The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02
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MASSACHUSETTS boasts Of having GO art
schools and 11,000 art students.
ONs haul Of seine near Bridgeport CT,
| yielded 5000 pounds of bluefsh.
A NRy form of iron street paving has
been trfed in Chicago on Madison street.
PHILADELPHIA claims that one-fifth Of its
| population is enrolled in its Sunday schools.
A BABY was seized as security for rent
I'm little Pennsylvania town the other
day.
SHORTHAND has been introduced in the
Reading (Pa) high-schools as an optional
study.
FoRTY-Two new chemical elements ars
reported as discovered in the past ten
years.
THE unveiling of the Statue of Liberty
Enlightening the World is fixed for Octo-
Der %.
THE present popularity of the chestnus
belle ought to give the red-headed girl a
chance.
The house in which General Hancock was
born, near Lonsdale Pa, was burned few
days ago.
The production of quicksilver in Cali
tornia has dropped to the lowest point for
many years.
A PHILADELPHIA child, on seeing negro
baby for the first time, asked, SIS that .
spoiled child!"
JERRY RUsK, who has just been renomi
mated for Governor Of Wisconsin, used to
be stage driver.
IT is said that watercress destroys the
| toxic principle of tobacco without injuring
its other properties.
A MONTAGUE, MICH, boy fell head fore.
most in barrel containing eight inches OF
water and was drowned.
In Charleston, S. c., the scene of the re-
nent earthquake, there live 1850 colored
persons and 27,605 whites.
THE conscience fund in the Treasury at
Washington is approaching the round sum
Ut quarter of a million Of dollars.
Ell CoYoTE appears to have been the
Jesse James of Mexico, and met very much
the same fate as his Missouri prototype.
AN Egyptian mummy on exhibition at
the Iowa State Fair was seized by land.
aord in payment of the owners board bill.
A New YORK policeman has been robbed
OF a $400 diamond pin. Preserving the
peace mnst be paying business in Gotham.
THREE Fall River, Mass, policemen have
been suspended for blowing beans across
the street into the Salvation Army bar
racks.
THE new issue of two-dollar silver certifi-
Gates bears a portrait of the late Major
General W. S. Hancock in full dress uni
form.
SENATOR DAWES says there are to-day
BOZ, 600 Indians who, to all intents and pur-
poses, are as uncivilized as they were 250
years ago.
THE Car of Russia adds an abnormal
fear of hydrophobia to all the dangers,
real and imaginary, which surround his
royal path.
The Chinese notion of England is said to
be that of "a tribute-bearing nation of men
without pigtails, governed by lady with
large feet.''
A FORCE of ditchers in Council Bluffs,
Ia, recently exhumed well-preserved
wagon that had been buried since the old
Mormon days.
PREACHERS have much to be thankful for.
No man will be allowed to ring a chestnut
gong in q church, no mattor how old the
tsermon may be.
IT cost a fashionable lady who was So
5ourning at Saratoga this summer $500 for
DOCTORS bills for attendance on pet dog
which was taken sick
The Boston Advertiser thinks that voices
In Boston are running too much to tenor,
and ascribes the fact to the use of the
telephone and high collars.
A SINGLE block in the vicinity of Castle
Garden, and which is about 125 by 800 feet,
rontains no less than thirty-five saloons, or
houses where liquors can be obtained.
SPEAKING Of thirteen as an unlucky num-
Sber, how about the original thirteen colo
pies and the Nation that has grown from
them-any thing unlucky about thems
Thirteenly not.
GERMANY, notwithstanding its weakness
xor wind and string instruments, which
makes that instrument a mere side issue,
leads the world by turning out 1900
pianos per annum.
THE greatest balloon in the world has
been constructed at San Francisco by Mr..
Van Tassel. It will hold $1,000 cubic feet
tof gas, and has been made for the purpose
pf traversing the American continent from
ocean to ocean.
Sir john SLOAN, Of England, died in 1887.
in accordance with his will, twenty-five
Fooms in Lincoln Inn Fields have been
sealed and unopened since death. They
Will be examined ON November %, as the
will provides. Their contents are mys-
hsry.
The King Of Portugal's marriage has
finally been settled with the Princess Hem
Fietta, younger daughter of the Comte de
Rlandres. Princess Henrietta will receive
m immense dowry. She is the favorite of
her father, who is among the richest princes
In Europe.
TAKING four heads of hair of equal
weight, patient German Psychologist
found the red one to contain about 90. .OOC
hairs, the black lO3, 900, the brown LOG, 900,
and the blonde 10000
INDIAN BELLIES of Alaska wear a thick
coating of oil and SCOT on their faces when
rot In full toilet. This is said to preserve
fhe complexion, which, after a thorough
Dcrubbing looks as fair and smooth u
good article of soft-soap.
A MOST astonishing phenomenon of the
Japanese earthquake was the splitting of
he Papundayang Mountain. In flash of
time it was split into seven parts. Where
Ne lone mountain had stood loomed up
sven peaks, each some 1000 feet high.
EvERy street In the City Of Mexico is as
traight as streets can be made, yet 1t Is a
~ that on every corner there shall he n