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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
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New York is soon to have what almost
every European city hasa market for
cut flowers that ladies may visit with
out seeing or meeting with anything
that is disagreeable. The idea Of having
a general flower market at Union square
has by no means been abandoned, still
the project is at stand still for the
present, and no active steps VIII be taken
in the matter for some months vet. In
the meantime the Market Florists asso.
citation of New York is making arrange
ments for temporary market for cut
flowers, which viii be situated near
Union square, and which viii be opened
early in September.
Hitherto the market for cut flowers
has been situated at the foot of Thirty
fourth street, East river. No woman
would care to visit the neighborhood,
and it was unattracive in every sense.
In Paris it is quite the proper thing to
form parties to visit the flower market
in the early morning.
For obvious reasons parties Of that
kind are not formed in New York. The
regular flower market at the foot Of Ca
nal street and North river and the cut
flower market at Thirty-fourth street
are not attractive early in the morning
or late at night. The beauty Of the
flowers is more than offset by the lack
of beauty in their surroundings.-New
York Mail and Express.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02

Are women growing mannish?
That they are advancing there is no
longer any question, but in the minds Of
men who have to deal with them there
is feeling that the finer edge, the sub
lime femininity, has become blunted and
is rapidly disappearing altogether.
Said a Madison avenue street car con-
ductor: II have to grab hold Of three
women out Of every five and four out OF
five girls that ride with me to keep them
from jumping off and breaking their
necks.
'They simply will not wait till the car
stops. Getting on they jump into my
arms, and the minute they reach their
street they prepare to step ohf-always
backward. Few of them take kindly to
my cautious restraint, and there is moth
ing for me to do but grab them by the
arm and hold on until it is safe to let
them of, Then l let them go, and the
TRADE ceases. As for thanks, am glad
to escape being scratched or kicked.
There is one class of woman who always
attempts the mannish--she wears a
sailor hat and shirt front, and has to
be looked after. New York Letter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02

How the terrible fire which has de-
stroyed the village of Moor, in Hungary,
originated is thus told by our Vienna
correspondent: A farmers wife was iron
ing in her kitchen, using a fatiron filed
with charcoal, when a spark few out
and set fire to her muslin dress. In her
fright she ran into the courtyard, where
her husband and his people were thresh-
ing barley.
The barley caught fire from her, and
was no sooner ablaze than the wind
blew the sparks in all directions, setting
fire to the thatched roofs Of the houses,
which stood in two long rows forming
the main street All was SO sudden and
people were so dumfounded that for a
little time they could not even call for
help. Most Of the heads of families
were in the vineyards and their help was
not available until they had been recall
ed by the alarm bell. The old people
and children in the houses had not pres
ence of mild enough to save them
selves.
In Hungary it had not rained for a
long time and the wells contained no
water, so that nothing could be done to
save even single house. In all 100
houses were destroyed and 1S4 families
were without a roof above their heads.
The harvest was over, and the corn in
the barns was consumed in the general
confagration, which was terrible spec
tacle as night came on.-London News.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
A Hot Weather Joke.

One week when the thermometer was
running wild one of our Main street
merchants perpetrated a joke which
puzzled, if it did not alarm, those who
consulted his glass to learn how hot
they were. He took the tube from a
large mustard thermometer" and fixed
it to the board of q smaller sized one of
the same make, thus bringing about a
wild disagreement of the fluid in the
tube with the registration alongside of
it. People who consulted it were amazed
to find that it was 100 degs. in the shade,
but had to "believe their own eyes"
They ''never had known it SO hot be-
fore; neverl'' and actually seemed to
feel warmer while looking at the glass
Tntil the joke was explained. Old Col
ozy Mass Memorial
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Why the rurtsrs Danced.

