Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-06-13
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jamestown, Dakota, reports shower
of frogs.
Ohio has lately been treated to a
shower of crawfsh.
1t took ten men to put the hind shoes
on a Pennsylvania mule.
A Japanese has discovered method of
applying nickel plating to wood.
L. B. Brown, of Albany, Ca, has a
81 shinplaster bearing date of 1777.
A journey to Venus would take fifty
years, travelling at sixty miles an hour.
Jose Riva Galban, Spaniard, has Just
died at Bordeaux, France, aged, 11S
years.
| A new industry in Philadelphia is that
of leasing paintings and other works art
for private receptions.
T. Burwell Green, of Washington,
Ca, has biscuit that was baked at Man
nassas Junction in 1861.
j. B. Richardson, of Lumpkin, Ga, 9,
has distinguished himself, by raising a
rose five inches in diameter.
Oxmoor, Ala, has a curiosity in the
shape of a petrifed pine stump, weighing
about three hundred pounds.
An Oglethorpe (Ga.) boy has cat
which is performing maternal functions
for three young foxes and two kittens.
A Redding (Cal) man has made lot
of sugar from the native maple, and con-
noisseurs pronounce it equal to the east
ern product.
About the only rail fence in Cleveland,
Ohio, curious to say, is in the most aristo-
cratic portion of the city, on Euclid ave-
nue., near Case.
Mrs, E. B. McNulty, of Dawson, Ga. g,
has the diploma given to her great grand
father at Princeton College and signed by
one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence.
An Atlanta (Ga.l burglar has a pistol
on whose handle are twelve notches,
every one of which he says represents the
killing of a man. Pity the burglar
couldn't be hanged twelve times.
A party from Naples, Fla, few days
ago had with them the jaws of leopard
shark measuring eighteen inches in width
and two feet in the spread. The mouth
was large enough to take in barrel at
one gulp.
In the Church of St. Andrew Under
shaft, London, the church of the Bishop
of Bedford, is to be seen, an old Bible
that still has attached to it the chain by
means of which in former days it was
fastened to the pulpit.
The study of Gustave Eiffel, engineer
and architect of the big tower at Paris, is
a regular curiosity shop. In it are to be
seen any number of queer inventions and
outlandish relics. He has Buddhist
shrine that is over 500 years old and a
sixteenth-century figure of St. John.
To make. .boughs grow wherever they
would add to the symmetry of the bush
our modern fowergrowers force nature tc
do. the work by tying tiny fower-pot
full of rich soil just on the very spot
where they desire to have the bough.
Very odd is the sight of bush apparent
ly bearing thumb tiower-pots as fruit.
Garden and Forest quotes this simple
method of testing the quality Of pear
Write name with pen and ink upon the
dry skin of the fruit. If the ink il
quickly absorbed, leaving clear, sharT
lines, the quality of the fruit is good; il
the skin does not absorb the ink quickly
and the lines are 'blotted, the quality il
inferior.
+ The ways of auctioneers in differen
parts of the world vary greatly. In thi
country and England the seller bears tht
expenses of the sale, but in France tht
purchaser bears the cost, five per cent. be
ing added to his purchase. In HOLLAND
it is still worse, the buyer being required
to pay ten per cent. additional for the ex
penses of the sale.