The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-09
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SALT LAKE City will bore for natural
gas.
In Is said an imitation maple syrup is
patented
A SILVER pound piece of Charles ].
brought .e55.
THE political caudron is vorily begin
ming to bubble.
A MULE with the c. s. A. brand stills
hauls in Athens, Ga.
PoTATo bugs are giving trouble in differ.
ent parts of the country.
"a COOL and rainy May is good for grain
and hay" is an old-time saying.
The Detroit tower electric lights can be
seen at Romeo, forty miles distant.
SALT LAKE raised 10000 to advertise the
advantages of Salt Lake to settlers.
"a ROCHESTER woman has not looked in
to a mirror for twenty years" Is she
blind.
I1IE twelve lepers on tho poor farm at
Portland, Ore, are to be sent back to
China.
WITH the Indians we have made 900
treaties and have broken almost every one
of them.
AN average sized whale in the Atlantic
will yield 100 barrels of oil and 1000 pounds
of bone.
RUSSELL SAGE once lost a wallet contain
ing 900, and a clergy man found and re-
stored it.
EUROPE has new coin. 1t is the coin of
the present German Emperor and Bears
his profile.
A VIOLIN made of clay is now on exhibit
tion in Berlin. 1t is said to have strong
and full tone.
Rev. SAMUEL BEENE, of Jasper Tenn,
has inherited n fortune of sS 100000 from
an uncle in Texas.
A STRAWBERRY was picked near Chico
Col, the other day that measured So
inches in circumference.
AS HER SHARE of the profits in General
"Grant's Memoirs" Mrs. Grant has re-
ceived S4ll ,O0o and the end is not.
NEARLY one-fifth of the total number of
Immigrants arriving in this country last
month was composed of Italians.
QUEEN LOUISE, of Sweden, is threatened
with return of the cancerous trouble
which nearly took her life year ago.
MIR. SMITH HINcKENs, of Laurel, Del,
who lacks but two years of being cen.
tenarian, is cutting a new set of teeth.
A MINISTER in California has been fined
baseball match instead of going to church
If the stories concerning lightning which
are already coming in are all reliable the
electric fluid must be quite agile this year.
CALIFORNIA parties are locating n factory
for manufacturing soap from clay contain
ing soap properties discovered near Cotton
BILL has been introd uced in the Sen.
ate providing for the establishment of
national geological park at Washing.
ton.
MADELINE PLAINS, Lassen County, Cal,
Is infested with grasshoppers, which are
aking short work of every thing green
in sight.
ALABAMA boasts of nineteen cotton mills.
representing an investment of nearly So.
OoJ,cOO, and an annual production of over
Sl,500000.
HAILsToNEs seven inches in circumfer-
ence fell at Elgn, ILL.,, the other day. The
season is early but this is doing remark
ably well.
NUGGET of ruby ore, weighing 1,GOo
pounds and estimated to be worth $4,000
was taken from u mine near Elko, Cal, a
few days ago.
THE ice bridge at Niagara. which stood
for four months, has broken and gonc ia
pieces. 1t was moro gorgeous this year
than ever before.
A NEW fashionable beverage has come
into use among New York ladies' 1t is an
India drink and is simply decoction OF
mint and kummel.
THERE are 10000 reptiles kept in one
room in the Smithsonian Institute at
Washington. 1t is needless to add they
are kept in alcohol.
In Baltimore it is proposed to put letter.
boxes on street cars. This will bring a
letter to the post-office from any part of
the city in half an hour
FRANK MILLS, a Harvard student, died
recently from the effects of opium-smok-
ing, which he indulged IN to excess in
Chinese joint at Cambridge.
CANADA refuses to entertain the claim
for compensation made by the owners of
the American ship Bridgewater, which
was seized at Shelburne N. S.
ALADY appeared on Regent street, Lon.
don, lately, with n hat described as 1.-TWO
feet high, surmounted by an eagles feath.
er, making an additional foot.n
A New ORLEANS lad found valuable
satchel, and upon taking it to the owner,
who had advertised the loss, was made
happy with brand new 500 bill.
The highest recorded balloon ascent was
by Glashier and Coxwell from Wolver.
hampton, England, on September 5, 1862
They rose to the height of seven miles.
ISABELLA, the ex-Queen of Spain, has
grown so stout that she has had to have a
carriage made with an opening at the back
that falls and forms doorway to allow
her to enter. 1t cost 5,OOO
CHRIS. AHRENs,a q German farmer who died
near Clinton, Iowa, was the largest man in
the county. The coats he wore measured
seventy inches around the chest and eighty |
inches around the waist
FAIR-HAIRED women are at discount In
the matrimonial market Statistics would |
seem to show that brunettes are more sue.
cessful in obtaining husbands, in propor-
tion OF about three to two.
WASHINGTON has been called the nepro,s
paradise, and in some respects it is. The |
colored man enjoys more social and educa-
tonal advantages at the National Capital
than in any other American city
NEW WORKERS arc finding consolation
Tor their losses by the blizzard In the fact
that 1t killed Off the English sparrows and
left room for the song birds who have
come back again after several years. alb. |
sence.
A NUMBER Of society girls in Mobile re.
Gently organized themselves into a min.
strel troupe, blacked their faces, donned
the professional wigs and gave a per-
1Ormance for the benefit of n charitable