The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Paris Is to have an international ex-
hiblton Of railroad inventions and APP
pi'snccs next year.
Italian railroads, it is said, reduce
the fares of all dog-btten persons who
go TO consult Pasteur, ut Paris.
"A London restaurant keeper paid
$4,000 for the privilege of catering at
the Colonial Exhibition now in prog
ress.
"A mass of lead in an elevated fur
mace in Paris was completely dssipatcd
by II stroke of lightning, no trace of the
metal boing found afterward.
"A French Anti-Tobacco Society
offers a prize of 5000 for an essay on the
effect of smoking on the health of liter
ary men and its probable ultimate re-
suits upon French literature.
"A witty woman of Paris says that 1t
is more difficult for woman to make
excuses for her beauty among other
women, when she is really beautiful,
than for plain woman to find favor
among the men.
"A peculiar Partisan fashion which
hrs grown rapidly within the past few
years is the custom for women to go
bareheaded out of doors. The cap once
worn by the laboring woman is now
rarely seen.
The housewives of Norway make
ther common flat bread largely of the
powdered branches of the young pine,
not so much to save flour rs to secure a
light loaf. The bark proves to be not
only innutrtious, but actually iniuri-
Gus. and is now being denounced by
/, , medical men.
An Irish journalist in London
dressed himself in blue and gold livery,
with pair of green. spectacles, and
spent two hours with the clown in the
sawdust ut the circus performance given
before the Queen. He wanted to tell
how the Queen acted on such an occa.
sion.
-Mauna Loa, the Hawaiian volcano
is situated on the southern slope of the
Mauno Loa mountain, some several
thousand feet below the apex. The crater
| proper is nine miles in circumference
and about six hundred feet deep. The
floor of this crater is covered with black
lava, and every few weeks or months il
receives new coating.
What is the value of a flea? Ac.
cording to Professor Erbini who owns
those marvellous insects now perform
ing at the Exchange Rooms in London,
the highly trained Russian "pulex irri.
tans" is valued at S125-at least that is
the sum offered by the professor for tn,
recovery of missing member of hi:
troupe that plays leading business"
| On an average each inhabitant o
London consumes each year thirty-twc
times as much fish as each inhabitant o
Berlin, and Paris consumes more fisl
than the whole of the German Empire
Efforts are now being made to populariz
the eating of fish in Germany. To brin!
this about, German paper suggest
that fish be made into sausages.
"A woman has Just died at the age
OF one hundred and twenty-five, in n st
\ Petersburg almshouse, where she hat
spent the last seventy years of her life
during which period she had never one
been seriously ill. She could see quit,
well up to the last her eyes presentin.
no trace of atrophy so common wit
aged persons. Her memory and in
telligence were also unimpaired at tn
time of her death. The same institution
possesses another inmate, soldier
wife, who, on being admitted about tw
months ago, presented her papers to tn
managers which certified that she
now one hundred and ten years old.