The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
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THE Java coffee crop is this season re
ported nearly failure.
LAcos, dLL.) boys are fined 81 each /
found guilty of swearing.
THIRTY-oSE Universalist women are nov
regularly ordained pastors.
In Poland the male guests have to pay
dollar each to kiss the bride
The owners photograph must now ap
pear on all passports in Turkey.
A CALF entered the parlor Of Blooming
ton woman, stole Bible and ate it,
BAR silver in New York has reached 81 ~
which is the lowest point yet touched.
ABBE FRANZ LIszT, the pianist and musi
cal composer, died at Bayreuth, few day.
ago.
LONDON has female cnb.driver She ex
poets to elope with a nice young man o.
fine family.
Two Ainsworth tNeb.) farmers hav,
spent 5000 in lawsuit over the possession
of a plowshare
Two THOUSAND and forty of the 3,ssi
Pennsylvania post-ofiices are in the hand.
of the Democrats.
NOTHING makes the average Rhode
Islander shell out" quicker than the sight
of a porcelain egg.
ACCORDING to the latest census Paris has
population of 2,254, ,3O6, an increase OF
only 143iS since 1881.
THE production of cane sugar in 1Ss5-sf
was 2,9O5,0OO tons, an increase of 1873 0OC
tons over that of 1SS4-S5.
New JERSEY man, while in bathing,
had his clothes stolen, and was compelled
to walk home in barrel.
A JoHSsTowN PENN woman has been
sued by neighbor for the theft of pair
of scissors valued at ten cents
NINE one-leggcd men played a game of
base ball against nine one-armed men in
Southern Illinois the other day.
A Ply is said to have $1,000 eyes. No
wonder he is careless where he leaves his
specks, says the Philadelphia Item.
AN Ottawa dispatch states that the pur.
chase of bait and supplies by American
vessels has been effectually stopped.
'MATnlLDE" is the name just given the
small planet picked up in the vastness Of
Heaven by DIR. Palisa November IL last.
AN enormous serpent, thirty feet long, is
said to be one of the latest attractions at
Yellowstone Park. People come miles to
see it.
THE Boston courts have decided that bar
bers in that city may keep open shops on
Sunday. This was close shave for the
BARRIERS.
THE Court of Common Pleas in New York
City refused to issue naturalization papers
to a man because he announced himself as
an Atheist.
THE sons-in-law of the late Brigham
Young intend to hold convention in Utah
il a building can be found large enough to
hold them.
QUEEN VICTORIA proposes to make n royal
progress through the United Kingdom next
year to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of her reign.
THE Welsh members of the House of Com
mons propose to form national party in
Parliament on the same lines as the Par
nellite party.
JoHN HINER, once the wealthiest and
most influential colored man in the West,
is now an inmate of the poor-house at
Keokuk, Iowa.
OREGON pays bounty of two cents for
every squirrel killed, and one man was re-
Gently paid for 125,0OO squirrel tails which
he had collected
The Burgomaster of Amsterdam has for
hidden the sale of newspapers in the streets,
''because they inhamed the populace dur
ing the recent riots"
RIPE and palatable bananas have been
grown in Sacramento garden this season
without any sort of artificial protection,
and fully exposed to the air.
MAN in Pittsburgh has just patented a
machine with which to blow window glass
by compressed air, which, it is claimed,
will revolutionize the business.
The prolonged and serious drouth in the
Northwest has been partially broken by
recent light rains, and the crop prospects
are improving in consequence.
JOHN W. KEELY, the Motor man, used to
be head-waiter at hotel. The Motor
stockholders consider him the most won
derful waiter" that ever existed.
EDISON is now devoting his time to exper-
iments with the magnetic currents of the
earth. He hopes to locate them so as to
render telegraph wires wholly superhuous.
The Commodore Garrison house at Long
Branch is considered the costliest and most
AAAo5 5h'iSohe III -Nc" Jefsey. Inc cOmmO-
dore's young widow. it is said, values it at
100000.
HENRY PALMER, colored of Harrisburg.
Pa, is surprising all who know him bv
turning white. The transformation has
been going on for some time, and he is now
spotted all over.
| TIE border of Rhode Island is being
greatly extended by recent boundary
survey. 1t was discovered on running the
boundary line between Connecticut and
Rhode Island that the latter State was en-.
title to four acres of additional land
! MARY SMITH stands six feet in her boots
and works single-handed largo and
hourishing farm few miles from Still
water, Mimi. When she plows she wears
mems trowsers, and her physical aspect is
always intimidating. She has no use in the
world for any man, and seems to love only
her mule team, which she drives into Still.
water three or four times week.
A SHEPHERD dog, raised in valinia, Mich,
was taken to Nebraska by its master. A
Few weeks after it appeared at its old
Michigan home, having every appearance
of having made the long journey.
THE successful trip made recently by two
French aeronauts from Cherbourg to Lon. |
don in balloon, provided with steering
and propelling apparatus, will doubtless
give great impetus to attempts to navi- |
gate the air.
A WEALTHY gentleman, Eli Krupp, of
Philadelphia, has been travelling about the |