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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
THE ROSE BIG.

The rose bug is hard insect to fight,
and we have had no practical occasion
to experiment with it in the work of the
Botanical Division of the United States
Department of Agriculture. The old
method was to knock the insect from the
foliage or fruit into a pan of kerosene
and water. This, however, is very slow
work and not practicable on large scale.
At River Edge, N. j., they found last
season that mixture of pyrethrum and
water made a very excellent liquid to
spray upon the vines. It destroyed all
Of the insects which it touched and seemed
also to have a preventive action. The
proper proportions can only be obtained
by further experiment. Colonel Pearson,
of New Jersey. has also found that the
original fungicide mixture of sulphide Of
copper and lime and water sprayed upon
grape vines has both a poisoning and
deterrihg effect upon the rose bug. This
insect is one which | hope to have good
series of experiments made upon with O
view of determining just what is best te
be done.-Protsssor O.. Y. Riley, in til,
American Agaiculturist.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
Flax Growing in the United States

Outside of Ireland, Russia and Germany
produce the finest fax, and Germany
spins and weaves the finest linen in ths
world; and Russia's and Germany
climate and soils for raising, and streami
stepping flax, are precisely identical with
those in vast portions of our own country
A million acres of fax more than il
now. grown should annually be produced
in the United States This would yield
IA, 900, 900 bushels of seed, worth al
many million dollars for seed and oil
From it $500, 900 tons of flax straw,
worth $4,000, 900, would be secured
and from it 100000 tons of fax fbr
worth S1O0, 900, 900 would be obtained
Aside from this increase in value Of agri.
cultural product, The inestinable blessin.
of the employment of more than quartel
million people in the manufacture of thi'
product into marketable goods, ,wouli
also result. It would seem to any reason
able mind that this is matter worth
thinking about in America. The practi'
cal results are all shown in Belfast. Thil
city of more than $50, 900 souls, tht
third for customs in the United Kingdom
is, with her magnificent industries
wholly result of flax-growing and linen
spinning and weaviHg.-NeeO York Com
iaercidl AC1certiser. ~
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
His Bald Head Won Him Samoan Wifs

In the book of Mrs. Laulii Willis, the
Samoan woman, whose husband a con
tractor left Alameda several days age and
has since been missing, occurs the follow
ing quaint story of how she fell in love
with her husband:
"The first thing saw when we went
alongside the ship was white man with
bald head. That looked very funny to
me, as had never seen bald-headed
man before. He was real fat and nice look.
ing, but ne did not have any hair on his
head; and got my brother, who could
talk English, to ask him just as soon as
we got aboard, where was all the hair
that belonged on his head. And the
white man told him that he lived in
California, and they did mot have any
cold weather there, but had what they
called glorious climate, and the
climate had taken all the hair eff his
head. We got very well acquainted, and
liked him, because when another white
man kept talking to me this one with
Tho bald head quarrelled with him and
knocked him down so he should mo-
bother me. p Oakland Tribune.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
A Banana Eating Horse.

An italian in Boston, who had stationed
himself close by the entrance to the circus
grounds, that he might more easily dis
pose of the fruits which he had to sell,
became SC interested in the appearance, OF
two Turks who had escaped from the
grounds, and had been strolling about the
Back Bay, that he forgot all about the
wagon load of bananas which were beside
him, until he turned suddenly and OBJ,
served horse attached to an express
wagon calmly eating from the stock Of
bananas as if they had been, placed there
for his especial benefit. The spectacle
Ct horse eating bananas was so amusing
to the bystanders that they didn't call
the owners attention to it, but when the
Italian who owned the fruit, and tins
Hibernian who drove the horse, began to
argue with each other, there was more
excitement than was heard inside the cir
Gus tent. Boston 1rGgeleT.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
TnE uTrLITY or w1NpNrL1s.

Why is not the power of the wind
more often made available on farms for
doing light work9 The windmill has
long been useful and in many localities
has been Synonymous with corn or -four
mill, cheaply grinding the farmers grain
and adapting itself automatically to the
changeful breezes And now that these
engines have been greatly improved they
seem to be vanishing out of use. This is
to be deplored. For the light work of
pumping water, cutting fodder, grinding
grain, shelling corn, thrashing, cutting
up ensilage, or cutting frewood, wind
mill may repay its cost at least once
every year, and with careful usage may
last forty or fifty years, or be replaced
piecemeal, as it wears, in that time, and
then be as good as new A windmill at
tached to bern or a silo is an evidence
of good sense, thrift, and responsibility
of the farmer who owns it, and is to be
preferred before great many of those
other things over which farmers waste
money uselessly. y.-NeO YORK. Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
THE SIZE OF APPLES.

