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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

One of the most striking illustrations
of Will Carleton's world famous farm
ballad, "Betsy and I Are Out" was
learned Of by an Omaha Bee reporter
recently. The parties are Jochin Weiss
and wife, who for thirteen years have
lived on their 400 acre farm six miles
west of Omaha One Thursday alter
noon Mrs. Weiss appeared before
Squire Anderson in this city and pri-
vately made oath that her husband had
for some time been very cruel toward
her and had threatened to murder her.
A warrant was Immediately issued
and Weiss being brought before Squire
Anderson was bound over for trial in
the sum of $1,000. Then Mrs. Weiss
proceeded to have divorce papers drawn
up. While the lawyer was engaged in
doing so Mr.. Weiss entered and pro-
posed that they separate without going
into court and getting divorce. He
offered her an individual half interest
in all the property, valued at more
than 5000, 900, the farm of 400 acres
being alone valued at $500 an acre.
Mrs. Weiss accepted the proposition.
The papers were drawn then and there.
The couple have ten children; the
eldest is II years and the youngest .
babe only 3 months old. Mr.. Weiss is
about sixty and Mrs. Weiss about
forty-fve. The children, all Of whom
side with their mother, will with her
rannain on the farm.
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ACROSS the Llama,s Country.

Mr.. Rockhill's successful journey
across hitherto unexplored region in
the country of the Llamas appears to
have been attended with no little peril.
His servants were more often in chains
than out of them, and Mr.. Rockhill
himself only escared death by series
of fortunate chances, so determined
were the agents of the Llamas to frus-
trate any attempt to explore the mys-
teriously and jealousy guarded district
between Silnifu and Tatsienlu, in the
province of Derge. Manager Wet,
Vicar apostolic Of Thibet, pronounces
the feat of crossing without an escort
the immense steppes in that land of
grass, where the habitations Of men are
more to be dreaded than the solitude,
as the most difficult and dangerous that
has been accomplished in Asia during
the present century. The district is
described as teeming with natural
riches, and Mr.. RockhiIl is stated to
have mapped out route Of prime i'm
portance for commerce. - London
Nea0S.
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Illusions.

The fact of our having two eyes
makes some strange illusions possibleJ
Let paper tube be placed to the left
eye and the hand be placed by the right
side of it, and hole will appear in the
middle of the hand. This property Of
the brain of combining the images Of
the two retinas is occasionally of use
in tracing the form of an object under
the microscope without the aid of q
drawing prism. That our Judgment
of distance depends largely upon our
having two eyes may be shown by try
ing to thread o needle with one eNs
closed. Pictures must be classed as
optical illusions, for all artists attempt
to make objects on a fat surface ap-
pear to have three dimensions So
we'll is this done at times that we think
the eyes of picture follow us as we
move about the room. The effect OF
neighboring forms in misleading the
Judgment may be shown by placing
two exactly equal, somewhat horseshoe
haped pieces of cardboard with the
narrow part of the one opposed to the
broad part of the other, when the latter
will always look larger. How big does
the sun look? is question which
would get various answers. It is diff
cult to estimate the size Of an object
when there is nothing to compare IL
with. When we see people walking
on the top of small hill, the summit
Of which is sharply defined against the
sky, they appear gigantic. The
"Specter Of the Brocken," !" shadow
cast by the rising sun, may also be
mentioned. An amusing error Of
Judgment is often made when one at
tempts to show the distance from the
floor hat on a gentleman's head
would reach. If o square is divided
in one direction by parallel lines, it
appears elongated in the direction Of
the lines; in dress this is useful, for
vertical stripes make lady look much
taller and thinner.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10
ing with all h0per It rs the Star Of Bethlo-

