Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-16
NOTES AND ooMMEKrs

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Three in Brooklyn, viz, Dn. Lyman
Abbott, storrs and Behrends, receive
BIO, 900 each. DR.. Gunsaulus, Of Chi
sago, has salary of $4,000, and DR..
Gregg, of Boston, has 81, 900.
THos. R. BALLENTrNE has truck farm
of $50 acres near Norfolk, Va, and from
It sells on an average $50, 900 worth of
vegetables a year, of which $40, 900 is
profit. He says he is a truck farmer be-
cause he loves the business and makes it
pay because he gives it close attention
This year he has shipped between III
300 and $4,000 barrels of spinach to
New York.
BUFFALoEs are every year becoming
more and more scarce, the Indians are
approaching determination, and we are
told that soon there will be no more
seals. 1t may not be long before these
distinctive products of this hemisphere
will have become mere memories. The
world and its inhabitants are changing
more rapidly than we imagine, and the
reality of to-day becomes merely the
tradition of tomorrow.
THIs years mimic wars, conducted in
various lands on an unprecedented scale,
have not, as rule, ended in smoke. AL
most every country has been experiment.
| ing with smokeless powder with the net
result that it will be obviously in univer-
sal use at the opening of the next big
war. OF its peculiarities we get the most
detailed accounts from France, where
| opinions differ as to the balance of its
benefits and shortcomings.
THERE is a man in Paris named
Boecker, who may fairly be considered to
be quite tho meanest among all the mean
rogues which great city can produce.
Boecker planned robbery aud induced
his wife to commit it. Then he went to
the police and said that his conscience
| compelled him to the painful duty of de-
nouncing hls wife, hoping thereby to
escape punishment. But inquiry proved
that he, and not his wife had planned
the theft, and now the owner of this ten
der conscience is awaiting trial in Jail.
THE San Francisco Chronicle estimates
that the fruit shipments from California
to the East this year win reach 10000
carloads, or 200, 900, 900 pounds. Itsays'
cat an average price of cents pound
which may be considered low, as the
above embraces vast quantity of dried
fruit, which sells at from 5 to 20 cents
pound-our surplus for export will bring
the State at least $40, 900, 900. This is
pretty good showing for section in
which apples and pears sold freely at
81. so to So a pound forty years ago, and
which at that time was deemed by mos
persons unfit for any other purpose thar
to dig gold and raise cattle for their hidef
and tallow."
SEVENTEEN years ago, " says William
F. Poole, Ill. D., ''there was not a lib
rary or reading room Of any description
in Chicago to which the public had ac
cess. To-day its Public Library has
larger use and circulation of books than
any other institution in the country; and
private munifcence has provided larger
endowments than were ever before furn.
iSAed by individual donors for establish.
ing and maintaining two public reference
libraries for the especial use Of scholars
one in the north and the other in the
south division of the city. Each of these
foundations, largely invested in city
property, and rapidly increasing in value,
amounts at the present time to about S3,
900, 0O0.n
THERE is no romance in the stories OF
suffering and privation to which Mr..
O'Brien, the Irish leader, mas been sub.
jected by the English Government in his
fight for home rule, says the New York
Sun. He is man of great mental and
nervous energy, but it is the general
opinion among Irishmen who know him
we'll across the water that his years are
numbered. Five years ago he was ro
bust, sturdy, and endowed with indefat-
igable strength. Now he is emaciated,
bent, with hollow chest and sunken
cheeks; his eye has q feverish brightness,
and his speeches are constantly interrup
ted by hacking cough which he con-
tracted in jail. Nothing ever abates his
enthusiasm for his work, however. It's
to his sincerity that he owes his enor-
nous influence with the Irish people.
FIFTEEN months ago." says man
who has just been there, ssthere were
not dozen people in Middlesbcrough,
Ky. Now it has population of 6, 600,
An English syndicate worth $50, 900, ,00O
is building the town. They have spent
100000 in Strengthening creek which
runs through it, and have encircled it
with a seventeen-mile dummy line.
They have put up electric cars and cleo
trio lights and have about completed
seven furnaces. Business buildings cost.
ing less than $40, 900 are not allowed to
be built--and lots are selling for as
much as $3.50 front foot. The bonds
of the circular dummy line have been
gobbled upat 115. The syndicate owns
100, 900 acres in and around the place
and has already realized million and
half dollars on the investment. Mr.. Ar
thur, the manager for the syndicate, gets
$35, ,0Co year for his services, and last
Christmas they made him d present OF
$50, 900. Mind, haven't told you half
Of what know about this fifteen months
old town.
AN American gentleman who was re-
Gently at dinner party in London had d
rather curious experience. There was
also present, says the New York Tribune,
an extremely aristocratic but insular
Briton, with that large contempt for
things American that even to-day few
Englishmen display. Nevertheless he
deigned to notice the American gentle
man SO far as to ask him great number
of questions about the United States,
some of them very ludicrous. Finally
the question Of geography came up, and