Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-21
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The favorite pet of Miss Cain at
Milton Is a parrot, which she has had
for tifty-fve years.
John G. Whittier is disposed to dis
courage the proposal-tO raise a fund
for purchasing the poets early home
TOR preservation. 4, .lti ftb Il b
Eli Bunker. who died lately ut
Goshen, Conn, was the last of the
Cornwall Bunker Indians of the
Schaghticoke tribe. -r. .H
Fifty-nine survivors of Balaclava
attended the annual dinner in London
few days ago on the tlIirty-third an.
iversary of the charge.
A man at Irvona, Pa, raised thir-
teen squashes ON single vine, the
largest of which weighed 140 pounds
and the smallest III pounds.
David Dudley Field takes exercise
at the age of eighty-two years by walk
ing eight miles every day and riding
horseback for an hour besides.
A Greek named Dimitrius Antippa
has just died at Constantinople at the
age of one hundred and fifteen. He
knew Robespierre, and possessed
several of his letters.
Cardinal Manning recently said:
Necessity has no law, and starving
man has natural right to his neigh
boris bread" This little text has set
all England talking.
Gov. Swineford says that the
mercury in Alaska seldom falls lower
than 2 degrees below zero, the winter
season being wet instead of intensely
cold as is generally supposed.
Congressman Barnes of Georgia is
making collection of the queer letters
received by himself and his brother
members, and will publish them in
book form and profusely illustrated.
Grocerymen are subject to new
danger. 1t lies in canned pumpkin.
One of these cans exploded the other
evening in a Norwich, Conn, store
and covered group of 'setters" with
its contents.
A white squirrel was caught by ANDY
Fleming, of Hartwell, Ga, recently.
He accidentally set his ak on it and
broke its back. White squirrels are
rarely seen. They are entirely white
with pink eyes.
Timothy Bacon, who voted for
Andrew Jackson and all Democratic
Presidential candidates, is living in
Barre, Mass, bearing the weight of
102 winters. His health is good and
his mind clear.
A brother of Franz Schubert, the
great master of song and founder of the
romantic school of composition, is said
to be living in Vienna, where Schu-
bert, who died nearly sixty years ago,
was born in 1897. ...
A Maine man who owns a big and
shaggy and black Newfoundland dog
cut off the dogs hair carefully, had it
carded and spun, and got two and
quarter pounds of jet black yarn as
soft as lambs WOOL
John Armitage, who is in Jail in
Pittsburg on a charge of forgery is not
only an accomplished penman but an
artist of decided ability. He does pen
sketches with India ink which are said
to equal the finest etchings.
MIS-. OdIct M. DdluWln OF Sa0 FRAN
cisco, who is in Washington to press
her claim for indemnity from the
murder of her husband by Bernal the
bandit is a granddaughter of Francis
Scott Key, author of the "Star-Span-
gled Banner"
A good woman in Deer Isle, Me-,
crccheted baby's sacque for a church |
fair. The sacque was raffied off, and |
she took share and won. She offered |
it to the fair again if they'd give her a
chance. She won again. If the fair
had kept on she would too.
Probably one of the oldest meeting
houses in the world is the Baugund
Church, in Norway, the age of which
is 800 years. The pagoda-like struct-
ure is covered with shingles and an inch
OF two of tar. Runic Inscriptions, in
to scholars, are on the build
ing.
Adam N. Schuster of St. Josepb
Mo-, besides being millionaire and
having one of the finest homes in Mis-
souri,, is credited with having as q
laughter the ''most beautiful woman
west of the Mississippi" He has sew
eral children, all married, and all liv-
ng under the family roof-tree in per-
:ect harmony.