Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-04-08
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dor to England is one Of the most expert
rifemen In Europe.
NJ He1ve, the father of opera
boufe," now lives at Folkesfone, and
has become naturalized British sub
ject
Salvini smokes only cigars that he
himself gets from Naples, and his son
says they are frightfully bad and cost
only II cents each.
The Prince Of Wales now wears a
black silk ribbon as watch-guard, and
about the first Of next July the Anglo
maniac in this country win affect the
same style
Asbestos cloth has been chosen as the
Jacket" for the boiler OF new loco
motive built for the Boston & Albany
Railway. This will not char, as does
wood, and viii retain more heat
A platinum wire too fine to be seen
with the naked eye is said to have been
made by H. I. Read Of Brooklyn. Il is
TO be used in telescopes as a substitute
for the spiders web usually employed.
The single town of Besancon in
Switzerland, employs over $4,000 per-
sons IN matchmaking. and the annual
product approaches 100000 watches. A
government horological school is main
tanned there.
In St Petersburg there are men who
take about hot tea in large metal pots
covered with felt. and sell it to hack
drivers and coachmcn, who have to
wait for long hours in the cold when
there is party.
Archdeacon Farrar is telling English
audiences that during his long journey
through the United States he saw less
drunkenness than In single walk in
London. He thinks America is far
ahead Of England in temperance work.
The French have looked with alarm
upon the steady export of Percheron
horses to the United States; but the
most prominent breeders there now
say that the progeny of these horses
raised in the United States are an i'm
provement upon their sires, and that it
is profitable to reimport. 1t is known
that Napoleon I'LL used to import Per-
cheron horses from Vermont for the
post chaises which he used SO much.
Hearing noise at night Jones de-
scends with lighted candle and dis
covers burglar escaping with full
sack. sHellor' he cries, ..come back.
you!'' '.Eh, whatp' returns the burg
lar; '.ah, yes, the silver candlcstck!
Permit me-" He taxes it from the
hand OF the astonished Jones and puts
it into his bag. Ten thousand thanks.
Have l forgotten anything olseP'-
London 1it-Bits.
A collection was taken up in one Of
our churches recently, and when the
hat reached the seat occupied by
lady. her daughter, and little son, the
two ladies found themselves without q
cent of money, but Young America
reached over and deposited cent in
the hat and then whispered to his sis
ter: "There, l just saved the family
from being whitewashed. - LGrned
(Kan.) Chr0noscope.
DIR. Gould, the astronomer, is shocked
at the progress America has been max
ing during his fifteen years absence
toward practices and fashions which
are not the normal ougrowth of Ameri-
can institutions, but an aping of foreign
ways and usages, an acceptance of So
0ial and other standards which belong
to England or continental Europe"
"Let them that the fox-hunting cap
fits" says the Boston Transcript, sput
it OF"
The French papers have been filed
with stories more or less apocryphal
about the late Mr.. Vanderbilt and his
purchases in Paris. One tale is to the
effect that on one occasion, looking at q
superb exhibit of ornamental iron work
shown at the Palace Of Industry at an
annual fair, he inquired the price OF the
LOT. 'eThe whole is worth Sc, 600 francs,
If 1t is worth penny" proudly said the
owner. ''pll take it, said Vanderbilt;
deliver it to me after the exhibition is
over And he went away. The deal
er plucked at the sleeve of the gentle
man accompanying Vanderbilt and in
quired in a whisper: "Is your friend all
right in the headp''
Referring to an announcement that
ut recent exhumation in Western
cemetery the body of 4 woman was
found turned to stone, the Louisville
Medical NeaCs says: "Pctrifaction Of the
body of warm-blooded animal never
has been known, and it is quite safe to
say never has taken place. The condi-
tion of the body which leads to such
misconception is not that of petrifaction,
but saponification. 1t is explained that
nitrogenous tissues give off ammonia,
and this, attacking the fats in the body,
produces adipoccre, hard form Of soap.
The writer, when at the New Orleans
fair, saw a barrel of pork labeled,
Found floating in the Mississippi in an
advanced state of petrifcation. . Being
skeptical as to the capacity Of rocks to
float, he Clipped off . piece and found
that the hog, like human beings undsr
like circumstances. had merely turned
to adipocere.
A knotty problem in win case, said
to have been never settled, came up re-
Gently in Seymour, Conn. John H.
Tingue died recently in Seymour, leav-
ing personal property Of 100000, be-
sides considerable real estate, to his
heirs, ito be taken, owned and pre-
served by them, MS ifI had died intes-
tate His heirs were FIVE brothers and
sisters, one Of the latter being o half
sister. The will was executed in New |
York. where he had formerly lived, and
il he had died intestate in that state the |
half-sister would have been entitled to
an equal share with the others. But had
he died intestate in Connecticut she
would have had nothing. The question
of how mans will executed while .
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