The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-18
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viceroy of China.
MASSACHUSETTS has "a, 900 scholars ir
her evening schools.
THERE are 200 Icelanders in the city oil
Winnipeg, Manitoba -
SCUTANAwBEQUoN Is the name OF a new
Coldwater (Mich) boat
SAVANNAH is said to be flooded with
counterfeit silver dollars.
RUSSIAN craftsmanship has suffered q
loss in the death of Coant Tolstoi.
CHAUNoEY NJ. DEPEw recently took out
another life insurance policy for $50, o00
A New ZEALAND woman of thirty years
is said to be worth 81, 000, 900, made in min
ing.
A BRONZE statue Of John Bright is to
be erected at Rochdale by public subscrip-
tion.
The Emperor Of Aus tria has paid Crown
Prince Rudolph's debts amounting to
E4SO,OOO. g,
GENERAL BoULANGER contemplates
visit to Wales. His mother was a Welsh
woman.
WASHINGTON was responsible for less
than 500 postmasters. Harrison surveys
over 10000
THE total number of American citizens
residing in China is 1022, of whom 5O6 are
missionaries.
OxMooR, ALA, has a curiosity in the
shape of petrifed pine stump, Weighing
about 800 pounds.
SOME of the most prominent women of
Boston, have signed protest against the
docking of horses tails. y>,.
The number of persons i'll from the ef-
fects of the Centennial seems to be almost
m lar hxyf fba; -
ration.
IT is said that moro money can be made
in England nowadays by painting the
pictures of dogs than by taking human
portraits.
The most beautiful woman at the CEN
tenniai ball, according to the New York
Sun. was Southern girl, Miss Bell Green,
of Savannah.
PITTSBURGH lost over fourteen hundred
liquor saloons by high license, but with |
the ninety three left will probably manage
to struggle along.
A DEVIL fish weighing 9, 600 pounds was
caught some days ago in the Gulf of
Mexico at st. James, Fla, by party Of
tourist fishermen.
FORTY thousand pounds of maple sugar
were shipped from Berlin, Somerset Coun-
farmers over SO, 900.
LIBBY prison was completely wrecked on
its way to Chicago for show purposes.
The train ran off the track and the bricks
and timbers were scattered.
A NUMBER of reindeer have been import
ed from Norway and turned out on a for
est in the north of Scotland in the hope
that they may become acclimatized.
h i,,va fal
stance to take the place of rubber in the |
manufacture of waterproof goods. 1t is
said TO be cheaper and better than rubber. |
a REED CITY mich man claims to have
a dog that presents his daughters beau |
with boot at eleven O'Clock every night
and the young man has learned TO take the |
hint
TIE annual report Of the Boston super
intendent of schools brings to light the !
interesting fact that the rattan was ap-
pealsd TO no less than 1900 times last |
year.
TIE late VIM. Il. Barnum is said to have |
been a model husband and father. His
wife knew all his political secrets, and |
what is better, perhaps, never divulged a |
single one. a
The project Of manufa curing binding |
twine in the Illinois penitentiary in order |
10 help the farmers in their fight against |
the twine trust strangers has practical |
hint about it.
LITTLE Phil Spooner, the seven year
old son Of the Wisconsin Senator, has an |
eItraor dinary talent for music. He can |
hear an opera once come home and repeat
every air of it.
YOUNG lady's letter to her papa in
Brookline, Mass, says of the ending of
the centennial ball: Champagne was all
over the floor, and men pouring it down
one another's backs"
ALTHOUGH there was an increase of only
81 600 tons of pig iron in 1888 in the whole
United States, the increased production
in the Southern States was 293, 900 of which
Alabama furnished 156 600 tons
QUEEN VICTORIA will have nether birth
day IL she lives until May "a. when her
annual clock will strike 70. It is pleasant
to know that her income 10 sufficient to
support her in her declining years.
A QUEBEC paper says that the volume of
emigration from that province to the
United States this year will reach over
one hundred thousand, and 1t wants to
know il something can't be done to affect
it.
WHEN father in Madagascar gets the
idea that his daughter ought to marry he
puts rope around her neck and leads her
forth, and the first young man he offers
her to has got to take her or forfeit one
hundred yams
A MILD winter is always followed by a
summer characterized by constantly re-
curing electrical disturbances While it
is not easy to account for this, it is sup
posed to be from the heated condition of
the atmo sphere.
The historical portraits of tho Presidents
show that John Quincy Adams was the
frst chief executive to throw aside shirt c
frills and furbelows. His other garments. I
however, were made in the fashion OF his {
fathers generation. {
THE Eiffel tower has cost, in one way or
another, the lives of nearly 100 workmen.
TIE monument to the memory of the
late Ex-President Arthur, now being [.
erected in the Albany, N. Y. Rural Ceme- ID
cry, Is a large sarcophagus of granite. a
The only inscription will be the name
Arthur" in plain letters on the base of c.
he monument. Il
PADDY RYAN, the OK champion heavy
Weight, met his nemesis In a little San
reporter the other day. He in
ulted the newspaper man whereupon the 3
newspaper man smote him hip and thigh
md measured the sidewalk with him three n
imes before Paddy's surprised friends =
ould carry him to the rear. -