The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
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The Cinnamon in New York are said to
send home sl5OOoC year.
M. GREW saw twelve cabinets, with 10C
ministers, serve under him.
Two young ladies have embarked in the
dairy business ut New Orleans.
A New YoRK boarding house madam has
seized baby for her board bill.
A fETRrrIED buffalo of mammoth size has
been found in Republic County, Kan.
The Canadian Government proposes to
put on a line of transatlantic steamers.
AN exclusive New York belle owns a
bonnet made wholly of ostrich feathers.
PENNSYLVANIA and New York are again
Quarrcling over the question of boundaries
THERE were lynched during the year 1887
In these United States, no fewer than 12a
persons.
KANSAS CITY has been chosen as the
eighth member of the American Base Ball
Association.
HINDoo widow has raised $4,000 In
Boston to provide an institution for Hin.
do widows.
THE regular rate Of increase of the AS.
tor estate is said to be from $40, 900 to
$3,0OOOOO year.
CHARLES LYON, of Denver, has collec-
Of which are alike.
THE secretary of the British legation at
Washington is brother of Rider Hag.
gard, the novelist.
WATER furnished by meter is now five
cents 1000 gallons in Washington, in Bal.
timore eight cents.
The old Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore
10 to be sold for building lots, and the
bodies have been removed.
The great Lick telescope in California
will bring the reflection of the moon with
in thirty miles of the earth.
COLONEL F. w. A. Robe, of Plymouth,
N. H., has served continuously as a justice
of the peace for forty-six years.
The London tlremen are to be equipped
in asbestos cloth, which has already been
tried in Paris. 1t does not burn.
NEW European war makes its appear
ance in the cable dispatches-the ninety
eighth in the last twelve months.
JANUARY was the coolest day ever
known in California. The mercury in
many places fell to the freezing point
GOVERNOR GoRDoN, of Georgia, will de-
liver the address at tho unveiling of the
Jasper monument, at Savannah, February
o.
IT is said that twenty three members of
the present Congress have been in some
way connected with the newspaper bus-
ness.
AN immense hunting expedition is about
to start for Masailand, the ground of Ri.
der Haggard's last novel, "Allan Quarter
main."
ADvIcEs from Panama state the coffee
L. ~
and will not, it is calculated, exceed 9, ,5O0,-
600 pounds.
SILVA PoRro, Portuguese traveller and
slave trader, who died at Bohe, in Africa,
recently, was the first white man to cross
the Dark Continent.
THE six-year-old son of Jacob Wolf, Of
near Kansas, o., has an arm, his right,
growing out of his back between the shoul-
der blade and spine.
A SPOTTED dog that follows he delivery
wagon of a carpet store, Philadelphia,
weurs an oil-coth cover on which is
printed an advertisement of his owners
wares.
AT Montgomery, Ala, the other day,
four colored men stood up and were mar.
ried to four colored women. The men
were all brothers and the women were all
sisters.
SHAREHOLDERS in Brazil arc opposing
the final extinction of slavery on the
ground that it will be impossible to carry
on coffee planting on large scale il sla-
very is abolished.
THIS device Of colored train robbers in
Texas Of painting their faces white in Or
der to disguise themselves was one in.
stance where "the devil was blacker than
he was painted"
The fatalities of the last blizzard in Da.
kota were as great as those attending the
average car-stove accident. At present
heat and cold divide the honors in killing
of human beings.
The death of w. H. Chippendale, tho
veteran Eng ish actor, recalls the fact that
he was the youth employed by Sir Walter
Scott to carry to the printer the manu-
script Of Waverley
The thirteen gas companies that now
supply the Bostonians with light by night
are in process of consolidation into ri.
gantic trust organization covering proper
ty OF the value of $l4,OOO,0OO.
HOWARD DOUGLASS, Supreme Chancellor
OF the knights of Pythias, has suspended
the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge, number.
ing 25,OOO members, until they amend their
laws to conform to those of the Supreme
Lodge.
COLONEL GEORGE l.. PERKINS, treasurer
of the Norwich Il Worcester railroad, is
the Oldest railroad official in the United
States. He is % years old, is six feet two
inches in height, and stands as straight as
most men of thirty.
The Duke of Sparta, Crown Prince of
Greece, who is to marry one Of the Prince
OF Wales daughters, Is very handsome
young man devoted to athletics and field
sports. He is said to be in love with ali
three Of his cousins but prefers Princess
Maud.
A TRAVELLER, recently returned from q
trip to New Mexico, says that In little
valley in the south Of the Territory he saw
ripe apples, green apples and apple bios.
SONS all growing in the same orchard.
AT Orlando, Fla, dog is owned by
much coveted belle, which, whenever
tiresome visitor stays too long, will stand
up in front of him and begin TO yawn and
show other signs Of being sleepy. II IL
said the hint 10 readily taken.
THE popularity of tho German Crown
Prince may be estimated from the fact that
the other day 10, 600 inha bitants of Aachen
formed u procession and marched to .he
pilgrimage resort, Moresnet, where pray
ers were offered up In his behalf
TuE postmaster at McKim, Ritchie
County, w. Va, which ONCE Ia now dis
continued, was notified by the Government
that deficiency OF one cent was found In
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