The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-17
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"a cents on the dollar.
GREAT finds of carbonates and galen;
are reported near Barker, Mont.
LoRp TENNYsoN is now giving moro
attention to gout than to poetry.
QUEEN CHRISTINE, Of Spain, is thirty
five, very pretty and very popular.
The American girl and her money are
soon parted when she buys a foreign
title.
Mrs JouN DREW is 60 years of aga
and has been on the stage sixty-three
years.
THE eight-hour day has been the
rule in Australia for more than thirty
years.
A CONNECTICUT newsboy is cutting
his third set of teeth. He is eighty.
three.
OUDA and Patti have earned more
money than any other two women of the
century.
A CRoss-ByE or squint of the right eye
debars man from admission to the reg
ular army.
FINE statue was unveiled the other
Of gold in California.
ETHEL SPRAGUE, daughter of Mrs.
Kate Sprague, has decided not to enter
the theatrical profession.
JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER, the Standard
Oil king, was newspaper reporter a
quarter of a century ago.
The Pope is frugal man. He is said
to spend less than $1,000 annually on
his own personal comfort.
A ''sBNsuINE-RooM" is one of the chief
attractions of the new wing of the Chill
dren's Hospital in Boston.
THE great Forth bridge is to be paint
ed, and they find that there are twenty
acres of it to be covered with the brush.
A PARK Of thirty acres has been Sc
cured at Manchester, n. H., to contain
monumental statue of General Stark
MAY began more quietly than the
people expected. The labor disturb
ances did not disturb to any great ex-
tent.
ONE of the signs of the permanency of
republicanism in Brazil is that tho gov
ernment invites the free criticism of the
press.
QUEEN VICTORIA now copyrights all
official Government publications and
gives notice she will maintain her rights
therein.
New York BARRIERS are removing the
clocks from their shops because custom
ers get nervous by watching them while
being shaved.
LIFE is not worth living in England.
youth named Robert Heard has just
been sentenced to six weeks hard labor
for kissing a girl:
THE real inventor of the powder used
for the Lebel rifles is not the colonel Of
that name, but NJ. Vielle, young
French engineer.
PATTI draws the line somewhere, even
when a money consideration is in view.
She recently refused to write an essay
on the voice for $1,000.
Mrs. CATHERINE SHARP, of Philadel-
phia, when little girl sold milk to
General Washington and his staff from
her fathers farm. She is now liz years
old.
The physician-in-ordinar to distin-
guished statesman in China is n woman
who goes under the name of DIR. King.
She has an extensive practice in Shang-
hal.
MARY. QUEEN OF ScoTs' marriage con-
tract with Francis III. of France is to be
sold by auction shortly in London. II is
a quaint old manuscript of nine folio
leaves.
The custom of playing out theater au-
diences to the music of 1.-The Star-Span- |
gled Banner was inaugurated in sew
eral New York City play-houses the
other evening
BERLIN antiquary has discovered in !
hollow cane the dagger with which |
Ravillac assassinated King Henry ". /
of France. The dagger was stolen from
the Palace of Justice in Paris in 1915.
The German Government proposes to |
put the army on a peace-footing by !
adding 5000 men to the infantry. 6,OOO .
to the artillery and fifty-four batteries .
of improved cannon to the field artil- /
iery.
THE loyal citizens of Cologne have
provided magnificent cup of gold and
enamel, which is to be exclusively used
by the Emperor of Germany in drink
ing toasts when he pays state visit to
the city.
A LARGE oak tree in the cemetery at
Salem, Va, was split by lightning last
week, exposing silver teapot which
contained the skull of child. The
date on the teapot was 1928. Its history
is mystery.
THE Emperor of Germany is said on
excellent Berlin authority, to mediate
a visit TO France with the view of
formal reconciliation, so far as Emperor
and President could reconcile between
the two countries.
A MAN recently banged in Southern
State WAS born on Friday, was married
on Friday, presented with twins on Fri
day, committed his crime on Friday
and was hanged on Friday And his
name wasn't Friday.
THE youngest State executive in the
country rs acting Governor Taggart of
New Hampshire, who is officiating dur-
ing the serious illness of Governor
GoodelL He is only thirty years of age.
TBB Wills OF two big Philadelphia /
were probated the other
day. The man worth 81, 900, 900 gives
more than half to public institutions,
and the one worth S4,50O,OOO gives but /.
R10O, 900 TO charitable institutions. ,
NINE ont of ten men a.'e too lazy to
breathe properly. About eighty or
ninety cubic inches of air always re-
main in mans lungs, and about the [
same amount OF slugglshly changing b
air remains after ordinary expiration. I
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