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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14
sHERIDAN's HOME LIFE.
How the Bachelor Soldier Met and
Married His Beloved Wife.

LAEElCA Ll1 1ClONCo WI
(wsshington Cor. Philadslphis Press.l
General Sheridan's house has been be-
sieged to-day with inquiries. His four
little children, artIessly playing on the
lawn, have been objects of tender inter-
est by all who pass by. They are Mary,
Irene, Louise and Philip. Mary is
twelve years old, and took her first
communion vows at st. Matthew's on
Ascension Day. Irene and Louise are
twins. In 1874 General Sheridan, who
had been regarded as a confirmed
though gallant bachelor, married Miss
Irene Rucker, daughter of General Rue
ker, q. s. A., only six months out Of
student life in a convent at st. Louis.
He first met her as bridesmaid at a
marriage in the army circle, and the
hero of many battles succumbed at once
to the charms of the seventeen-year-old
maiden. Their domestic life has been
idylic in its happiness, marred only by
q severe Illness on her part two years
ago from nfiammationofthec colon when
fatal results were feared, and by occa-
sional premonitions of the attack with
which he is now prostrated. They have
been building cottage at Nonquitt this
spring, and Mrs. Sheridan on her return
from ajourney there, had sharp recur-
renee of her old disease and is not yet
strong. Much sympathy is felt for her.
When in health their pew at st. Mat
thews', snugly filled with the brave
General, his young wife and their pref
ty little group of youngsters, one of the
attractive features of that venerable
place of worship, where nearly all the
diplomatic corps attend. The children
are day pupils at the Academy of the
Visitation on Connecticut avenue.
General and Mrs. Sheridan have Civ
en- no large entertainments since hel
illness two years ago, but their faces are
pleasantly familiar at leading events in
society, and his little impromptu recep
toons in the Green Parlor, adjacent tc
the Blue Parlor, on occasions of cere.
mony at the White House will have 6
historic value to the future chronicler
No one in Washington was more SIM
ple-hearted, more approachable, more
neighborly in the host sense than Gen
eral Sheridan. His peril has made a sac
Sunday here, frightened somewhat by
the more cheerful news from the sici
room this evening. His last appearance
at an evening reception is believed tt
have been the one by Senator and Mrs
Palmer to the members of the Women!
international Congress the first week o
April, where he was one of the mos
genial guests, and was constantly point
ed out to the eager visitors, who seemed
as If they could not see enough of hi
'tgood gray head" and sturdy soldierly
frame.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14
Things Done in a Minute.


A ray of light travels II, ,16O, 900 miles
in a minute.
In the United States the telephone is
used 1896 times, the telegraph 1856 times
in minutes.
In minute the lowest sound your
ear can catch has been made by 900 vi
brations, while the highest tone reach
es you after making 2,22S, 600 vibra-
tions.
In each minute in the United States,
night and day. all the yearround, twen-
ty-four barrels of beer have to go down
Il, ,096 throats, and 4, $50 bushels of grain
have to come to bin
In q minute an express train goes a
mile ami Pittsburg street car thirty
rods; the fastest trottng horse, 147 9-13
rods, and an average pedestrian of the
genus homo has got over sixteen rods.
Of tobacco, 925 pound is raised, and
part of it has been used In making g.
673 cigars, and some more of it has gone
up in the smoke of 2,292 cigarettes, in
the United States, in one minute.
In minute we are whirled around
on the outside of the earth by its diurn-
al motion, a distance of thirteen miles,
and at the same time go along with the
earth on its journey around the sun, Il
0S0. III a
Every minute 900 pounds of wool
grow in this country, and we have to
dig 81 tons of anthracite coal and 2OC
tons of anthracite coal and 200 tons oi
bituminous coal, while of pig iron we
turn out IL tons, and Of steel rails 8
tons.
In 80 seconds our country makes II
kegs Of nails. IL bales of cotton come
from the fields, and SO bushels of grain
go into 149 gallons of spirits, while $6t
In gold is gug out of the earth. In tht
same time the United States Mint turni
out gold and silver coin to the value o
$121, and AZ acres of the public domain
have been sold or given away.-Ptts
burg Dispatch.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14
What They Did when Young.

