Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-07-30
GLEANINGS.

Of Mexico are now smoked, dried and
salted in three days by new process.
Barlow Fla.) claims the honor Of
being the farthest south of any point in
the United States reached by railroad.
The United States Government spent
81, 600 at Bozeman, M. T., to convict a
man for stealing 90 worth of postage
stamps. Who cares for expensesp
The Columbus Medical Journal re-
ports case of death on the fifth day,
after taking eighty-five grains of bro
mide of potassium every four hours.
Charles Kingsley once said: ''If you
want to be miserable, think about your
self, about what you want, what you
like, what respect people ought to pay
you, and what people think of YOU"
The Cherokee (Kan.) Sentinel says
the farmers in that section are all live
men. Each farm is known by title,
and the owners have printed stationery
on which to write their correspond
ence. t-
Vermont has still unrepealed law
on her statute books empowering her
justices of the peace to order the col
lection of wheat at 5 shillings, rye at 4
shillings per bushel to pay the salaries
of certain specified preachers.
Arizona contains within her borders
nearly, if not quite, $4,000 square miles
of coal formation, which is computed
to be almost one-half of the coal areas
of the United States. The beds vary
in thickness from two inches to twenty
feet.
The grandparents of nine-months-
old baby girl at Eric have presented it
with superb sapphire necklace, and
the largest diamond to be found at q
leading New York jewelers.. They
promise to add each year two equally
gorgeous gems.
Senator Garland rarely goes to the
theater. 1t is told on him that several
years ago he went to see Joe Jefferson
in "Rip Van Winkle'' the whole week
through - seven performances : and
then regretted that "Rip'' was not to
run another week.
George Augustus Sala has made $2, SOC
on his nose. Georges nose is of the
sunset tint. A jealous fellow-iournalist
once said it had attained that hue
through Mr.. Sala's copious indulgence
in stimulants. Result, libel suit and
$4,000 damages for plaintiff. +"
Osman Digma's original name was
Alphonse Vinet, he being full-blood-
ed Frenchman. He was at one time
sold as slave to Mohammed Ahmed
ell Mehdi, but quickly rose in that
prophets favor and became his son-in-
law. He is now about So years old.
Mrs. Burton, wife of the well-known
traveller, has always ayerrcd that since
England took the Koh-i-noor diamond,
proverbial for the ill luck it brings,
nothing but disaster has attended all
concerning British India. Recent
events will more than ever sustain her.
Col. Dwight Hall, of Wallingford,
Mass, who has key left by Washing
ton in jeremiah Covington's tavern
there October 19, 1889, will have it
overlaid with silver and framed, to be
sent to President Cleveland, with let
ter from ex-senator Charles Yale tell
ing its history. ..al
Sir Erasmus Wilson states in Quain' $
new dictionary of medicine, page 576,
that hair may turn white in few
hours from mental disturbance, and
that it is caused by the rapid develop
ment of gaseous fluid within the SUBJ
stance of the hair obscuring the pig
mentary granules.
Mr. John Bright wrote to a confer
ence of funeral reform association:
'As to funerals, our religious society
has always offered a good example to
other sects and churches and to the
public, but sects and churches and the
public are slow at learning this and
some other matters. /"
In the Island of Ivaca the popular
emblem of love is gunpowder, and the
most brilliant accomplishment young
rdamsel can display is to stand without
tiinching while her lover fires at her
legs, and which often assumes after a
lengthy courtship the appearance of q
Christmas plum-pudding.
There are some very odd things to
interest the traveller in Porto Rico. The
''switchmcn' on the railroad are color
cd women, the telegraph operator at
one of the stations is O. convict with a
ball and chain on his leg, and the gar
deners at the Captain Generals coun-
try palace are Cinnamon with pigtails.
The oldest tree on earth, so far as
any one knows, is said to be the ''Bo''
treesin the sacred city of Amarapoora,
Burmah. 1t was planted il, 2S8 B. c.,
and is accordingly Eli years old. Its
great age is, according to Sir James
Emerson Tennett, proved by historic
documents. 1t is regarded as sacred.
There are 1915 trotting horses with
records of 2:30 or better, and $50
PAGERS whose records are within 2:30.
In color the bays predominate, in both
PAGER and trOtter, chestnuts taking
second place, while with the PAGERS
the grays and off colors are more nu-
merous in proportion to the number of
horses.
Lumber pools are being formed to
buy and hold timber lands until want
ed. One pool has recently bought
5000, 900, 900 feet, and refused to sell
any. This sort of control is steadily
growing, and will, in time, extend it.
self over enough timber territory I'd
make a too rapid denudation of forest
timber impossible. 0 r. .
The american Macbinist gives the
number of locomotives belonging to
American railroads at 20, 227 Reckon