The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-25
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next and ends May 81, 1880.
TIE British minister at Washington gets
$40, 900 a year and his residence.
THE premium on gold in the Argentine
Republic has reached Ga per cent
MICHIGAN papers are agitating for the
Restoration Of capital punishment.
NEWPORT, r. L, celebrated the 250th an
niversary of its settlement en- May H.
PAUNoEFoTE, the new English minister
to the United States is six feet six inches
tall.
The official returns place the Massachu-
setts majority against prohibition at
t8,e26.
THE United States pays 10000 year
to the examining surgeons in the pension
service t-,..
A TRAIN of twenty two cars, loaded
with bananas, recently left New Orleans
for Cincinnati.
ARTHUR L. THOMAS, the new Governor
of Utah, is n Pennsylvanan Of good old
Welsh ancestry.
AN Italian boy having four ears was
found asleep on Philadelphia doorstep
few evenings ago.
A FASHION that is quite the rage in the
East among young women is the collec-
tion OF china cups.
OVER twenty i've hundred trout were
taken in Big Spring Creek, near Newville,
Pa, the other day.
AN egg the shell of which shows all the
colors Of the rainbow is the product Of an
Ellsworth, Me-, hen.
A RECENT arrival at Castle Garden ex-
pected to find his uncle, who lives in
Alaska, awaiting him. ~.
A CHICAGO paper referred to q State
Senator Mr. thos. h. jones, and he has
sued for S75 900 damages.
A YOUNG man named Leatherers, of
Pittsford, Mich, died from the effects of
drinking maple sap to excess
IT is announced that Claus Spreckels'
great sugar refinery at Philadelphia will
go into operation on the 1st of June.
IT is said that electricity is applicable to
tanning, and that leather can be produced
from the raw hide in four days by it.
PEANUTS are now ground into kind of
-four which is both palatable and nourish-
ing. An excellent porr idge is made of it.
ABOUT one hundred and fifty colors are
now obtained from coal tar, which has al
most supplanted vegetable and animal
dyes.
The Paris newspapers have stuck a
hyphen into the name of the new Ameri
can minister. They put it Mr.. Whitelaw-
Reid.
MISS MAY DAVIS, an Oregon girl only
fifteen years old, can crack walnut with
her teeth or lift barrel of flour with her
hands.
THERE were in 1880, in this country, 40
cotton seed oil mills; capital invested, 49,
800 900. In 1889, 175 mills; capital, &c.
co., 900.
IT is announced that since the 1st of
May 1900 drinking places have been
closed in Boston under the high license
system.
IT is predicted that the present season
will be good one in Maine for small her.
ring. This ought to bring down the price
of sardines.
Tom FIELDS, of Titusville, Pa, has hen
that has Matched seventeen chickens this
spring from seventeen eggs. All the
chicks are lively.
. The Princess Of Wales is the most DEM
ocratic royalty in Europe so far as equip
ages are concerned She recently drove
about London in a hanson.
THE in dications are that every railroad
in Michigan will adopt the electric light
ing system for coaches. A new law may
have something to do with it.
BosToN's woman's gymnasium is not
only a great hygienic success, but a great
monetary one. 1t has already declared
two plump dividends on the stock.
Mr. GLADSTONE attributes his health
and vigor to his habit of sleeping seven |
hours cut of the twenty four and never
thinking Of business after he goes to bed. |
A GOLD crown, worth sos, 900, has been |
sent to Vienna by the Austro- -Hungarians |
Of Buenos Ayres. 1t is to be placed on |
the coffin Of the late Crown Prince Ru- |
dolf
WHITE LEAD is manufactured by the |
new Hannay meth cd direct from the ore |
In the space of few hours, while by the |
old process it was matter Of several |
months.
ABOUT 66 per cent of the street. car
companies in the United States are getting
ready, OF have already said good. bye to |
horses rs motive power. OF these one
half favor electricity.
A NATURAL curiosity is to be seen on a |
street in Columbus, Ga. A small oak tree
is growing from the limb of a Chinaberry
tree and the strange freak attracts the at
tention of all passers-by.
THE greatest snuff taking country in the
world is France, though it shows a decline
in the habit. In 1869 the consumption was
100000 pounds, or seven ounces per
head Now 1t is five ounces.
THE latest 'nickel- in the slot" device is
to be seen at the Philadelphia railroad
stations. Deposit your money and you
will receive an accident insurance policy,
good for twenty-four hours, all for five
cents.
ADvIcEs from Panama are that the rub
Der crop will be heavy, and from New
England that the spruce gum output is
"simply immense" These should be words
OF cheer to the boys who play ball and the
girls who chew.
SOUTH CAROLINA wants q law to the eff
foot that whore husband absents himself
for two years without any word his wife
is legally divorced. This Is to knock out
the Euech Ardens.
J. F. HARTNETT, Of Dedham, Mass, tn Q
other day, by a standing hop, skip and
jump of thirty feet and one half an
inch beat the record. He cleared for ty
feet with three standing jumps, beating
the worlds record.
A FUNERAL hstallment plan is q late
Americas innovation. An association has
been formed which agrees to bury any one
Of its members or contract holders for a
certain sum payable in installments, usu-
ally 25 cents a week.
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