Senator Vance was hotel clerk.
Secretary Bayard was clerk in New
York.
Judge Kelley, father of the House,
was ajeweler.
Tom Reed, of Maine, was pay
master in the navy.
Leland Stanford was country law
yer in Wisconsin.
Senator Dawes was school teacher
and country editor.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, kept a
country grocery store.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, mined
with pick and shovel in California.
Senator Cullom was famous as a corn
husker in early days in Illinois.
Justice Bradley taught district
school every winter from his 10th to
his 21st year. -.
President Cleveland compiled the
HAmerican Herd Book,n and received
$50 for the service.
Samuel J.. Randall, whom nobody
supposes to have a war record, was .
private in q company of cavalry.
Senator Sabin, with his trouser:
tucked In his boots, used to stand or
the streets of Springfield, Mass, all day
to sell cord-wood that he had chopped
and hauled twelve miles.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

An essential inequality of the sexes
is based on the tendency to lengthen
girlhood aud shorten boyhood. The
boy is pressed forward into the business
five years earlier than he used to be fif-
ty years ago, while the girl of 20 does
not know as much of housekeeping as
the girl of Is of as long ago. In other
words, girls are petted and babied, while
boys are set to work. The effect is not
at all favorable to the desirable end of
producing happy homes. There is a
good deal involved in the equalization
of the sexes that is not taken into ac-
count in the oratorical discussions of
the question. 1t is argued by Fiske that
o heightened infancy is the basis of fin
er character and home instincts. How
ever, even infancy may be overdone, as
precociousness certainly may be.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14
The Eastern Coast of the Dark Cont.
neut.

nent.
The London, May %, correspondent
of the New York Times, writes: "The
British Government has again altered
the political map of Africa, and a new
colony is about to be placed under the
political protection Of John Bull. The
exact limits of the territory are not fix
ed, but 1t extends, roughly speaking,
from the territory Of the German East
Africa company northward TO the Som
att country and westward to the Albert
Nyanza. A year ago in the general
scramble for the dark continent, Ger
many and England made an agreement
dividing up the whole country back of
the Zanzibar coast. A company called
the British East African company has
now been formed to take charge of the
British half. The objects, as usual, are
commercial and philanhtropic. The Bar
oness Burdette Courts and others are
interested. By royal letters patent the
new State in few days will be handed
over tn the company, which is impow-
cred to levy custom and taxes, to main
tain an armed force, and to assert au-
thOrity. The movement meets with
serious opposition from some of the
leading journals. They say that enor-
nous powers over an unknown region
to which England has no right whatev-
er are to be given to company to
which nothing is known. 1t is also
said the inhabitants of the Territory
numbering twelve millions about the
lakes alone, may have their own views
of the advisability of annexation. The
Sultan of Zanzibar has consented, how
ever, and the annexation is nearly con
summated fact. The Government rea
son is that it will be unwise to leave tC
other nations the entire control o.
routes and trade between the Zanzibar
seaboard and the great equatorial lakes
They also say it will result in crushing
the slave trade, as the territory in ques
ton is the great hunting-ground 0
slave-dealers. 1t is more than surmiset
that there is "nigger in the fence
somewhere, and that the philanhtropit
plan is possibly made to cover less nobl
ends. The region is as largeas a grea
European State, almost wholly uneX
plored and undeveloped, and tn
scheme has been kept so quiet up to tn
final consummation that the Englisl
public have not yet recovered iron
their surprise or made up their mind
about it.n
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

The best on earth can truly be said of
Griggs' Glycerine Salvc, which is asure,
safe and speedy cure for cuts, bruises,
scalds, burns, wounds, and all other
sores. Will positively cure piles, letter,
and all skin eruptions. Try this won
der healer. Satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. 25 cents. 1y.
For sale by Saur & Balsley.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14
Boy Attacked by a Wolf.
Upper Sandusky Chief.l

