Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-12-03
BREVITIES.

| AUG1AIZE ana WOOd cnunly .Helus
produced more oil than all the rest in
the state.
DAYTON has $1,000 people sick with
la grippe and malaria, 50 the cOrre-
spOndents say.
Ii Findlay can raise $50, 1000, foreign
capitalists will put in like amount
and build an opera house.
ENGLISH sparrows roasted with an
oyster inside of each sparrow are said
to be as toothsome rs reedbirds.
MRS. .CARLIN, wife of prominent
business man at Findlay, sued gam
bling firm for $4,000, money lost by
her husband.
THERE are II, 1,l29 saloons In Ohio.
But one county, Geaugs, has not a
single place where liquor is sold except
for medicinal purposes.
THERE seems to be much respect for
womankind in Indiana. A citizen of
that state has been sentenced to the
penitentiary three years for killing
man and IA years for whipping a
woman.
A MODERN philosopher says too
many young people depend on their
fathers money taking them through
this world and their mothers prayers
making everything all right for them
in the next.
AN exchange sigbs for the good old
days when they "blew a horn for
dinner" The exchange can have all
that diet il wants, but for US little
roast beef and vegetables fit the com
plexion better.
TIFFIN advertiser: John Cox is the
owner of q cow that is valuable. Two
inches of solid cream was skinned
from a gallon crock of her milk that
had stood twenty-four hours. The
animal is of the Jersey breed.
READ the advertisements in the
NORTHWEST snd see which of our
merchants want your trade, and are
courteous enough to ask you to call
and see their goods. 1t is the men
who advertise; that have the good
bargains to offer. People like to be
invited to call.
THE annual election of officers of the
grand lodge of Ohio Knights of Pythias
will take place by ballot in each lodge
the first meeting night in December.
The contest is chiefly for the position
Of grand keeper of the records and seas,
now filled by s. A. Court, of Toledo,
and for grand prelate.
THE piqua Tin-Plate Company has
been incorporated with capital stock
of $4,000. Theincorators appear de-
termined the Company shall have
plenty of room in which to grow.
From one to two hundred thousand
dollars are required to start genuine
tin-plate mill, it is said.
| A rHoRNLEss variety Of the black
berry has been found growing wild in
the mountains of Randolph county,
w. Va, and has been named after its
discoverer, Prof G. Millspaugh, Rubats
Msllspaugh. 1t will be cultivated at
the West Virginia agricultural expert
ment station next year.
Il PROF. r. C, MENDENHALL says the
boundary line between Ohio and In
diana ia but trifle out of place lit.
tie zig-zag, and far from being a true
line. It is not likely that it will be
changed, and ie 1t it is, will effect the
, two states but little Ohio probably
taking q slice here and Indiana there
] and vice versa.
A WRITER defines the general pur
n nose horse" that the farmer wants
0 It is horse that can plow two and
g half acres a day and keep 1t up, an
J. the same pair, taken from the plow O
J. harrow on hot day, would answer
4 drive four or five miles for the docto
>. or machine repairer at the rate of
i mile in six or seven minutes or even
e little faster without danger of loss.
When lovely woman
Dons ''pants' (which no man
81 Denies her right to wear
al She'll be no fright,
Nor e'en sight
ii To make thoughtess stare,
Vat wicked