Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-06-25
GLEAyTNGs.

seventeenth Of the total deposits in the
banks of the United Kingdom, which T,
amounts to q, zoe. 000, 900.
On less than per cent Of the area Of
the cotton states is grown thrce-fourths
of all the cotton manufactured in
Europe and the United States.
Samuel Eager, of Mount Pleasant,
Wis, has a cane said TO have been
brought from ancient Nincveh and
which is therefore over 4, 900 years old.
George Riddell, of Carroll County,
Missouri, is said to be the father Of
twenty-five daughters. including five
sets Of twins. They are all living at
home.
According to the Gainsboro (Ga.)
Herald calf in that town has an ear
about the size of a silver dollar growing
out of each eye. The animal is about
fifteen months old, and can see little.
Several type-setting machines are
seeking recognition at the hands Of
sanguine inventors. One man says his
machine can do the work Of ten COM
positors, and reduce the cost of COM
position so per cent.
Iron bridges are sent from this coun-
try to Brazil now at the rate of about
four a month. They are shipped in
sections, and, when they reach Brazil,
are put up in place of wooden bridges
on the Brazilian highways.
In some of the rural churches in Hol-
land it is customary to smoke during
service. A foreigner, who recently
preached to Dutch congregation, had
among the audience the pastor of the
church. who smoked his pipe like the
rest.
Mrs2 E. D. E. N. Southworth has
Just finished her sevcnty-first novel
ten more than one for every year of her
life. Bonner has an iron-elad contract
with her, binding her to write for him
alone, and on demand. at $4,000 a
| year.
The clerk in a real estate Office in
| Philadelphia who executes the hand
somest deeds that reach the City Re-
corder's office, writes always with q
stub pen and with the head of the
blank toward him, thus writing upside
| down.
Large quantities of barbed wire for
| fencing purposes are now being
shipped from this country to Brazil
and Central America. A short time
ago vessel sailed for Honduras with
barbed wire as one-third of her entire
cargo.
A bridge over the Straits of Messina
has been projected. The narrowest
portion Of the straits is two miles
across, but the depth there is 5214 feet,
while the shallowest part, which is 361
feet deep, runs between Cap del Pezzo
| and Ganzirri.
| 'Wcst Virginia." says Wheeling
paper, ''sports lawyer who sued a
dead man, got judgment, issued an
execution, advertised his property, sold
it, got the money, and spent the money
for whisky before the court was ap-
prised Of his death.
The language of letter-seals is the
latest. A seal of pink wax means con
| gratulations; one of black, coincidence
Of blue, love; of purple, friendship; O
red, business, and an invitation to ;
wedding or other festivity is sealet
with white wax.
An entry in Washington's diary,
dated February, 1853, shows the grea
number of visitors he entertained a
that time. "Would any person be
lieve," he says, ''that with 101 cows
actually reported at a late enumeration
of my cattle should still be obliged t.
buy butterP"
Five out of the twenty-one Presi
dents of the United States were O
Scotch-Irish lineage jackson, Polk
Buchanan, johnson and Arthur; two o
Scotch-Grant and Hayes; one 0
/ Welsh-Jefferson, and one OF Dutch
Van Buren; the remaining twelve beinl
Of English descent.
Nearly $500 people have been arrest
ed in London the past year for assault
upon the police. This evidence Of tn,
increasing boldness of criminals, com
bined perhaps with the greater activit,
of dynamiters, has weaned the authori
and the night police have at last beel
allowed to 60 armed into the slums
they choose.
The handsome wooden frame carvc'
by the lady students of the Cincinnat
School of Design especially for tn
White House portrait of Mrs. Haye
has been taken down and slowed ava
In the garret Of Mr.. Arthur's tempor
ary residence in Washington. Th
White House folks say its removal wa
necessary because the carving caugh
the dust and was beginning to tur
yellow.
A German chemist, who discovers
"a few silver coins in his pocket, sub
4 jected them to a microscopic examina
ton, and found in them miniature bit
of textile fabrics, globules of anima
matter, unicellular alg9 and bacteri
in active notion" That is not SO ba
for few coins in Germany; but
young man in this country, who foun
silver quarter in an old vest-pocket
subjected it to test, and from it secul
ed four glasses of beer and 5-cent ci
gar. The German chemist should hav
his pockets cleansed and disinfecte
oftener.
'sYou have very rich soil here, 7 re
marked tenderfoot to Dakota farm
er. .sRich! Well, 1 should say sc
Two years ago young man cam
from the East out here. He carried
snakewood cane. He stuck it in til
ground and left it here. /" II suppose,
remarked the tenderfoot with smile