ing with all hopper IT'S the Star OF Bethle-
hem.
Deep horror then my vitsls froze.
Death struck. / ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly a star arose
1t was the Star Of bethlehem.
oh. hearer. get your eye on It'll 1t Is
easier for you now to become a Christian
than it is to stay away from Christ and
Heaven.
When Nine. Sontag began her musical
career. she was hissed of the stage at
Vienna by the friends Of her rival. Amelia
Etelninger. who had already begun to de-
cline through her dissipation. Years passed
on. and one day Nine. Sontag. in her glory.
was riding through the streets OF Berlin
when she saw little child leading blind
woman. and she said; Come here, my little
child. come here. Who is that you are
leading by the hand?" And the little child
replied: -That's my mother; that's Amelia
Steininger. She used to be great singer.
but she lost her voice, and she cried SO
much about it that she lost her eyesight. "
Give my love to her." said Nine. Sontag,
"and tell her an old acquaintance will call
on her this afternoon"
The next week in Berlin a vast assem-
blage gathered at a benefit for that poor
blind woman, and 1t was said that Nine.
Sontag sang that night as she had never
sung before. And she took skilled oculist,
who in vain tried to give eyesight to the
poor blind woman. Until the day Of Amelia
Steiningers death Nine. Sontag took care
of her, and her daughter after her. That
was what the queen of song did for her
enemy. But. oh, hear more thrilling story
still. Blind immortal poor and lost, thou
who. when the world and Christ were rivals
for thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away
Christ now comes to give thee sight, to give
thee home, to give thee Heaven. With
more than Sontags generosity He comes
now to meet your need. With more than a
Sontag' music He comes to plead for thy
deliverance
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

"Why don't you take that half Of the
seat?" Iasked of drummer for
Boston house as we were going down
from Charleston to Savannah on
crowded train, and the half referred to
being alongside of fairly good-looking
woman.
Il quit that ten years ago." he re-
piled.
ANY story connected with it?"
Il should smilep
And when he got seated in the smok-
ing car he began:
About ten years ago, when my eye
teeth were still iu the gums, / was go
ing from Cleveland to Cincinnati.
There was plenty of room in the coach,
but 1 figured to get alongside woman
"a good locker about 80 years of age.
I found her talkative and pleasant, but
after about half an hour and while l
was patting myself on the back, she
turned on me with:
@'Can you spare me $75 to-dayY
"I laughed.
"'And don't keep me waiting she
continued.
II laughed again, although she had a
look which gave me hint of trouble.
"'You either come down with the $75
or I'll stand up here and claim to
everybody that you are my husband,
and that you ran away and I am bring
ing you backP
Il didn't laugh this time. I saw that
she meant every word of it. 1 had
about $40, and 1 tried to bluff her. ]
told her to raise row and I'd have her
arrested, but she didn't scare worth q
cent. She was springing up to denounce
me when I came to time"
"You don't say you gave her the
money!"
"But do. I counted it right out on
her lap, aud she put it into her pocket,
and said she guessed it would be great
moral lesson to me to mind my own
business in future. So it was. / got
away from her after bit, dead.
broke and mad all through, but I was
placed in such a position that couldn'i
say word. No more half-seats fol
me. One dose has worked a cure. -
NJ " Sam
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

students crowded around q district
magistrate who was taking down their
names as they entered the provincial
capital for examination. Those who
had got behind him linked his official
robes and singed his peAcock's feather.
The hien was Just turning around to
shout at them, when his form was
pulled from under him and he found
himself suddenly seated on the ground,
while the students dispersed with
shout Of derisive laughter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

The mineral palace now being erected
in Pueblo, Col, will cost about $780,
600. It will be of handsome design,
the exterior being series of square
columns and beautifully polished stone.
The carving will be ornate. All parts
of the building will be made of the pro-
ducts of Colorado's mines, the owners
in all the counties of the State having
sent in their choicest and richest speci-
mems. In the interior will be seen
every variety of mineral production
from stone and coal to pure gold, the
value of which will be at least $3.50, 900.
1t is intended to be a permanent ex-
hibit, open every day the year round,
and its originators dosire to have the
choicest specimens of mineral wealth
from every State in the Union repre-
sented side by side with the resources
of Colorado. Building-stone. marble,
and granite are also desired. The
building will bS lighted by 5000 incan-
descent electric lights. 1t is the inten-
tion to reproduce this in duplicate of
design and brilliancy of decoration and
display, but somewhat reduced in size,
as the Colorado mineral exhibit for the
Worlds Fair in Chicago, in 1892.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

