The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-06


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A PHOTOGRAPH of the aurora borealis has
been obtained from the summit of Mt RigL
in Switzerland.
COCAINE is now about So. rs and 81 an
ounce. When it first came out it was $500
or 500 an ounce.
BALMY spring suggests house-cleanins,
moving and other miseries, but it is new
rtheless welcome.
A VEIN of hot mineral water has been
struck ON the Alma (Mich.) sanitarium at
a depth of 2,ST6 feet.
TIE great fire in the imperial palace at
Peking is reported to have caused loss OF
$4,000, 900 to S4,0OOOO0
1T is rumored that Third Assistant POST
master General Hazen will speedily abol-
ish the green postage stamp.
PHoNoGRAPH parties are said 10 be the
rage in places where the modern instru-
ment can be procured easily.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw declares that he
can remember an incident which occurred
when he was SIX months old.
HORSEBACK riding has become the fash
ionable diversion in Florida since alligator
SnOOI1nR went Oh
VALUABLE lead and silver ore deposits
have been discovered in Rutherford Coun-
ty, near Murfreesboro, Tenn.
PENNSYLVANIA is said to have lost $780, :
900 through the bad management OF her
sinking fund commissioners.
The Tennessee Legislature proposes to
make it felony TO steal as much as one
dollars worth of corn from a field.
SINCE the downfall of Napoleon III. the
number OF cabinets which France has been
inflicted with is exactly twenty five.
A YOUNG colored man was killed by a
hail storm in Hanover County, N. c., the
other day. The hailstones were enormous.
MRS. ANTHONY of Portland, Ore,
dreamed that there was a burglar in the
house, and on awaking found that it was
fact
ANDREW CARNEGIE has presented his
workmen at Braddock, Pa, a library
building costing $125,OO0 containing 200
books.
UNTIL year ago Justice Matthews was
in perfect health, and during his sixty
five years of life sickness was stranger
to him.
INDIA rubber is being tried as a substi-
and the result is said to be good, but ex-
pensive.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's typewriter, Miss
Sanger is said to be the first woman ever
employed at the White House in clerical
capacity.
A cURIoUsLY twisted root of an oak tree,
exhibited at Punta Gorda, Fla, is said to
show all the letters of the alphabet in its
convolutions.
THERE is said to be one woman in the
finishing department of the watch factory
at Waltham able to do mems work for
mems pay.
ENGLISH gold coin is reported greatly
deprecated by wear. Perhaps rogues
are practicng the American trick of
sweating the coin.
A BURGLAR arrested in Boston, had on
his breast an India ink picture of a grave
stone, on which was marked: SIN memory
of my father and mother"
THERE are in the neighborhood of 200, 600
models in the Patent Office, and had it not
been for two destructive fires the number
would be near q half million.
THE Parnellites are thought to possess
important information, in addition to the
Piggott diary, to be used when the Par
nellite commission reassembles.
A CURIOUS old custom is still in vogue in
the old Yorkshire town of Ripon. At that
place the curfew horn is blown every night
at O'Clock by a man in uniform.
A RusHvILLE (nl.) girl put her lump of
chewing gum on her pillow. 1t got into
her ear while asleep. 1t took several days
to remove it, and now she is deaf.
tn a,1,
the apex when the New York World the
other day published portrait Of Editor
Dana and labeled it Richard Pigott
MRS. A. NJ JOHNSON of Grafton, w.
Va, owns the dinner bell with which
Mary Washington, mother of the country's
mater. was won't to summon her family to
meals
THE richest men in Germany are the heirs
eff Herr Krupp, the cannon maker, Baron
Won Rothschild, of Frankfort and Herr
Won Beischucher, the blind banker, Of
Berlin.
THE sessions of the New Hampshire
Legislature are likely TO be shorter in the
future than they have been in the past.
Hereafter the members will paid 5000 per
year, be the sessions long or short
KLEIN, the correspondent who gained
notoriety in connection with the recent
outbreak at Samoa, is in New York, and
SAYS he is willing and anxious to go be-
fore the Conference soon to assemble at
Berlin.
The alleged discovery of camel coal in
inexhaustible quantities in Alaska is an
other extraordinary development in that
extraordinary country, whose annual rev.
enues, even in its undeyeloped condition,
amount to s9,0000OO.
JOSEPH w. CORNING, who has just been
appointed postmaster at Palmyra, N. y,
has the distinction Of having formerly
held that Office by appointment of the
other President Harrison.
In Phil adelpbia disorderly resorts are
broken up by placing policemen before
them TO warn visitors to keep away. At
night policemen carry red lanterns 1t is
reported that nuisances are thus abated
without making arrests.
Mr. WAsHBURn, the appointed
Minister to Switzerland, Is six feet two
inches in height, has well-proportioned
body and fine head and shoulders. He Is
slightly bald, with gray side-whiskers