The size of apples is more important
consideration than is sometimes thought.
A very large apple is not desirable, nor is
a very small one likely to be demanded
unless it has some very decided merit,
as with the lady apple or some of the
crabs used for decoration, or making a
superior conserve An apple that under
good culture is of full medium size, will,
ether things being equal, he the most
profitable to the grower, because the
most satisfactory to buyers either as deal
ers or consumers. Two serious objections
exist to very large apples-the loss in
CURED by defect or injury of a single
fruit. and the difficulty of disposing of
them about the person, in pockets or 9TH
erwise. No dealer likes to handle very
large apple, unless some particular beauty
or excellence enables him to get a very
large price for it.-Nsso York Voice
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
WHY THREsH THE OATS?

Few thinking farmers are SO behind
time as not to know the value of bright
oat-straw for fodder. Nevertheless these
men, good calculators generally, go on
threshing the oat crop and separating
grain from straw and then feed both to
the same animals, as if they thus i'm
proved the feed! Is not the work on the
farm hard enough without this useless
labor2 The custom is relic of the past,
and surely the day is not distant when
farmers will as soon think Of hulling oats
for feeding on the farm as of threshing
them. Oats for sale will doubtless still
be threshed, although l incline to the be-
lief that many sheaf-oats will be pressed
like hay, having their heads all toward
the middle of the bale. This will apply
particularly to local trade.
All stock eat sheaf-oats with avidity,
and they constitute nearly perfect food.
Run through fodder cutter and moist
ened, they become, with addition of y
little meal, bran OF cottonseed, good
ration for milch-cows, and the hardest
working team-horses keep sleek and fat
on the diet, Why, should not farmers
everywhere place the crop, Immediately
on hauling it from the field, in vermin-
proof bays or barns, or, better still, in
mouse proof stacks (Which are so easily
arranged), there to remain till fed? The
time usually consumed in threshing oats
for the farm stock could be proftably
used in. vacations, freed from care and la-
Dor, and perhaps in visiting other farms,
and learning from other farmers meth
ods.-Neao York Tribune. ,s
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
Rosecrans's Peculiar Expression.

General w. s. Rosecrans, Register Of
The United States Treasury, has pecu-
liar one-sided expression of face which
has history to it. Few people know
that General Rosecrans was the first man
who refined petroleum. He expert
mented with it forty yeals ago. Peo-
pie, said he was q fool, but he went on
with his experiments. Presently as
though to prove what they said, his
petroleum blew up and burned his face
in serious way. He has suffered from
that injury ever since.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
An Underground Canal is 1riles Long.

"The strangest canal in the world
said an, English clergyman "is one
never saw mentioned in any book OF
newspaper. 1t is a canal 16 miles long,
between Worsley and st. Helens, in the
North of England, and is underground
from end to end. In Lancashire the coal
mines are very extensive, half the coun-
try being. undermined, and many years
ago the Duke of Bridgewater's managers
thought they could save money by trans.
porting the coal underground instead Of
On the surface. So the canal was con.
structed, the mines connected and drained
at the same time. Ordinary canal boats
are used, but the power is furnished by
men. On the roof of the tunnel arch are
cross pieces, and the men who do the
work Of propulsion lie on their backs on
the, coal, and push with their feet against
the cross bars on the roof. Six or eight
men will draw train Of four or five
boats, and as there are two divisions in
the tunnel, boats pass without difficulty.
---CTLobe- Dg1pOc1ut; tr EfG .4l = "
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
"HULLO."

