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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
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The Newest Thing In Refrigeration.
The latest elaboration Of the refrigera-
lion process Is a new thing entirely. A
plant has just been established near Wash
InRton market from which there is to be
supplied a current d cold that will chill
all the refrigerators In the stalls Of the
market-oyer 800 in number. One Of the
men who have worked for some years to
perfect the scheme has said; "The COM
pany proposes to do what the great steam
distributing companies are doing, with q
difference. What they are doing Is to dis
tribute and sell plus units Of heat. What
we are doing is todistribute and sell minus
units of heat"
The only sense in which this Is new Is
that it is done on larger scale than ever
before. 1t is like applying the principles
of the telephone to the long distance tele-
phone. As has been already explained, the
idea Of refrigerating an icebox or house
is not new. The idea of doing it from
central plant, and supplying minus heat or
positive cold through pipes is new. 1t does
away with the handling Of ice at each box
owned by customer, and enables the
butchers and other dealers in the market
to keep their wares as long and as well as
II they were packed in Ice. In one up town
hotel, where the plan has been in opera
tion for nearly two years, the saving has
been found to be over rs per cent. of the
former cost. 1t is distinctly one of the
great steps forward in modern progress
Harper's Weekly.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
A Good Word for the College Boys.

An American college contains from 800
to 1900 boys, rich, poor, ambitious or
thoughtless, as the case may be. Among
them there is sure to be mischief making
element. The escapades of these are tele-
graphed over the country and commented
on by sternly indignant press. Had the
indiscretions been committed by boys out
of college they would never have attracted
even passing attention. From these widely
circulated stories, always exaggerated and
affecting at most but handful of students,
the idea has sprung that to send boy to
college is to cast him into moral fiery
furnace, where he will be assailed by every
form of temptation. This is as far from
the truth as it can we'll be.
There are few temptations in college life
which are not encountered in the everyday
world On the other hand, there is a stand
ard of college morals which must be lived
up to by any student who cares to preserve
mis- social standing among his fellows
This is not, in some ways, high standard,
but it is higher than any to be found in
common use outside college walls. To live
by it is to acquire the habits of thought
and the manners Of a gentleman. The
only wonder is that college disturbances
are so rare-Albany journal.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
How Insects Breathe.

If we take any moderately large insect
say wasp or hornet-we can see,
even with the naked eye. that series Of
small spotlike marks run along the side
of the body. These apparent spots,
which are eighteen or twenty in num-
ber, are in fact the apertures through
which air is admitted into the system,
and are generally formed in such man
ner that no extraneous matter can by
any possibility find entrance.
Sometimes they are furnished with a
pair Of horny caps, which can be opened
and closed at the will of the insect; in
other cases they are densely fringed with
stiff interlacing bristles forming filter,
which allows air, and air alone, to pass;
but the apparatus, Of whatever charac-
ter it may be, is so wonderfully perfect
in its actions that it has been found i'm
possible to injure the body of a dead in
sect with even so subtle q medium as
spirits Of wine, although the subject was
first immersed in the fluid and then
placed beneath the receiver of an air
pump. The apertures in question COM
municate with two large breathing
tubes, which extend through the entire
length Of the body.
From these main tubes are given off
innumerable branches, which run in all
directions and continually divide and
subdivide, until wonderfully intricate
network is formed pervading every part
of the structure and penetrating even to
the antenna. Lutheran Observer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Red Hair the Fashion.

The one thing absolutely de rigueur is
red hair. Blends and brunettes seem
to have been wiped off the face of the
earth so far as Paris is concerned, and
there is hardly one woman in hundred
who cannot boast of locks the shade that
Titan loved. A wonderful preparation
is to be had which works the transforma-
ton. 1t is put on at night ahd the head
bandaged in many folds Of cloth.
In the morning comes the narrowing
moment. The swathings are removed,
but such are the peculiar properties of
the compound that no one can tell be-
forehand whether the hair will turn out
the desired hue or purple or green. Hit
is red the color stays for month or two,
and if it is green nobody knows what
happens, for the wretched victim retires
to the country, not to be seen again for
ct least a year.-Paris Letter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Grandma's Cure for Dandruif.