The farmers about four miles north
of town are having great deal of ex-
element over the presence af a large
grey wolf and her cub. Nearly a hun
dred fine lambs have been killed by
these strange marauders during the
past two weeks, and the farmers are up
in arms. Saturday morning little son
of Henry Kinley went out to the sheep
pasture to see if everything was all
right, when he came upon a wolf cub
sucking warm blood from the throat of
a PROSTATE lamb. The cub was a little
larger than full grown fox. Young
Kinley grabbed club to drive the cub
away, when the oil mother wolfdashed
at him from behind bush some dis
tance away. The boy ran to a small
tree near by, and climbed up it, and
not much too soon, for the old wolf
made a jump at him, and only missed
his foot .abOut six inches. The wolf
and cub then skulked away. The boy
in the tree shouted to his father, who
came running to the scene armed with
shot gun. MIR. Kinley followed, and
got q shot at the brute, but he is unable
to say whether he hit it or not. The
farmers kept their eyes peeled and
their guns cooked for them last Sunday,
but they were not successful. A large
chase is being arranged to take place
to-day. Considerable conjecture is be-
ing made as to how these wolves hap
pened in this locality. Some think
they strayed down from the pineries Of
Michigan, while Others say that about
a year ago a man from Wharton re-
turned from a visit to Kansas, bringing
two western wolves with him, and that
not succeeding in selling them, he
turned them loose.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14
Nervous Diseases.

There are more nervous than blood
diseases. Thus, weakness of the nerves of
the brain causes headache, fits, dizziness,
sleeplessness, etc.; weakness of the nerves
of the stomach causes dyspepsia, pain, wind,
etc.; of the lungs, makes "weak lungs;" of the
liver produces biliousness, constipation, etc. |;
of the womb induces irregularities, sterility,
pains, etc.; of the sexual organs, impotency
etc. For all weakness DR.. Miles Restorative
Nervine surpasses all other remedies. Trial
bottle free at I. Leist's Drug Store.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14
A FEARFUL DEATH.
Bitten on the Finger by q Rattlesnake
a Farmer Cuts Off the Member, But
without Avail.
(san Francisco Chronicle.)

(san Francisco Chronicle.)
Last Monday a young Portuguese far
mer named Joseph Silva, while cutting
hay in field near Centerville, encount-
cred large rattlesnake, which he struck
with his scythe and stunned. Silva
supposed that he had killed the reptile
and picked 1t up by the tail to cut off
the rattles. He used knife that was
somewhat dull, and, holding the snake
almost at arms length, hacked at the
cartilage connecting the rattles with the
tail several times without scvering it.
To accomplish his purpose more easily
he gripped the snake by the body,
and, as the knife penetrated at
the last effort, the venomous creature
doubled and struck him on the little
finger, burying its fangs deep in the
flesh. The boy shook the snake off,
and without an instants hesitation cut
the finger off at the middle joint, below
the place where the reptiles teeth had
entered. Even then his nerve did not
desert him, and he made his way home
ward, q considerable distance. Here he
drank large quantity of whisky and
had his bleeding finger bandaged. He
felt no ill-efects from the bite of the
snake, and on Wednesday his curiosity
led him to search for the piece of his
finger which he had left in the field be-
side the dead body of the snake, which
he had killed after the amputation. He
found the finger black and rotting with
the poison it had absorbed, and, with
out consideration of the consequences,
handled it. By some means the viru-
lent poison came in contact with his
wound, and that night he died in hor-
rible agony, decomposition setting in
before the breath left his body. He was
buried Thursday afternoon.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

1t is given out that Mrs. Cleveland
has discarded the hustle. Wehope our
lady friends will not follow Mrs. Cleve-
lands example in this particular. The
hustle is the best arm rest ever invent
ed, and Its usefulness should not be sac
rificed because one woman say it must
go.Led,y (Ga.) Courier.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

Doctor feeling patients pulse)-
"What is your husbands business"
Patients Wife-"He is photographer"
D.-"Has he been working hard of late?"
P. w. .-"I don't know, doctor. He
took the portraits of four babies yester-
day." D.-"H'm! Brain fever. ."-Bos-
TON Courier.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

Cathartic. -Eibbard's Rheumatic Syrup is
one of the finest laxatives in the world, mOv-
ing the bowels effectively as well as mildly,
without pain, gripping or weakness.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