E7en yoa see q man n woe,
Walk right up and say ''hulloF
Say ''hullo, an show dye dol
How's the world a-usin' your
Slap the fellow ON his back, ~ fgI
Bring yer han down with whaek
Waltz right up, an don't go slow,
5rin' an shake am say ''hulloF' H "a
Is he clothed in rags' o shol
Walk right up an'say ''hulloP
Rags is but cotton roll ,' .T
Jest for wroppin' up soul;
An soul Is worth true,
Hale and hearty Show dye dor
Don't waitfor the crowd to go,
Walk right up and say "hulloP
Won bigvessels meet, they say
They saloot an sail away.
Jest the same are you an moe
Lonesome ships upon sea;
Each one sailing his own jog
For port beyond the fog.
Let yer speakin' trumpet blow,
Lift yer horn an cry ''hullow ~
-. ~ =, ~
Say ''hullo, an show dye doT'
Other folks are good as you.
Wen yer leave yer house of clay,
Warderin' in the PARKWAY,
Wen you travel through the strangl
Country t'other side therange ~
Then the souls you've cheered viii know
Who ye be, an say 'hullop
.. IS. ". Foss, in Yankee Blade
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Little pigs are said to thrive well or
oats fed whole.
Only the purest and best salt should be
used in the dairy.
A rubbing-pos is one of the essentials
OF every COW pasture. so
Farmers report that horses like ensilage
and hogs do well on it.
If shower drives you out of hay
field, start the cultivator.
1t is poor economy to have dull blade
in the harvest or hay field.
If you plant celery choose a piece OF
low ground somewhat damp.
The question is disguised whether it is
necessary to weight the silo or not.
Condiments such as red pepper, ginger,
etc., should be fed sparingly to fowls.
Honestly strive to make your home,
field and garden the best in the world.
Cut the grass before it is too ripe. You
will get more milk from the hay il
makes.
An Illinois farmer of large experience
recommends bailing hay direct from the
winrow. Hg.t .....-u. d
Pigs should have an opportunity to
range the fields, A pig-pen in summer
is an abomination.
Give the growing chicks variety Of
food and don't allow them to become
stunted in the first two or three months
A good housewife never opens con.
densed milk can, with her husbands
razor, nor will a loving husband curr!
the horse with the nutmeg CRATER.
Ashes and plaster sprinkled on thu
leaves when the dew is on, is a common
remedy for the flea beetle, which Otter
attacks potato vines as well as caulifowe
and cabbage plants. '
Persons owning bees and not locate'
near streams of water, are advised b
Massachusetts, Ploughnaon to furnish then
fresh water daily, as it will save time
which to the bee means honey and t
the person means money.
Though some recommend chemical
for keeping milk sweet, we know o
nothing that is so good as thorougl
aeration as soon as drawn and then rapit
cooling to 45 degrees or 80 degrees
Keep it as near this temperature a
possible. '
Silos are not lined with building pape
simply to exclude frost. To have tn
silage perfect it is necessary that the sill
be as nearly air-tight as possible. TIL
lining is to aid in securing this, so is es
sential in the South as well as the North
ern States.
Professor Fernald, of the Massachusett
Station, mentions that method of som
value in fighting the grape-leaf hopper
which develops its wings in that Stat
the last of July or first of August, is t
carry lighted torches through the vine
yard at night, beating the vines ightl
at the same time. The insects will b
attracted to the light as they fly from tn
disturbed vines and perish in the flames
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
SELECT SIFTINGS.

81 Londoners are much over-doctored.
Cows hair is now used in making
carpets. i
The fastest pilot boat afoat is the
Hesper, of Boston.
. "A Falkirk tScotlardl cat is bringing up
brood of chickens.
Z. Large 'rubies of the correct luster ara
much rarer than diamonds.
A witness in case in New York has
been on the stand for two years.
A Georgia hen has hatched out eiSh'
teen chickens out of thirteen eggs. ala
Random, Penn, is proud of amongrel
dog which taught itself to climb q lad
der. '-.
An auction sale in Pennsylvania town
was broken up the other day by swarm
of bees.
Henry Waterson, of Jefferson, OGio,
has piece of his scalp which Indians cut
from his head.
They have a cow up in Toronto,
Canada, that gave birth the other day to
two lambs and a calf.
A Georgia man has been married twict
in the same trousers. He has worn them
for forty years and still wears them.
~ The father of Edgar Saltus, the novel
list, sold Louis Napoleon the guns with
which he won the battle of Solferino.
Two dozen pads of blotting paper
were recently eaten by a prisoner in a
Kentucky Jail. He intended suicide, but
the attempt failed. hoE' F
The French Council of Hygiene has
Just forbidden the use of blue paper in
the public schools claiming that twas
making France near-sightcd nation.
The longest item of news ever tele-
graphed to a newspaper was the entire
New Testamentyas revised, which was
sent from New York to the Chicago 7T5-
dune, on May %, 1882. g, @". gore.
The latest novelty produced by Kansas
is an electric we'll. 1t started out to bt
an ordinary artesian, but the borers sud
denly struck. vein of water which glve1
| thrills and shocks to whoever drinks it
Realism in art will have an extraordi
nary revelation in New York when lion
painted by Boston artist, is placed IL
position. The owner of the picture, q
hotel man, will illuminate the lion witt
electricity and place it behind row o
real bars. @w ". *gg
A curious feature in ornithology is re
ported from Lexington, Yorkshire, Eng
land, where d hen, has hatched tw
chickens from one egg, both chicken
being in perfect state except that the
are Joined together on one side of tn
membranes of, the wing. Beyond thi
+, they walk about and feed in the usua
manner. " i' - .a.
. A man at Allentown, Penn, has tw
tree frogs which dwell contentedly in
glass jar containing water and a tiny lad
der. When the weather is fair the littl
fellows crawl up the ladder and gaz
around, but when rain is coming the
dive to the bottom of the jar. Thes
movements are made hours in advance o
the change in the weather.
A controversy has arisen as to the an
tiquity of elevators, and passage ha
been found in the Greville Memoirs fo
March, 1880, describing such a contri
vance at the Palace of Genoa. The frs
Duke of Buckingham grew in later lif
to very unwieldy size, and contrived
machine worked with chains by whic
he was hoisted up through the ceiling @
the sitting-room into his bedroom.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01

