The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
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QUEEN VICTORIA receives $40 or more |
letters day.
FRENCH spectators have created a
corner in sardines.
THE United States is sending ice to
Canada via Detroit.
GENERAL. RAuM has issued $4,000 PEN
sion certificates thus far
A DOG that can't bark is one of the
curiosities of Edinboro, n. j.
Two-TnIRDs of all the children born IN
Connecticut in 1889 were boys.
GENERAL SHERMAN will be seventy
years old the Sth of February.
LEO MIL will be eighty years old on
March ., should he live till then.
No less than 1000, 900 prairie chickens
are marketed in Chicago every year.
COLONEL NORTH, the English nitrate
king, has private dog-house that cost
$3.50.
THE Farmers Association of South
Carolina will nominate a State ticket
this year.
D'ALBERT the pianist,is strict vege-
tartan and eats an enormous number
of apples.
RUBBER pavements have successfully
been tried on bridge in Hanover and
street in Berlin.t
UNCLE SAM pays his 200, 900 employees,
incl ding soldiers and sailors, an aver
age salary of SS25 apiece.
A PHILADELPHIA shoemaker dog died
from swallowing piece of sole leather
in mistake for beefsteak.
EIGHT HUNDRED pennies were received
in a single collection in one OF the Chi
cago churches not long ago,
SIR WILLIAM GULL says that when
tagged out by professional work he re-
cruits his strength by eating raisins.
THE new Spanish Minister of Com
merce, the Duke of Veragua, is reported
to be lineal descendant of Christopher
Columbus
A BILL has been introduced in the Do
minion Parliament to abolish French as
the official language in the Northwest
Territories.
BUFFALO JONES'" of Garden City,
Kan, killed a buffalo from his herd the
other day and sold the meat for fifty
cents a pound.
LEVI WILLIAMSON of Ansonia, Conn.,,
mas hog that is seven feet long and
weighs 1000 pounds. 1t is so fat that 1t
Is unable to get up.
CHICAGO is to have fourteen-story
hotel, costing over million of dollars.
The projectors expect it to pay for it
self during the Worlds Fair.
A BUNDLE of spider webs, not larger
than buckshot and weighing less than
one drachm, would, if Strengthened out,
reach distance of $50 miles.
THOMAS Z. BLAcKsHEER, of Thomas
vile, Ca, is eating new potatoes from
paintings made in September, and has
ripe strawberries on his place.
THE freedom of the serfs in Russia has
been repeatedly declared great failure.
They are said to be far worse off now
than in their former condition.
CoNcURRENTLY with the reports Of
destitution in the Northwest are asser-
tions that cattle are so cheap that it
does not pay to ship them East.
ONE of the lessons taught by Nellie
Bly's girdling the earth is that young
woma may go on an extensive trip with
no other baggage than a grip-sack.
THE first convert to Christianity in
the Upper Congo valley was recently
baptized at Equator Station. The val
ley contains thirty million people.
AN observant contemporary has made
the discovery that the fair should not
be held at Chicago, New York, st. Louis
or Washington, but around the waist.
IT is figured that 1,664 houses were
lost in the Johnstown disaster, and
property in the flooded district is valued
at S770,693 less than before the flood.
IN,
York has developed sort of moss-like
fungus which fastens itself on walls,
stone fronts, every thing, in fact, of an
architectural nature.
NJ. EIFFEL not only got his idea of
great tower from American suggestions
for the Centennial Exposition, but an
American elevator lifted the patrons Of
his tower to the top of it.
T. BAILEY ALDRICH, who is a recent
victim of the grip, compares the sensa-
tion to that of "mistit skull, that is
too light across the forehead and that
pinches behind the ears'
ONE of the professors of the Universi-
ty of Vienna, is said to have discovered
the bacillus of the influenza, and it
seems to be near cousin, if not the
twin-brother of the pneumonia germ.
TILE German imperial administrations
effort to pass bill for the expulsion of
the socialists from the empire has been
beaten in the National Reichstag by the
overwhelming vote of 1863 nays to 9s
yeas.
AT a recent autograph sale in London
the signature of Voltaire brought only
two guineas, while that of Isaac Watts
sold for three; and while ten pounds
were given for Boswell letter, one by
johnson brought only nine.
The Shah of Persia in addition to the
masses of jewels in the royal treasury,
has private fortune slowed in vault or
elsewhere which is known TO consist of
at least ca aO00,0O To this he is per-
petually adding fresh accumulations,
GEORGE NEwcoMB, the English lion
tanner, who died recently, in 1874 had q
terrible encounter at Swindon with five
African lionR, when he received nine
wounds on the right arm, in addition to
other injuries. Three of the lions died
in the struggle. Newcomb had previously
had his left eye torn out by leopard
THE Cloverdale Call Reveille says:
1t has been reliably aseertained that
out Of ls5 cases of successful swindling
throughout the State by travelling sharp
ers in various ways, by which people of