. of Fiushing,L. L, bet
81 that he could eat four pounds of raw
steak, and won.
A young South Carolinian claims to
have invented cotton picking machine
but the planters are incredulous.
At one of the Cincinnati hotels there
Is porter and boot black who has
saved fortune of nearly $4,000.
A Frenchman has patented a ma
chine for the use of concentrated solar
rays as general motive power.
Mrs. Ross does not read the papers
for fear she will find something about
Eggs bring Sl.25 dozen in Maiden,
Montana, and the supply is not equal
to the demand.
One hundred and seven families live
in one tenement house in Mulberry
street, New York.
Eighteen thousand Indians in Mon
tana occupy $4,000, 900 acres of the
best lands of that territory.
In England there is great public COM
plant against the young women in the
postal service. They are described as
inattentive and insolent.
A trout was caught In Lake Mem
phremagog at depth of 200 feet, and
weighing eleven aud half pounds. 1t
is on exhibition at Burlington, VT.
General Bob Schenck's diet is skim
milk and he has lived two years beyond
the time set by his doctors for his
death by Bright's disease.
The Piutes, who are fond of acorns,
cut down the trees rather than climb
them. The authorities of Nevada will
put a stop to the practice.
The Piegan Indians. in Montana, are
said to be in wretched condition.
Their attempts at agriculture have
proved complete failure.
John D. Bullock, once naval agent of
the Southern Confederacy, promises q
book ON how the rebel cruisers were
equipped in Europe.
The tallest men in Great Britain are
in the North of Scotland, and the
shortest in the South of England and
Wales. Ireland comes between.
The largest oyster she'll in the world
is in the church of St. Sulpice, in
Paris. 1t weighs over 500 pounds, and
is used as baptismal font.
The Society of Friends in England
has repealed the prohibition of mar
riagc of first cousins, which has been
in force in that body for nearly 200
years.
A New York lawyer was greatly sur
prised the other day to find out that
there was man named Tom Ochiltree.
He thought the name belonged to a
horse.
Mrs. Edison is lady Of aesthetic
tastes. The floral designs which ate
now heing utilized and beautifully elab-
grated into stands, chandeliers and
brackets of her husbands electric light
company were her original suggestion.
Roast ham is noted Pennsylvania
dish; it is roasted the same as beet, only
being less juicy it requires longer
time in the oven. 1t is served cut in
thin slices, with brown gravy made of
beef stock and brown flour.
DR.. Isaac Bartlett, of Hope, Me. who
is seventy-three years of age and still
in good health and active practice, has
lived for years on bread. and milk
alone, and says it is the best food for
every one.
In communication to the Academic
des Sciences, NJ. Krechel has drawn at
tcntion to Il new method of adulterat-
ing milk. 1t consists of an aqueous
solution OF glucose having the same
density.
Nevada is indignant because one Of
its most prominent young men has been
rejected at West Point on account of
his diminutive stature. 1t is not al
ways easy to combine brains and size
in these new states.
Bishop Green, of Mississippi, now in
his eighty-fourth year, is the only sur
vivor of the Episcopal Convention of
1928. He has been sixty-three years in
holy orders and thirty-four years in
the episcopate.
A sparrow under full head of steam
collided with merchant the other day
as he WAS briskly rounding the corner
of an old wall in Louisville. The bird g
bill entered the corner of his. eye and
destroyed the sight.
The star-route business is little
stale, but the fact is, nevertheless,
worth noting that the cost of that kind
of postal service last year was only $4,-
7S9,47S, as against $7,32l, 400 for the
preceding year, and at the same time
the mileage has been increased more
than 1000, 900 miles.
Isabella became Queen of Spain on
September 20, 1888. She fed from that
throne and took refuge in France on
September 20, 1868. And her son AL
fonso was hooted, by mob in Paris on
September 20, 1883. There's encour-
agement for people who believe in
omens and evil days.
The water in Hunters Springs, MINI.
possesses the rare property of coloring
r1oso fhrn,,uh anI fbrourh a do1ioo to