The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-02
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pONERNOR HRANClS HdS dpDOlHUtu d
st. Louis lady notary public.
ARBoR DAY is now an established in
stitution in thirty-two States.
DENMAN THOMPSON completed his
tfty-sixth year few days ago.
THE leading industry of Helmeta, n.
j., is the manufacture of snuff.
THE sentiment in favor of Republic
is said to be spreading very rapidly in
Brazil
KING KALAKAUA, of the Sandwich Is
lands, is writing an epic poem on Hawiian
legends.
The southwark navigation of wild
geese IN Connecticut begins rather early
this fall.
ALABAMA eX-Confederate soldiers are
organizing societies similar to the G. A.
r. Posts.
GENERAL BoULANGER talks of sudden
ly entering France and demanding q
new trial
A NATIONAL monument is proposed to
the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
A GEORGIA man, hearing that raven
would live two hundred years, bought
one to try it.
A FOREIGN order for 6,O00,0 900 car
tridges has been received by Bridge
port Comm firm.
CARLOS L., the new King of Portugal,
popular in Portugal.
BUGGY wheels of steel on the prin-
ciple of bicycle wheel will be made by
Pittsburgh concern.
THE st. Louis & San Francisco rail-
road wants to build 1,5OO miles of rail-
road in Indian Territory.
IT is reported that Russia has once
more determined to expel Prince Ferdi-
nand from the Bulgarian throne.
VAYDERBMT's six thousand dollar
cook left his place, he says, on account
of his horror of American servants.
IN 1855 James G. Blaine and Melville
W.Fuller, the present chief justice, were
both reporters on papers in Augusta,
Me.
MISS RoXANNA WENTWORTH, the only
child of Long John" Wentworth, is
one of the wealthiest women in Chi
cago.
passionately fond of the violin that she
will arise in the dead of night and play
a tune.
GUssIE S. CoTTLow, eleven years old,
of Shelbyville, ILL.,, is about to appear
before the New York publicas pianist
phenomenon.
NEARLY $50 miles of natural gas pipe
have been laid in Pittsburgh since last
spring involving an outlay of about S4.-
600, 900 of capital.
THE painting "L'Angelus," which has
inches in size. The customs duties on
it amount to $32,50O.
THE mob which lynched Robert Ber-
riar at Lexington, n. c., for the murder
of his mother-in-law, prayed with him
four hours before hanging him.
FOLLOWING the custom of all distin-
guished visitors to Mr.. George w.
Child's country seat, ex-President Hayes
recently planted a tree on the lawn.
Miss KATE DREXEL, of Philadelphia,
has decided to take the veil, and will
probably devote her life to the develop
ment of a religious order to teach Indian
girls.
A CURIOUS episode of New Jersey
politics can be found in the fact that ex-
Speaker William NJ. Baird is now
driver on Broadway horse car in New
York.
Both branches of the general Episcopal
convention, at It's recent session in New
York City, rejected a prayer in which
there is a suspicion of the doctrine of
purgatory.
A RECENT clever invention is the tax
anon, little-lantern-like apparatus
which ingeniously placed at the back of
cab, measures the exact distance tray
ersed by it.
A sUPERsTITIoUs quarry boss at Potts
town, Pa, spent the whole night revolv-
ing wagonwheel, thinking the opera
ton would bring back the thief that
stole his powder.
WHILE Robert Mitchell, farm hand
at Springfield, Neb., was belaboring
horse he was instantly killed by light
ming. The moral inculcated is to be
kind to your horse.
THE Savannah News tells of a woman
in Wadley, Ga, who has become
grandmother at the age of thirty. She
when only fourteen, and her
daughter did likewise.
KING CARLOS l., OF Portugal boasts of
being the best shot in that Kingdom,
and is painter of considerable merit.
His wife is Princess Amelie, daughter
of the Compile de Paris.
ACCORDING to official reports, there
are 100000 beggars in Russia, all of
whom carry on begging as a business
with the Endorsement of village, city
and church authorities.
ALONG the line of the railway which
runs through the grounds of the Paris
are placards in twenty-eight
languages intended to remind passen-
gers of the dangers of the road.
A FLoRENTINE friar exhibits at the
Paris Exposition watch only quarter
Of an inch in diameter. Besides the two
regular hands it has third, which
marks the seconds, and microscopic
dial which indicates the days, weeks,
months and years. 1t also contains an
alarm.
THE city Of Washington has one of the
finest, if not the finest market build
ings in the country, built at an expense
of over 100000, with complete farmers
market, meat and fish and fruit market,
shops, restaurant and cold ftorage house. |
1t covers spuce of 21l acres in the CEN
ser of the city.