Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-02-09
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a machine made in the east with nine
foot wheel, and which will run a mile
Il minute.
According to a Washington CORES
pondent Secretary Lamar now has his
trousers and his hair both cut in the
latest style.
The sum of $4,000 is to be distribut-
ed among the blind of New York, and
as there are five hundred of them each
will get $40
Buenos Avres is to have q new thea
ter that will accommodate four thou
sand spectators. The cost is estimated
at 81, 100000.
A negro committed suicide in At
lanta, Ga, one day recently because
his wife refused to mend his clothes
and sew on buttons.
Emperor William lately faced the
camera of fair American, and she
took his picture before he could say
Jack Robinson in German.
During the late fatal illness of M.
Katkoff no editorials appeared in the
Moscow Gazette. There was no one
able to take the chiefs place.
Ex-Atty. Gen. Colt, of Rhode Island,
says it is impossible to enforce the pro.
hibition law in that state, because
iuries will not convict offenders.
The Buffalo Courier declares that sit
is safe to say there are 70, 900 people in
Buffalo to-day" that have never seen
Niagara falls nor heard their roaring.
In eastern Nevada it has recently
been discovered by chance that the
noble red man mingles manufactured
squirrel scalps with the genuine article.
The police-matron system is about
to be adopted by the Cincinnati de-
partment. 1t is found to have worked
in Philadelphia with excellent results.
The widow of John Casey, soldier
of the Revolution, has just received a
pension. Casey married her when she
was but 16, q few years before he died
| in 1845.
The London World hears that the
| ladies who went down to Windsor to
| present her Majesty with ESQ, 900 were
somewhat surprised at having to pay
| for their tea.
Most of the southern iron shipped
north is carried in schooners. Cotton
manufacturers it is said may save
money by forwarding their products
in the same way.
Though six attempts have been made
during the past five years to abolish
| +l,o ,,so Nf anrsat, ot Uaccor oo11ana th q
dear girls still cling to them with girl
ish adhesiveness.
The good editor of The Genera On.
IY.) Advertiser says he has cut down a
fine apricot tree rather than longer ex-
pose the small boys of the neighbor-
hood to temptation.
The ladies of Baltimore are ingaged
in an effort to establish q home for the
mothers, INDECENT widows, and chill
dren of the deceased confederate sol
diers in the state of Maryland.
A Pennsylvania paper sees an adver-
tisement for ga boy to do heavy work
and comments that ''boys who would
be caught by an advertisement like
that are very scarce in that section
The artesian well at Pesth, the deep
est one in the world, supplies hot water
for public baths and other purposes
1t is 8, ,120 feet deep, and supplies daily
l176,0 900 gallons Of water heated to 15(
degrees Fahrenheit.
The wife of Henry George is pretty
little woman, accustomed to taking
her husbands vagaries as matter O
course. She is described as matter
of fact little body, loving her foul
children devotedly.
The Russian aeronaut Caslovich,
claims to have at last invented q per
fectly navigable balloon. In order tt
preserve the secret of its construction
he is having the various parts of tn
balloon built in different countries.
Preparations are being made at tn
Chiselhurst Roman Catholic church TO
the removal of the sarcophagus of th
late Emperor Napoleon Ill. and th'
body of the late Prince Imperial t,
the new mausoleum which the ex-Em
press Eugene has built at Farm
H.44. ? tsg ssrt r.
There is an old-time Methods
preacher on the Etowah circuit II
: Georgia who has to make his fifteen
mile rounds on foot every Sunday. I'll
has wife and five children and o sal
ary of 5000 a year. The Atlanta Con
stitution is trying to raise money en-
: ough to buy horse for him.
The editor Of the Cornwall IN. Y.
Register has watch he has carried fo
: sixty years, and his father before hir
: carried it for ten years. Hesays it ha
. been drowned twice and dashed agains
a wall, but lis just as good as new,
except little piece broken out of tn
edge of the face.
tits singular fact that one of th
leading county papers in South Caro-
: lima, The Abbe0itie Press and BGnne,
: always fierce enemy Of negro edr
, cation is printed exclusivelvbv negroc