The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-10-27
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They have real estate agentin wichita
BY the name Of Eucre.
BISMARCK has concocted scheme for
'the reconstruction Of Europe"
Or 100 persons naturalined In Boston
one day last week, 125 were British Ameri-
cans.
TIE National railroad in Mexico has been
completed and tested and will be opened
November /.
The Cedar Falls, Ia, canning factory
has put up this season nine hundred thou.
sand cans Of corn.
square miles Of Georgia timber land are
cleared every year.
TEE past summer was the wettest that
England has experienced since 1873, and
the coolest since 1850.
THE Emperor Of Austria is very fond Of
chamois shooting and uses an old FASH
toned muzzle-loading gun,
OR1zABA, Mex, has three papers, the
names Of which signify respectively the
at, the cat and the beetle.
THERE promises to be no lack of informa.
tion upon the question of the Emperor
Frederick's life and death.
STEPS have been taken to provide special
voting booths for the women In the coming
municipal election In Boston.
JOHN D. COPPER, Of Santa Rosa, has
yaised Japanese cucumber that measures
three feet six inches In length.
AN Iowa woman who has travelled far
and observed closely writes: "If marriage
dsafailure then life is not worth living"
AFTER the recent hurricane coral reef
fifty feet long, thirty feet wide and Eve
feet high appeared in the harbor Of Vera
Cruz.
GEORGE WEST, of Roslyn, N. Y, brought
up two CLANS at Sea Cli6 recently that
weighed three and hfee-quarters pounds
apiece.
A BEETLE as large as q sparrow has
been received at the State entomolo-
gist Of New York. It came from Central
America.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE man has discovered
what he claims to be indlsputable evidence
that Shakespeare was scholarly man and
. aplagiarist.
THE Sultan Of Turkey has an ''electric"
dog-cart which runs on ordinary roads at
ten miles an hour. It carries four people,
and cost $1,000.
M. FLooUET introduced in the French
Chamber of Deputies bill to revise the
Constitution of France, and it was referred
to a committee.
The Third District of Louisiana is likely
to witness lively Congressional canvass.
The Democratic candidate Is Gay and the
Republican Jolly.
AMERICANS have been awarded fifteen
diplomas, twenty-six gold, six silver and
three bronze medals at the international
exposition at Brussels.
GRANT ALLEN has expressed the belief
that green was the primitive color, that
yellow was then introduced, followed by
red and finally by blue.
The supervisors Of San Francisco, in ac-
cordance with petition Of the Merchants
League. are about to forbid the distribu-
tion Of hand bills in the streets.
Ex-M1N1sTER LorHRoP, who resigned not
long since his post at St Petersburg and
came home with his daughter, has just
married her to Russian baron.
The American Street Railway Associa-
ton composed of more than one hundred
and fifty companies, and it's representa-
tives met in Washington few days ago.
A SERIOUS outbreak is reported among
the Allegheny Indians. A corps of physi-
clans armed with vaccine virus has been
dispatched to suppress it. 1t is smallpox.
A FEW days ago, in gun foundry at
Petershoff, the Gear lifted mass of steel
weighing nearly seven hundred pounds,
to the cheers Of the surrounding workmen.
The hog cholera scourgs still continues
to ravage the droves Of swine belonging
to the farmers of Warren County, N. j.,
over 800 having been lost in one township
alone.
THE Sultan Of Morocco will send an EN-
bassy to the United States to complain,
among other things Of the conduct of Mr..
Reed Lewis, the United States Consul at
Tangier.
A BRITISH sportsman recommends that
the bantam, which is particularly pugna-
cious and active, be turned wild, in the
hope of having it become an available bird
Tor sport
The crying of baby awakened by their
entrance scared burglars from Canons-
burg (Pa.) hotel. Crusty bachelors will
say that at last q use for babies has been
discovered.
Two of the Fox sisters, who were the Or
iginal spiritualist rappers, it is said, have
determined to expose the fraudulent prac-
'tices which characterize all these alleged
manifestations"
ACCORDING to Johann Faber, the ia
NOUS manufacturer, Of Nuremburg, the
people of the United States use in round
numbers, about a hundred million lead
pencils every year.
A MAN who died at Flint, Mich, few
days ago, wrote his own funeral sermon,
the hymns to be sung at his funeral, the
words of consolation to his friends, and the
epitaph for his tombstone.
CHINESE travel to the East from the Pa
cific coast has for several months been
very heavy. Railroad ticket agents in
Ban Francisco place the increase over last
year at twenty -fve per cent.
AHARrwELL (Gs.) divine tells Of an
doping couple who were married on horse
back while going full tilt q Justice Of the
peace galloping alongside Of them, with an
irate father in hot pursuit short distance
behind.
DIR FABINI Of Palermo. has found that
the best way to lessen the agonies Of a per-
son suffering from rabies is to syringe the
Inside Of the throat with solution Of CO.
coaiue mixed with twenty parts of watsr.
FRAULEIN SENKRAH, otherwise Miss
HARNESS, the American girl who recently
gained an enviable reputation in Germany
as violin player, hss married lawyer At
Wsimar, and will he heard no more in
public.
ChARITu to the poor In Jacksonville has /
not come altogether from outside sources.
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