"We often scof at the ancient grand
mother remedies" said an up town ply
sician the other day in conversation with
patient, "but our forefathers used to
get a power of comfort from them, never
theless, and cheaply too. Science has
progressed wonderfully, of course, and
we are much better off on the whole now
than were our sires, but we forget a
great many of the little things. Now l
notice that you are troubled with dan
druff, and I'll wager that you have spent
many dollars on different alleged cures,
and you are worse off now than when
you commenced. Let me give you a
grandmother prescription that never
fails. Go to drug store and buy five
cents worth of salts of TARTAR Dissolve
half of it in warm water and wash the
head thoroughly. Repeat this at inter-
walls of three months for year, and you
won't be annoyed with dandruf any
more. New York Recorder
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

Lovers at a Baseball Game.

It may have been the rain that hoodooed
tie Oaklands, or perhaps it was that
touching little scene from Romeo and
Juliet" enacted in one of the boxes. Along
about the middle of the game some one in
the grand stand discovered the simper-
ing, sad eyed lovers in the act of plighting
their troth in the box.
They had evidently wandered in from
the Alfalfa girded regions round about
Milpitas to take in the Decoration Day ex.
ercfses. Then somebody steered them out
to the ball park, where they placed them
selves on exhibition in their great two
hearts-that-beat-as- one act.
In plain sight of 1000 people and the
players they sat lovingly clasped in each
others arms, thinking thoughts too utterly
utter for words. First he would raptur-
ously kiss the maiden and then gaze down
into the sweet, soulful depths of her lovelit
eyes, and she would bury her face in his
celuloid collar and sigh like a bathtub ex-
haust.
'Does her love her little tootsey?" he
would exclaim with all the fervency of
which strong man is capable.
"Well, should gurgle, Petite" and the
listening winds waited the answer to the
eight thousand expectant ears in the grand
stand.
They took no interest whatever in the
game as they sat in silent bliss, utterly OBJ
livious to the shouts of "Shut the door"
and "Break away" Both audience and
players forgot the game for three innings
while watching the unconscious young
couple in the box.
Once, while the uproar was at its height,
Romeo tore himself away from Juliet's
side long enough to go out on the balcony
and ascertain, if possible, the cause of the
excitement. He glanced down toward the
score board, thinking, perhaps, that some
important news had just arrived from San
Jose. He then returned to the impatient
maiden, who had not been kissed for nearly
two seconds, and made it as pleasant for
her as he could.
Not until the game was over did the
young folks learn that their sacred seance
in the box had been exposed to the vulgar
gaze of cold, unfeeling world. AS they
were leaving the park some one exclaimed,
"There they are" and the crowd gave them
a vigorous round of applause. The girl
wound veil around her crimson cheeks,
and Romeo instinctively felt in his girdle
for dagger with which to stab himself to
death.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Old Words and Nov.

Some Of the words used by old fash.
Toned country people, and laughed at by
those who hear them, are not corrup-
tons Of language, but merely survivals
Of old forms-forms so old that many
educated persons have forgotten, or per-
haps have never known, that they were
once in good and regular standing as
English words
If an old woman ''axes your pardon"
she Is speaking as the most careful Eng
ish scholars spoke for hundreds Of years,
down almost to the end Of the Sixteenth
century, Thus in Wycliffe's New Tes-
tament-about 13S0-we read, "What
man Of you is, that if his some axe hym
breed, whethir he wole take hym
stoon7' And Coverdale's translation Of
the gospel according to st. Matthew,
published in 1886. has "Axe and it shall
be given you"
So, too, when the same old woman
says 'piny" instead of peony, she is only
following the ancient usage. In William
Brownies "Britannia's Pastorals, " print
ed in 1916, the poet contrasts "the ruddy
piny with the lighter rose"
1t amuses the schoolgirl of the pres
ent day to hear hlacs called "laylocks,"
but Walter Savage Landor always said
"laylocks, following, as his biographer
tells US, pronunciation traditional in
many old English families"
When an Irishman speaks of his 'fader
and moder" he is guilty of nothing worse
than talking older English than we are
accustomed to hear. "Worschipe thi
fadir and thi modir," says Wycliffe's
New Testament.
"Axe," "laylock" and the like are
now vulgarisms, and as such are to be
avoided, but it is well enough to know
that they were once as well received in
good society as their successors are at
present, Youths COMPANION.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
A 1aAMp,s SONG.

