The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-24

liberia.
II requires annually $4,000 tons o
binder twine to bind the grain crops o
che country.
A Boston man who was fined one cent
without costs, has carried the case to {
higher court.
SPEAKER REED has a new private sec
retary. He is Forrest Goodwin, former
baseball player.
AN Allegheny woman has given birth
to twins weighing together only one ant
aquarter pounds.
THERE were 1867 cases Of murder and
homicide in this country last year and
only 9s hangings
A POWERFUL magnet drew out stee'
splinter from the eyeball of an Albany
workman recently.
A FULTON (Mo) woman has been
taken to the asylum because she imag.
ines she is an angel.
julius STERN is blind man of New
York who can play billiards and make
many difficult shots.
THE Government pays annually to the
railroads the sum of nearly $4,000, 900
for carrying the mails.
NINE. DosNE, sister-in-law of NJ.
Theirs, owns the finest private collec.
ton of pearls in the world.
CHARLES MILLER, of Hueneme, Cal,
has made table of ornamental woods
that contains 18,S5 pieces.
THE New York Assembly, just ad-
journed, passed bill exempting editors
and reporters from jury duty.
A DAY of festivities for the crew of
the new cruiser Baltimore was held in
the Oriole City few days ago.
A MAN dropped dead in Spokane the
other day on his way to mail letter to
his wife telling her he was well.
A SUBSTITUTE for felt is the short cot
ton left on the seed after the cotton has
been ginned by the cotton raiser.
PITTsBURGH claims to have more mill
ionaires in proportion to her population
than any other city in the world.
THE widow of the late General Thos.
Francis Meagher is to marry John A.
Creighton, millionaire, in Omaha.
THE largest perfect diamond in tho
world is the Imperial, owned by syndi-
cate in Paris. 1t is valued at 81, OoO,-
900.
A HANDSOME silver punch bowl FOR
the United States flagship Charleston
was sent by the citizens of Charleston,
S. C.
MONTANA cattle shipments this year
will reach nearly 100, 900 head, an in
crease of at least 30, 900 head over last
year.
RoBERT BIRD has remarkable we'll
in Iosco, Mich. 1t is eighty-five feet
deep and has seventy-two feet of water
in it.
THE wife of Theodore Hamilton, of
Baltimore, gave birth to a fine baby boy,
which had at it's birth lower front
tooth.
A PRIVATE dinner given at belmont
co.'s, New York. recently, cost S16,-
200. The floral decorations alone cost
SO, 900.
EX-SENATOR SAWYER, of Alabama, now
earns his daily bread as second-class
clerk in the War Department at Wash
ington.
lT is said that tramps will never work.
And yet six of them dug their way out
of New Hampshire Jail with tenpen-
ny nail.
THE experts at the census Office have
made guess at the population that will
be enumerated next month. Their fig
ure is 64, 100000.
A STORY comes from Germany that the
scrofulous affection under which the
Emperor suffers has broken out with re-
newed virulence.
THE oyster is one of the strongest
creatures on the earth The force re-
], 300 times its weight.
EUGENE FIELD declares that the wife
of member of Parliament asked him in
all seriousness whether Chicago was not
connected with New York by wonder
full bridge.
SPARRow heads are legal tender
among Michigan youngsters, in lots of
ten. 1t takes one lot to buy fshpole,
and two will purchase baseball, when
they have been cashed in at the record
er's office.
AN Alpena, Michigan, justice swore
himself as a witness in case which was
pending before him as Judge. He want.
ed to serve as juryman ALSO but the de.
ieHSe oDJccIeu'
THE oldest undertaken in the United |
States lives at st. Joseph, Mo. His
name Is David j. Heaton, and the first
body which he prepared for burial was
that of negro boy who was hanged at
Covington, KY, in 1927.
A SUMMER cottage built by New
York millionaire is of homlocls logs
hewn on three sides, with the bark left
on the fourth side. A yeranda is con.
structed on three sides of the building
Of hemlocls logs in the rough.
AN Englishman who insulated his bed
stead by placing underneath each post
broken-off bottle says he had not been
free from rheumatism or gout for fifteen
years. and that he began to improve i'm
aftor tho application of the
insulators.
AN Ohio man committed suicide be-
,aAse he would rather die than work for
his living. He put this statement in
,old black and white, and then proceed
I'D TO kill himself in characteristic
manner Laziness being his curse he
lied lazy death. He simply turned
IN the gas and lay down co await the
md.