Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-06-27
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

SUGAR making is nearly over.
GEORGIA has ffty-hve cotton mills.
SLAM is exceedingly rich in minerals.
COMPLETE anarchy prevails in Crete.
TIE Illinois Legislature has adjourned.
FRANCE is suffering from severe storms.
ILLINOIS has a new compulsory education
law
THE number of drug stores in St Louis is
325.
CUBANs express a desire for little home
rule.
FLORIDA is not afraid of yellow fever this
year.
KANSAS CITY was visited by a severe
storm.
THE Massachusetts, Legislature has ad-
journed.
THE United States Treasury surplus is
$58, 900, 900.
NEW ORLEANS badly needs good system
OF drainage.
A TREATY between Mexico and Japan has
been ratified.
CINCINNATI talks of securing natural gas
by pipe lines.
THE harvest in Northern Texas is under
full headway.
GREAT BRITAIN is spending 20,0OO,0 600 on
new iron ships
THE prospects for the Egyptian cotton crop
are favorable.
PAoLA, Kan, has rented its city park to q
carpet renovator.
AN early fall trade is expected by jobbers
and manufacturers.
BARLEY is beginning to be sown for winter
pasture in the South.
ALMOST 40, 1000 men will be engaged in tax
ing the coming census.
REPORTS from the growing grain in the
West continue favorable
THE latest trust that is forming in the
West is the castor oil trust.
IT is proposed to lay cable from Ostend,
Belgium, to the United States.
MILITARY service has been made obligatory
in all the normal schools Of Chill.
CHINESE are said to be pouring into Cali
fornia over the Mexican border.
THE present seasons Delaware peach crop
is estimated at 5000, 600 baskets.
A RAILWAY has been completed to the top
Of Mount Pilatus in Switzerland.
THERE are an even 200 patients in the
Yankton pakota) Insane Asylum.
THE total crop of Florida oranges for the
season just ended was 2, zoe, 600 boxes.
TIRE number of Russian visitors to the Paris
Exhibition is said to be unprecedented.
OVER a million Italians have settled in the
| Argentine Republic in thirty three years.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has shipped thirty
per cent more oranges this year than last.
THE recent frost has destroyed over one-
| fourth of the grape crop Of New York State.
| HARVARD graduates POS young men in her
academic department this year. Yale turns
out 127.
| A FACTORY for making altar Of rose and.
other flower essence is just being established
ut Atlanta, Ga. !
THE citizens of Seattle, Washington Terri
| tory, have resolved to widen their streets and
erect f1re-proof buildings.
THE acreage of spring wheat seems to have
declined in Wisconsin and Minnesota owing
to the ravages of the chinch bug.
| A BILL has been presented in the Legisla-
/ ture of Jalisco, Mexico, for the prohibition in
that State of bull and cock fights.
WASHINGTON TERRIToRY's Constitutional
Convention will be composed Of forty-six Re-
publicans and twenty nine Democrats.
MANY farmers in Oregon are literally
throwing away potatoes; much of the last
crop remains in the hands of the producers.
WHILE in the act Of receiving the third de-
gree in q. Masonic lodge at Wichita, Kan,
Dr. James L. Lawrence fell dead with heart
disease. /
TWENTY years ago the British army num-
bered 1S7, 600. Now there are 211, 600 men Of
all arms, including those serving in the
colonies.
THE Australians have forbidden the slaugh-,
ter Of the kangaroo from January 1st to May
1st, Of each year, on account of its value as an
export article.
THERE is rumor that the Mexican Con-
gress in secret session, is considering the.
question of ceding lower California to the
United States.
IT is proposed to establish a penal colony,
on the Isla de Pinos, abolishing the peniten-i
tiaries in the different cities in Cuba; also a,
workhouse for vagrants.
THE leading gas company of Chicago is,
making arrangements for replacing its pres,
ent supply of manufactured gas with neural
gas from the coal regions.
THERE are said to be 1900 typewritersI
employed in Chicago, ninety mine per cent. of
whom are stenographers. Over seventy five
per cent. of them are women.
THE fresh fish trade on the Atlantic coast is
all broken up. A Providence R. L. dealer,
who handled 1000 barrels last spring, says he
lost at least $500. The public taste runs to-
aueats.
THE total length Of the submarine cables
at present in use is 113,031 miles. OF this
length 102, 531 miles belong to various cable
companies, and 0,000 miles are Government
property.
WITHIN year it is believed that the Eng
ish syndicates will control at least thirty
1--WE Of the seventy-two breweries in New
York and its immediate vicinity.
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