The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-02-09

germs.
IT is said that the room in which Max
we'll murdered Preller at st. Louis i
haunted.
RAILROAD bills introduced into the Ne
braska Senate are either pigeon-holed O.
sandbagged.
THE women of New Orleans will builc
and maintain during tho coming carniva
a cotton palace.
BosToN man has applied for a divorc,
from his w ife because she wouldn't sew
buttons on his coat.
ONE ton of coal is capable of yielding ar
amount of force equivalent to that of si1
and two-thirds men.
THE opening of the new Chamber ol
Commerce at Cincinnati, few nights ago
was a brilliant affair.
KANSAS has built school house every
day in the year for the past four years
and 131 over for good count.
1t is coincidence worthy of remark that
General Boulanger was elected on the
German Emperor's birthday.
In a few months the King of Spain will
celebrate his third birthday in a style be-
fitting his exalted babyhood.
A CLUB of twenty Baltimore damsels is
going to ''do" Europe this summer with
out relatives or chaperonage.
1T is proposed to establish a home for
German invalids at San Reno, as ia me-
mortal to the Emperor Frederick.
1T is said that couple of ladies in Pitts
field, Mass, earned $1,000 by teaching the
art and mystery of whist-playing.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has appointed his
hrnt 20 20, ;,,
the navy and colonelcy in the army.
A MINISTER in Shelby County, No., in
one day recently preached two sermons,
married two couples and set three broken
ribs.
1T Is said that citizen of Palmyra, NO.,
got up in the night and went into tho
woods and felled a large tree while
asleep.
WMLO'BRIEN is sentenced to four months
imprisonment at hard labor, but this will
not keep the Irish editors from talking and
writing.
SAMOA is composed of the Society Is
lands. 1t is not the kind of society, how
ever, that most people would fancy just at
this time
A BILL is before the Pennsylvania Leg
islature providing for the placing of the
stars and stripes over each school house
in that State.
REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE wants the
Government to pension all school teachers
who have faithfully served for fifty con-
secutive years.
THE inventor of the roller skate made
over f2OO 600 Notwithstanding the fact that
his patent had nearly expired before its
value was ascertained.
The Custer monument in Montana has
been so greatly defaced by Indians shoot
ing at 1t that it has been found necessary
to recut the names on il.
A SCIENTIFIC article explains why tightly
corseted women get short of breath. The
wonder is not that they get short of it,
but that they get it at all.
PROF. VIM ID. KERR, superintendent of
the Missouri Deaf and Dumb Institution,
who has just resigned, has filed that posi-
tion for thirty-seven years.
1T turns out that Klein, the American
newspaper man, with a German name,
who has been figuring in the Somoan bus
mess, is an Englishman by birth.
The removal of the capital of Arizona
from Prescott 10 Phoenix having been de-
cided on, it is reasonable to infer that the
latter place has risen from its ashes.
EMPRESS FREDERICK of Germany must
obtain the permission of her son, the EN-
peror, before she can accept the 50, ,O00. 900
bequeathed her by the Duchess of Gal
liera.
ST. LOUIS has got hold of man who has
stolen twenty eight horses in six mon this,
and he is not only eighty-two years of age,
Iar,
asthma.
DURING the last eleven years 1885 fe-
male servants in Germany have received a
cross and diploma from the Empress Au-
gusta for continuous service in one family
for forty years.
The Woman's Exchange, of New York,
sold above $50, 900 worth of things last
year. or 6,170 pieces of work done upon
order only twenty-four were returned as
THERE are propositions in France to con-
struct canals fromBordeaux to the seaboard |
Of the Atlantic and from Narbourne to the |
Mediterranean; total length, $3.50 miles;
cost, $3.50, 100000
THERE are 100000 negroes in the United
States. In the South there arc 10000 col
pred school teachers. They have colleees,
universities and seminaries, and are worth
s., 900, COO in property.
The plan of removing the State capital
from Augusta is a prominent subject OF
gossip among Maine legi slators. 1t is said
that 112 Senators and Representatives ia
vor Portland as a seat of government
The total carrying capacity of the mer-
camille vessels of this country Is 4, 191, 0l5
tons, being an increase of 2l2,0OO tons over
1887. Forty-six per cent. of last years in
;rease was in our Western lake marine.
UPwAHD Of $4,000 a year was made by the
inventor of the common needle threadar.
THE scheme Of proft-sharing seems to
ave passed. the experimental stage. A
sew York company declare that IL has
'enefited them as well as the employees.
Ar the festivities attending the EN-
error OF China's marriage will be em-
loyed 10000 horn lanterns, 12, 900 glass
amps and 4,OOJ pieces of embroidered
Ilks, and skilled artifcers are now hard
t work manufacturing these articles,
OVER one hundred and sixty women
at Philadelphia woman's
edical college last year. They repre-
'nted nearly every nation on the earth,
me being from China and others from
ustralia, while there were two or more
ON every State In the Union. !