Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-04-23
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stead of wood in manufacturing lead
pencils.
Professor Huxley thinks smoking. in
moderation, no more Injurious than
drinking water.
Gould's partner, Conner, figures ous
Gould's income as the bagatelle of &c.
OOO,O 900 year.
One county in Australia has this year
paid the bounty on 25,S40 dozen of cap
tured sparrow's eggs.
From New York to San Francisco by
rail it is 3,31l miles. In an airline the
distance is about 1900.
Russian wheat is driving American
wheat out of the markets of Switzer-
land and South Germany.
1t is singular, but invariable result
that when general business is dull,
newspapers flourish best.
The electric light is said to have been
found cheaper than candles for the il
Elimination of British ships.
According to the new French law,
drunkenness in either husband or wife
will be regarded as a sufficient cause
for divorce.
Russian engineers claim that Sebas-
topol is stronger than ever, owing to its
monster guns, torpedoes and improved
earthworks.
A French doctor states that the first
Napoleon's pulse beat but forty-tve
times minute, whereas the average
pulse of well men is given at sixty.
Foreigners, living abroad, caring
nothing for America, for the West or
her people, have gobbled 21,000,O00
acres of the public lands. s.--,St. Paul Pio-
,seer- Press.
The tree in Japan from which the
varnish for the famous lacquer work is
made is disappearing, and the country
is threatened with the loss of one of its
greatest industries.
The women of Turkey wear the same
kind of trousers as the men all the year
round, save when they attend grand
ball, when their dresses are in the lat
est Partisan fashion.
John Adams lived longer than any
other President of the United States,
reaching the age of ninety. Garfield
died youngest OF. them all, lacking two
months of fifty years.
The son of an English clergyman
eloped with his cousin. The minister
was so angered that he had bis sons
two ponies and favorite dogs brutally
shot. Nice sort of clergyman.
1t is the opinion of Budd Doble that
the time of trotting-horses will yet be
brought down to two minutes, and he
bases it upon the fact that a quarter of
a mile in thirty seconds is frequently
done.
Mark Twain is forty-nine years old.
He is Missourian by birth and has
been practical printer, a steamboat
pilot, an editor, private secretary, a
miner, reporter, a lecturer and book
writer
The Boston transcript makes the
following bitter remark: ''The average
size of the American family is 5.04
The decimal probably represents the
dude, but statisticiaus have got it rath-
er large"
The King of Bavaria has daily in
come of 5000; the King of Saxony,
$1,S90; the King of Wurtemberg. ST.
800; the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darm-
s.adt, $40; the Grand Duke of Sach-
sen-Weimar, 5000.
When Tennyson's American newspa-
pers reach him, he will doubtless wish
that he had never written that alleged
poem entitled Freedom. Ithas been
heavily and unanimously sat down up
Charlottesville Evening Times.
By contiding his diet for twenty-sev-
en- weeks strictly to stale bread and
skinned milk, Major Ben: Perley
Poore has reduced his weight by sixty
one pounds, and now enjoys better
health than for fifteen years before.
Mrs. John w. Mackey is accustomed
to receiving begging letters of various
descriptions, but the funniest one is a
request for any diamonds or rubies for
which she has no use, the beggar de-
string them for her daughters trous-
seau.
A Baltimore paper says that city
alone put up the past season IA, 900, 900
cans of peaches, 100000 cans of peas,
100000 cans of string beans, 100000
cans of pears, 100000 cans of toma-
toes, and 100000 cans of fruits and
other vegetables.
An ordinary express train is said by
railroad man to be worth $93, 600, al
lowing $780, 900 for the engine and ten
der, $1,000 for the baggage car, $4,000
for postal car, $4,000 each for two
ordinary passenger cars, and $15, 900
ZACH for three palace cars.
;'ne Pacific agreement allows the
\ rthern Pacific per cent of the total
Iraliic, on condition that it is to carry
no San Francisco business! This is a
manifestation of corporate insolence
which ought to attract the attention of
Congress- Chicago Egeaing Journal.
The famous Johannisberger wine, the
finest quality Of which has been known
to command from S. to SO per bottle,
is produced on an estate of only forty
six acres, at an elevation of $50 feet
above the Rhine. Outside of that linn
tied area the quality of the wine pro-
duced is much inferior.
According to the United States Sur
geon Generals annual report the death
rate for colored troops has, for the first
time since their organization, fallen be-
low that for white troops. Their NOR
tality from respiratory atfections-us-
ually pneumonia is more than four
times as great as that of white troops.
King Loui, of Bavaria lately ordered