The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-29

THE country will pray for an early frost
in view of the spread of the Southern
scourge.
SEVENTEEN thousand bills have been in
Sroduced in Congress since the present
session began.
The original draft of Burns "Auld Lang
Syne" is in possession of Mrs. John V. l..
Pruyn, of Albany.
THE Sultan of Turkey has exiled eighty
of his cooks, who struck on account Of their
wages not being paid.
A LIEUTENANT in the German Army has
our sea-coast defenses.
CARL ScHURz is detained in Germany by
the illness Of his son, but hopes to leave for
home by the end of October.
o. p. MERsERE, postmaster at jackson,
N. H., was appointed during Fillmore's
administration, and served thirty eight
years.
LAST July was one Of the coolest months
that the Australians ever experienced. In
fact, the whole winter has been exception
ally severe
A ST. LOUIS bookseller, who a year ago
did a thriving business in Volapuk text
books, says their sale has now dropped of
to almost nothing.
TEXAS will furnish this year the Oldest
voter in the United States. His name is
Richard Kidd and he is one hundred and
fifteen years of age.
CHICAGO has an establishment that does
. good business in renting table china to
hostesses who want to make splurges for
particular occasions.
The London police have organized a
brass band consisting of forty-on pieces
They are determined to drive the criminals
out Of the city in some way.
MRS. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has aged
very rapidly Of late. She has made no
plans for the future, but is very anxious to
have home of her own again.
The largest railroad station in the world
is st. Paneras, London, seven hundred
feet long, one hundred and forty three
wide, one hundred high, covering ten
acres.
THE apple crop in New Jersey is un-
precedentedly large, and the farmers are
now seeking a market for it. Local deal
ers are offering only twenty cents .
bushel.
CATTLE are SO cheap in Nevada that
tho present season will prove Improbable
tor stock raisers. Beef commands there
only from FIVE to five and . half cents q
pound.
Now Longfellow is charged with plagar-
izing ''Hiawatha" from the s.Kalevela,"
the grand poem of Finland, written by
Topelius in the early part Of the present
century.
THE widow of President Polk is in her
eighty-seventh year. She is feeble and
kf,1 h,,% H. At.
cheerfulness and her interest in the world
about her.
ADMIRAL PORTER, in his seventy
year, preserves his health by eating SIM
pie food, rarely drinking tea and coffee,
smoking in moderation and keeping pleas
stly busy.
IT is the custom in some sections of Chi
ago for landladies who hang out their an
ouncements Of furnished rooms to rent
to place their photographs beside it as an
inducemsnt.
THE bas-relief mentioned lately rs dis
covered at Eleusis, which reproduced
relief discovered by Lenormant after its
acquisition by the museum OF Athens, was
found to be forgery.
IT is proposed in England to provide
Judges at race-tracks with instantaneous
photographing apparatus by which to tell
beyond possibility of mistake what horse
has won in close finish.
TIE hop crop of Washington Territory
Is very heavy, and is likely to be bonan-
"a this year. The Indians are gathering
TO the hop fields by hundreds to assist in
picking and securing the crop
"BILLI" SUNDAY, of the Pittsburgh
baseball team, was married recently to a
Chicago lady. That melodious strain:
''Every day'll be Sunday by and by"
seems to be realized in this ladyfs case.
A PORT HURON (Mich.) undertaken has
had large tent made. Whenever he has
funeral on rainy day he will place
the tent over the grave SO that ths service
may be held with but little inconvenience,
DR.. MARY WALKER wants Congress to
provide an appropriation for the purpose
OF compensating her for q series Of lee.
lures on 'self care as a preventive Of dis.
ease" which she proposes to deliver i'm the
yellow fever district.
A SCIENTIFIC paper says that machine
Of one horse power would keep 21,OOO. 900
watches going. Such machine, however,
would not keep more than half q dozsa
Waterbury watches wound up.
NEWSFAfEH entlCleQ the WOnlenve
Penny Paper will be published in London,
the first number Of the paper October 9. II
is intended this paper shall become a me-
dunn for the expression Of opinion on all
subjects of interest to all women.
or the thirty -eight couples who have
been married at Iowa county fairs in order
to capture tempting prizes, twenty-seyen
have been divorced within thirteen
months. Evidently the matrimonial knot
Is slip knot when tied on fair ground.
A. b. McGEEHEE, Of jackson, Tenn, has
been granted patent on q wire cloth,
which is proposed as q substitute for lutte
bagging. 1t is said that 1t can be sold as
cheap as ordinary bagging. The greatest
advantage Of the substitute, II IL proves
practicable, is that 1t il fre.proof
n Is an indlsputabls fact that all the
yellow fever we have ever had in this
country came from Cuba. And yet sum.
msr after summer vessels from that IN.
favored isle come to our southern ports
and unlsss there IL actually sickness or
board the quarantine IL only q matter Of
form. After our terrible experiences In
the last fifteen years 1t would seem tast
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