The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-11

City.
IT cost the Emperor of Austria 5000, 900
to entertain the Gear OF Russia for three
days.
GIUL1KTTA DIoNEsI, girl violinist, aged
ten years, is the musical sensation in
Italy.
AN Atlantic City paper has an adver-
tsement for deaf and dumb house,
keeper.
A WRITER in the New York Sun figures
that a national campaign costs about $2O,-
100000.
A New YoRK Snowman has contracted
for 10000 cats to be given away as matinee
souvenirs.
THE Ohio girl who refused to marry
Russian nobleman is the latest greatest
sensation.
A NEwBURYPoRT man who has been
married twenty-five years has moved
thirty-nine times.
Poor Carlotta, ex- Empress of Mexico, is
in good physical health, but her mind is
hopelessly diseased.
BALTIMORE expects to pack enough
peaches to provide can for every family
in the United States.
CONGRESSMAN Cox figures up our popu-
lation in 1890 at Gi,476,0O0, while Mr.. Akin
son sets it at 64,500,00O.
ONE of the richest men in st. Paul, who
owns block after block of real estate, lives
pn less than $500 year.
FOUR or five of the head porters in the
leading Chicago hotels are worth, COL
lective, over half a million.
A CHICAGO woman announces that she is
M .,11 ,.-ifl, ,xrs
that she is hopelessly insane.
A CANAL across Italy is being planned to
connect the Adriatic and the Meditera-
mean. 1t will begin ut Fano.
RUSSIAN wheat will be an excellent crop
this year; rye far above the average, and
the yield of oats and barley fair.
CANADA and New York State have eduel
populations, but while New York's debt is
$7,OOO,OOO Canada's is over $500, 100000.
A PHYSICIANS trust has been formed in
Hudson County, N. j. Bad-paying pa
tients will have to go hungry for medi-
cine.
THERE are 100000 children of school
age in the United States who are not
reached by the influences of the Sunday
school.
The buttermilk craze is marching on.
Charged with carbonic acid gas, BUTTER
milk is about as good as koumiss and much
cheaper.
THERE is movement on foot in New
York to provide the poor with flowers.
and bread?
PATRICK AGAN, of Pawlet, VT, is eighty
five years old. He just took his first ride
on the cars to go to visit his son at Cam
bridge, N. Y.
r. w. DEAL, Philadelphia man, who
for twenty years has slept in coffin, il
dead. The death of his sweetheart unset.
tled his reason.
ONE of the recent candidates for Parlia
ment is named Knatchbull-H -Hugessen
This looks as if it would stagger even {
campaign poet
AN onion weighing seventeen pound.
has just been raised in Phoenix, Ariz
When the rival towns think OF it they fee
like shedding tears.
PHILADELPHIA hotel men calculate they
give away $1,000 worth of stationery
year to letter-writing friends who dom
pay the hotels a cent.
THE unprecedented number of 16, ,795 bill
have so far been introduced in the Hous
this session, against II, ,2O6 for the two ses
sions of the last Congress.
WHEN the Philadelphia letter carrier
start out on their trips, each man carries
on the average, thirty eight pounds, an
about the same on his return.
THE Western papers advocate the rein
PRODUCTION of "the old-fashioned grand
mothers slipper" as a remedy for tn
,f h4xr
THE Crown Prince Of Italy, it is said
will certainly marry daughter of tn
Compte de Paris. He will meet the Prin
cess in England next October
THE rainy season in India failed to ar
rive ON time this year, and there has bee
q drought and much suffering, Will
the crops are believed to be seriously dam
aged.
THERE is something cruel In the fate q
the Vermont man who spent several week
in swamp looking for mine Of plum
bago, and who while SO engaged caugt
the lumbago.
Mr.. BowDITcH, Of Boston, Is going to
out an expedition to explore scientifcall
some OF the ruined cities i'm Yucatan, an
purposes putting at the head of it Prof.
w. Putnam, of Harvard University.
JOHN ROLL, residing in Redmon, ILL.,,
the owner OF horse that is twenty hand
high, weighs 800 pounds, and is said to /
the largest horse in the world. 1t Is fiv
years old, never WAS OF Rolls farm, nevs
has been broken, and has never bee
shod.
The latest industry in Chicago is
"freckle factory" where the 'manufactuI
er" charges twenty-five cents to put
freckle on the face Of the fair damsels wh
are obliged to stay home this hot wsathe
GEO. r. HOWELL, who robbed the Pa
oh0gue IN. W Bank OF S3,600, was II
banks assistant cashier, and handled larl
quantities Of money each day, for whic
the bank paid him twelve dollars weel
THE Germans have built, equipped an
launched one OF the fastest war ships
the world. She 10 made Of steel. an
averages twenty three knots. The onl
war vessels Of equal speed are Frsnc
cruiser and Q few torpedo bosts built
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