Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-22

cotton-stalks. Seeing beautiful rain
bow across the field. and thinking at the
same time Of the lost money, Mr.. Hughes
told Ellen to go TO the end Of il aud she
would find her lost money. She took
him at his word, and Just in front Of her,
about 100 yards or more, where the end
Of the rainbow appeared TO be, she looked
on the ground and found her lost money.
THE Yale senior class has received from
firm at Tiffin, Ohio, package of circu-
lars, to be distributed to the members of
that class, offering diplomas as prizes for
the best essays, compositions, debates,
orations, ETC., by the wholesale, at prices
ranging from So TO $25. The circular,
after giving the details Of the scheme,
concludes as follows: "There are stu
dents who waste both time and parental
money in gorging brain with material
that is essentially as foreign to that par
ticular intellect as sawdust is to the hu-
man system. The large number Of pro-
ductions that we have furnished to the
best colleges in the land have given entire
satisfaction"
ONE of the most remarkable suicides re-
corded in the annals of self-destruction
occurred near Chiquet, New Brunswick,
recently. Before committing the rash
act the self-murderer, w. r. T. Jones,
dug his grave and placed rough coffin Of
his own make at the bottom. The dirt
from the grave was kept from rolling back
into the excavation by boards held i'm
place by trigger, to which string was
attached. Everything in readiness the
deliberate Mr.. Jones, as subsequent devcl-
opements revealed, got in the coffin, took
a dose of poison and then pulled the.
string and was buried beneath tons of
dirt.
THE court at Tiflis have before them
the suit of a man to recover from pro-
fessional assassin the sum of $165. The
man hired the assassin for $75 down to
kill an enemy, and promised $50 more
when he should receive proof of the death
in the shape of the enemy's ear. The
assassin brought around an ear and
received the $75, with $15 added for
tip. A few days later the man met his
enemy alive, and entirely whole as to his
ears, upon the street. An investigation
showed that the assassin had also received
800 from the enemy as a reward for
having betrayed the plot to him.
ONE of the most remarkable suits ever
tried in Appling county, Ga, was decid-
ed here, recently, in which fifty pound
catfish, through the express company,
was defendant, and Colonel e. p. Pad
gett, plaintiff. The colonel had made
preparations foran epicurean feast on his
majesty.-the cat--but the express COM
pany, feeling sighted, and believing they
were entitled to the fish or charges, re-
fused to deliver him, from which this
suit resulted. A damage suit for 81, 600
against the express company has been in
stituted.
In the stomach of COW which was
butchered at Washington Court House,
Ohio, the following articles were found:
Several nails two and three inches long,
screws, brass nails, carpet tacks, and a
number of small stones There was fully
quart of these articles in the cows
stomach. The COW was apparently in
good health before being butchered.
ALoNzA PEPPERS, Canadian farmer,
had colt which kicked at him. He put
| it in stall in the barn, and for seven
years it has not been out of the narrow
box. Its hod1s have grown so long that
the animal is curiosity worth $500 to a
New York museum, but Peppers will not
SELL He says it will take him ten more
years to get revenge.
WILLIAM CARROLL, a st. Louis gentle
man, is a professional robber of chicken
roosts, and as such is probably the cham
pion of the world. He was recently cap
tured, and proudly led the officers to a
pile of 700 heads, representing the num-
Der of chickens which he had stolen with
in the last nine months.
MOSQUITOES in Siberia, according to
the correspondent of the Russky Vedo-
mostly, published at Moscow, have bills
that pierce through the thickest clothing.
Overcoats and winter gloves furnish no
protection against them Animals, when
attacked by them, bleed all over.
For eight hours an infant Of Stephen
Burleen, of Bridgeport, Conn, lay in a
trance, and an undertaken came and put
the babe in casket. Everything was
ready for the burial when the child sud-
denly woke up and sang out Justify,
"Ma!" 1t is all right now.
A FREAK in the way Of q chicken with
three legs is attracting great attention at
the residence of Isaac Bozart, Of Peru,
Ind. The third leg comes out near the
| tail, and has two feet on it. The chicken
is healthy, and has as good prospect Of
life as an ordinary chicken.