The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-23
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since.
AN illustrated Chinese weekly ncwspa-
per has been started at New York by Il
Chinese Company.
NEARLY four hundred people have been
adelphia since 1873.
FRANCE gives the least to charity Of any
civilized nation, and she has the fewest
tramps and beggars.
A YOUNG lover at Reading, Pa. is said to
be seriously i'll from kissing his girls
'ouge- painted cheek.
FAST travel between Chicago and New
York has increased SO that it neccssitated
another limited train.
AT thirty-four General Sheridan had
won his proud place as the third Of the
great Generals of the war.
LONG ISLAND cultivated brook trout cost
one dollar per pound; Canada wild trout
cost fifty cents per pound.
AFTER bearing the name Of John Cow
ard forty eight years, a Pennsylvania man
has asked to have it changed.
SENATOR FAIR, despite the reverses he
has met with in recent years, is estimated
to have fortune of $50, 900, 600 left.
THE largest railroad system in the world
IS the Atchis on, Topeka & Santa Fe, which
operates about 5000 miles of road.
"A FARMER living near Byron, Ca, says
he has five married daughters whose ag-
gregate Weights over 900 pounds.
A SOCIETY has been founded in Paris for
the scientific study of the mouth and it's
accessories in their various affections.
CONGRESSMAN ANDERSON, of Kansas, has
among the other crops on his farm $50
acres of flax and 400 of corn and oats.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE had four messen-
gers during his fifteen years on the su-
premc bench Three of them went mad.
DIR. TANNER expects to raise forty in
fants by feeding them but once n day, and
that meal to consist solely of vegetables.
A MAN near Bangor, Me-, is trying the
experiment of grating apple twigs into a
pine tree. He wants to raise pineapples.
THERE are one hundred and sixteen Piute
Indians in Harney Valley, Ore, and among
them seven blind women and ten blind
men.
THE late Vice-Admiral Sir William
Hewett, V. c., of the British navy, was u
noted blockade runner during the war Of
the rebellion.
ONE of the most pitiable objects in nature
is young woman playing the organ in
prayer meeting with June bug buzzing
about her head.
A CONNECTICUT school tea acher is about
to unite her fortunes with Mongolian.
She doesn't propose to wait twenty years
for her China wedding.
CARDINAL MAzzoFANT, the lingust, who
is said to have known IL hundred Ian
guages, declared that he never forgot IL
word he had once learned.
MARTIN VAN buren, and Grover Cleve-
land are the only citizens of New York
ever elected to the Presidency. Both Were
renominated by acclamation.
WHAT may be of great value in ship
building and matchmaking is the discov-
cry that steel mixed with twenty -four per
cent. of manganese becomes non magnetic.
E. j. TOWNSEND, the heaviest man in
Maryland, died recently of Bright's dis.
ease. He weighed over four hundred and
fifty pounds and was thirty-six years OF
age.
A DWELLING at Augusta, Me-, is said
to be haunted by the ghost of its former
owner. Mysterious noises have been
heard and tho tenants have been scared
away.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE has in his house, at
Scotch Plains, N. j., little oak table on
which Mary Stuart is said to have written
her last letter on the morning of her exc.
cution.
The largest private library in the coun.
try is owned by Bancroft, the historian,
and is in his San Francisco home. 1t con-
sists of $1,000 volumes and is valued at
S2OO0O0
AT a religious meeting in Portland, Me-,
an Englishman led the services, French
man offered prayer, an Irishman conducted
the singing and Russian was the leading
speaker
JOSEPH MASON, of Fielding, ILL.,, has not
shaved for fifteen years, and his beard is
five feet long, touching the floor when he
stands erect. He is waiting for Prohibi-
tion President.
A sKIPPING rope has just been patented
in England which plays music, the act of
turning the rope setting in motion small
musical box which is fixed at the end of
one of the handles.
EXPERIMENTS at Cape Town in signaling
with electric lights reflected from the
clouds, were complete success. Expert.
ments were made with vessel at sea with
the result OF flashing a signal fifty miles
away.
NEBRASKA introduces new feature in
defalcatiOns. With wild Western enthu-
siasm she rushes into the enterprise with
zeal. Not satisfied with single defalca-
ti0n at time, as Eastern States are,
she has two at time.
EDISON, the electrician, is said to be col.
lecting the yells Of his baby daughter ON
the phonograph with tho intention Of
grinding them out for her torture whom
she becomes young lady.
ONE of the causes upon which WASH
ington husband asks for divorce from
his wife is that in three years and half,
ON account Of her capricious disposition,
he has been obliged to move seven times.
MONROE, Mich, has refused the gift of o
large three-story building, made by lady,
ON the condition that the little city would
use 1t for museum and library. The gift
WAS refused because the municlpality
didn't feel able to support such q metro
poiitan establishment.
A BAPTIST church In Choctaw County.
Ala, Is supported entirely from the pro-
ceeds OF the church farm, q tract OF six
teen acres planted in cotton. The land is
rented by the church members, and on
regular occasions they all get together
and give the ground y thorough tilling
free OF charge.
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