Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-07-29

tural History Museum. Tho stone is q
volcanic tula. and the impressions are
extremely sharp and distinct, and. if
genuine footprints, prove the existence
of man in Central America at very
remote period.
There is new pest for western farm
ers to fight in the shape Of a yellow
worm which developes into q black fly
about the eighth of an inch in length.
1t is verv thrifty in some parts of the
Willamette Valley, Oregon. The in
sect is known to entomologists as the
wheat isosoma." 1t has appeared in
Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri. There
is only one breed year.
The new oil-felds of Wyoming, in the
Bingham Basin, are directly south of
Billings. Mont, near the boundary be-
tween Montana and Wyoming. The
oil is said to contain 40 per cent of
mineral sperm oil, 27 per cent of kero-
sene, with small percentage of gasoline,
benzine. and naphtha. Its illuminating
power is of high order; and it is so
pure that ranchmen in the vicinity
burned it last winter in their lamps.
The Goldfish continues to grow indie
finitely, without regard to age, so long
as it has plentiful supply of food.
The oldest Goldfish are the largest, and
they sometimes grow to be as long as a
man is high. They swim about near
the bottom of the sea, not often ascend
ing to the surface, feeding on all sorts
of animal life, such rs crabs, shelltish,
and other small fish, but not on vege-
tables
A citizen of Millview, Va, killed
siX-foot moccasin snake last week that
had wire collar around its neck, to
which was attached button with these
words: Don't tread on mer' As this
was the motto of the famous Revolution
ary 'Culpepper Minute Men," and as
the button was probably from one of
their uniforms, the question arises as to
the probable age of this peculiar SER
pent.
Three dudish young men of Meriden,
Conn, decided to call upon three young
women who were not at all anxious to
see them. They did call, rugged out in
their best clothes, were ushered into the
parlor, and there found. conspicuously
displayed, quart of salt and spoon.
After gazing at these for some time and
waiting in vain for the young women,
the callers came to the conclusion that
they were, indeed, too fresh, and went
home.
The glaciers of the North Pacific
coast are small but magnificent. The
Muir is three miles long, with perpen-
dicular face of 400 feet, stretching like
frozen waterfall or gigantic dam en-
tirely across the head of the glacier bay.
Its breast is as blue as turquoise. At
distance it looks like fillet rent from
the azure sky and laid across the brow
of the cliff When the full blaze of the
southwestern sun lights up its opales-
cence it CLEANS like the gates Of the
celestial city.
NJ. de Lesseps is splendidly lodged in
a new house in the Avenue Montaigne,
which was purchased by the money
made by Nine. dc Lesseps on her origi-
nal Suez investments. Her dowry of
100000 francs was employed in buying
shares when they were below par-that
is to say, at the time her marriage was
agreed to. That sum last year was
swollen to 1,5Q0.000 francs, and great
deal of interest produced in the mean
while was invested in other profitable
ventures. The hall in the Lesseps man
sion is one of the largest in any very
modern private house in Paris
The native Bermudians are an easy
going, good-natured people, very fond
OF amusements, in illustration of which
a letter in the Troy Times records this
incident: "A lady from New York was
in one of the largest stores here one
morning looking at goods, when the
clerks began to put up the shutters. She
asked what was the matter, supposing
the proprietor had died or failed, but
was informed that the yachts were just
going out, and that all the business
places always closed whenever there
was yacht-race or anything especial 60
ing on"
The manufacture of lager in America
only dates back about forty years. but it
has gone ahead and spread itself like
the mustard seed in the parable. There
are now about 2,200 breweries in this
country, and they sold last year over
100000 barrels of malt liquors. OF
this, New York and Brooklyn sontri-
buted near a quarter. The next largest
producers are Milwaukee, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston and New
ark, in the order named. An estimate
of the capital invested in the trade
would probably reach $150,000,000.
Ninety-tive per cent of the brewers are
Germans.
Representatives Smalls and O'Hara,
the two colored members of the lower
house of congress, are thus described by
the Washington correspondent of a
southern paper: THE intelligence of
Smalls is that of an African improved
by contact with higher civilization,
while that of O'Hara is rather the intelli-
gence of the Caucasian with an infusion
Of barbaric blood in his veins. Small
looks, moves, acts, and talks like ne
gro preacher and revivalist. He has a
dark skin and iron-gray hair. O'Hara
is much lighter in color and more ele-
giant in bearing. His skin is of the
shade of well-tanned and seasoned
leather. His mustache and whiskers
are kept carefully trimmed. He smokes
cigarettes. He is tall, and carries HIM
self we'll; and the bald spot ON the top
of his head is cut after an aristocratic
pattern. O'Hara has positive taste
and some talent for legislation. Smalls
manifests his strength wholly in his