WSnderin' In the June time, down around the
outen hsarin' o. tho world, a-dOEin' under
o. the Alders an the willers, all a-drippin' in
the water,
Kinder seems to me like ivinf but they tell
me how I'd oughter
Be In tho sun a-workin' stead % watchin'
daisies growin',
Be a-whetin' up reaper, an a-sweatin', an q
mowin'
OF f'em down to dry.
But I'd somehow rather watch the beauties
bobbin' an a-growing',
But can't tell why.
wanderin' In the flower time, up long the val
ley,
watchin' little grasses grow, an Matters gor-
geous rally
From the wind storms o. winter; medders
growin' yeller,
The brooks a-singin' happily, tho sky growin'
meller,
Catchin' up reflections o. the hues the earth's
a-brewin',
Kinder gawkin' at 'em meetin'in the distance
an a-wooin',
Or iovin' here to lie,
Listenin' to the pigeons a-nestin' an a-oooin',
Butt can't tell why.
sneakin' up an down the creek, a-peakin' at
the fishes,
Runnin' over in my head lazy lot o. wishes
Nothin' much to talk about-wish twas always
summer,
Err every skeeter ct I'd catch ed turn part
ridge drummer
Then jes' a-layin' down again, hands happin'
in the river,
outen hearin' o. the world. breathin' blessings
to the giver
o. the earth an meller sky,
Contented like an happy, jes' to watch the
water quiver,
But can't tell why.
Walter NJ. Hazeltine in Good Housekeeping.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

1t has come to be usual thing if "any.
thing ails baby" to be advised by the ply
sician to make free use of limewater,
which he says must be put with the milk.
Now, lime is strong alkali, and it should
be used with care and caution, and its ef-
feet on the baby closely watched.
1t is in itself such harmless looking and
tasteless medicine that many mothers think
1t scarcely necessary even to measure the
quantity used, and great detrimentis is done
the baby because of such carelessness. II
used too freely it causes constipation, and in
consequence many i'll effects follow its use.
Taken in small doses, carefully measured,
lime water is of great benefit to infants
Detroit Free Press.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Not Cast Down,

II have always held" said cheerful
man, "that happy disposition and am
pie wealth would enable one to bear up
pretty well under the ordinary misfor-
tunes Of life. Riding up town the other
day on the elevated railroad | sat next
to fine looking couple, evidently hus-
band and wife, and evidently possessed
of abundant means. AS they chatted
along pleasantly together he mentioned
incidentally the fact that he had that
morning lost $4,000 on stocks. She said,
Did your and then they didn't bother
about that any more, but branched off
on something else. New York Sun.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
The First Departure for the vor,d,s Fair

The t1rst departure Tor the Worlds Fair.
A small, rosy checked girl picked up her
doll and her dolls trunk and trudged a
mile or more over frosty roads until she
reached railway station. There she
boarded the first train that came along
and contentedly settled herself and her
doll into vacant seat.
BY and by the conductor appeared. He
looked down at the little woman, who was
pointing out flying trees and other objects
of interest to her travelling companion,
the doll.
"Where are you going little one~ asked
the big man with buttons.
"Why, Pm going to the Worlds fair, of
course"
The conductor coughed
AREN'T you rather earlyf" he asked. 81
don't believe the doors are open yet"
"Dear me-" said the child in alarm,
"what shall dor"
"Perhaps you had better go home and
ask your mother" suggested the conductor.
And she did. She was loaded with pref
ty things by interested fellow passengers,
and returned to her mother in safety. We
may reasonably expect that she will be
among the first visitors when the Worlds
fair opens its householder Days.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Humanity Runs in Streaks.

