The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-25
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of school suffrage.
THE Utah Legislature contains thirty-onc
Norm ons and five Gcntiles.
AS TnB cable road loses its grip, Death
tightens his on the passengers.
No lady who wears hustle can belong
to the salvation army in New York.
LoNe ISLAND farmers wives get three
cents pair for taking boys pants.
MADISON (Wis) man has given 1900
Children of that city free sleigh ride.
FoRTY-PoUND crocodile covered with
woolly hair has been discovered in Florida.
A pancake toss"-tho catcher eating
oh he can catch-is q new entertainment.
THE British Museum has just acquired
the chair used by the Queen of Egypt,
3,40O years ago.
CONGRESS is asked not to interfere with
the adulteration of lard, because it is all
infant industry.
No smoke arises from any house in Ja-
pan. Charcoal furnaces are used both for
cooking and heating.
Or the twenty-one committee clerks OF
the Iowa House sworn in the other day,
nineteen were women.
A HEMP bee will be held in Indian Terri
tory, April 81, in which seven murderers
will take prominent part.
THE Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Company has already paid s3o0,OOO on ac-
count of the Chatsworth disaster
A LOT OF Liberian negroes employed by
De Lesseps at Panama are begging the
United States to send them home.
PEOPLE who say that there are few great
soldiers in Europe should recollect that
great wars make great Generals.
1--WE Brandenburgers only fear God and
nothing else in the world" is now on the
arms of the royal house of Prussia.
Two young Massachusetts women have
gone to Buffalo with the intention of en-
barking in the profession of dentistry.
IT is formally announced by his friends
that Governor Hill is candidate for the
Democratic nomination for President
JOHNSTON, Gallup e. Hurry is the
name of New York firm, which is said
to be busy and enterprising concern.
THE Naval Board reports favoraby on
the eght-inch pneumatic dynamite gun
recently tested at Fort Hamilton, N. Y.
A CHANGE of two letters in a message
cost the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany $500 by Supreme Court decision.
MIR. ABELI, proprietor of the Baltimore
Sun, is worth $40, ,0Oc, coo, and is said to bo
the richest newspaper man in the World.
MISS SUSAN LA TLEsCHE, an Omaha In
dian maiden, is studying medicine as the
ward Of the Connecticut Indian Associa-
tion.
THE newest whim in that part of New
York polite society which suffers from
ennui may be called the "pug-dog recep.
tion.''
SEVEN engagements were made at leap
year party at Woodland, CAL, the other
night, where only fourteen couples were
present.
A SMALL piece of tapestry of the time of
Louis xiv, entitled La Lecon d'Equi-
tation, was sold by auction in Paris re-
Gently for 1900.
NEXT to the Emperor, the Crown Prince
OF Germany has larger number of decor
ations than any man in the Empire. He
has seventy-four.
MAINE claims to have sixteen men and
women who have lived more than one
hundred years, and no end of inhabitants
who are over ninety.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON and General
Sherman are in hot quarrel over tho
twenty-two-year-old conundrum, "Who
burnt Columbia!"
If the manufacturers of firearms who
have formed trust will turn out u gun that
won't go off when it "isn't loaded" the
people will forgive them.
AMAN in Lee County, Ga, has succeeded
in tanning blue jays so that they fly down
from the trees and perch on his shoulders
Gs he walks around his garden.
THE Senate Committee on Education has
decided to report favorably the bill pro-
viding for n commission of five to investi.
gate the alcoholic liquor traffic.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY refuses to accept
the proffered $4,000 from the State Treas
ury on the condition that no white scholar
shall be taught in the institution.
The U. s. steamer Antietam, which has
done duty for years as storehouse and
barracks at the League Island Navy-yard,
is to be broken up and the material sold.
GERNANY's resolution to- take part in the
Paris Exposition this year is accepted as
evidence that the war spirit against
France in the Fatherland is not rampant
DONALD FLETCHER, now one OF tho rich
est men in Denver COL, reached that city
nine years ago almost dead with consump.
tion and barely tlve dollars in his pocket.
A WELLISGToN (Kas.) man told his wife
that for two cents he would cut his throat.
The required capital was advanced and
the transaction resulted in prospective
widow.
A YOUNG lady gave up her seat in a
Kingston street car to a gentleman who
had couple of heavy satchels and looked
tired. sits leap year." was all she said
as she arose.
A "1-CENT lunch stand" having been es-
tablished in New York City, there is do.
mand for more Of them. The bill of fare
is soup, stewed fish, pork and beans, coffec,
milk and bread.
The extensive collection Of rare, rich
and costly laces belonging to the late Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, worth very large sum,
were recently presented to the Metropolis.
tan Museum OF Art.
In Marion County, 8. c., an eagle seized
q hen, Mrs. Eliza Berry, aged seventy.
four, came to the rescue The eagle buried
his talons in her flesh and held on until Mr..
Berry cut its head off.
some railroad companies aro slow to
adopt the method of heating their cars
with steam, possibly prcferring to wait
for summer, and warm up passengers with
hot cinders and smoke from the locomu.
tive.
A MAN living near Macon, Ca, was at
tackled a few days ago by Texas pony
which he was leading, and would have
been killed il his wife had not run to his
assistance and stunned tho animal by
striking it with an axe.
SAN JONES recently offended Kansas
lady wearing u silk dress by telling her
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