There died few weeks ago in San
Francisco an old man who, generation
ago, was known in New York as "Tur-
key Levy" His name was Aaron Levy,
and in ante-bellum times he kept a sa-
loon on Chatham street, near Baxter.
The great attraction of Levys place was
a big cageon raised platform, in which
were confined three solemn turkevsw An
old chap with a cracked violin would
begin to play a tune, and the turkeys
would dance, first with slow and stately
measure, gradually becoming more ami
mated as the fiddler fddled faster, and
eventually ending with aludicrously wild
and frenzied motion, which created in
tense surprise and amusement. Old Levy
kept his secret until one night party of
inquisitiye toughs upset the cage, and
found underneath a charcoal furnace
The bottom of the cage was of metal, and
when the old man fiddled he kept time
with his foot. This put bellows in
motion, the fire burned bright, themetal
began to get hot and the turkeys began
to dance. Turkey Levy" has never had
a successor. New York Word.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Country Board.

81 never realized before" remarked .
gentleman just returned from vaea-
tion, chow the city people are guIled by
their brethren In the country, especially
on holiday occasion. You can say all
you please about the credulous farmer,
but i. was my experience that those Of
our rural friends who are in the summer
resort business are many times more
clever in the financial way than are
their brothers in the city"
"How Is that3S
"Oh, l don't care to go into details. /
took a little run last week down to q
country resort The place was miles
from civilization, and 1 had been led to
think that accommodations would be
fairly cheap. They were. There is no
doubt Of it, viz: Country blackboard
and spawned horse at $3.50 a half day;
old dugout or punt for malarious frog
pond Qake Glimmerglass in advertise
ment), at fifty cents an hour; lunch on
veranda (not including mosquitoes, bugs
and bats), 81 extra; use of croquet set,
fifty cents an hour-and so forth. l do
not blame the industrious farmer for
making hay while the sun shines, but
when it comes to advertising nice coun-
try board and then Systematically send
ing all the fresh butter, eggs and chick
ems to the store to sell to the city people
l draw the line. The next time want
nice country board / shall stay home"
Detroit Free Press.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
she Is Roofsr.

A most remarkable woman is Mary
Mills, Of No. 2i6 Mulberry street, roof
e, plumber and tinsmith, who can wipe
a joint Of pipe as neatly as any man on
Manhattan Island Mrs. Mills is Q
slight, dark haired, modest, wideawake
little woman Of 40, who does not know
that she Is a genius In 1870 she mar
ried Roofer James Mills, and went to
live with him at No. PIG Mulberry street
There were rooms back of the little shop
which the young wife converted into a
home and where her six children were
born. While the husband was out
roofing some one had to watch the shop.
Disabled clothes wringers, treacherous
boilers and exhausted kettles, dippers
and skillets came IN for repairs, and mo-
nopolized the space that was needed for
her sewing tables and cradle.
Mrs. Mills found that the quickest
way to get rid of these neighborly tins
was to mend them herself And so the
cradle was pulled over to the bench,
where the little woman rocked it with
her foot, and while her hands were en-
gagged with the soldering pot she crooned
the lullaby that peopled baby's dreams
with sunny, bonny creatures. One baby
followed another; the sewing was put
out, so was the family washing, and the
CHEEKY little tinker cut and hammered
AID soldered away, pocketing the bright
bits of silver that enabled her to run the
house and feed and clothe her little ones.
Business in those days was brisk. It
meant dime minute to her, and she
Soon learned to Join pipe in two min
utea Men and women focked to the
Mills shop with urgency jobs just to see
her work. Everybody comes on business,
though, for the neighbors know her aver
sion to gossips and busybodies. New
York World.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
A petriaed monster.

The long continued drought in central
and southern Iowa has brought to light
the petrifed remains Of some antedilu-
vian monster, over which the waters of
the Des Moines river have rolled for
centuries. The resting place of this
original first settler is in the bed Of the
river near the. little village of Percy,
il Marion county. During the great
drought Of three years ago, when the
river was lower than it had ever been
within the memory Of white men, s. r.
Dawson, q gentleman living near Percy,
claimed that he had found a "queer
thing" in the river near town. The
present dry spell proves that Dawson
was right, and that his ''queer thing" is
an extinct monster Of gigantic proper
lions. The head has become detached
and lies forty or fifty feet from the body,
which is now about fifteen yards in
length, notwithstanding the fact that
several joints are missing. At distance
Of thirteen feet from the tip of the tail
the stony monster is four feet nine inches
in breadth. st. Louis Republic.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Little Reprobates.

