The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

He is brave man who publicly recog.
nizes his own prophecies after election
day.
COUNT Won MoLTKE will pass the win
ter at Wiesbaden. His health is very
poor.
ALL Paris INDUCES in "great expecta-
tions," based upon the exposition of mex
summer.
The population of Admission, Ala, i:
over -, 000 Twenty one months ago il
was 4, 300.
On a wager, E. S. Hall, of Lowell, Mass
held his arm out straight for one hour and
fifty minutes.
MEDINA (Mch.) girl recently climbed
a fifty foot hickory tree and gathered five
bushels of nuts.
DEBLoUITz, the famous Paris correspond
ant of the London Times, receives 81, 900 a
year for his work.
This is going to be q hard winter, es-
pecially on some of those who have bet
heavily on the election.
SEALsKIN blankets will be worn this
winter in New York by pet dogs whose
owners can afford the luxury.
RUB your lamp chimneys after washing
with dry salt and you will be surprised at
Iue new OIL your lBnIS.
POTATOES are selling in Davenport, Ia,
mt from IL to IS cents per bushel, and on
ions as low as II cents per bushel
The Vermont Legislature has passed n
bill prohibiting the sale, manufacture and
use of oleomargarine in that State.
THERE is said to be only one chalk pond
in this country, at Newbury, N. H., and it
is about TO be operated by stock COM
pany.
A TALKING piano operated by numerous
keys and producing words of all kinds is
one of the curiosities at New York mu-
scum.
WITH its railroad accidents, boiler ex-
plosions and shooting affairs, the world
continues to be dangerous place of resi-
dence.
A THREAD has been made from the fiber
of the common nettle so fine that sixty
miles of it only weighed two pounds and
"a half
CHURCH wedding, where the groom
was eighty and the bride thirty five years
old, astonished quiet Connecticut village
recently.
THREE Englishmen have statues in
France: Lord Brougham at Cannes, Jen-
ner at Boulogne-sur Mer and Shakespeare
in Paris.
THE tanning of boa constructor skins
forms n branch of industry in Hamburg,
n. j. They are made into pocketbooks,
principally.
GENERAL HOWARD, commanding the
Military Division of the Pacific, in a gen.
eral order prohibits gambling on military
reservations.
A PRAIRIE dog eXterminator has been
patented by II Buffalo County (Kas.) man,
and he is busy cleaning out dog towns for
so much an acre.
1T is predicted that King George of
Greece will abdicate his throne early next
summer. He has lately purchased a resi-
dence in Denmark.
A CoLoRED Catholic Congress will meet
mt Washington January ]. There are be-
lieved to be about 200 600 calored Catholics
in the United States.
THE exports of diamonds from Africa
for 1887 were 359s, 800 carats, worth f4,-
240, ,0Os, against 3, l35. 900 carats, worth es,-
800, 600 for the previous year.
The report comes from Semiohmoi, W.
T., that sardnes are so plentiful there
abouts that enough can be caught in
week to supply the whole United States"
ick, of which the corner stone has just
been laid, at Potsdam, will be reproduc-
tion of the Sepulchre Church at Jerusalem.
A GEORGIA lover, when refused by his
.adored, whipped out a razor and sliced off
one of her ears. After this little evid ence
of affection she concluded she would have
him.
THERE is to be great rivalry in Washing
ton this season between the ministers
from Persia, Corea, China and Japan.
They are all wealthy men and can afford
to.entertain.
The King of Uganda, Africa, who has
amused himself of late by executing five
wives every morning before breakfast, has
become weary of the sport and is looking
for a new diversion.
q NEW association in London will fur
nish strangers with lady guides, and in
troduce those who banker after the luxury
intS society more or less fashionable.
Terms cash, in advance.
AEl0rlando(F Ella man has a couple of
tame sand hill cranes which he finds more
serviosable than watchdogs against burg
lars or tramps. The cranes utter q shrii
note at the approach of any stranger.
LORD SHREWSBURY, the English peer
who has ID ade fortune in London by sup
plying the public with hanson cabs, is
about to pash his venture in Paris. He
will place 300 cats. drawn by English
horses, in the French capital.
AN Ionic, Mich, shoe merchant offered
prize for the largest women feet brought
into his store. Miss Grace Houck, IT years
old, trotted in her No. IS and took the
prize, laughing soyously at the consterna-
tion on tue faces of the less fortunate girls
The authorities of Portsmouth, Eng,
save built swimming bath for pauper
who will be required to learn to
seim as part of their regular schooling.
&oRrHERN MONTANA is infested with
wokTes. They destroy sheep with avidity ]
and farmers suffer greatly, losing in some |
cases fifty to 100 sheep In night, and ono |
nan lost thirty colts. Even men are often ,
insafe ip some sections.
ONE Of tho richest deposits of plumbago
"a the world was found near Adams, Mass,
scently, and now comes the announce
nent of the disc overy OF a ledge of mica In
hampshire County, of ths SAME State, thaa
viii be worth as much 60 gold mine TO its
wper