The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-17


entire population of Iceland, 10000 il
numbers, to Alaska.
MILAN OBRENovITcH, ex-King of Ser
via, has an income of 500, 900, and is
steadily running into debt.
THE Emperor of China, who is young
and progressive man, is very anxious to
make a trip to this country.
THE blight has again appeared in the
New York hop fields, threatening the
destruction of the whole crop.
LONDON has more than fourteen thou
sand policemen, a fact that shows that
Jack the Ripper is something of an ex-
pert.
The baby King of Spain has had a
severe attack of cholera infantum.
In spite of fourteen doctors he rccov-
cred.
GLADsToNE's speech on the royal
grants was caught by phonograph and
will go down to posterity just as he de-
livered it.
A MERCANTILE house in Philadelphia
finds it cheaper to send for customers
and pay all train expenses than send out
drummers.
DURING recent storm stone weigh
ing eleven pounds dropped from the
clouds into the yard of farmer living
near Essex, la.
New YORK papers say that the con-
victs of that State, who have been in en-
forced idleness for some time, will soon
be put to work again.
A PIoUs old lady of Toronto devotes
the profits accruing from the sale of all
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tho missionary cause.
A NEW YORK city court has decided
that children can't pawn goods, or if
they do the pawnbroker is liable to
years imprisonment.
PERFECTLY sane man in appearance
recently entered theater in San Fran
cisco. BY the end of the third act he
was raving maniac.
THE Prince of Wales is petitioning
his royal mamma to please retire to her
knitting and allow him a chance at the
throne before it is too late.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago Coney Island
was sanded waste. To-day there are
1000, 900 invested in its railroads,
hotels and diverse enterprises.
THEY are making an attempt to accli-
matize Connecticut oysters at several
places on the coast of Sweden. So far
the young oysters have thriven well.
AT the Schuylkill United States Ar
senal, near Philadelphia, there is manu-
factured each year 5000, 900 rounds of
ammunition and Is, 200, 600 of rifle balls.
IL looking through the papers in his
safe, the other day, Russell Sage discov-
cred that he was the proprietor of rail-
road out in Iowa that he had forgotten
about.
A RATTLEsNAKE kept by an Orlando,
Fla, jeweler, lived eighteen months
without eating. His owner then put an
end to the snakes misery by chloro-
forming him.
AN English clergyman is reported to
! have remarked to daughter of Bishop
Huntington: Has your father many
Mormons in his diocese? Utah, / think,
Is in New York?'
THE Empress of Germany will in fu-
ture be attended by special bodyguard
of the twenty-four tallest men in the
Prussian army, with five colossal SER
goants and commanding officer to
match.
H.,
gooseberries which weigh three-fourths
of an ounce each, and says they will
grow to be an ounce in weight when the
bushes are older. They are an English
variety.
THE elephant has more muscles in his
trunk than any other creature possesses
in its entire body, their number being,
according to Cuvier, no less than 40, 600;
while the whole of mans muscles only
number 557.
JOSE DE LA Rosa, an old printer in
San Diego, CAL, is one hundred years
old. He was sent by General Santa Ana
to Monterey to start paper in 1888. He
still has wonderful memory and the
control of all his faculties.
IT is not generally known that Mr..
Gladstone has only three fingers on his
left hand. The index finger was shot |
OF, foi ty-seven years ago. by an accident |
in the hunting-field.
JOHN G. COLLINS, of New York. form
erly of Cincinnati, has not been able TO |
sleep, it is learned, for seventeen years.
The only inducement to sleep is by re-
peating the Lords prayer He presents
strong and healthy appearance.
Horse stealing during tho past few
msnths has increased to such an extent
in Nebraska, that those most interested
in the matter have issued a call TO re-
viye the old vigilance committee, which
ceased to exist over twenty years ago
JOHN BOYLE OREILLY, the poet, is
bailding now house at Hull, Mass, on
the site of the one formerly occupied by
him. That was said to be nearly 200
years old, and Mr.. OReilly, who has a
love of the old-fashioned, clung to it
until 1t nearly crumbled away beneath
his feet.
MISS ALICE DAYTON. of Ellsworth,
Wis. invited her lover to her home. He
was young minister OF St. Paul.
Alice's mother favored another suitor OF
ler daughter, and expressed her disap-
proval by emptying pail Of sour but
ermiik over the young dominic in his
'ew dross suit.