Nine juvenile prisoners, whose ages do
not aggregate 100 years, were in Chi
cago court the other day charged with
raising riot. Six of them were girls.
A large woman, with big lunch basket
on her arm, was the accuser. She owns
vacant cottage which was invaded by
dozen children who proceeded to ''play
house." She drove the crowd cut with
''shoe," and refused to give them their
playthings. She overturned her basket
on the courts desk and out rolled large
collection of pebbles, decayed lemons
and old shoes, which she said had been
flung at her cottage. She could not
point out the exact infant who did the
throwing, however, and SO the court
discharged them. They trooped out of
the dock with suppressed giggles. Phila-
delphia Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02

Every one knows that cats can see In
the dark, and the reason they can do so
is because Of the peculiar construction
of their eyes. You may have noticed
that in a moderate light the pupil or
black part of pussy's eye is small and Of
an oval shape, while in full glare Of
light it becomes narrow. Now in the
dark 1t expands to circle and nearly
fills the surface Of the eyeball. This pc
culiarity of the cats eyes is turned to
account in curious manner by the
Chinese.
The Able Hue relates that when he
was travelling in China he asked his at
tendant what time it was. The man
went over toa cat that was quietly bask-
ing in the sun, and examining its eyes
told the abbe that it was about two hours
after noon, and on being questioned how
he knew that he explained that the pu-
pills of cats eyes were largest in the
morning, and that they gradually grew
smaller as the light increased till they
reached their minimum at noon; that
then they began to widen again, till at
night they once more became large.
The good able was filed with admira-
tion for the ingenuity Of a people who
could use cats as clocks. But it must be
admitted that this way of telling the
time of day is rather a loose one, and
could only be trusted in very, very clear
and serene weather. for temporary gloom
or the darkness of storm would sadly
derange your four footed clock and put
it all wrong. Exchange.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Wealthy RuII Fighter.

The most famous bull fighter in Spain
has just retired from his profession. His
name is Frascuelo, and he is as rich as q
Crnsus. He was a fearless matador;
nineteen times has he been wounded
nigh unto death. The last time he barely
contrived to pull through. All the time
he lay sick at his house in Madrid the no
bility and grandees sent thrice day to
learn of his condition. His farewell BEN
eft was notable occasion. The rail-
ways organized excursions from all over
Spain; the arena simply swarmed with
people. Twenty dollars was the price
demanded for even the poorest seat.
When Frascuelo appeared the people
stood up and cheered for half an hour,
deluging him with flowers and lace and
gold pieces. The spectacle itself was an
ordinary bull fight. Frascuelo's percent
age Of the gate receipts was $4,000.
When he came to leave the theatre 2OO,-
600 people stood in the street to see and
greet the popular idol. Paris Letter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Ice water IN Haaiasoss.

An eEterprikng ho.el keeper IN Kan
sas became 50 much fatigued with hav-
ing guests come up to the counter and
ire the Is-it-hot-enough-for-you shot at
him that he resolved upon q mild and
agreeable revenge. His houss is fitted
with steam radiators, which In the win
ter carry steam and bring mosquitoes
from their haunts in February, remind
ing the guest Of summer hotel on the
Jersey coast.
But IN the summer it is hot and the
pipes are idle, and even then the people
come streaming in and want to learn if
the atmosphere is sufficiently sudorific
to be agreeable.
This set the hotel man a-thinking, and
all Of sudden an inspired thought came
to him. He would pump ice water
through the radiators.
That is what he is doing now. Ice
water under tremendous pressure Is
forced through the pipes. The rooms in
that hotel now make the average hotel
refrigerator blush. They put it to shame.
When guest now comes up to the
register and begins, "Well, Mr.. Jones, is
this ho-?" etc., Mr.. Jones breaks in
with, "Yes, it's pretty warm. Front,
show the man to No. 56."
After that guest has been in his room
five minutes he rings for fire, and the
question about the temperature is for
ever knocked out Of him. It does seem
as if the smartest men in the world were
getting into the hotel business. Hotel
World
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
n1an and wife live as strangers.

