The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-01
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fashion paper in London.
THE latest imported novelty is an artifi-
'ial sausage casing of paper.
The new Governor of Utah was once n
messenger boy in Pittsburgh.
A SMOKE consumer that really consumes
is reported as one of the latest inventions.
RuMoRED that James Russell Lowell has
gone to England to wed a woman of rank.
SIR JOHN LAWS has just given 5000 600
Tor the promotion of agriculture in Eng
land.
THE leading city of Oklahoma has grown
ut the rate of five thousand per cent a
month.
NEW YORK hasn't had enough Of glory.
Now her good people are talking of having
worlds fair in 1899.
CHIcAGoi is wrestling with the annexation
suburbs is the question.
POWERFUL interrupted voltaic currents
have recently been used in England to ar
est the growth of cancer.
THE real reason for the sudden departure
of Senator Cameron for Europe is said to
have been the state of his health
LETTERS in the handwriting of Piggott,
the notorious forger, are now advertised
for sale in London at two guineas
apiece
MISS KATE SHERMAN, a buxom Tennes-
zee girl, met her father at the depot the
other day, and broke two of his ribs at n
single hug.
RECENT experiments with sugar as n
preventive for incrustation of steam boil
ers are reported as giving very satisfac-
tory results.
The New York Legislature passed law
providing for the appointment of women
inspectors for factories where girls and
women are employed.
A STEEL mat for the office of the Hotel
Eichelieu, Chicago, is forty lone feet long
and four feet wide, the largest ever made
in the world in one piece.
GENERAL BoULANGER seems to have the
ability to interest women of wealth in him.
self and his cause. The Baroness Burdett-
Coutts is his latest conquest
In a new born child the pulse beats 15O
in a minute; at one year old, 110; at two,
30; from seven to fourteen, So; in the adult
man, 70 and in the woman, so.
VIRGINIA Episcopal ians, after a full dis
cussion of the question, refuse to strike out
the word white" in their list of qualifi-
cations for church membership.
A GENTLEMAN has opened free choco-
late school in New York. He instructs
housewives how to make chocolate and CO.
Goa and retain their delicate flavor.
SEA LIONS are SO plentiful on the coast of
California this year as to be nuisance,
especially to fishermen, while their bark
ing aggravates the farmers for two miles
inland.
The late Crown Prince Rudolph of Aus
tria had an annual income of S750,O0J. ex-
elusive of free house rent. Still he man
aged to run in debt to the amount of 81,
900, 900.
PENNsYLvANIANs will vote on two con-
stitutional amendments on the 18th of
June: one to put prohibition into the Con-
stitution and the other TO take the poll
tax out
AN astonishing story comes from Cali
fornia telling how Claus Spreckles has
been paying taxes, owing to defective
maps, on hundreds of acres that he does
not own.
ALABAMA x-Confederates will give a
mon nster barbecue July complimentary
to the G. A. r., and skirmishers will be
sent all over the State to bring in the
yankees"
SOUTHERN Kentucky and Northern Ten
nessee are being visited by seventeen year
locusts. The prophets read w ON tho
wings of the insect which they interpret
to mean war.
WIN. l. WALTERS, of Baltimore, is the
owner of the famous peach blow vase
which attracted so much attention few
years ago when sold at the Morgan auc-
tion for S1S 000
PEACH. GROWING corporation is Con-
necticnt idea Its immense orchards at
Meriden and Berlin will come into bearing
this year and a yield Of forty thousand
baskets is expected.
The late Allen Thorndike Rice's estate
is estimated yariously at $5,OOo,0 600 and
$40, 600 900, and as he has no immediate
elatives not little curiosity exists in re-
gard to its disposition.
A PHILOSOPHER on a Western paper finds
that only one person in every 60,00O dies
in bed while asleep, and concludes that it
is waste of tiIne to lie awake and worry
over the danger of that
LOUIS CoNIoN, of Montlucon, France
has probably the longest beard in the
world. He is scarcely five feet in height,
his beard measures seven feet, and he
wears it around his neck.
laE 1HIcTStdIo SOLumerce commission
has begun an inquiry nto the nature and
causes of railway accidents. The deadly
car stove and the mutilating freight car
coupling arc now to undergo official scru-
tiny.
SEVERAL women in Houston. Tex, who
were sitting near where the unfortunate
aeronaut, st Clair, fell, assert that they
heard him mutter to himself in his rapid
descent: '.Nearer the end, nearer the
end.U
A NEWARK burglar jumped through a
window, taking sash and all, and fell
twenty-five feet to the ground, where a
dog caught and held him. They could not
find one single cut or scratch from his dar-
ing dash.
IT has been found in experiments at
Leipsic that skin grated from white to
n colored person becomes gradually black,
and that black skin grated upon white
person in time turns white.
The Connecticut House of Representa-.
tives has passed bill providing for free
railroad transportation for members of
that legislative body. 1t Is thought by
those wooden-nutmeg statesmen that this
scheme remedies the free pass evil.
JOHN FRANKLIN, of Athens, Ga, was
very much surprised when he went to his
home the other night to find that during
the day a swarm Of bees had taken possess
sion of his house. They entered throu oh |