The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-11

A YOUNG man in Brooklyn has sued his
ex-sweetheart for breach of promise
He claims s., ZOO damages.
STANLEY is not afraid of African saw
ages and lions, but he will not talk to q
woman. He is woman-hater.
THE supply of spruce gum in North
ern Maine, which has been regarded as
, inexhaustible, is reported to have given
out.
In the wilds of the Sierras, near Ka-
weah river, Tulare County, California,
is sequoia tr ee, 176 feet in circumfer-
ence.
IT is said that the negroes of Georgia,
who twenty-five years ago were slaves,
now possess $50, 900, 600 worth of prop
erty.
CONGRESSMAN BULLOCK, of Florida, is
the father of thirteen children; Con
gresham Bliss, of Michigan, has no
children.
The superintendent of an electric
light company in New York City has
been indicted by the grand jury for man
slaughter.
Two colored ministers immersed sew
enty-four people in seventeen minutes
in the Wakenda, at Carrollton, Mo-, the
other day.
THE deepest bore hole in the world is
in Schaadenbach-55,7 734 feet. 1t took a
diamond drill three years and half to
reach the bottom.
AN anti-treating league has been
formed in Minneapolis, the badge of
which is a white collar button, worn in
the lapel of the coat.
A. II. DAY, of Toombs boro, Ca, claims
to have been the youngest soldier in the
Confederacy. He enlisted in 1868, when
only thirteen years old.
THE head of the Brazilian republic
signs himself as follows Marshal
Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca, Chief of
the Provisional Government"
A PROPOSITION is being considered in
New Orleans to change the name of Ca
nal street, the principal thoroughfare of
the city, to jefferson Davis avenue.
A WEST VIRGINIA girl has saved
money enough to buy herself a gold
watch by trapping muskrats, skunks
and other animals and selling their
hides.
AN American company has given two
French painters an order..for panorama
of Stanley's two journeys through Af-
RIGA 1t is intended for the worlds fair
of 1892.
Mrs Cox, widow of the late S. S. Cox,
has returned to the Sultan of Turkey
the orders and decorations which that
genial potentate conferred upon her late
husband.
DURING the last five months the
Treasury Department has purchased
bonds to the amount of 1886, S63, $50.
The aggregate of interest thus saved is
$50, 772, $50.
New YORK children who get no Christ
does not make his visits to the roofs and
down the chimneys for fear of touching
the deadly electric wires.
REAL-EsTATE seems to be doing fairly
well in New York City. The Bennett
building, owned by James Gordon Ben
nett and situated in the lower part of tho
city, has just been sold for one million
dollars.
CAsTELLAR, the Spanish orator and
statesman, rejoices in the downfall of
Dom Pedro. He is thorough repub-
lican, and the old nnonarchial govern
ments of Europe are thoroughly dis
tasteful to him.
ONE of the witnesses who recently tes-
titled at Salt Lake, regarding the oaths
of the Endowment House, has since had
one valuable horse killed and another
shot at, but not fatally injured, by his
Mormon neighbOrs.
AT recent wedding in Philadelphia
the room was festooned in red, white
and blue, in honor of the patriotism of
the bride, who had declined many
European offers and decided to give her
hand to an American.
THE youngest new member of the
House of Representatives is Iceman
Turner, of New York. He is twenty
eight years old. The Oldest member is
Isaac w. Van Schaick, of Milwaukee,
aged 72 years.
THE schoolma'ams of st. Paul not
long ago were instructed to give occa-
sional instructions in plain and fancy
sewing to the girls under their charge.
and the horrible fact came out that few
II any of the teachers could do any kind
OF sewing whatever.
a SoLoN (Mich.) young man pawned
his overcoat to get married, the mild
winter fayoring that sort of dicker.
THE Oldest inhabited town in the !
world is said to be Damascus.
In the stock yards at Kansas City a
mule and horse engaged in kicking
match, and the mule was ontkicked.
The attendants had to turn the hose on
the combatants in order TO separate
them.
The largest farm under cultivation in
this country belongs to Hon. John w.
OF Ohio. The farm is on
the Nebraska line, south Of Beatrice
and the Kansas City, Wyandotte &c
road runs through 1t. II
contains nearly $4,000 acres, covering
bventy square miles. !