Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-12

pride of all the attendants. The child,
after a severe attack Of scarlet fever, was
left totally blind and deaf but her powers
Of speech remained, and, as is always tho
case, her sound senses became far moro
acute than they had been before she was
stricken by sickness. Her mind is singui
larly bright and active, and she has made
such good use of her power Of speech
and feeling tlAt she knows all the chill
drsn In the ward by name, and can tell
who they are BY the peculiar sstihd q
their footballs. Every newcomer is pre-
sented 70 her. She lays her hand su the
strangeT's head, and repeats all the zames
she knows, until at the right one the
child in front of her mods her hsad.
After this, the little blind prodigy never
forgets the newcomer.
THE novel spectacle was presented i'm
the corridor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,.
in New YeTk, on a resent Saturday night
Of a Belgian poodle of large size walking
about with small pipe in his mouth and
occasionally emitting cloud of smoke
from between his teeth. The dog was a
handsome one of his breed, with silxen,
light brown hair covering its round bar
relied body and Intelligent face, while his
limbs were slender and hairless. The
animal is the property of Mr. Max Somer-
vile, of Philadelphia, a wealthy Ameri-
can who spends most of has time in Paris,
where he picked up his four footed COM
panion some years ago. The poodle
, thinks as much of his after-dinner pipe as
human smokers do of their pipes or
cigars, and carries it around i'm his teeth
long after the few whiffs of smoke he is
permitted to indulge in have ended his
refreshment
A RESIDENT Of Martinsviale, Ind,
named Jerry Givens,. has received letter
from a rich uncle in California which in
dicates that the young man islilSsly to be
; adopted and made his heir. Al strange
|, family history is recalled by tiisineident.
There was an estrangement between the
man now in California and the father of
young Jerry, who is long since dead.
Henry, the elder brother, dTifted to the
far West, and discovered, the whereabouts
Of his young heir only through ~publica-
tion which narrated a remarkable adwen-
ture In which the latter was, engnged-
Some time ago, while hunting in the
|, White River bottoms, he encountered q
great nest of snakes. This circumstance
, gained wide reputation in the papers, and
inally caught the eye of the elder Civ
, ems.
, A FEW days ago there was,received at
, the Treasury Department in Washington
r most peculiar bank note. Ittwas- of the
$40 or $40 denomination, according. to
! which side was examined, for by some
remarkable mistake, one side was printed
with the general face of a twenty dollar
,, bill, while the other had all the figures
and devices of $40. The note was re-
turned to, tine Treasury by the cashier of
! the First Washington National Bank of
Jersey City. An investigation was made
at Washingtony and it was found thatltwo
of these notes had been issued, butt no
one knew where the other was. 1t; now
' turns out that the second one is also in
. Jersey. 1t is In the possession of Howard
Bailey Of the Newark Mutual Life Insuna
anee Company
A NEW genius in the begging line has
!. made his, appearance in New York. He
!. is dressed like respectable longshore.
l man, is careful to keep himself neat and
, clean, and always carries bunch of cot
e ton and two dimes about with him He
s stuffs the cotton I'M one cheek assumes,an
' expression Of intense misery, puts the
J, dimes in the hand that is not engaged
: in rubbing his swollen cheek, and asks
1 the first benevolent looking man hemeets
for a. niclSle tocomplete the sum of twen-
{ ty-five cents necessary to have tooth
extracted.
A cABLEGRAM from Berlin announces
s that Captain Kund has discovered a.triba
d Of dwarfs, hiterto unknown, who live in
y the dense forests forming part Of the Ger
i mancolony of CAMERON in Africa. They
a lead nomad lives, wandering about the
I forests, through which they make theii
1 way with surprising rapidity. They cal
0 themselves the Bodjaeli and are hunters
q of the elephant, which they kill with
y lanccs. These little people live abont
o 200 miles north OF the dwarfs whomiDr
9 Chaillu discovered years ago.
!, ! MARGARET KINNEY of Alpena, Mihh4
: has been asleep for two years. Sha. Lies
!, motionless ON the bed for two weeks at 8
l time, taking neither food nor drink
! ! She has not spoken during the entiat
= time, and rarely opens her eyes. Hel
q general health seems to be good. but hei
: face has a deathly white appearance.
Formerly she was vivacious and very
pf bright. The cause of her long sleep, is a
D puzzler for physicians. 1t was, preeedeo
sr by a very slight sickness.
T. MRS.. JOHN SHIMP, of Salem. County
y N. j., cut pump kin to make apumpkn
e pie. When she opened it she found sew
q eral of the seeds had sprouted, and ther
Is was a vine several inches long and q
Il large around as lead pencil Their
q were numerous blossoms on it, and
n young pnmpkin nearly as large as al
le orange 1t supposed the warm weathe
as during the winter had something to- d
d with starting the sprouts
= = On a recent Sunday evening two pon
= = derous cylinders attached to the chimini
= y and striking gear of the clock in St
= = Peters Church, Colchester, England
y weighing half ton, dropped from tn
& tower, and fell in the porchof the church
y - through which the congregation had jus
= - passed.
+ THE bodies of forty-fve deer wer
u found piled up in q heap near Weaver
Va 11..I txy rhosr Low Of fh