The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-13
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70 read.
PROF. Kocsi's lymph is called para
'tolidin.
THE latest trust is thceshing-ma-
ehine makers combine.
VERMONT is the fourteenth State to
adopt the Australian ballot law.
THEREare now II, 600, 600 men in Eu-
rope ready to be called into the field
LORD BALTIMoRE's portrait in oil has
been offered to the city of Baltimore for
1880.
THE FIRST theatrical performance since
the flood is soon to be given in Johns
town.
PARNELL's career is a good deal like
Samson's q Delilzh has shorn him of
his strength.
ANNIE LAURIE has been arrested in
Philadelphia for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
THERE arc seven American girls
among the students at Newnham, Cam
bridge, England.
THE London underground railroad is
nineteen miles long, was opened in 1868
and cost IS, 500, 900 mile
Mrs. SHAW, the whistler, Is in Europe
Jpiling up o fortune in defiance of the old
proverb about girls and hons.
THERE was an increase of nearly co.
100000 gallons in the production Of
whisky during the past fiscal year.
IT Is not SO much the present dance
of the Indians that interests the coun-
try as whatwill be their next step.
CHANG, the celestial Chinese giant,
has become "a naturalized British sub
ject and an earnest Christian worker.
THrRTY-EFGHT thousand pounds have
been collected for General Booths
scheme to deal with Darkest England.
The clothes of Oliver Crom we'll when
baby are still to be seen at tho famous
house of Chequers, in Birminghamshire
AT present England imports million
lobsters annually from Norway, rep
resenting money value Of $50, 600.
SINCE Queen Victoria ascended the
throne of England the Royal family has
cost that country more than Sl70, 00o, 600.
PROF. ELLIOTT, of the Smithsonian
Institution estimates that there are now
about 100, 900 seals left in American wa
ters.
NAN near Sedalia, Mo-, is doing a
good business raising owls. He finds
ready market for them among saloon.
keepers.
HoS. JOHN HICKS, United States Min
lister to Peru, has presented a collection
of antiquities from that country to Law
renee university, Wisconsin.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER's old house in
Brooklyn has been turned into board
ing house and his large library cut up
by partitions into bed rooms.
DURING the year the United States
Government life saving stations rescued |
8,159 persons and SIS, 451, ,S43 worth of |
property from 3S4 shipwrecks.
SOME practical German has made up |
compound Of sugar and condensed milk
and tea, from which q cup of tea can be
had by simply pouring on boiling water.
The word electrocution is bad enough,
but here comes New York paper that
speaks of the machine that does the
work as an "electrocute" This is too
cute.
MILLET's "Angelus" brought him
only Ere, but painters are rare who can
produce picture going at $3.50 and ris-
ing in price through seven subsequent
sales to $3.50, 1000.
j. STANLEY Brown, who was Garfeld's
PiiFdpc oCOtcbdIy dHu WllO MISS
Mollie Garfield, has lately become pri-
vate secretary to Secretary Rusk, of the
Agricultural Department
AN invalid's chair propelled by elec-
tricity is among the late novelties. Tho
battery is capable of propelling the chair
over an ordinary road for nine hours at
the rate of six miles per hour.
TBDDIE GOODWIN, six years old, of Ca
melia, Ga, is a little hero. The gown of
his two-year-old sister caught fire, and,
with commendable presence of mind, he
tore off his jacket and smothered the
flames.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago n sweet young
girl in France married wealthy old
man of IS. He has just died at the ripe
age Of 1870, and the widow is too old to
marry again. The story seems to carry
Its own moral.
THE monkey-wrench is not called SO
on account of it's fancied or actual re-
semblance to a monkey, or because 1t is
handy tool to monkey" with, but sim.
ply because it is the invention of Ms.
Charles Moncky.
Mrs. JOHN BIGGER, of Aurora, ILL.,, put I
some coal on the fire and among the
coal was loaded cartridge. The cart
ridge exploded and struck her over the
heart, but was turned from its course by :,
"a steel in her corset.
THE English have no sense of humor. 7.
Fancy Miss Florence Sintin recovering
$500 damages in an action for libel
against London newspaper for alleg-
ing that she had lost her own diamonds /,
for advertising purposes! 9
The fate Of DR.. Koch Is coupled with !
that OF his tuberculosis remedy. II the /,
alleged cure proves a SUCCESS. DR.. Koch
will be wise, good and great medical
scientist II 1t fails of what has been
Of it, tho Doctor must go 9
down as q crank and quaok.
SENATOR MORRILL,, in spite of his 80
years, lis devoted heart and soui to the
of the Capital building at
1t is to him that is to be s
given the credit for the beautiful ter
races which add somuch Of elegance and 8
beauty to the Capitol building.
OR gallinaceous fowls, adapted to tho !.
poultry yard, Africa possesses but :
single genus the euinea-hens, which.
are found inno other part Of the
world These Birds OF which there are
khrao or four disti net eDccies no I'm Ia roe |