The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04

FRoM nine peach trees in Orange, Cal,
6,125 pounds were picked.
TMsRE is in Canada million square
miles of unexplored territory.
ANDREW CARNEGIE mascot is brass
telegraph key. He keeps it in glass
case
NHw YORK has discovered in its midst
. practical school for training Grim
inah
SANuaf. SpooNER, Boston policeman,
has fallen heir to million-dollar estate
in Wales.
G. 1. SENEY is about to sell his col
lection Of pictures, which he values
at Sa,nO0 600.
MmE bananas are consumed in the
United States than in any other nation
in the world.
A NEGRO at Perry, Ga, is said to weigh
800 ppands and to have gained 100 pounds
within q year.
A WHALE nearly seventy feet In
length was washed ashore near Dublin,
Ireland, recently.
WHsr BRANCH, Mich, was so infested
by wolves that the berry crop was left
almost untouched.
A MAooMB COUNTY, Mich, farmer has
harvested 6O4 bushels Of good oats from
10 acsas of ground.
poor marriageable girls" is being start
cd IN st. Petersburg.
CLARENCE STEPHENS, nephew of Al
exander Stephens, Is conductor OF
Pullman sleeping car.
SN1x voyages around Cape Horn is
the remarkable record of Captain
Holmes, of Mystic, Ct
A OgRIoUs prize at progressive
euefre party in New York town was
fifty pound watermelon.
BUrH General Merwin and Judge Nor
riA the candidates for Governor OF Con-
neotcut, are baldheaded.
Floors of rubber-claimed to be as
durable as asphalt and much cheaper
are being tried in Germany.
Mrs. DEBORAH POWERS, of Kingston,
N. Y, is worth $4,000, 900, manages her
own affairs and is 100 years old.
GENERAL BUTLER is fond of good din.
hg, and is himself an accomplished
cook. He can broil lobster to a turn.
THE European yield of wheat this
year is estimated at /, ,224, 707, 900 bushels,
which is LOT. 100000 more than last year.
UTAHING scrap steel rod by welding
it and drawing it into fence wire is one
OF the recent successes of electric weld
ing.
A RATrLEsNAKE died in ten minutes
after biting q colored man at Lumpkin,
Ga. The man suffered no serious re-
suits.
GIuasRAL L. KIRBY SMITH, president
Of tho Sewanee College, Tennessee, is in
New Orleans undergoing treatment for
cancer.
TRRBR doctors at work enforcing SAN
itary regulations in the cholera-infected
sections of Spain have been killed by
the peasants.
GoA1MANDER DENNIS w. MULLAN has
been presented with an elegant watch
by the Maryland Legislature for his
bravery at Samoa.
MEMPHIS is the largest inland cotton
market in the world, and yet they are
talking about putting gasoline lamps in
the only public park
A YOUNG man walked in his sleep one
night at Statewide, Ga, and when he
awoke he found himself at grindstone
sharpening his knife. -u.f..
A FRENCH scientist declares that the
domestic cats of the world carry at least
80 per cent. of the common contagious
diseases from house to house.
MISS ALICE WARD, of Coney Island,
is the champion woman swimmer Of
the werld. and at present holds the
medal which she has won for the fifth
time r
A WASHINGTON paper, which had
lottery advertisement in it, has been
thrown out of the mails. The postal
authorities seem to be in earnest in this
matter. 50
THBRE is negro woman who lives
near Athens who prepares herself for
death every night and who is always
terribly surprised to find herself alive
mornings.
PRESIDENT ROBERTS, of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, started in life as tack
hand thirty years ago. The combined
salaries he receives now amount to
100000 year.
IT is reported that one of the nomi.
nees for the Legislature from the Phila.
delplka district can neither read nor
write. and that in signing check he
makes his mark.
A STRANGE freak of nature in connec-
tion with the recent tornado appears in
South Lawrence, Mass. In the district
torn by the storm, lilac and pear trees
have begun to blossom.
THE total number of passengers car
ried in the United States during 1889
was 472, III, ,343. One passenger in ev-
cry 1,5eS, 1888 was killed, and one in ev-
cry 900, 024 was injured.
HERR GoRING, the Oldest inhabitant
OF Hamburg, Germany, died there re-
Gently in his 106th year. He was with
Napoleon in 1912 in the campaign to
Moscow. lie was matchmaker by
trade.
A WILLIAMSON, Mich, man, whose
well ran dry, found that the roots of q
willow had grown distance of "a feet,
coiled up on the bottom in solid mass.
and we're carrying all the water into the
foliage.
A YANKEE has invented chicken
hobbier. consisting OF a spring attached
to hens log, which, when the hen at
tenpts to scratch, will move her on.
ward, and will, in fact, walk her right
out OF the garden.
THIS country, with only one-twon.
Aiakb oe tho uorldia In tfou onu.