Peculiar humanity runs in streaks. On
certain days you will notice surprising
number of tall people. Sometimes it's
cross eyed people. On other occasions
the noticeably short persons have their
innings. Then one day somebody equally
observant will say, "What a remarkable
array Of the crippled, the lame, the
manned, the dwarfed, the generally de-
formed there are out today?" And while
you are commenting on it another comes
along and then another and another until
the idea makes you thirsty.-New York
Herald.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Effect Of Cold and Accident on Hair

Arctic voyagers and other travellers in
frigid regions have frequently been SUBJ
ject to canities as the effect of cold, a
circumstance quite in keeping with the
fact that animals, such as the bear, fox
and lemming, inhabitants of the ex-
treme north, have hirsute coverings of
white. The writer was once acquainted
with man named Sweeny, formerly a
sailor, whose hair was jet black except a
snow white tuft about the middle of the
frontal suture, where the scalp had been
taken off through a fall from a mast on
shipboard. Where burns and severe
local infammations have resulted in
loss Of portion of the scalp, the injured
part has similarly been covered in many
cases with a growth of white hair
Hyland c. Kirk in New York Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
A Combing Towel.

A ''combing towew is an American de-
vice for the toilet. 1t consists of large
towel, doubled in the center, slit and cut
out for the neck SO that it will hang evenly
over the shoulders when the slit is buttoned
up, and thus protect the clothing while the
hair is being brushed. The prettiest comb
ing towels are of plain white damask linen.
hemstitched on the ends and powdered
with flowers or decorated with some suit
able embroidery. A fall of lace at either
end is not an inappropriate decoration. A
pretty little mbing sack, however, is
dantier than any combing towel, though it
is not as available on all occasions New
York Tribune.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Dislikes Elevators.

1t is popularity of Mr.. Clarence A.
Seward, president of the Union club,
that he will never ride on the elevated
road. He prefers the conservative street
car, and when the street cars are not
running he walks. Mr.. Seward also has
an aversion to passenger elevators in tall
buildings. 1t is said by some Of his
closest friends that the only elevator that
he will trust himself in is the one in the
Union club. His Office in Nassau street
is on the third floor, and there he walks
up and down stairs.-New York Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

A new method Of annealing small
pieces of steel is to heat them as slowly
as possible, and when at red heat put
them between two pieces Of dry board
and screw them up in a wise. The steel
burns into the boards, which, coming to-
gether, form an air tight charcoal bed.
When cool the steel is found to be thor
oughly annealed.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Cause Of White Ehir After Turning.

Says DR.. Leonard, in explaining the
cause of the growth of white hair after
burns or abrasions of the scalp: "The
burn or infammatory action has ex-
tended deep enough to destroy the top of
the papilla, but not enough to implicate
the base, and hence a white hair is the
result. If we represent the papilla in
the follicle diagrammatically by the let
ter A, then that portion above the cross
bar in the letter will represent the color
forming part of the papilla; that below,
the hair forming portion"
1t is very remarkable that every burn
or abrasion of the scalp resulting in the
growth Of white hair should be so &C.
curately graduated as to just take off
the top of the papilla-so remarkable, in
fact, that we venture to doubt it and to
set forth different view of the color
producing process in the hair.-Hyland
G. Kirk in New York Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

Some have so charming manner as
to lead you to think that you are, for
them, the only person Of interest in the
world. Observation of their way with
others may make you modify your opin-
ion of the manner which once seemed so
charming,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
A Two Edged Argument.

Fraulein Silberstein- Why, papa, you
might have advanced that money to
Lieutenant Won Nj
Herr Silberstein-l know him too
little
Fraulein S.-Ach, that is only an ex-
cuse, for you refused Herr & as we'll
only the other day.
Herr ST. know him too we'll.
tige Blatter,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

The London mother places book I'M
der the head of the new born infant that
it may be quick at reading, and puts
money into its first bath to guarantee iht
future wealth.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

Andrew Carnegie has the short, thick
set figure that characterized Grant, Meis-
sonier and many other notable 'little"
men. He wears full gray beard, and
his eyes are gray and kindly.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
Knew What He Wanted.

