The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-21
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LADIES will wear plated shirt bosoms,
like men, this summer.
THE Nova Scotia gold mines yielded
about $500, 600 last year.
SENATOR EvARrs boasts Of wearing the
shabbiest hat in Washington.
A THOUSAND New York teachers are or
ganizing Building Association.
The tallest man in the United States
Senate is Blodgett OF New Jersey.
A VERSATILE man in Lee County, Ga, has
vaiuly proposed to seventy ladies.
G. P. HUNTINGTON owns more miles of
railroad than any other man in America.
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE sails for Europe May
TO- She will'be the guest of Lady Miller.
OVER half the quinine product Of the
world finds market in the United States.
AN autographic manuscript of Burns
poems was sold recently at Sothebys for
sl,075.
MISS ROSE CooHLAN has tho smallest
foot for her size Of any woman on the
stage.
A PERMIT has been granted one Of Sioux
City's breweries to manufacture beer for
one year.
A POLICE officer Of Los Angeles, CAL, car
ries lasso and it ably assists him to per-
form his duty.
KING HuMBERT, Of Italy, has grown very
gray of late. He is only forty -four, but he
looks mucn older.
NINA VAN ZANDT is said to have abandon
ed her idea of going on the stage and will
return to Germany.
IT is stated that the late Emperor left the
sum of thirty marks to every invalid SOL
dier in the war OF 1870.
THE South African diamond fields last
year yielded gems amounting to 3,648, 800
carats valued at over S20,000,000.
Two Florida railroads, one of 81 miles
and one of 110 miles in length, were sold
the other day for an aggregate of S15, ,0OO
THE late Senator Carnot was q school
mate of Louis Napoleon at Augsburg. The
future Emperor was then looked upon as
Ounce.
A KANSAS CITY woman worth half q mil
lion has married a penniless young man
who was a table waiter at tho hotel where
she boarded
P. M. OsTERHoUT, Of Tunkhannock, Pa,
has just been sued by Caroline M. Coon for
$4,000, for breach Of promise. Mr.. Oster-
hout is eighty.
convention: ut is women who hunt down
an erring sister, and who promptly forgive
an srring man."
marry daughter of the Prince of Wales,
has been provided with an estate in Morea
worth 93, 900 year.
Hannah Gurnee, Of Nyack, N. Y, and
her twin sister are ninety years Of age.
h.,ry Of nntv
brother aged ninety-two.
IT is said that great many Nebraska
farmers will plant millet in preference to
corn, the ears being much larger, and the
yield consequently heavier.
LORD WALTER GORDON LENNox, who has
just taken his seat for Chichester, is the
youngest man in the British House of Com
mons, being barely twenty-five.
EMPEROR WILLIAM during his lifetime
saw disappear from the scene six Popes,
eight Emperors, tifty-two Kings, six Sui,
tans and twenty-one Presidents.
IE the decade ending with 1887 the num-
ber Of boats ON the Ohio and Mississip
was increased by 3Os, the tonnage by 1877.
104 tons and the passengers by S6,04,07.
A MEMORIAL Of the late Daniel Manning
has been placed by his widow in st. Paul's
Church, Albany. 1t is large Latin cross
OF polished brass, appropriately inscribed.
SOMEBODY secures patent ON q car
coupler every day or two, but reference
to the family undertaker's books show that
the number Of bodies crushed does not de-
crease.
WHEN three women, one Of them Queen
Victoria, and another girl in love, deter
mine that the girl shall marry the man of
her choice, even Bismarck has to sur.
render.
ArAITH-CURE healer at Salina, Kas., tried
to cure case Of smallpox by the laying
on Of hands, and now the doctor and his
patient are quarantined in suburban
blacksmith shop
A LITTLE red-headed girl in New York
has succeeded in getting SASSY" young.
ster, the son Of near neighbor, in jail be-
cause he was always bawling, "Where is
the white horsew
THE condition Of the sidewalks at Atchi.
son is said to have attracted to that city
several people who make their living by
breaking their legs and suing negligent
corporations for damages.
As THE courtship Of Prince Alexander of
Battenburg and Princess Victoria of Ger.
many is likely to lead to International
trouble, it is suggested that the lovers
leave out the case to arbitration.
MRS. MARGARET FossE, of New Orleans,
celebrated her Tooth birthday few days
ago by cooking her breakfast and walking
to church. She is the widow Of Louis
Fosse, who was with Napoleon at Mos.
COW.
Two large firms of Japanese nurserymen
are introducing into California the Unshin
or dwarf orange tree, and find many GUS
toners for the tree because it can be grown
In very small space.
THE eldest of the grandsons Of Dom Pc.
dro, Emperor Of Brasil, Dom Pedro, Prince
Of Grand Para, tho heir presumptive to
the throne, is twelve years old. His two
brothers, Dom Louis and Dom Antonio,
are respectively ten and seven.
A New YoRK society woman had q ball
dress made Of white satin which had be.
fore making been run through the pres, OF
one OF the great dailies, so that her costume
WAS the news Of the day. She won the
prize for the most novel costume.
THE women Of Paraguay are as beauti.
ful and fair to look upon as can be found
In any part Of the world. Though they be-
long TO the Indian race, they are not Of the
swarthy, coarse Indian type, but have
clear compilations, flowing dark hair,
large, deep, lustrous eyes, and delicate
features OF very voluptuous cast.
The illustrious Nine. Alboni says that
In oil her career she never faced an audi
encs without being scared half out OF hei