The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26
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ciueu tnat trusts are lilegh.
THE wheat area this year In Kansas Is
twice what IL was last year.
THE winter in France thus far has been
the severest for fifteen years.
WICHITA pastor has been asked to re-
sign because he breaches too long.
The Gear of Russia wears ring in which
Is embedded piece of the true cross.
MARK TWAIN lost his hat and coat at a
Hartford ball and went home bareheaded.
A CORRESPONDENT says that only the
American girls surpass the Irish ladies in
beauty.
Crows are causing much annoyance to
the farmers of Douglas County, Illinois,
this winter.
A GOOSE with her wings tied was sent
over Niagara Falls the other day and float
ed away alive.
In speed the Vesuvius beats the world
twenty five miles an hour, and not strain
ing herself, eitherl
DURING the past year 80, 937 Russian i'm
migrants, most Of them Jews have come
to the United States.
THE only daughter Of the late j. Feni-
more Cooper lives at the old home at Coop
erstown, ON Lake Otsego.
year for the education of 100000 persons,
at the rate of $50 per head.
TWENTY FIVE Legislatures are at work
this month, and ON the Goth the Alabama
Legislature will be at it again.
WASHINGTON paper says that not a
dollar of conscience money has been re-
ceived at the Treasury for two years.
IT is the Boston Transcript which re-
marks that sullivan, in order to make a
match with Kilrain, had To-ron to Canada
to do it"
PHILADELPHIA has $4,000 people aud
$4,000 houses, while New York. with
1,2OO, 900 inhabitants, is said to have but
92 900 houses.
LEANDER BURNETT, a full -blooded In
dian, is teaching public school in Read
mond, Emmett County, Mich, and is doing
excellent work.
BRocKToN, MASS, last year turned out
on an average about forty-five pairs Of
shoes per minu te for three hundred days
of ten hours each.
GOVERNOR SwINEFoRD, of Alaska, pre-
diets that the mammoth, alive and well,
will yet be found in the interior Of his re-
markable Territory. -. l---- 7.s.'.,
THERE are two Episcopal ministers, mis-
sionaries, on the Yukon river, Alaska.
They are 8 1000 miles from the southeastern
line of the Territory.
AN omnibus run by electricity, the only
one in the world, has made successful trips
in London. 1t runs on any kind of street
without the use of rails.
"CHE MAH," the Chinese dwarf, the
smallest lilliputan on earth, aged fifty
10 hot l.;
with an ordinary plug hat.
A CURIOUS sight near Elijay, Ca, is the
grave Of a mountaineer's wife which is
protected from the fury Of the elements by
a number of lightning rods.
In several Eastern cities the churches
now have the contribution boxes passed
by handsome young ladies. The plan is
said to be highly successful.
IT is said that tho total consumption Of
spirits in Ireland last year was 1854, 42s
gallons, or over a gallon per head for
every man, woman and child
SARA BERYHARDT is astonishing the
Egyptians by her extravagances. Her bill
at the custom houses for articles purchased
already amounts to over $4,000.
GOVERNOR AMEs Of Massachusetts, calls
in his message for good truant school in
every county, and the enactment of law
securing municipal suffrage for women.
THE distress in society circles in Eastern
cities is the failure of cutaway coats, with
rolling silk collars, to oust old fashioned
full-dress coats known as swallow tails.
LEGALLY, there is no such city as Mem
phis. Some years ago the State Legisla-
ture took away its charter and named it
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The Mennon ties, German religious de-
nomination, have decreed that no person
can now belong to that church il he has a
policy hanging over his
head.
THE largest of our warships at present
has displacement of only 1900 tons,
whereas the French navy has seven vessels
whose displacement ranges from $500 to
Z, 600 tons.
CONNECTICUT stands at the head of the
list of States in respect Of richness in
property, and SO effectually is
this wealth hidden that only one hum
dredth part of it is taxed.
BARON HIRsCH, who recently gave 100,-
0O0, 600 francs for educational purposes in
Ru ssia and Austria, says the fund is not
for Jewish children alone, but for
children of all religions.
A PENNSYLVANIA mother has found ont
a way to take care Of children just Begin
ming to walk. She removes the upper
drawers of a bureau and seating the child
in the lower drawer turns the key
THE Missouri Legislature is called upon
to pass a law prohibiting pool rooms, and
st. Louis and Kansas City sports are
dropping into the lobby pool quite literally
to prevent the proposed legislation.
NINE BARRIos, widow Of the dead Pres
ident of Guatemala; Mrs Hicks Lord, Mrs.
Roberts and Mrs. Post are four
Of the wealthiest Of the New York widows
who are supposed to have marital inten-
tions.
NINE PATTI sang to people at the Albert |
Hall, London, the other evening for $500, |
and is engaged for series of concerts at !
the same place This is the largest sum
ever paid to any singer in England for che |
evenings work
The Hebrews Of New York do not agree
with Baron Hirsch, the Parisian banker
and philanthropist, in the opinion that the |
salvation of their race depends upon their |
with the Christian races.
THERE are some American citizens in
Alaska who haven't heard who WAS
elected. This is very unfortunate, but
they can comfort themselves with tho re-
dection that they don't have to read any,
thing about the Cabinet.
THE fact that young Jim Blaine has
started in to learn a trade affords the
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