DIR. CARL LUMHoLTz, a Norwegian
scientist who was sent out to Australia
several years ago by the University of
Christiana for purposes of exploration,
stated recently in lecture in San Fran
cisco that there were, by estimate, fully
two hundred thousand natives in Aus
tralia when the whites first settled
there, but now there are not over thirty
thousand. and they are fast disappear
ing before the whitening blast of civil
ization. They are the most degraded
and primitive people on earth.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

INTENSE bitterness prevails at Trieste
against the American Government, in
consequence of the lstter's determine
tion to put an end to the immunities
and privileges which the ancient city of
Tergeste, founded by the Roman EN-
peror Vespasian, has enjoyed since the
year A. d. 1719, when it was first de-
clared an Imperial Free Port, and ex-
empt from the payment of national
taxes. On June 20, 1891 Trieste will
be reduced to the level of an ordinary
seaport city of the Empire. and its COM
mercial prosperity will receive blow
that will probably prove mortal. The
action of the Austrian Government in
the matter is mainly due to the infu-
ence of Hungary, which has spent vast
sums in the construction of the quays
and docks at Fiume, and which is
naturally jealous of the extraordinary
privileges enjoyed by her rival.
Hitherto Trieste has monopolized al
most the entire shipping trade of the
dual Empire, its annual imports and
exports exceeding $15O,00O,000. Un-
fortunately, however, it has for many
years past had the reputation of being
the most disloyal city in the Empire.
Irrendentism prevails among all classes
of its Inhabitants, who lose no oppor-
tunity Of manifesting their ardent love
for everything Italian and their deep
rooted aversion for Austria. This,
doubtless, has greatly contributed to
bring about the Governments decision
to rescind its ancient charter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

DEPUTY JA1LER JOHN BURNS, form
erly one Of the wealthiest lumbermen
near Ashland, Wis, dropped dead in a
chair just as he opened the jail door to
take out squad of prisoners. The
prisoners, many of them held for seri-
GUS offenses, thought Burns was retire
ing, and made no effort to escape.
When the lailer entered half an hour
later the dead deputy was still guard
ing the prisoners.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

THERE is said to be q growing de-
mand among the working classes Of
Liverpool for books Of technology. The
report Of the Lyceum Library shows
that fiction is still far in the lead in
popular favor. The number of works
of this class circulated last year was
4O,566, while the classics found only
251 readers, and books relating to Ian
guages 230. Works on the drama
found no more than 305 readers. Poetry
is nearly three times as popular, for
there we're 854 readers in the section.
The larger figures after fiction are
magazines 10,083. history 4,201, travels
3,7S6, antiquities 1,O62 and theology
j ,O23.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

SOME little time ago writer sent an
article to magazine with the following
explanatory note: Il know that you
probably have several thousand articles
on hand, many of them by well-known
writers, while am entirely unknown.
But venture to hope that you will
look at my article at once. first, because
it is on fresh topic, and is concisely
put; secondly, because it is not folded
but sent to you between two pieces Of
pasteboard; and thirdly, because it is
typewritten." The article was promptly
accepted, and appeared in two months.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

The discoveries made by Stanley
show that the Nile is the longest river
In the world, being at least 4,1O0 miles
In length. Were the Mississippi re-
garded merely as a tributary to the
Missouri, as some geographers contend,
the latter stream would surpass the
African water-course, having length
Of $500 miles.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

ONE of Horace Greeley's nephews is
q barber in q little town in Warren
County, Pennsylvania. In personal ap-
pearance he is not unlike his distin-
Euished uncle. He thinks Horace
might also have become great barber
Il he had not got switched off in an
other direction when he was young and
immature.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

WILLIAM SPRAeuE, the famous ex-
United States Senator, the famous boy
statesman the famous War Governor,
the famous husband Of Kate Chase
Sprague, is now Chief of Police at
Narragansett Pier.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

IN New Zealand Mormon conven-
tion has just closed its sittings, at which
II was officially reported that there are
5000 Mormons in that colony, and that
500 converts were made during the past
yaar
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