Pleasanton, Mich, has queer case
Fourteen years ago man bought lot
of land and moved there from Canada
Three years later woman settled down
on q lot near by, but did not seem to
know her neighbor, who, it appears, had
deserted her some years before. For
nine years husband and wife lived with
in gun shot of each other without ex-
changing word. Last week the man
went to his wife's house, and in less than
half an hour the two went back to the
husbands residence and have been liv-
ing together since. They are 10 years
old, and seem to be happy over their
reconciliation. Philadelphia Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Cruelty to a Young Boy.

From Clignancourt, the famous ward
which returned Gen. Boulanger, there is
reported a terrible case of cruelty to a
boy of 12. The parents of the child, it
is said, had shut him up in wardrobe
for two years and half, and had starved
him. The police were apprised and on
going to the house described to them
they found the boy, who looked like a
living skeleton. The parents were i'm
mediately arrested, and were hooted Wig
orously by large crowd as they were
being conveyed to the station. The i'll
fated child died on its way to the Hos
pital Of the Infant Jesus. The parents
were well of, and no explanation of
their inhuman conduct is forthcoming.
The mother Of the boy has been sent
back to her dwelling, where she tried to
jump out Of window during the after
noon, but was prevented from carrying
out her suicidal intention. Paris Letter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Bad His crow1. but paid H,s Fare.

When the March blizzard of 1888 was
in full swing night car was stopped at
the corner of Ninth and SAMSON streets,
and for hours and hours the one solitary
passenger was kept waiting. Finally he
grew tired and bunked for the night at a
neighboring store. But he has never
forgotten that ride for which he had
paid ten cents was cut short. On We'd
nesday night opportunity was offered
this gentleman to get even with the COM
pany. He awaited the night car at that
same corner where he left her more than
two years ago. He boarded her, recog-
nized the driver as the man who collect
ed his fare on the morning of the biz
zard. He reminded him Of the fact and
demanded that he be allowed to finish
the ride, but the driver couldn't see it
and compelled him to drop another dime.
This he did, but devoted the forty-fve
minutes of his ride to wrangling over
that dime. Philadelphia Record.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Canal Projects In France,

There are now under consideration
two projects, which if carried out will
have an immense effect on the trade of
France. The first is the project of
making Paris into port by canalizing
the Seine, so that sea going vessels can
make the passage from Havre to Paris.
The second proposal is for the construc-
ton of canal to connect the Mediter-
ranean with the bay of Biscay, with the
intention of intercepting great part of
the shipping which at present passes
through the straits of Gibraltar New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02

There is wee fellow in one Of the
suburban towns who combines in his
small frame sense of justice and a
fund Of humor quite sufficient for man
of much larger growth. A few days
ago he had severe pain in that part of
his anatomy especially devoted to in
fantile aches, and in this case as in many
others the stern visitation resulting from
an unlicensed indulgence in green fruit.
Mamma" asked the inquiring young
ster in one Of the intervals in which he
had leisure to indulge in abstract specu-
lation, mamma, who gave me this pain,
GodF'
eyes, frankie; God did,"
"Why, mammal"
"To punish you for being "a bad little
boy. frankie, who disobeyed his mamma
and ate green apples"
But you just whipped me for that"
Then followed few moments of pain,
during which there was generated the
resentment which broke out in the fol-
lowing:
"Well, mamma, I'd just thank God to
let a fellow alone that's got his mother
to punish him, and save his punishments
for orphans and children that haven't
got anybody else to see that they get
punished for being bad."-New York
Evening Sun.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
One Of cervantes' Eccentric countryms

One Of Cervantes' Eccentric Countrymen.
"No Englishman goes ever to bed,"
says a Spanish proverb, without hav-
ing committed some eccentricity, !" but
it seems that the same saying might
justly be applied tosome of DON Quixote's
countrymen At all events the old gen.
tleman of the name Of Senior Don Juan
Bantista de Guzmany Caballero, duke
de Najera, whose will has just been
proved. certainly belonged to the "ec-
centrics." In his elaborately worded
will, and after giving a great many par
ticulars as to how his funeral is to be
conducted, he goes on to say that no mo-
tice whatever is to be published Of his
death, and that it will be ''wearisome"
to him il on his journey to his last rest
ing place he will be followed by friendly
funeral coaches. Another of the old
dukes "eccentricities" consisted of keep
ing his money, amounting to e40, 900,
safely hidden away in his Golfers, whence
it viii now be removed by his usufruct
heirs Pail Mall Gazette.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
A Big RattIer.