a HMT no cApnAeE oRo.wEns.

11]' : ~ D7Is0 !" ; /.
As cabbages increase in growth by the
heading process they have a tendency
sometimes to split open, which very
greatly diminishes the value of the head.
As remedy, Mr.. ]. ]. Gregory, the noted
market gardener and scotsman Of Marble
head, Mass, recommends going over the
ground and starting the cabbages that
appear to be nearly manure, tipping them
to one side. He says this tends to in
crease the size of the cabbage heads and
prevents their bursting. 1t is certainly a
very simple operation, and one well
worthy of trial.--Nep York hadepeRdsat.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01

Colorado line, IS . cabin, built some ysafs
ago by a apou1tain desperate, which hes
since been converted into stone, probably
by the same petrifying action operated
upon this as upon the Arizona forest.
Evening journal., 1889-07-13
NEWSPAPER OPINION.
Tanner Should he Remov..I.

Tanaer Should be Removed.
Philadelphia Times.
The President is placed in moet EN-.
barrassing position by the utterly treck-
less administration Of the Pension Office
under Com missioner Tanner. Under the
color of law, but without even the pre-
tence of respect for the plainest simita-
tions Of the pension laws, Commissioner
Tanner has, IN the brief period of
three months, practically added tens
of thousands of pensioners TO the
list by the arbitrary reversal of the pre-
cedents established by long Repu blican
administration of the Office and simply
maintained under Democratic power.
Even the interruptions Dudley, when he
carried Indiana in 1880 by the almost in
discriminate promise of pensions, paid
some respect TO the pension laws with ali
his political obligations, and Tanner now
reverses Dudley to open wide the doors
for every rejected pension application.
1t Is an open secret that the President
and the Cabinet have been greatly exer
cised by Commissioner Tanner sweep
ing overthrow Of all safeguards against
unmefited pensions and the appalling
prohigacy he has already inaugurated
Every day, as a rule, reports some de-
cisions Of the government ioverruled,
and every case thus overruled rrac tically
decides in favor Of hundreds or thous
ands or tens Of thousands OF
hitherto rejected applicants. one
decision alene, relating to the ap
plication Of a slave mother opened the
door for some 90. 600 pensions which have
been rejected by all administrations and
one of Commissioner Tanners last decis
ions over rules the uniform Judgment oi
all his predecessors in favor Of the pen
sion sharks who are the authors of all
the fraudulent pensions now ID force.
Not only does Commissioner Tanner
open the way for scores Of thousands OF
rejected pensions but he whets the appe.
tites Of the pension sharks by awarding
them increased fees to treble the amount
hitherto allowed.
Evening journal., 1889-07-13

and bogus soldiers. The Democrats did
not promise Offices to the simple freed
man and subsidies to the rich shipbnild-
ers. In consequence Of all these things,
the Democratic party Is serene while
the Republicans are doing some very
"tall walking In street parlanco
they oare burning the road
to get away from the peo-
pie to whom they made unwise
and impossible-to.fulfll promises. The
Democrats did not promise universal pros
perity. from an effort to control
the markets, which has fostered
trusts galore and precipitated
a general depression and frequent
disasters. The Republicans are doing
the walking, but they do 1t in knocked
out. disgusted, poisoned, Kilrain style.
They are evidently not happy.
Evening journal., 1889-07-13
Dover.