CHINESE students are by no means
models Of decorum. AT recent ex-
animation at Hangchow, the young men
were 50 boisterous, climbing on the ex-
arniner's table and fighting tooth and
nail for each others essays, that the
high provincial authorities ordered the
examiner to stop proceedings and close
the hall On another occasion the
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

THERE are ruins near Gallup, CAL,
the foundation walls of which can be
traced for two miles, indicating the ex-
lstence of large town in the locality in
bypone times,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

PRoF. BURT WILDER, Of Cornell, is
making a collection of brains. He
wants brains, other peoples. He is
especially desirous that editors should
leave their brains to him when they go
into the obituary department. Great
splendid brains are what Prof. Wilder
is after now, hence this appeal to the
~IsLo,.
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Old Chocolates char.

A-many dat hep make laws hep
break um.
Honesty am good,s an laikwise a pad4s
lock on de do.
De oldah Q man de less he risk bein'
foun' out wen he lies.
Ef yo' tie hand knot in d hurry yo'
ull wish yo'd TUX Yo' time.
Ef yo' know wat tee do wild 70 hans
an feet'swimmin' or easy.
A nabah's pig may grunt loudah an
yo'n, but yo' pigs grun er mo- laik
music.-Puck.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

A 9-MuNTHs-oLD child Of John Chap
man, Of Delmar, Tioga County, Pa,
died recently under peculiarly distress
ing circumstances. The little one was
having a very troublesome time in cut
ting its teeth. The father, thinking to
relieve its sufferings, attempted to lance
the child's gums. He used common
iack-knife and performed very bun
Cling operation, cutting deeply into the
gums. He was unable to stop the flow
of blood and summoned physician.
BE, too, was powerless to stop the flow
OF the life current, and the child
breathed its last three days later.
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Diamond Cut Diamond

Farmer Eli (going home from the
grocer's) Here, Dave, hev some more
o. this cheese.
Farmer David Showed quite hunk
of it inter yer pocket, didn't ye?
Farmer Eli-Yes; but old Prunelle
got the best Of me, though. See him
charge me two cents for that half .
dozen clothes-pinsp They amt only
three cents dozen. Puck.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10
They Enioyed the Advertisement.

A rather queer sight in this city the
other day was the luggage of newly
married couple. Some practical joker
had printed large number Of labels
about six inches long and two inches
wide with the words "Just Married"
and pasted them securely on the trunks,
handbags, etc, Of the happy pair. The
joke was not discovered till the party
was ready to start on their wedding
tour. and it was too late to remove the
labels. Perhaps the couple we're too
happy to wish to conceal their fresh
bliss. At any rate the bridegroom car
ried his handbag labelled @Just Mar
ried" without any attempt at conceal
ment.-Tbe Soy;,aotield Union.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

IT is calculated that there is property
valued at $1,000. 900 at the bottom of
the Atlantic.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

ALUMINIUM bronze is coming into exi
tensive use in Germany for propellers
and other fittings for boats. The alloy
consists Of 90 per cent. Of copper and
10per cent. Of aluminium. looks like
gold, and has the same weight as iron.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

A BARBER in Wellington, Kan, has
put out his sign as follows; 4We are
here to stay. No favoritism shown;
clean towels Ised on every customer \
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

A YOUNG merchant in Berlin has mar
ried the woman that nursed him when
babe. Shc was then seventeen years
old. He is well of in worldly matters.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

The one who has suffered most from,
his own faults is the one best qualified
TO give q warning word to others. q
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TOPICS OF TIE TIMES.
A Choice Selection of Inter-
esting Items.

TEE salary Of the infant King Of
Spain is 81, $50, 900 year.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

MEN who live on workingmen's or
ganizations have no time to work. "
Ne,u Orleans PicGuaJqse.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

LOVE is as old as the first moment Of
eternity and as new at the last moment
OF time.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-10

aTHE only way 10 prevent what's
past, said Mrs. Muldoon, lis to put a
stop to it before it happens.
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On whom my hopes OF heaven dependa
Mi 1 When / htIah. be this NV shame


Again remark that we are witnesses of
the Gospels power to comfort. There are
Christian parents here who are. willing to
testify to the power Of this Gospel to com
fort. Your son had just graduated from
school or college and was going into bust
ness. and the Lord took him, Or your
daughter had just graduated from the young
Indies seminary, and you thought she was
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-13
The Natural Inequality of Man.

