The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-11-06


The fly and the mosquito are fast sliding
into innocuous desuetuds.
DEALERS predict that young ladies will
shortly carry walking sticks.
MARK TWAIN and Bret Harte began their
literary careers as book canvassers.
RELICS of an extinct race Of red Indians
have been found in New Foundland.
STATUE to General Francis Meaghes
will be erected at Waterford, Ireland.
AN Iowa insurance company offered $500
for the best plan for a tornado cave.
In Spain less than twenty-five per cent.
of the population can read and write.
THE French Senate has passed a bill pro.
viding for the sale of the crown jewels.
ErcHINa and printing on toadstools has
supplanted the fancy for enriching punk.
SAM JONES has got on the track of the
american sinner at last. He is in Canada.
The Caterer asserts that rice pudding
should be made day previous, and put on
lice.
GREECE, the oldest of the ancient classical
nations, is about half the size of Pennsyl-
yania.
Two Japanese vases worth S1,500 have
been given to the National Museum, Wash
dngton.
The horse population of New York is be
tween 10000 and IS, 600, and that of London
100000.
~ THE detective guard at the tomb of tho
late William Fl. Vanderbilt is to be kept on
all winter.
GROWING demand is that sleeping-cars
for the use Of women only be provided ON
bur railroads.
THE black measles said to be as fatal as
the smallpox, is raging among the Cana.
dian Indians
In st. Louis zoos pounds Of copper have
been used in making just one steam kettle
for brewery.
THE face of the Bartholdi statute is mod.
eled after the artists mother, who still
lives In Alsatia.
MICHAEL DAvITT the Irish patriot, is to
he married to Miss Yore, an heiress, who 70.
sides in Oakland, Cal.
IT is stated that Premier Mcdonald will
bring on general electi on for the Cana
dian Dominion this fall
FIVE hundred tons of grapes are esti-
m ted to have been spoiled by frost in the
vicinity of Keuka lake. N. Y.
THE star-spangled banner is seen ofteneY
IN the towns of Ireland now than any other
Tag, Save, perhaps, the green itself.
M. BARTHoLDI's last important act before
sailing for this country was to pay q visit
TO his octogenarian mother, at Alsace.
THE Canadian Booksellers and Station
ers' Association of Canada has declared
war against American Sunday newspapers
ToBAccoNIsTs say that there is remark.
able falling off in the cigarette habits of
New York. The pipe is becoming the fash
tion again.
IT is said that Mrs. A. T. Stewards great
&3,0OOOoO marble palace at New York will
be changed into dry goods store, now that
she is dead
JUSTICE Cor, who recently died at Dams.
vile, Mich, at the age of ninety two years,
once visited California, making the entire
tourney on foot.
The Chicago streetdepartment has paved
and otherwise improved forty two miles of
streets during the last year. Five miles
more are to be paved.
THE War Department has discontinued
the issuance of permits to land liquors into
Alaska for use of medicinal mechanical
or scientific purposes.
THERE are in this country 300 900 Indians
who are no more civilized than they were
go years ago, except that they know the
use of rifles and whisky.
Corn husking stories have began to ap>
pear. The first comes from Champaign
County, ILL.,, wh,re farmer is said to have
husked 100 bushels of corn in day.
AT school examination in Macomb
County, Mich, candidate for teachers
certificate wrote that there were two kinds
OF gender, "lady and gentleman"
The Northwestern Territory Council has
decided to divide the Territory into prov
1nces and secure responsible Govern
ment at the earliest possible moment.
CHINAMEN in some places on the Pacific
coast are supplying themselves with arms
1t is noticed. One gunsmith sold seventeen
Winchester rifles to Cinnamon in one week.
A WASHINGTON scientist says that tho
earthquake which heaved up the Rocky
mountains would have shaken Gown every
public building within radius of six thou
sand miles, This shows how wise it was to
postpone the completion Of the Washinton
monument.
The Mackay-Bennett Pacific Coast Postal
Telegraph Line, extending from New West
minister, British Columbia, to San Fran
cisco, . distance OF 1900 miles, is being
pushed vigorously.
lF the Chinese Nation were to pass be-
fore an observer in single file the process
sion would never cease, for q new genera
tion would be coming ON the stage as fast
as the procession moved.
Ir's scarcely possible for man and woman
70 live together without quarreling. In a
Brooklyn court, the other day, man was
charged With having broken his wife's
nose merely because she objected to his
warming his feet in her back with his boots
ON.
AN Aurora dry goods clerk sold for thirty
eonts q boz standing on the sidewalk, sup
posing the boz to be empty. The purchaser
took it home, and on opening it found that
IL contained $3.50 worth Of new goods.
THERs ID no vegetable 70 extensively
grown In japan ~ the rad sh. There are
many varieties and they vary Ia size from
0ne-fourth inch In diameter and six inches |
In length to foot in dismstor and 0vsr .
yard In length.
NH. q. SToss WI0asxs tho Canadian,
who has achieved some potoriety and no
honor ~ prophet Of st0ras, earthquakes
and other meteorological disturbances that
sever occur, Is about to retire permanently