Seedy Observation-Disclosures me to
your friend.
Jones-Not much. I'd rather lend you
the money myself. -Harpers Ba gar
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

Jules Verne did not at once discover
the road to success, for he was thirty-five'
years old when his first novel appeared,
and he had previously tried his hand atI
various things. r@
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-02-07

The ground is nearly all covered with
snow but it only reaches two miles south
of Banner, there being none on the
Smoky river.
Our literary is well attended and very
interesting. especially the paper, which
has a continued story entitled: "Lost IN a
blizzard, or life on the frontier"
William Riggs has been summoned as
a juror for the Cove county court. This
is a good choice as Billy is in the
counting business.
Mr.. Rice. of Atchison, Kansas. who
has nearly 200 head of cattle at S. b.
North's, is expected here in a few days to
look after his interests in the stock and
he may buy more cattle, and possibly a
stock rancho near here. NAsBY.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-02-07
GIBBS GROVE.
Some sickness yet.

Some sickness yet.
The snow is nearly all gone.
Locals are very scarce now days,
Mr.. LaRue took flying trip to Ogallah
and the Forestry Station last Friday.
Mr.. John Kelley was on the sick list
last week but is some better at present.
We can not say that the Ground Hog
saw his shadow on the second, or not, but
he could if he had looked.
TIE Ogallah Kicker appears to have a
great deal of knowledge about the future
regions. Wonder if he is Spiritualist.
Mr. Britt and Mr.. LaRue are putting
up ice this week. The ice is about six
inches thick and of fair quality. This
means plenty of ice cream next summer,
Mr.. LaRue and d. Countryman atten-
ded the Pension examin alton at Wa-Keen-
ey on last Wednesday. The former on
an Original and the latter on an Increase
claim.
SOONER.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-02-07
FAIRvIEwINGs. FEB. A.
Schwanbeck is putting up ice.

Schwanbeck is putting up ice.
What makes Almena come home sc
often?
J. NJ Rhoads has sold part OF his
straw to E. d. Wheeler of Wa-Keeney.
Rob Forester was in the neighborhood
trying to buy cattle.
c. Wolf went to town yesterday to see
about helping E. D. Wheeler put up ice
Owing to the inclemency of the weather
We did not get our items to market last
week.
John Best and Charles Summers were
absent from school Monday, they had to
help take care of their stock.
We can't help but think to our self
Well won't say what, brother B. But then
you know it makes us think something is
going to be done.
We are sorry to see "Ketchum and
Lickum" giving their notice SO soon.
One would naturally suppose they expec-
ted Skinnum and Eatum" around soon.
Our school has sent off for six new
plays for their entertainments. Two or
thee will be played at our school house
in about a month. Watch these columns
for the notice..
To-day, Wednesday, J. NJ. Rhoads and
wife celebrated their 22nd. anniversary. J.
NJ. kept the largest turkey he had for the
occasion, it weighed in full dress 18lbs.
They knew their oldest boy was big
eater.
Henry Wish of Stockton has been visit
ing the Wolff boys since Christmas. He
will return home tomorrow. He said he
would probably be back in about two
months. We are only guessing, but think
he is coming to visit the boys sister at
that time.
A young man in this neighborhaod
who you may know as G. w. was working
in town some time ago. We are told. he
got up of morning and built fires for the
hired girl, and sometimes helped her pre-
pare for breakfast and sweep the kitchen
before the rest of the folks were astir.
H says if A ever falls out of the
wagon when she is riding with him, it
will not be his fault. Now no doubt A.
believes it, as they drove to town Sunday
afternoon she surely did not shiver with
cold while HIS strong arm remained where
it was when passed a certain young man,
who was very much surprised at seeing a
young man with his arm out of place TAX |
ing it so easy. O'FLARITY.