The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-24
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embroidered with flowers.
A TREE was cut down at 0rting, w. T..
that measured 80 feet long.
EUROPE is now agitating the question
whether to remoneti2e silver.
AN immense deposit of mineral soaI
has been found near San Diego.
MILE HONEY and John Sweet were
married in Cincinnati few days ago.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, is {
literary man by inheritance and habit
PRINCESS LoUIsE's wedding jewelrJ
alone was estimated as worth e200, 600
SOUTHERN California is figuring on q
honey crop of 2,000,0 900 pounds this sea-
son.
LONDON has giH barber, four years
old, who shaves five men in thirty min
dtes.
A WOMAN at Trenton, Kas., seized and
held four of her neighbor's children for
debt
The value of the Columbia river sal
mon catch for this season is estimated al
2,1OO, 900.
THE city of Berlin is far ahead of Lon
don in telephone progress, there being
10000 subscribers.
A COMPANY is about to engage in the
manufacture of bagging from pine fiber
at Wilmington, N. c.
IN France the DOCTORS claim on the
estate of deceased patient has pre-
cedence of all others.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have ex-
pended nearly S3,OOO,0o0 on memorials
to the Prince Consort.
THE New York papers are getting
greatly excited over Chicago's chances
for the exposition in 1892.
ABOUT $50, 900 persons have ascended
to the top of the Washington monument
since October of last year.
IT'S fogy to wish long life to a golden
wedding couple. The latest form is:
Here's elixir of life to you"
AT a ball in Paris recently lady wore
shoes each of which had a watch insert
ed in the leather near the toe.
KING HUnmERT has bought phone
graph, by means of which he corre-
spends with Queen Marguerite
THE Pope has made Dr. Morgan Grace,
brother of the ex-mayor of New York, a
Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
AN advertisement in a London paper !
offers to pay fair price for secondhand |
eooth-brushes and cast-of old teeth.
In England there are over 500, 600 more
widows than widowers. In France there |
are 1914 widows for every 100 widowers.
A TRUMPET producing it's musical note
by the vibration of circular steel men,
brane by means of electricity has been
invented.
UNDER the new Schaeffer law in Min
neapolis, which makes drunkenness
crime, a woman was the first to be sem
fenced to Jail.
NEW WORKERS devour million quarts
of ice-cream on Sunday. A wag AYERS
that they remember the Sabbath day to
keep it coldly.
SITTING BULL, angered because the
Sioux treaty has been signed, has agreed
scum attraction.
Mrs. SLATER, of Siverlyviile, Pa, had
rooster killed the other day, and was
pleased and surprised to find q So gold
piece in its craw.
DAVID CAMPBELL, a puddler of Ian
caster, Pa, has ferret farm and sells
good many of the animals to persons who
want them to kill rats.
GUTHRIE, with it's suburbs, now has
$4,000 inhabitants, six banks, eight
newspapers, thirty-seven umber-yards
and hundreds of stores.
THERE will be only one Negro in the
next Congress. The single colored in
cumbent is Representative Henry p.
Cheatham, of North Carolina.
The Sultan of Turkey maintains 474
carriages, which incur an expense of
$500, 900 francs year. Most of these
carriages are of French make.
EMERY ALLEN, of Hartland, Mich,
has had cherry-stone taken from his
ear. 1t was put there fifty years ago by
some of Aliens mischievous playmates.
The ''vealiest' wedding that ever
took place in Rails County, Mo-, was
celebrated the other day at New Lon
don. The groom was sixteen and the
bride thirteen.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the tallest
President in this country, being six
feet, four inches. Benjamin Harrison
is the shortest; his height is only five
feet, five inches.
DIR. PAUL GIBIER, an eminent French
physician, resident in New York city,
has gone to Paris to follow DIR. Brown-
Sequard's experiment with his recently
discovered rejuvenator.
Two prominent citizens of Atlanta
won't over into Alabama the other day
and had duel They fred ten shots at
each other. but neither was hit and the
whole affair was dreary failure.
The population of Norway exhibits
higher percentage (97.25) of light eyes
than any other country in Europe.
Flaxen hair occurs in 57.5 per cent,
while absolutely black hair is only
found in the ratio of 2 per cent
BASEBALL has been introduced in the
New York insane asylum and the ply
sician in charge OF that institution says
it has had most salutary effect on the
patients affected by melancholia.
THERE is fish pond at Delano, CAL,
which is supplied from an artesian we'll
The fish are spurted out every day, and
belong to the same species as those at
Owens Lake, on the other side Of the
Coast Range.
ACCORDING TO the statistician Of the ,
Interstate Commerce Commission there !
ire 149, 101.72 miles Of railway in the
United States, or one mile of road to ev- ,,
,ry 2o.14 square miles of country, ex- ,
,lusiye of Alaska
IT will be as we'll for persons who ,
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