Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-03

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portions of her body were being similarly
affected. Eighteen physicians of Mis-
souri, and Iowa, Mrs. Watson said, pro-
nounced it the most remarkable thing
they had ever witnessed.
FARMING operations in the vicinity of
Egypt, Miss, are greatly retarded by the
crawfish, which burrow in the fields and
keep the surface broken and wet. They
bore under the ground to the depth of
two or three feet, so that the hogs cannot
get them, else they would not live to do
any damage. At the bottom of their
holes they have capacious nesting place,
where hundreds of them nest together,
and whence they boret the surface in
every direction. So great a pest have
they become, that planter in the vi
cinlty conceived the idea of enlisting the
colored people to exterminate them. He
offered ten cents hundred. The colored
people took lanterns and hunted the craw-
fish at night, when they would be prom
enading around the mouths of their
holes. The planter paid $40 for two
nights catch and abandoned the plan.
He thinks of establishing a colony of
raccoons on his place. Raccoons eat
crawfsh.
LOUIS WARREN placed bag-net in the
Kinchafoonee swamp, near Preston,
Georgia. The following morning
when he attempted to draw the net he
was .astounded at its great weight. He
thought that he had captured all the fish
that bad ever swum in the waters
of the creek. When, after numer-
Gus strenuous endeavors, he succeeded in
drawing the net, he was surprised at the
sight which met his eyes. Within lay
two dead monsters-an alligator and a
turtle. The alligator was nine feet in
length, while the turtle was of the log
gerhead variety, and subsequent weigh
ing showed it to be eighty-ive pounds in
weight The back of the alligator was
broken in two places, while one of the
feet was almost severed from the body.
The shell of the turtle was crushed in.
The teeth of the alligator were knocked
out and distributed among those present.
SOME time ago party of gentlemen,
near Social Circle, Ca, went out fox
hunting, and on entering piece of woods
they spied fox making across the woods
at break-neck speed. The dogs gave it
about two hours chase, when the fox re-
turned to a large log lying in the woods,
and was seen to go right on, making the
chase three different times. One of the
party decided to station himself at the
log in order to determine what the pecu-
liar actions of the fox meant. Shortly
after he had taken his stand he saw the
fox coming. The fox leaped into the
large end of the log. just as he jumped
into the log another fox was seen to come
out the other end. And on examination
the log was found to be entirely full of
foxes, sixteen in number. And when one
would jump in at one end he would punch
out another, and thus force him to make
the race.
A QUEER case is reported from Will
liamsburg, Pa. A former merchant has
just died there who made great deal of
money during the war selling goods at
''war prices" He became so attached
to war prices that when the war was over
and the dove built her nest in the can
mons mouth he could not bring himself
around to the point of reducing his
prices, but stubbornly kept them up to
the old notch. Rather than sell goods
cheaper he locked up his store, and now
at his death it has been opened and his
goods are found to be covered with green
mould, dust and cobwebs.
VICTOR BoULET, poor workman at
Keenville, N. Y, has made lucky find.
The path from his house to the gate had
worn down so that some stones in it be.
came troublesome. One morning he took
crowbar and began prying them up.
He found that they were cobblestones
that had been driven into the ground,
forming circle. Beneath them was a
large flat stone. His curiosity was ex-
cited, and he pried up the latter, when
he discovered beneath it brass kettle
full of money, but whether gold or silver
is not stated
GALVESTON (Texas) doctors have a
patient on exhibition, colored man, who
is afflicted with filaria. In other words,
there was little animal in his blood
usually found in the blood of dogs. The
blood was placed under the microscope,
where the little animals could be plainly
seen. They were about 1-50 of an inch
long and 10000 of an inch thick and
transparent, They are said to be trans
planted from dogs to men through mos
quito bites and even flea bites.
SOFIA PRYGUNKovA, woman aged
1875, has just died in Samara, Russia
She was in good health and vigor up to
her latest day. One of her memories was
of waiting on Napoleon ]. when he
passed through Smolensk during the
invasion of Russia. She served him a
dinner with meat cooked in the
French STYLE" and he gave her gold
piece, which she kept until her dying
day.
JOHN M. LOCKWOOD, of Sturgis, Mich,
has rare specimen of a freak of nature.
It is little lamb that walks on its front
feet only, its hind feet not touching the
ground 1t is quite lively little animal,
and follows the rest of the flock all over
the field. 1t is quite curiosity, and
presents an amusing appearance as it
stands or runs around the lot balancing
itself on its front feet.