The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13
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been started at Likely, Cal.
A ST. JOSEPH (Mo.) lad rides n pony
that weighs only 100 pounds.
DURING the civil war 26T Union soldiers
were executed for desertion.
The Emperor of China has ten men whose
sole duty is to carry his umbrella.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER car
ries life policies amounting to 81, 100000
PRESIDENT. HARRISON holds family
prayers in the White House every morn
ing
AN Atchison policeman named Basket
arrested man named Peaches the other
day.
THE King of Greece buys his clothes
in London. The Queen buys hers in
Paris
ABURLINGToN County IN. J.) man is ap-
plying for a pension, a post-office and a
divorce.
The Senate of Tennessee has passed a
bill requiring the registration of voters in
that State. e-a
SENATOR SHERMAN's first point of inter-
est on his European tour will be the Paris
Exposition.
A CHICAGO woman has gone long way
from home for the scene of her novel. 1t
is laid in Heaven.
THERE are 3, 500 watches manufactured
in the United States daily at cost of
from IS to $500 each.
The late Duke of Buckingham died with
out male heir, and the dukedom, there
fore, becomes extinct.
THE Marchioness of Mazda, of Japan, who
Is the richest woman in that country, is
worth only $6,000oO0.
the newspaper women of the United States
at the Paris exhibition.
A WHALE has been captured at Atlantic
City. That is a big way to begin adver-
tising so early in the season.
A sIx-DoLLAR bill of Virginia State cur
rency, issued in 1777, is curiosity in the
possession of Dalton (Ga.) gentleman.
EXPERIMENTS are now being made with
sending live Fl h in specially RECONSTRUCTED
ears from Denmark to Switzerland and
Italy.
A wurrEoAK tree, recently felled near
Baraboo, Wis, measured nearly seventeen
feet in girth and more than one hundred
feet in height.
A NEW process of hardening plaster of
paris has been discovered, whereby it can
be adapted to the construction of flooring
in place of wood.
The latest New York detective idea is to
hypnotic suspected persons and make
them, if guilty, go through pantomime
of the crime, before jury.
A NEW fruit has been discovered in
Southern California. 1t looks like the
fruit of the pear tree, but the pulp is soft
and pasty, tasting like claret
WESTMINSTER hall, in the Parliament
building, that has been closed to the pub
lie since the dynamite explosions few
years ago, has been opened again.
IRON railroad ties have been in use AL
most year, but owing to their not having
the elasticity necessary for the giving"
of the rails, they have not proven sue
cess.
VIENNA is to have a beauty show for
men, and prizes will be awarded in four
classes: the handsomest man, the finest
mustache, the biggest nose and the bald
est head
SENATOR PLUMB says he has on file 5000
applications for office from Kansas. If
the Sunfower State doesn't get any thing
it won't be because she is too bashful to
ask for it.
MINISTER PENDLEToN's health is slowly
improving, but private letters from Paris
say that he never will be able to work
again. His mind is clear ON ordinary oc-
casions, but it is unequal to the task of
any long or connected effort.
THE New York Assembly has passed to
third reading an extraordinary bill,
which proposes to refund to men who
were drafted during the war the money
which they paid to their substitutes
In
is about to build Pennsylvania town on |
the model of Pullman, near Chicago. The |
site is Wilmerding, on the line of the |
Pennsylvania railroad near Pittsburgh.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN remarked the other
day that only four persons were now liv-
ing who were in Congress when he en-
tered it: Mr. Bradbury, Of Maine; Mr.. |
Felch, of Mich igan; Jefferson Davis and |
himself.
MRS. CLEVELAND rejoices that she is no |
longer subjected to the rays Of that fierce
light which beats upon throne. She can
now 60 out and buy a pair of shoes without |
seeing the announcement telegraphed all |
over the land.
The greatest ocean of the globs is not SO
pacific as its name. Magellan christened |
it while the fraction of it that he had seen |
was on its good behavior. Only most |
fearful storm could drive ashore and |
wreck six men of-w war as in the disaster at |
Apia.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has been requested !
to issue proclamation calling upon cler-
gymen to hold special service of thanks |
giving in the churches throughout the |
country, on April 80, the one hundredth |
anniversary of the inaugura tion of Presi.
dent Washington.
FIAsco is an Italian word for bottle or
flask In making the beautiful old Vene-
tian glass it was the custom of the glass
blowers, II they made any flaw in their
delicate work, to turn the article into
common iiask-.fasco. Hence any failure
is called "a fasco."
The total production of distilled spirits
in the United States from July /, 1888, to
January 81, 1889, was AZ, 739, 336 taxable
gallons, being the largest production for a
similar period since 1883
The names of the soldiers and sailors of
Now Haven who died in the seryico of
their country in the late war are to be en-
graved ON bronze tablets to be used as
panels for the monument at East Rock
Park
Rev. DIR. ScorT, President Harrison's
father-in-law, keeps steadily at work at
his desk In the Pension Office His
daughters and the President himself have
asked him to resign his position, but he
refuses to live In idleness.
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