The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-02-23


greater than in 1887. So
A LONDON paper has been sued for iihe
on account of criticism of performance
which did not come off.
SIX hundred words per minute were re.
corded by means of the Wheatstone auto
matte telegraph apparatus.
THE farmers are at last to be represented
in the Presidents Cabinet, in the person
of the Secretary Of Agriculture.
In Portland, Oregon, an electric plant is
being erected where the generating station
Is twelve miles from the lamps.
A CHINAMAN in New York has started
an evening school to teach the English
language to his own countrymen.
A SYNDICATE is being organized in Wall
street to supply Detroit with natural gas.
The capital stock is to be $1,oOQ,o00.
The Hartwell (Ga.) Jail is for rent; it
has not a single occupant The Jail fees
for the past year were less than $780,
LEWISTON (Me) druggists keep large
quantities of tow for sale. 1t is in great
demand as a remedy for the mumps.
A DIAMOND of wonderful purity weigh
ing 240 carats was found at the Jagersfon-
tein mine in South Africa on Christmas
day.
A LARGE-sLzED volume might be made
of the stories of the different ways in
which the Crown Prince of Austria met
his death.
A RICH man in Portland, O., got drunk
the other day and bought thirty-six collins
for himself, leaving only about ten more
In stock in the town.
JUDGE HOPPER, of New Jersey, refuses
TO allow jurors TO be challenged simply
because they have read newspaper articles
about the case on trial.
THE old battlefield of Antietam has just
been purchased by r. d. Fisher of Jeffer-
son County, W. Va. 1t has long been titled
by the previous owner.
JUDGE HOLMAN, the ''great obiector" is
over sixty years old. He is a native
Hoosier. and has been twenty four years
a member of the House.
The saleslady and the ash gentleman
are familiar, but an English contemporary
outruns them with the headline, "a Lady
Thiefs Strange Career"
A BILL has been introduced into the Mis-
souri, Legislature making it a misdemeanor
to play ball on the Sabbath, to be punish
able by fine of s25 to $500.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JONES, of New
York, has avowed his intention to become
a candidate for the Governorship in 1891.
Will he still pay the freight"
LONDON is indulging in the extravaganza
Of an ice palace, while New York is Won
dering whether there will be enough of the
article next summer for juleps.
THE immigration into Brazil last year
previous years. The labor Of the ex- slaves
Is uncertain and unsatisfactory.
INDIANA alone has 375 natural gas wells,
and the prediction that large portion of
the State will ultimately sink many feet is
soaring the Hoosiers bald headed.
SALT water is beginning to be a great
menace to the oil and gas resources of
Northwestern Ohio, and many wells will
have to be 'bandoned. it is thought.
A BALTIMORE dealer, while Mr.. Van
derbilt was fitting out his yacht there
for a cruise, declined to send supplies be-
cause 'he didn't know Vanderbilt"
A PorTsEowH Pa.) widow married for
spite three months after her husbands
death. His will didn't suit her. The newly
welded pair are seventy years of age.
AT Willow, CAL, flock of wild geese
settled down ON forty acre field of grain
and picked it clean in two hours. The
number of birds were estimated at $4,000.
Mr.. JOHN GRUNDY. of Polk County, is
the largest man in Arkansas. He Is six
feet ten inches in height. weighs 1928 pounds,
is active, and in strength is equal to three
men.
THERE is a woman living in Newark, N.
j., who bears the brief name of Henrietta
Louise Caroline Amelia Adelaide Theresa
Whitehead Thorpe Wilkinson Kinsey
Post.
THE Portland papers speak with pride of
A. M. Cannon, who peddled sewing ma
chimes through Oregon nine years ago
and who is now worth S. 900, 900. Mr.. Can
non evidently shot OFF his mouth with great
profit
H DEMO, of Vcksburg, Miss, has a
mngn Ola tree in his yard of species which
In a curiosity, in that it blooms in Feb
ruary. 1t Is now beginning to bloom and
is visited by many people.
MRS. MAcKAY has been ordering some
new gowns in Paris, which are described
ms surprising all previous efforts of tho
modistes. One is of oil ld-rose satin covered
with white lace. and studded with $40 900
worth of gems.
INDIAN agents who have had the oppor-
tunity to study the red mans domestic
life says that neither male nor female is
capable Of feeling the sen ntiment of love.
A buck marries 10 have a slavej a squaw
70 have lodge.
A PARTY Of young men in New York
have organized to popularize knee
breeches and sack coats as a substitute for
the conventional garments OF evening
dress.
DR. ScHLIEMANN, the noted Greek arch@-
oiogist and excayator, Is writer Of four.
teen languages, and 1t Is said that Mrs.
Schliemann has to stand around when he
begins TO talk. HfNf 3D.
JOHN JACOB AsToR has given a hand
some four-story building, with its lot OF
land, to the Children's Aid Society of New
York, as a memorial Of his wife who was
deeply interested In the charitable institu.
tion. The build 'ng will be- ussd as an in-
duytrial school