Wife:--Let's try Hibbard's Rheumatic Syr-
up. Everywhere 60 hear it spoken of in
great praise as tonic and appetizer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

MY son, good maxim for you to
adopt is this: "Get your work done
yesterday, so that y ou may rest today"
Harper Bdzdr.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

erals, published at Geneva, by whom they
are very highly commended.
In this June number Mr.. Kennan gives an
interesting account of his visit to the for
warding prison at Tiumen, where he found
double the number Of prisoners confined
than there was room for.
In reply to question from Mr.. Kennan
as to how many prisoners died during the
year, the warden replied:
'sAbout three hundred. We have an cpl
demic of typhus almost every fall. A
prison so overcrowded can not be kept
clean, and as for the air in the cells, you
know now what it is like. The local author.
tiles here have again and again urged the
Government to make adequate provision
for the large number of exiles crowded i'll
to the prison during the season of naviga
ton, but thus far nothing has been done be
yond the building of two log barracks"
In the overcrowded women's prison Mr.
Kennan says he found no criminals-all Of
the occupants were voluntarily going into
Punishment with their husbands.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14

COmpound OTygen-its Mode of ACtiOn and Re-
suits is the title of new brochure Of two hundred
pages published by Starkey& Palen, which gives to
all inqn full information tn this remarkable
curative agent and record of several hundred sur
prising cures in a wide range of chronic cases
many Of them after being abandoned to die by other
physicians. Also "COmp0und Oxygen, its origin
and DeUeiOpmeat," an interesting book of one
hundred pages. Both OF either will be mailed free
to any address on application. Read the brochure !!
DRS. STARKEY & PALEN,
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the following named we'll known persons VINO have
tried their Treatment:
Hon Win D. Kelley, Member Congress, Phila.
Rev v. L. Conrad, Editor Lutheran Observer, Phila.
Rev, Chas, W. Cushing, D. D., Rochester, N. T..
Hon. VIM. Penn Nixon, Editor Inter-ocean, Chi
cago, Ill.
Rev. A. w. Moore, Editor The Centenary, Lancast-
er, sc.
W. H. Worthington, Editor New South, Birming-
ham, Ala.
Judge H.P. yrooman, Quenemo, Kan.
Mrs. Mary A. LivermoIe, Melrose, Massachusetts,.
Mr.. E. G. Knight, Philadelphia.
Judge R. S. Voorhees,, New York City.
Mr.. Frank Siddal, Merchant, Philadelphia.
Hon. W. W. Schuyler, Easton, Pa.
Edward L. Wilson, 833 Broadway, N. Y, Ed Phila-
dephia Photographer.
Fidelia M. Lyon, Waimea, Hawaii, Sandwich Isl.
Alexander Ritchie, Inverness, Scotland.
Mrs. Manuel V. Ortega Fresnillo, Zacatecas Mexico.
Mrs. Emma Cooper, Utilla, Spanish Honduras,
Central America.
]. Cobb, U. 8. Vice Consul, Casabanca, Morocco.
M. V. Ashbrook, Red Bluff, Cal.
Ernest Turner, Nottingham, England.
Jacob Ward, Bowral, New South Wales.
And thousands of others in every part of the U 3.
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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-14
A SIBERIAN PRISON.

HE June number Of the
Century MdDuzine contains
the second of George Ken
mans illustrated papers on
Siberia and the Exile Sys.
tenn, which are attracting
such wide attention. The
articles are being exten.
sively copied into foreign
papers, among others the
organ of the Russian lib
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may 3-1yr.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-24
ANOTHER HORROR
A Crazed Mother Cremates
Herself and Her Four
Children.
The Eldest Child, q Girl OF 8 Years,
Succeeds IN Making Her
Escape.

