Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-10
GLEANINGs.

The Princess Beatrice Is two inches
taller than the Queen. and has a figure
which Is called absolutely perfect.
There are 1000 acres in Judge David
Davis Illinois farm. and he deyotes his
personal attention to its cultivation.
Don't drink cider through q lead
pipe. Half a dozen men in Mnssachu-
setts town took their cider from
barrel in this manner and are suffering
from lead poisoning.
The custom OF brides wearing orange
blossoms was derived from the Sara
Gems. among whom the orange blossom
was regarded rs q symbol Of pros
porous marriage, circumstance which
is partly to be accounted for by the
fact that in the east the orange treo
bears ripe fruit and blossoms at tho
same time.
In regard to the operation for diyid-
ing certain fibrous bands in the little
finger so as to give pianists more free
dom in the use of it, tho British Med
zeal journal says that in the fourteen
cases of DIR. Forbes, of Philadelphia,
good functional results have been OBJ
tanned, but suggests that ''the effort
necessary TO stretch any fibrous band
existing between the fingers is itself
useful, as tending to stretch all the
muscles attached to them.
Old Mrs. Grant showed the other
day that she has lost none of The strong
common sense which used to mark her
speeches. When her daughter, Mrs.
Sartoris, complained of the crowds that
are always lingering about the cottage
at Mount MacGregor eager to get
glimpse of the famous general, and
said she felt as though she were stand
ing for photograph, her mother re-
piled with more truth than compli-
ment: "They don't come to see you,
Nellie; you needn't mind. "
The negroes of Louisiana are charged
!, not only with eating up the birds OF
that state, but with devouring the
eggs of partridges. robins, wren and
mocking-birds whenever they can find
them-and they are expert hunters.
These colored people are as bad as the
ladies who encourage the slaughter Of
our beautiful and useful songsters by
the barbarous practice of wearing
wings and plumagc on their bonnets.
Between the black men and white wo-
men the birds,have poor show and
insects flourish.
In rocky bluff near Gouverneur.
N. Y, there is to be seen strange
freak of nature. To all appearance
some wood chopper has been engaged
in cutting stove wood, heading down
the block and splitting off. The kerf
is perfect, showing the ak marks, oven
to the point where the header was cut
straighter to deepen it. The season
cracks on the log are perfectly imitat-
Z ed, and the whole is in solid rock,
resting on bed of the same material,
precluding the idea of its petrifaction.
In the early days of the war of the
rebellion Nathaniel kimball, Of York
county, Pennsylvania, brick manu-
facturer, contracted debt of 80 cents.
10 pay it he produced from his pocket
vanished brick, inscribed .'Good for
4 IS cents-Nathaniel Kimball," and Q
pumpkin seed, marked .Good for 3
cents-N. Kimball." This currency
was accepted. The brick is still in ex-
istence and Kimball is ready to redeem
it, but the present owner, who paid
81. .25 for it, will not sell it.
Mr. Bancroft's collection of roses al
Washington is princely in its splendor
Friends have sent him all old-world va
riatics, which, with those of native
growth, recall the roses Of which Sap
pho sang, rs they hang their heads
with fragrance. There are the i'm.
Y perial Jacqueminot, the queenly La
maraue, roses that are of royal purple,
roses that are white and yellow, rose:
that blaze like stars. Moss roses, tes
roses, sweet-briar roses, climbing roses
all varieties are represented, and the
air is filed with an exquisite odor. MIR
Bancroft passes an hour every mornin!
among his floral treasures.
The colony Of Jewish refugees from
Russia established three years ago on
1,100 acres of land near Vineland, N.
j., purchased by the Hebrew Immigra-
ton Society OF New York and the
Jewish Society Of London, has outlivec
the hardships of its first years and is
beginning to be prosperous commun
ity. Scattered here and there among
the hills and hollows of the tract thu
sixty frame shantics in which thu
colonists live are hardly noticeable
There are no streets, no church, NJ
stores, mills or factories nor any othe,
I. indication except the scattered house
that 800 people are there.
Many have attempted to scale Coto
paxi, the loftiest of active volcanoes
but the walls are so steep and the sno,
is so deep that ascent is impossible
even with scaling ladders. On tn
south side Of Cotopaxi is a great rock
more than 1000 feet high, called th
.Inca's Head.n Tradition says that
was once the summit of the volcano
and fell on the day when Atahuallp
was strangled by the Spaniards. Thos
who have seen Vesuvius can judge
the grandeur of Cotopaxi If they ca
imagine volcano Is, 900 feet higher
shooting forth its fire from cres
covered by 5000 feet Of snow, with
voice that has been heard GOO miles.
The first survey Of Pennsylvania wa
commenced in 1885 and completed
1858. 1t was one Of the earliest geol'
gical surveys made in America, ant
although it was to great extent
reconnaissance survey Of the then littl
z understood geology Of the state, it We
Of great value in directing many OF II
s;nca anfive nainpral dava10nment