The boss snake is monster rattler on
exhibition at ]. F. Bottoms store, in
Americus, Ga His snakeship is more than
six feet in length and measures twenty
inches in circumference in the middle,
while his caudal appendage is orna-
mented with fourteen rattles and but
ton. The hideous object was killed in a
sedge field on the Huguepin plantation
by Alfred Fields, a colored laborer, who,
after a lively fight Of several minutes,
knocked him on the head with fence
rail. Mr.. Bolton had the snakes hide
stuffed and hung up in front of his
store.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Found q Hundred Pounds.

A waiter in the smoking room of a
well known London restaurant one night
noticed a packet Of papers lying on the
floor after two customers had left the
room. On picking these up he was sur
prised to find himself in possession Of
e100 in e10 bank Of England notes. The
careless diner who throws his money
aboutin this fashion may consider himself
more fortunate than he deserves to be if
he learns from this intimation that his
money is in the hands of an honest man,
who, on finding the money, counted it
in the presence of witnesses and put it
away till called for. London News.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
A Terriflo Rrnin Worker.

Murat Halstead is q shining type of
the working journalist. He lives at the
Brevoort house. Every morning he is at
The Standard Union Office in Brooklyn
by 8 o'clock, and sometimes earlier. A
dozen pencils have been sharpened for
him, and he throws off his coat and
plunges into work without any fussy
preliminaries. He writes steadily until
1:S0 p. m. The result is over half page
Of strong, yet graceful, expression Of
editorial opinions. Then Mr.. Halstead
writes column-often a two-column--
letter to his Cincinnati paper. This he
SENDS every day, Sundays included. His
associates in Brooklyn look upon him
With wondering eyes. But Mr.. Halstead
says that he has found some difficulty in
filing in his spare time. For that reason
be has now taken up some ''outside" lit
erary work.
Some little time before he left Cincin-
natl Mr.. Halstead employed stenog-
rapher. But he filed the stenographer's
notebook in no time. Then, having so
much more time than he needed, he
would take up his pencil and busy him
self again. The consequence was that
he did about two mems work, and he
was pretty well tired out when his day
was over. With all his capacity for
work he is invariably in good spirits. He
reads the thrusts of political opponents
with anus sement-the sharper they are
the more he is amused. Then he takes
his pencil and responds. New York
Times
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
In an Indian Mound.

DR.. J. F. Snyder, Virginia. Ills,
arch@ologit, has just returned home
from Schuyler county, Ills, where he
opened an Indian mound. The corpse
was in the tumulus Of a chief. 1t
had been laid with the head to the east.
On the forehead of the decayed skeleton
was found crescent shaped ornamentI
Of thin, hammered copper. On thel
breast had been placed large sheet of
mica that no doubt had served as mir-i
ror. On one side of the skull was
small pottery vase of peculiar form. In
one hand was small stone ak, and in
the other several arrows and spearheads
of flint, few bone avis and fragments
of a large sea she'll Chicago Herald
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02
Hotel Expense. in summer.

sour receipts are about $500 a day
IN busy times" said a clerk Of the best
known hotel in New York on the Amer
icanplan, 'sbut at very dull seasons, such
as the last week in July and the first
two in August usually are, this amount
falls to about $500 per day. Now, as
our expenses are only about 10 per cent
less in dull than at busy times, the in
ference as to the comparative profit of
keeping an American hotel in midsum-
mer and in midwinter is irresistible
For We actually employ more help in
midsummer, owing to painting, house
cleaning, etc. The difference in the
receipts Of a leading hotel on the Euro
pean plan in Its dull and lively seasons
IS about as great, but the difference in
the necessary expenditures is enormous
u greatsx. New York Letter.