The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
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ihb SZar OIL RUSSIA Is learning to pla'
the cornet
SOME Persian women srloke cigarette
made of tea.
THE wheatin Missouri is high enough t.
hide rabbit.
CLARK County, Kansas has 5000 acre
planted in castor beans.
SMOKE color will be favorite shade fo
gentlemen's spring hats
TURKISH women eat rose leaves will
butter to secure plumpness.
THE biggest thing on ice this summer
will probably be the price of it,
A Missouri judge has decided that base
ball playing on Sunday is illegal.
Boston street car company recently
declared dividend of 70 per cent.
THE new law of Michigan forbids the
mixing of intoxicants with soda water.
RAscALs are still engaged in the coun-
terfeiting of five cent pieces, or 'nickels" f"
THERE are 1, 205 persons of the name of
Smith employed in the United States
postal service.
IT is stated that Queen Victoria has sent
for an eminent Indian scholar to teach
her Hindustani.
A PIE factory is the latest Baltimore in
dustry. The projectors propose to bake
$1,000 pies per day.
TAKING with them two National banks
into Oklahoma looks like business on the
part of the boomers.
THE Methodist Conference in Worcester,
Mass, has taken steps for the publication
Of "a moral daily newspaper"
THE Car of Russia, according to an En-
glish traveller, wears n silk strap around
his waist in place of suspenders.
II. P. CHEATHAM, the only colored man
in the coming Congress, represents the
Second District of North Carolina.
Four Cinnamon of high standing have
reached Washington to study American
ways, manners, means and methods.
Mr.. BLAGNE's daughter Margaret is fast
earning the reputation of being one OF the
wittiest young women in Washington.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR of Tennessee, the
"Fiddling Bob" of the campaign of 1856,
keeps up his daily practice on his favorite
instrument
THE prejudice against horsefesh has
now so faded out in Paris that there are
1872 recognized butcher shops where horse
flesh is openly sold.
In the trial of Latimer for the murder of
his mother, at Jackson. Mich, 12O jurors
have been examined without single one
being put in the box.
JAS. REDPATH says the continuation of
the rent agitation in Ireland has had the
effect of causing n reduction of the rents
in Ireland-at least $25 100000.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, has a military
company composed entirely of girls from
its best families. Their drill sergeant is an
old officer of the National Guard.
FIFTY years ago the Turkish woman who |
could read was everlastingly disgraced, |
Now the Sultan has just established two |
schools for girls at Constantinople.
Mrs. JULIE EsTMAN, of West Virginia, is
one of the mightiest hunters in all its |
mountains. She is dead shot with the |
rifle, and has killed bear and deer by hun |
ireds.
FIFTY persons claim to be heirs to an |
estate valued at $17,0O0,O00 and known as
the Hannah Hillman estate, " which is
located in st. Clair County, ILL.,. opposite
St Louis.
SIR CHARLES RUssELL's allusion to
America as that greater Ireland beyond
the seas" is reminder that there are
more 1rishmen in America than there are
in Ireland.
SIXTY-FfvE of the Indian boys at the
Government school at Carlisle have been
distributed among Pennsylvania farmers
for summer work. The boys represent
half a dozen tribes.
PHILADELPHIANs propose to celebrate in
September, 1890, the two hundredth anni-
versary OF the establishment of the first
paper mill in America at Roxborough,
Philadelphia County.
A NEGRO in Dougherty County, Ga, has
adopted new and ingenious scheme of
money. Having quite lot
Of old Confederate money he dyed it green
and passed it for greenbacks
MAY l is moving day in New York but
different arrangements will have to be
made this year, as the city and citizens
will be in no condition to swap houses
The day following the centennial celebra-
.ion.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS new spring suit
which he will wear after the court goes
'ut of mourning, will be the most gorgeous
N Europe. Knee breeches, buckle shoes,
| three-cornered hat and brilliant COM
1ination of colors will be but a few of its
many splendors.
THERE are now only 750 head of buffalo,
Wild and domesticated, on the whole
American continent, and unless some
measures shall be taken looking to their
that number is also likely to
10 reduced.
THERE is every indication that a COM
Mission to make surveys of a ship-canal
QUITE between the Ohio and Lake Erie will
70 appointed. The bill to appoint it will
70 zealously pushed in the Pennsylvania
legislature. Z
The ups and downs of mining life are
veil illustrated by the career of Jean Du-
oil, well-known character of Sonora,
;al. In 1884 he made over s., 600, 900 by a
ncky mining speculation. Duvoll then l
vent to San Francisco and invested in c
tocks. To-day he is penniless. --- {
A NEW YORK grocer says that many
vomen Of the poorer classes start their fire
'ith clothespins when they happen to be
ut Of kindling wood. For this reaso on the
ale Of clothespins is very large. q
The largest wooden steamer for the o
reat lakes is now on the stocks at a Bay Il
ity (Mich) shipyard. She Is 800 feet in
myth, Al feet beam, and p feet depth of 81
old and is designed for the iron ore and g
rain trade.
A BATTLE CREEK (Mich. woman had e
5roke Of old fashioned reli gion at revival g
,cently, and her first act on leaving the o
lurch was to call a messenger and send o.
10 money to pay a bill which she had been -
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