The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-12-28
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$4,000 per annum.
THE English press is agreed that
Browning was the foremost of their
poets.
IN China the nen ride on horseback
"side ways" while the women ride
nstride.
SECRETARY BLAINE telegraphed Pres
ident Harrison's congratulations to
Stanley.
In London nowadays they stop post
men on the street and rob them of regis
tered packages.
The Claus Spreckles sugar factory in
Philadelphia is making two million
pounds of sugar day.
JEREMIAH RUSH, Secretary of Agricul-
ture, has become great friend of the
new Chinese Minister.
The average age of members of the
National House of Representatives is
not more than forty years.
JOHN HUSBANDS, farmer in Brandy
wine Hundred, Pa, had several hives of
bees swarm few days ago.
BERLIN pays only fifteen cents a night
for each of its electric lights. New
York pays thirtyfive cents.
CARDINAL BoNAPARTE, one of the old
est members of the Sacred College, is a
nephew of the great emperor.
The colored people of South Carolina
are to hold a State fair in Charleston
the first four days in January.
THE three hundredth anniversary of
the invention of the microscope is to be
celebrated in Antwerp in 1890.
A WATCH made in France during the
reign of Louis XIV. is owned in New
York, and still keeps good time.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has de-
sided that the courts of that State shall
not be regulated by standard time.
ONE of the liveliest and most success
full drummers out West is Miss Helen
Green, who travels for a paint house.
A PHILADELPHIA who found a piece
of O horseshoe in New York sausage
has had it gilded to hang up for luck.
JEFFERSON DAVIS mustered Abraham
Lincoln into the service of the United
States in the Black Hawk war in 1881.
WHERE Pope Plus used to keep forty
horses and eight carriages, Pope Leo
now keeps but eight horses and four car
riages.
LORD WoLsELEY has accepted an in
vitation to be present at the unveiling
of the statue of General Lee at Rich
mond, Va.
THE rapid decrease in the number of
kangaroos in Australia is beginning to
attract the attention of scientific socie-
ties there.
PECULIAR burial took place at Mil
waukee Friday. DR.. John Bartlett was
+aI
an ordinary body.
THE longest distance over which con-
versation by telephone is daily made is
between Portland, Me-, and Buffalo, n. |
Y, about 750 miles.
THE authorities in charge of the new
home for confederate soldiers at Austin,
Tex, propose to change its name to tho
.Davis Confederate Home"
EMIN BEY mas two relatives in this |
country-his fathers sister, Mrs. j. p. |
Kolsen, of Pittsburgh, and cousin, he,
son, who has served as mayor of Terre
Haute, Ind.
PRINCE ARTHUR, third son of Queen
Victoria, is expected to arrive in Canada .
next May, and, after staying there
month, to visit the principle cities in |
this country.
A WEALTHY man who has been con-
victed of shooting partridges near Lau-
rel, Del, and shipping them out of the
State contrary to law, will have to pay
$3.50 in fines.
RoBERT BROWNING is said to have
made up scraps or verse when he was a
small child, and to have done something
in the way of translating Horace when
but eight years old.
OUR children and the people of China
are much alike. At their meals they
eat the dessert first. With our children
1t is natural; with the Chinese it is to
avoid eating too much.
FIVE hundred people engaged in a
bear hunt near Uniontown, w. Va, tho
other day, and succeeded, after long
chase, in killing the brute. Fifteen dol
lars was offered for the skin.
THERE is man in Racine, Wis, who
is attracting good deal of attention,
owing to the fact that his feet and legs
and most of his other members ''are In
complete state of ossifcation."
THE great part of Sennacheribs pal
ace at Kouyunjik, including the library
chambers, has been cleared out, and
1,706 tablets and fragments have beer
acquired for the British Museum.
EMIN PAsHA, the famous traveller,
scientist and political adventurer, was
born in Prussia of Jewish parents named
Schnitzer, was baptized Catholic and
turned Mahomedan when he entered the
military service of Egypt as an army
surgeon.
A NEW process for burning coal with
out smoke has lately been discovered.
1t consists in sprinkling water contain
ing special preparation of resin over
the coal, and the result is that there is
no smoke, and the glow is as intense as
coke.
DARING highway robbers in Pitts
burgh, mounting delivery wagon,
threw the driver out and then drove
rapidly of. The vehicle contained
eight hundred dollars worth of tobacco.
THE Supreme Court of California has
decided that our conductors must make
change If the coin rendered in payment
Of fare be reasonable in amount, ana de-
clares five dollars reasonable tender
for a fve-cent fare.
SHEET iron is rolled so thin at the
Pittsburgh mills that 1900 sheets are
required to make single inch in thick
ness. Light shines as readily through