PITTsBURG. Kan, Nov. 14.-Late last
night Marie Berthune, wife of one of the
victims of the mine disaster, set fire 70
herself and her five children and all but
the eldest daughter were burned to death.
The grief stricken woman swooned when
she recognized the mangled remains of
her husband as they were being taken up
from the fatal shaft yesterday noon, and
when she recovered it was apparent to
all that she had become hopelessly insane.
Late in the evening she led each child
up TO the CHASTITY corpse of their father
which lay in the impoverished morguc and
then retired to her home. About midnight
an alarm of fire from the village of Fronte.
nae gathered a crowd Of workers, and il
was seen that the Berthune cabin was
in flames. The eldest child. a girl Ct 8
years, succeeded in escaping from the
IRE, which GevOured the rest of the fam
lily, including a baby OF 5 months. The
girl said her mother lay watching her
children Tor some time until she thought
they were all asleep. when she saturated
her W clothes ana the bed clothes of
the children with coal oil. The grief
STICK n woman then set fire 10 it all, and
Q o the whole place was IN flames. The
eldest daughter, who had been made ner-
vous by tue exciting incidents of the day
and who was unable to sleep, grappled
with her mother, but the buring oil caused
such Intense heat she soon relaxed her
grasp. The girl finally managed to get
out OF the door, where she fell exhausted
and frightfulty burned. The cabin
burned like finder and soon the whole
thing was destroyed, and from the glow
ing embcrs were raked the charred bodies
OF the insane mother and her children.
The doctors hold out faint hopes for
the recovery of the eldest girl, who was
terribly burned in her endeavor TO escape.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-24

LONDON, Nov. IA renewed appeal
for funds in aid of Mr.. Parnell in his con-
test with the Times will be sent to the
United States. Up to the present time
the expenses of the Parnellites have far
exceeded all original estimates, while the
indications are that the investigation will
continue for at least two months. 1t is
whispered at the clubs that the Irish
home rule leader is already seri-
Ously embarrassed and that
unless prompt financial resources
are forthcoming he may be compelled to
dispense with some of the high priced
counsel that have been retained in his be-
half. This it is admitted would be an I'M
fortunate step, inasmuch as the evidence
80 far adduced has been entirely in his
favor and the advantage of following up
the foothold already gained is more ap.
parent than ever. Hence the appeal to
his friends and the supporters of the
Irish cause in the United States.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-24
National Board Of Trade Meeting,

CHICAGO, Nov, 14.-Proninent repre-
entativcs Of the boards Of trade and
commercial, exchanges throughout the
country are gathering at the Grand Pa
citic hotel this morning for the purpose
of participating in the annual convention
of the national Board of Trade. Up to
tbs morning twenty-five subjects had
been submitted by various commercial
organizations for discussion and action
by the convention. Perhaps the most
important of these is a request
that the national board shall rec
ommend the discontinuance of the
monthly crop report bulletins issued by
the department Of agriculture on the
ground that their only effect has been to
disturb the worlds markets without Civ
ing any reliable information. To offset
the loss Of Mr.. Dodge's monthly reports
it is suggested that the incoming admins
tration should establish n department
Of commerce and industry" This propo-
sition is likely to give rise to a. pretty ami.
mated debate, some of the delegates
having expressed the opinion in advance
that it Is SIMPLY n covert attack upon the
present administration. From the Chi
cago board of trade m a request that
the adulteration Of lard be considered.
New York wants a plan formulated by
which the surplus can be reduced in a
mannc that will least embarass existing
industries, while the New Haven (Conn.)
board urges that the convention should
endorse coast surveys on Long Island
Sound. Other subjects which are to be
considered relate to internal revenue tax
alton, silver coinage, commercial union
with Canada, and tie reduction Of letter
postage in accordance with the plank in
the last Republican platform.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-24
Election Bets SQUARED.

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 15.-As the Off
cial returns slowly come in hundreds of
election bets are being paid. 1t is esti-
mated that $500, O00 changed hands in
indianapolis, and one Of the best posted
betting men in the state, who participated
actively in the campaign, estimates that
not less than 81, 900, 600 was wagered on
the presidential issue in the state Of Indi-
ana. Local Democrats are ~consoled by
winning good sums from enthusiastic
Republicans on this (Marion) county,
which went for Cleveland by a plurality
OF 39S. This is also the season when the
wheelbarrow better is seen trupdling
along with indignant face and a crowd Of
hOOdlums guYing him.