Men are certainly not born free and
equal in natural qualities; when they are
born, the predicates "free" and "equal' in
the political sense are not applicable to
them; and as they develop, year by year,
the differences in the political potentiali-
ties with which they really are born be-
come more and more obviously converted
into actual diferences-the inequality of
political faculty shows itself to be a neces-
sary consequence of the inequality of nat
ural faculty. 1t is probably true that the
earliest men are nomads. But among a
body of naked, wandering savages, though
there may be no verbally recognized dis
tinctions of rank or Office, superior strength
and cunning confer authority of more
valid kind than that secured by acts of
Parliament; there may be no property in
things, but the witless man will be power
ty-stricken in ideas, the clever man will
be a capitalist in that same commodity,
which in the long run buys all other com
modities; one will miss opportunities, the
Others will make them; and, proclaim hu-
man equality as loudly as you like Wit
less will serve his brother. So long as
men are men and society is society, human
equality will be dream and the assump-
ton that it does exist is as untrue in fact
as it sets the mark of impracticability on
every theory of what ought to be which
starts from it.-Prof. Hurley in Popular
Science Monthlu
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-13
Using the Whiu.

With very free horse it is desirable to
cautiously accustom him to the sound and
feel of the whip lightly drawn across him
so as not to hurt him at all. This will
prevent him from rushing whenever you
take the whip in hand, and make it posi-
BILE to touch up a slug by his side. A
slow, easiy-going horse, on the other
hand, should never feel the whip upon
him except to hurt him. Ladies and
tender-hearted drivers often do great mis-
chief to such horses by constantly Ticking
at them until the horse cares no more for
the whip than he does his own tail. With
such horses pretty heavy whip should
be used, and used not often, but so that
they will feel it and know what it means.
A horse that will not move, and move
quickly to the whip, is neither pleasant
nor safe.-N. Y. Sporting World
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-13

ton that is puzzling a great many of the
daughters of Eve to-day, it is safe to pre-
sumo. | was at loss where to seek
material two days ago, and wished that
pies could be left out of the bill of fare for
a month. / had decided that the men
folks must live one day without them,
when glance into the cupboard revealed
the dried squash bag. What a relief
The labor of stewing and straining the
chilled squashes that winters day was not
lost, for the dried pulp was in fine condi-
ton. took out rather more than enough
to cover two-quart basin, and poured
over as much water as | thought would be
abso. I'D during the night. In the morn
ing ID the squash, added less than
three p. : = TX, also, five spoonfuls of
sugar, a teaspoonful each of salt and Gin
namon and three beaten eggs. Having
lined two small and one large pie-plate
with paste, little nutmeg was grated in.
and then they were partly filled, put in
the oyei., and the rest of the filling
poured in. They were nicely baked in
fifty minutes. "First rate" was the COM
pliment bestowed. l prefer dried Hub
bard's to the "wishy -washy" summer
squashes for pies. Canning squash is Il
failure with me- The contents of half a
dozen cans that took great pains with to
make air-tight went into the waste-pail
few days ago.
SAGE TEA.
Sage tea might have a little effect"
sand lady the other day. "You know it's
quite the thing now to have heavy, rich,
glossy, dark-brown hair, and almost as
many women use sage tea now as formerly
used blondine. 1t was first used by per-
sons with dirty brown hair, but now others
apply it, too. The tea is made tolerably
strong, and applied as wash, without
soap. 1t is said to be good for the scalp"
The hair gets darker with each applica-
cation, but never dead black.
Another fashion is now in vogue among
servant girls, it is said. By the use of
beer, straight hair can be made as pretty
and kinky as any head of hair you ever
saw. NELLIE B. WARD.