Miss Laura Stats has returned home
Norman Kellum is visiting his relatives
at Lewes
Senator Higgins was seen in town last
Monday.
win Jakes OF Wyoming was in town
on Wednesday.
Miss Kate Milborne is visiting in At
iantic City, n J.
Miss Bertha Lewis is spending some
time in Denton, Nd.
Miss Cora Hoffecker is summering at
Lewes and Rehoboth
Miss Alzayda Frazier has returned from
a visit to Wilmington
Miss Mary Boone returned on Wednes
day from Philadelphia
Hon. Joseph P. Comegys is sojourning
for time at Rehoboth
Harry Mowbray returned from his trim
to Maryland on Wednesday.
Miss Emma Jump win 60 to Lewes on
Wednesday to visit her sister.
Henry B. Stewart and brother, Merton.
left on Monday for Wilmington.
Hon. J. B. Pennington and family are
enjoying the breezes at Rehoboth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Levi have been
sojourniRg at Rehoboth this week.
Mrs. w. A. Riggs and son Irving. are
visiting Mrs. James Stats, of Smyrna.
The pleasing countenance Of Insur
anee Commissioner Fooks was seen in
our town on Wednesday.
Miss Mable Thompson of Smyrna has
been visiting her grand parents, Mr..
Samuel Wharton and wife, this week.
W. +. Smith and Philip Burnett are
expected by their families to arrive at
home on Monday next. They return on
the steamer Etruria.
Mrs. Philip Burnett and Mrs William
E. Smith go to New York to-day
to meet their husbands who are return
ing from their trip over the briny deep.
Delawarean
Evening journal., 1889-07-13
wELL-kNowN PERSONS.

Louise, the Princess Of Wales. and her
future husband, the Earl Of Fife. are
visiting the Queen at Windsor
Ex-President Pillsbury Of the Masas.
chusetts Senate. and Mrs. L. f. Wheeler
were married on Tuesday last, at New
bury, VT.
William |. Howles, Julian Hawthorne.
Charles Budley Warner. Grace Greenwood.
and the poet Whittier write their manu-.
script in yiolet-colored ink.
Mrs f. d. E. N. Southworth has writ
ten seventy nine stories and novels, and
has earned more than &100, 900 by her
pen. She now thinks she might have
written some sweet ballad. without
charge, to have aided mankind in general.
Miss Mary Wanamaker. the Postmaster
Generals daughter, win make her debut
in Washington society next fall. She 4
not yet out of her teens, but is an
accomplished and beautiful girl. She has
had the training Of an excellent educa-
tion, and is skilled in music aud language.
-Kennett Advance.
Miss Mary Whately, daughter Of Arch.
Bishop Whately, died recently at Cairo.
where she went for her health in 1861.
She settled in the country for good,
opened the only school there was in Cairo
for Moslem girls, and lived to see it de-
velop into an institution that receives an
average Of 500 pnpils.
John Eiehberger, an actor connected
with McCaull Opera Company, was mar
ries in New York yesterday to Miss Carrie
Aylricter. He is twenty-five and his
bride twenty-five. She was dressed in
dark blue with profusIon of lace trim.
ming, and was accompanied by her sister
hittie. The nuptial knot was tied by
Judge Holme end 'tey tcok his hest
,wisnes with them in their wedding tour
TO Niagara Falls
Evening journal., 1889-07-13
"Popv TOWNSEND
The Photograph OF Him and His Mul,
Tnhan.

He was tan colored man. aged 7O
and as he led his old mule down Eighth
street he drew more attention than a
more stylish person would. He was an
old patriarch. Pop Townsend by name and
a local preacher by profession and the
contrast between his tallness and the
mules smallness was marked
He stopped at Cantwells drug store at
Eighth and Spruce streets and ordered
. cents worth osalts" He Immediately
hurried back to the curb to hold his steed,
which, he said, would not stand-spirited
animal 80 years old DIR, Cantwell is an
amateur photographer, ever on the alert
for things novel The old man
and the mule filed the bill.
DR.. Cantwell explained to "Pop" that he
would take his picture "Pop" consented,
and so the picture of the man and mule
was snapped. Pop" did not understand
how it was done so quick, but he received
a picture to take home.
Slowly then with apparent effort the
old mule meandered down Eighth street,
taking its master to his home on Decatur
street