The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-05
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scheme became too heavy for his should
ers.
IT is said that sx- Empress Eugene has
expressed a desire to be cremated after
heath.
BALLOONS and parachutes have been
!ent to Suakim for the use Of British
troops.
VICTORIA Woodruff has given S400, ,00C
to Paris school for the free education oi
women.
1t is reported that Russia and japan
have entered into q secret treaty against
England.
The total resources of the widow Of the
iats Prof Richard Proctor are stated to be
only $3.50.
The effect of color on patients afflicted
With brain disorders is the latest thing in
medicine.
1T is said the Australians are Catching
On" to baseball as played by the Amer
lean mines.
The richest woman in the world, Dona
1sadore Cousins, of Chilli, is coming te
New York.
SourHBRrDGE, MASS, manufactured q
million and u half pair of spectacles the
past year.
Mr.. LrMBURGER, of Newark, has petit
.ioned the New Jersey Legislature to
change his name.
SEVENTEEN of the twenty five cities in
Massachusetts voted in favor of license at
the recent election.
QUEEN VICTORIA and her daughter, En-
press Victoria OF Germany, spend much
time playing chess.
THE faculty of Dartmouth College has
decided not to grant a scholarship to any
person who smokes.
The New York board of aldermen has
passed an ordinance requiring vegetables
to be sold by weight
1t is unfortunately true that the leading
ceremony of Christmas has taken the
iorm OF swapping of gifts.
WoMEN's watches are now characterized
by their smaliness. Some of them scarcely
bigger than the thumbnail.
WILLIAM IL has no salary as Emperor Of
Germany, but his allowance as King of
Prussia is 80 55O, 900 year.
COUNT Won MoLTKE has at his home one
of the finest flower gardens in the world.
His favorite flower is the rose.
TEXAS doesn't take kindly to the propo-
sition to carve her into several States. 1t
breaks her ali up so 10 speak.
The White Caps are seeking popularity.
They have sent threatening notices to coal
dealers who give short weight.
THIS is the season when the baseball
umpire lives in peace, and the managers
confine their fighting to themselves.
LITTLE FANNIE LEVY. of New York. gets
verdict Of 5000 for injuries from a bob
tail street-car. The bobtail must go.
ONE out of every five school children in
Philadelphia is obliged to wear glasses,
and the proportion is rapidly increasing.
PINE CITY, w. T., claims to have the
smallest living woman. She Is ~ years
old, 20 inches tall, and weighs 80 pounds.
The granddaughter of Abraham Lin
coln the daughter of his son Robert, will
make her entrance into society" this win
ter.
A GERMAN patent has been issued for the
preparation of wood fiber for spinning
Strong fabrics are made from this pro-
duct.
THE young lady whom the Duke of New
castle is about to wed Is an English girl
For once the American girl has been out
done.
THE passion for green has brought the
demand for emeralds up with a rush.
Jewellers find the green stone is remarkably
popular.
NEW YORK paper says the latest thing
in women's purses has n cash and candy
compartment 1t should contain a third
for cheni ing gum.
Six European cities have advertised tho
speedy arrival in their midst of Mr.. and
Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Journalism 10 in
a very bad way over there.
FIVE OF the cadets of the Virginia mill
tary institute, at Lexington, have been
dismissed for 'hazing." and others are
to be tried for the same offense.
MISS DAVENPORT, an Irish lady, is the
governess of the King of Spain. She gets
$500 year saiary, and will have life
pension, when her task is done, of $500
IT is said that Saxony furnishes the
largest percentage of suicides of any civ
iliEed State. The number last year was
one to about every 5000 of the population.
Boston CoRBETT who killed John
Wilkes Booth, has escaped from the Kan
sas Insane Asylum, where he was con-
fined, and at last accounts he was IN Mex
leo.
BOLIVAR, the big elephant, was present.
ed to the Philadelphia Zoo as Christmas
present by Adam Forepaugh, who says he
is too much trouble to carry about the
country.
THE American newspaper men have tried
to interview Lord Sackville, who is now in
Paris, but he sends down word that he
wants no communication with the Ameri.
can press.
NoToRIETY is worth as much as money in
those times, and il managed shrewdly is
apt to bring money. DR.. Tanner, the faster,
is about to marry the daughter of a Paris
millionaire
THIRTY thousand dollars is a pretty
price to pay for young gelding, but that
is the figure at which the three year. old
Proctor Knott was sold to Mr.. j. b. Haggin
the other day.
STATISTICS in Illinois show consider
able fal ing off Of the rural population and
a corresponding gain to Chicago. The
trend OF the population in many parts of
the country is towards the great cities.
ONE woman in New York makes money
by conducting strangers to the shops where
bargains can best be secured in any speci-
fed line OF goods, and giving her customers
the best of her shopping experience gener-
ally.
WHILE the trip of the Galena and the
Yantic to Hayti was not at all sangu mary,
1t comes just in time to round of the off,
cial career Of Admiral Luce with an Incl
dent In January he will be retired by the
nm Inn ifatin