The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-30

Nicholas Charles.
w. l.. HUNTER, at Georges Creek. lnyo
County, CAL, planted 225,O00 locust-tree
seeds this spring.
A SUBSCRIPTION is being raised in Paris
for sword of honor to be presented to
General Bouanger.
THE experts who are engaged in an In
vestigation of the Keely motor will make
their report JulyS.
AMONG the Yale men who will receive
degrees at the coming commencement are
four Japanese students.
The Philadelphians have fund of $40,
600 to insure a glorious old-fashioned
Fourth of July celebration.
HIRAM MAx1M's mitrailleuse gun has
been accepted by the Austrian government.
1t will fire 600 shots minute.
IT is said that bald headed Indians are
becoming common, and the plug hat of
civilization is thought to be responsible.
DARTMOUTH College has received $4,000
from the estate of the late Judge Downer,
of Milwaukee. He was an alumnus OF
1883.
ENGLAND's swiftest steel cruiser, the Me-
Ddia, has just been launched. She will
steam twenty knots, or over twenty three
land miles.
p. T. BARNuM has sold to the city of Chi
cago an elephant, camel, zebu, llama,
two Bengal tigers, a lioness, an ibex and
two leopards.
THE gold mines of North Carolina are
again being vigorously developed, and ex-
ceptionally rich yields are reported from
most of them.
n. II, I, h.,
found over fifty dead deer in the woods
since the snow went off, which had been
killed by wolves.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, is the great furni-
ture- making center of the United States.
1t has forty two furniture factories, which
employ $4,000 men.
A TORONTO policeman who had grudge
againsta Methodist preacher, arrested him,
tore off his coat and locked him up on the
charge of disorderly conduct
The new Japanese Minister at Washing
ton served five years i'll prison, and while
there translated John Stuart Mill's works
on polical economy into Japanese.
A MAD-DoG plague is reported as terror
izing Buncolnb County in North Carolina.
The inhabitants are said to be afraid to
venture out of doors even in daylight.
In the conservatory at Jay Gould's home,
at Irvington- -on the Hudson, there are four
hundred varieties of palms and tree ferns,
beside a vast collection of smaller plants
THE cry for safer appliances for heating
railway cars has subsided. The demand is
now for some arrangement that will let in
fresh air and at the same time keep out the
dust.
10 t1,a nf tn
great Confederate cavalryman, General j..
f. b. Stuart, was dedicated recently
upon the spot where he fell fatally
wounded.
REV. FATHER ToLrEN, of Quincy, ILL.,, is
the only coored Catholic priest in the
United States. He was born in slavery.
He speaks several languages and is highly
regarded by the clergy.
A POOR old washerwoman in Brooklyn
has hung out the following sign, which
strikes some passers- s-by as ludicrous and for
others it has touch of pathos 'Martha
Holmes washes every day."
A ST. LOUIS physician says that the quiz
nine habit is gaining strength among the
people every year, and that many cases of
deafness are produced by overdoses of the
drug, and by the long continued use of it.
WILLIAM A. SMITH, who died few days
ago in Richmond, Va, enjoyed unique
distinction. He resigned seat in Con-
gress because he did not think he had sense
enough to properly represent his constitu-
ents.
DURING voyage by British ship
around Cape Horn, the wind at one time
blew at the rate of $50 miles an hour, and
the result was that the big waves were
crushed fiat and held down for the time
being.
THE King of Spain is not to be envied at
present. To have to undertake the task of
forming new Cabinet, and go through
the pains of teething at the same time, is
something to which none but royal infants
are subjected.
On an apple tree In the orchard of John
G.. Coonradt, of Prospect, N. Y, may be
seen growing full grown double white
rose, and, curious enough, in the yard on
the opposite side of the road is smaller
one on crab apple tree.
MEMPHIS has a sensation. The widow oil
. once prominent citizen has become con-
firmed kleptomaniac She steals purses
clothing, old shoes and any thing that she
can lay her hands on. She is a woman oi
education and refinement.
REV. DIR. MyRoN REED, the well-known
Presbyterian clergyman of Denver, Col,
was once interrupted in public prayer by
q man who shouted "Louder!" DR.. Reed
stopped short, looked at the interrupter
and said, coolly: 81 was not addressing
you, sir; Twas addressing the Almighty v
Then he went on with his prayer.
JOHN T. ANDREws, Of Knoxville, Ga.
has Panama hat that was worn by his
father to the Georgia Legislature, of which
he was member in 1910. The hat has
been worn constantly for forty EIGHT years
by the different members of the Andrews
family, and yet it is sound, there being nc
hole in 1t, and no breaks Of any conse.
qsence.
THERE IL said to be smokehouse in the
southwestern part Of Madison County
Florida, that Is veritable bee hive, and
from which large quantities of honey are
taken throughout the year by merely cut.
ting the comb aud catching the liquid hon.
ey, which pours from 1t. The bees have
sealed the interior OF the house with comb
An extraordinary experiment was made
st Bone, In Algeria, after the execution oi
. native who had murdered his brother and
the latter's wife and father law. As the
head fell from the guillotine doctor took
Il up and spoke . few words. Various
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