The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-12-18

'SuSsET" Cox says it Is like being in
Paradise to get back to America.
CHICAGO has toboggan slide 700 feet
long and Brooklyn one 280 feot high.
MAN In newfoundland claims to have
caught Goldfish weighing 1l2 pounds.
KEEN Charlestonian il selling samples
OF earthquake sand for twenty five cents.
The Prince of Wales has set the fashion
Iof wearing wide and curly brimmed hats
lin England.
Parsons, the condemned Chicago Anar-
chist, is employing his time in prison wri-
ting Political novel.
SIXTY sacks of delayed mail were re-
ceived at Deadwood, OAK, by the first stage
after the recent storm.
CERTAIN phrases are peculiar to certa in
times OF the year. Tho one that is season
able now is 'Shut that door!"
NEwsPAPERs which boastfully call them
solves family journals" publish tho Colin
CampbeIl nastiness III all its details.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD says that the people
of Now York pay 500, 900 annually for re-
cording the surplus words in their mort
cages.
The Musquakie Indians, whose reserva-
walton OF 1900 acres is situated about
three miles West Of Tama City, L., num-
ber 40O
THERE is blind boy in Brooklyn who
takes dictatiOn on a typewriter faster than
any known expert in the possession of good
eyesight.
TIE receipts of cotton at Norfolk, Va. now
average over 5000 bales per day, and the
season is expected to be tho heaviest ever
experienced there.
r. ha rrohi afO ri eap,,1cbrac ~, Ne
are now doomed to dissertation. A solid
gold idol weighing fifty pounds has been
found in one of them.
THE German Reichstag proposes to sub
stitute for dueling the casting of lots the
loser to 60 quietly of by himself and care
fully commit suicide.
Two thousands yards Of flannel have
been given to the aged poor of Derry, N.
H., this fall, according to the bequest of the
late Sylvanus Brown.
ALvAN CLARKE, the venerable and ia.
nous telescope maker of Cambridge, is
eighty-two years Of age, but hale and
hearty, and works regularly.
KINa HuMBERT, Of Italy, has sent to
President Cleveland copy of tue edition
of Dante recently printed for Victor EN-
manuel, Italian Prince Royal
sooDsIzRD hog which jumped over
board in Lake Erie when the steamer was
mile OF the shore landed in q little over
an hour in pretty good condition.
STALE bread may be made to renew it's
youth and become almost as palatable as
fresh bread by relocating it in q covered
dish to prevent undue loss Of moisture.
PLowING and skating are both going ON
in North Dakota The weather this fall
has been SO dry that the frost can not get
into the ground, 1t being thus left loose for
tho plow.
FLIRTINa with servant girls has led to
the dismissal Of one New Brunswick IN.
- police officer, and several other MEM
bers OF the force are awaiting trial on tho
same charge.
The lady who did the whirlpool in bar.
rel is not in receipt OF many offers from
museum managers. There has been over
production in the Niagara navigating in
dustry Of late.
THH King of Holland is an admirer of
American institutions. He heats his palace
at Amsterdam with an American base
burning coal stove, and he has his eve on . |
tin egg-poacher.
CALIFORNIA is said to have sent 10000 |
tons Of grapes to tho East this season.
The total crop il estimated at l7S,OOO tons,
worth on an average so q ton, or $3, $780, |
o0O in the aggregate.
EXPERIENCE shows that in every case |
where women have taken an active part in |
the Socialistic campaign their speeches |
have been more inhammatory than those |
Of the male agitators.
THEY say . woman can not keen secret.
hut commercial traveller is under arrest |
In Washington charged with marrying . |
whole family of sisters without letting one |
know his relations to the others.
MAsPERo, the Egyptologist, says it 10 all
'humbug to claim that the pyramids of |
Egypt were long in construction. Three
yor ur years, he believes, sufIiced for the |
building Of tho highest Of them.
ENsLIsH people are aghast at sentence
Jrscently pronounced by an English clergy
man who was sitting IS a magistrate. An
old msn sixty y-nins years Ofsge was brought
before hin, accused Of stealing Q shirt.
he was at once sentenced by the rever-
snd gentleman to i've years. penal ssrv-
itude.
A NOVEL attempt at suicide, highly diss-
b4reeabls in its consequences, WAS that of
ione Mrs. Carnahsn, in Jamestown, N. Y.
who placed nine-pound can OF gun-pow-
der In her lap and dropped into it q lighted
match. Mrs. Carnahan lost an eye and
destroyed the house, but sLs is still in shs
land Of tho living.
A QUILT containing a,1s2 pieces of calico
has just been completed by Mrs. Matte
Of Viola, Tenn. No two pieces in
the quilt are alike, each one having been
taken nsm different pieces OF calico.
An iron tower four hundred and FORTY
6sst high, will be erected at the top of Ok
fsrd street, London, to commemorate the
oussa's Jubilee. The contracts have been
concluded AID the work will be begun in
January.
IT is said, ON the authority of an old cir.
Gus man, that since the Charleston earth
quake thero is no money in the show busi-
ness in the South; that the colored people
have taken entirely to camp-meetings and
religious revivsls.
A LAD In South Boston having handed
his teacher note, reading Clicking don't
DO this boy no good. Talk to him." pro-
voked an inquiry that led to the discovery
hat he had himself written the note.
A RICH English lady living in Nice sent
'er the famous London doctor, Sir Andrew
Clark, to come and prescribe for her in
recent Illness. The physician was induced
10 make the journey and received the ex-
fee of SIS, ,000.
Mn. N. X. FISoHER, who farms near
Rome, Ga, killed three hogs recently which