The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
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10 have their State divided.
THEY have arrested man in Philadel
phia for stealing curbstones.
w. b TAscoTT is in greater demand thar
my other criminal in the world.
THB consumption of raisins in the United
States is about so, 900, 900 pounds.
THE late Ephraim Levin, of London, be
queathed f1, 500 to Jewish charities.
An English sea captain reports seeing
recently wave sixty five feet high.
BUFFALO BILL has beer raised to the
dignity of General of Nebraska militia
A MAN in France has imported cal
load of sorghum cane seed from Sterling,
Eas.
THE proposed combination of railroads
into a great railroad trust has been aban.
1oned.
HARRY MCCARTHY author Of "The Bon
ME Blue Flag" is sick and in need in Cal
'fornia.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN, an insurance
paper reports, carries $35O,000 in policies
on his life.
In New York the bob-tail street car has
oeen served notice by the board of alder
men to quit.
PITTSBURGH will pay to Westinghouse
concern $40, 900 annually to light the city
with electricity.
OF the 200 gold heaters of New York no
sne is a woman, while Of the 800 gold-cut-
ters not one is a man.
A BRONZE statue Of heroic size Is to be
placed over the grave of Stonewall Jack
,on at Lexington, Va.
IT is stated that the work Of eviction will
be begun again on a large scale on the
Clauricarde estate in Ireland.
TOD IN
Yale college n number Of stone slabs bear
ing ancient Semetic inscriptions.
The Territory of Dakota is nearly as
large as all the New England States, In
diana, South Carolina, New Jersey and
Delaware.
WHEN an infant fifty-four years ago,
Bernard Meyer, of Omaha, swallowed a
needle, and it has just escaped from un-
der his left shoulder.
The Emperor William has had the i'm
perial crown of Germany so altered as to
make it an exact counterpart Of the one
worn by Charlemagne.
The arummers want the Interstate
commerce law so modified that railroads
can make direct concessions" to 'recog-
nized merchant travellers"
THE committee appointed by the Army
of the Cumberland to erect a statue to the
late General Sheridan will commence ac-
tive operations very shortly.
In var US districts of Ireland the dis
tress among the agricultural laborers is
enormous. Many are asking to be assisted
TO emigrate to Buenos Ayres.
THERE being three thousand women in
lharge of post offices in this country, the
serious question arises whether to call them
postmasters or postmistresses.
A CHICAGO paper, in trying to refer to
''the late lamented," gets it: ''The late
lieutenant, and what makes 1t worse is
the fact that it was q woman.
THE window glass manufacturers ben
efical association is to be reorganized
shortly, with a view not only to control
prices, but 20 limit production when neces-
Bary.
THERE are only 9,553 Spaniards in the
Republic of Mexico, according to a census
prepared by the Spanish legatios, at the
City of Mexico, of which number 1,Ss0 are
women.
THE present Georgia Legislature con-
tains more farmers than any of its re-
cent predecess ors. There are sixty-nine
farmers in the house, against forty six
lawyers.
'CHIEF" the big elephant OF John Rob-
inson's circus, has become so vicious and
unruly that it has been decided to kill him
by electricity. Chief has already killed |
two men.
CHANDL Err JONES, burglar, was iden-
tilted at Hazlehurst, Ca, by tooth marks |
left in an apple where he had committed a |
robbery. One of the prints was of an in |
growing tooth.
IT is understood the Postal Telegraph |
Company contemplate an extension Of |
their system through the Southern States |
and that construction will be commenced |
south from Washington within q short |
time.
The New York Herald says that it is a
gross blunder to accuse the police gener-
ally of never catching anything. and |
backs up its statement by saying that four
policemen in Jacksonville caught the yell
low fever.
DIR. NATHAN r. GoRTER, who accompa-
MED Robert Garrett around the world as
his ply ysician, has presented his bill for
$50, 900, and, on payment being refused,
suit was entered against the trustee OF Mr..
Garrett's estate.
A sIxTY-HoUR swimming match between
Leavitt and Stone was finished in Boston,
the other night Leavitt covered fifty
miles and eleven laps, breaking all previ-
Gus records, and Stone made thirty six
miles and one lap.
WHEN she becomes Queen of Holland the
little Princess of the Netherlands will be
probably the richest sovereign in Europe.
The civil list of Holland, which is secured
ON the revenues of Borneo, is very large
f3, 900 per annum.
THE postal card factory-the only one in
this country-is part Of the great estab-
lishment of the Fort Orange Paper Com
pany at Castleton, near Albany. These
works employ 200 hands and occupy a
tract Of thirty-fve acres of land.
The Government has entered suit against
various corporation and individuals of
Eureka, New, aggregating $13000,000 for
cutting wood and lumber Off of unsur-
veyed Government land.
PREPARATIONS for lighting Chicago by
are almost completed, and the
current will be turned on Christmas eve.
Three hundred lamps, Of 1000 candle-
power each, will be used In lighting the
entire business portion Of the city.
FIFTY SEVEN years ago through
the personal influence of Daniel
Isaac Bassett was appointed a
page in the u. 3. Senate. The same Isaac
I3assett is in the employ Of the Senate now,
his term of service having been unbroken.
THE beauty of the White House for tba |