The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-08
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MILAN, of Servia is said to be, fiancial-
iy, the poorest King living
THRTY-oNE of the ninety six counties in
tennessee contain no railroads.
MAGGIE MITCHELL is going to build a
handsome theater in New York.
A ROPE just finished for the Edinburgh
cable tramway is 1900 feet long.
A CHrNAMAN took $4s,O0O in gold dust to
the Boise City assay Office the other day.
THEODORE LAMB, of Virginia City, has
a sunhower plant that stands sixteen feet
high.
GERMAN scientists now declare that the
terra.
The London Times pays out nearly
100000 year in salaries to its correspon-
ients.
The Holsters recently planted on the
California coast are said to be thriving
finely.
SEATS on the New York stock exchange
are selling at 10000 apiece, which is con-
sidered cheap.
FIVE head porters in the leading Chicago
hotels are collectively worth over half a
million dollars.
CARLYLE's brother James, it is stated, is
the only surviving member of the family
now left in England.
The largest market for the purchase and
sale of mules is st. Lou is, where the trade
reaches $4,000, 900 year.
BISMARCK is rooted in the belief that his
son Herbert will succeed him as the power
behind the Prussian throne.
A QUANTITY of Indian arrow heads and
other warlike implements have been un
earthed at Madison, Conn.
A DRUNKEN Piute buck tumbled $50 feet
down a mine shaft the other day and
escaped with slight injuries.
AN East Portland (Ore.) fruit grower
raised freestone peach that measured
Tx inches in circumference.
THE $4,000 swedes, Of Chicago, have al
ready raised more than $4,000 for their
monument in honor Of Linnacus.
IMMENSE quantities of fruit will go to
waste this year in East Tennessee because
here is no way to get it to market.
on of cinnamon will cause the disap-
pearance of warts, however hard and large
they may be. There will be no pain.
THERE are thirty-seven tunnels Of more
than 1000 yards in England, the longest
being that of the Severn-7,664 yards.
A VALUABLE curiosity is a purse made Of
frog skin. Leather made from elephant
skin is the most costly of all varieties.
AMONG the cases coming up at the next
term of the district court at Des Moines,
Ia, will be one entitled Hogg VS.. Coon.
So FAR Victoria has reigned longer than
of ha,. aIoro ,s,itn ha
of Henry III, 56 years, and George III. 60
years.
OUT of the 165 patients who are being
treated in the Kirkbride Insane Asylum at
Philadelphia, all except four are bru-
nettes.
FASHIONABLE girls in New York have
gotten the square shoulder craze again. 1t
makes them look as if they were in straight
jackets.
A CLUB Of society women in London Is
going to start large poultry farm near
London. Bee culture is also included in
the scheme.
JUsroF ADLER, the Chicago artist, was
booked for passage on the Inflated Geiser,
but did not sail because his baggage was
not delivered in time.
A MEMPHIS citizen was fined fifty dollars
for spreading the stories about yellow
fever. The judge meant to protect the
seputation of the city.
COLONEL j. r. TAYLOR, prominent cit.
izen of Wichita, Kan, has been notified
that he is one of the six heirs to an estate
OF $1,000, 900 near Berlin, Germany.
E. c. KNIGHT, Of Philadelphia, has pur-
chased park Of 100 acres at Collingswood,
N. j., and has donated it to the people of
that State for the free use Of the public.
A NEW industry Is the production Of
sham battle-fags. They are made SO re-
alistic as to satisfy the most fastidious
patriot. This industry is French concep-
tion.
AN investigation prompted by the cpl
demic of typhoid fever there, disclosed the
fact that there are about 200 wells in New
Haven, Conn.,, whose water is unfit to
drink.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in New York to
provide the poor with flowers. 1t might
not be SO sentimental, but it would cer-
tainly be more sensible, to furnish them
with -four.
DURING the last twenty-fo years 2,400
bulls and ZOO horses have been killed in
the bull fights in the City of Mexico.
Two picadores have been killed by the
bulls in that time.
ONE of the largest shoe contracts made
is that of firm in Bangor, Me-, who have
engaged to make 100000 pairs Of wigwam
slippers within year, for which they are
20 receive $74, 300.
IT is proposed to supply Paris with
water from Lake Neufchatel, 312 miles
away. or this distance twenty-five miles
would be tunnel. The estimated cost is
nearly 100000.
The great pine at Kensington, N. H.,
which for years has been a prominent
landmark, fell recently. 1t was 100 feet
high and thirteen feet in circumference at
the widest part 1t was twice struck by
lightning.
GLADsroNE's private library contains
1900 volumes, and the venerable states
man can lay his hand upon any one book
of them all at minutes notice 81 have
not . single book" he said, shat am
not on intimate terms with"
N. ZoLA is out in an interview, which is
cabled across the water, In which he main
tsins that journalists have to work hard.
This Is considerate in lola. The prevalent
notion that the life OF q journalist Is moth
ing but an uninterrupted dolce far nients
IL thus scattered to the winds by this
French novelist.
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