The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
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father at forty-four years old.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is reported to be
heir to Omaha land worth $50, 900.
FROM present Indications, Congress
bids fair to sit through the dog days.
GEORGE VANDERBILT intends to erect
magnificent residence at Nashville.
THE number of feminine bicyclists in
St Louis is gaining surely and rapidly.
DETROIT is arranging to celebrate the
1S9th anniversary of its founding, July
a.
THE estimated population of Salt
Lake City is 35, 200; that of Utah, $780,
p00
THE Presbyterian general assembly
has voted to establish an order of dea-
conesses.
The red lights at the rear end OF
trains owe their existence to the sugges-
tion of a woman.
A FULTON (Mo.) woman was recently
taken to the asylum because she thought
Shat she was an angel.
THE men employed at Menlo Park say
that they have never seen Edison with
put cigar in his mouth.
000 carried water for a circus and thus
got inside the tent free.
A CENSUS of wolves has been taken in
Russia. They amount to 10000, ac-
cording to the enumerators.
II is said of the late Samuel j. Ran
dali that he left the handling of his
financial matters to his wife.
Mrs. HEM, of Gloucester, Pa, sewed
IS, 900 in the lining of her petticoat, and
now her petticoat is missing.
DIR. CHAMBELAND, chief assistant to
Pasteur, has discovered that cinnamon
is fatal to the typhoid microbe.
ED. VAN METERE, an educated Sioux
Indian. has been admitted to practice
law before the Dakota Circuit Courts.
A KANSAS man who went to Washing
ton to secure a foreign appointment is
manipulating a grip on cable train.
BOTH the Erie and Champlain canals,
the two principal artificial waterways OF
New York, are now disabled by breaks.
The Prince of Wales receives an in
come from the Duchy of Cornwall
amounting to more than S300,0 600 year.
RATS as large as rabbits" are report
ed in Lincolnshire, England, and so many
of them that determination is difficult
task
PHILADELPHIA has within her limits
probably from twenty to twenty-five
women who are worth million or
more.
If the foreign dispatches can be relied
upon, there is very bitter feeling be-
tween Emperor William and Prince Bis
marck.
THE Philadelphia record estimates
that the artificial ice companies can
profitabIy make and deliver ice at $3.50
per ton.
A TUNNEL through the Simplon is
likely to be the next great engineering
Achievement in Europe. 1t will be Is
miles long.
SOME liquor-sellers in Boston think of
trying to circumvent the law by selling
under the bar, as selling over bar is
only prohibited.
In Pittsburgh shoe store show
card bears this inscription: Bring your
feet with you and have them fitted to a
pair of our shoes"
If Henry Nj. Stanley survives the
programme of banquets stretching be-
fore him, he need not fear the perils of
another African trip.
A NEW Indian battlefield has just
been discovered. 1t is on the farm of A.
j. Phillips, Bridgeport, n. Y, and many
relics are being secured
THE support of the Imperial family
during the eighty-one years of the dy'
Alsty cost Brazil the almost inconceiv'
able sum of sl34, 577, 066, AL.
In the stomach of an alligator that was
shot near Palatka, Fla, was found a
human skull, we'll preserved, and gold
watch, marked with the initials &c. L.
T."
A DORCHESTER (Mass.) boy, while
picking flowers in field near his home,
was driven away by the owner and be-
came so frightened that he dropped
dead.
A LINE of omnibuses operated by cleo
Iricity from storage batteries, placed
nnder the seats, is now in operation be-
tween Charing Cross and Kings Cross in
London.
The trowsers reform has reached Mex
leo. Street laborers are required by
instead of the prevailing loose cotton
shirt or gown.
MEIssoNIER's celebrated painting,
"1s14," which represents Napoleon and
his army on the retreat from Moscow,
has been sold for S170,0 the highest
price on record for picture by living
artist.
A REAL horned man has been discov-
cred by Captain Albernog on the Gran
Chaco in the Argentine Republic. He
is tall, with full beard and two very
perfect horns like those of stag on his
forehead.
AN unfeeling contemporary remarks
that Boulanger must soon trot around
the globe, jump from high bridge, blow
out the gas, or something If he wishes
to keep himself talked about as one OF
the worlds great personages.
an QUAD" the Detroit humorist is
a small man, full of eccentricities. He
is lean and hungry weighs about 120
pounds, and is the last person you would
pick out as funny man.
The following advertisement lately
appeared in an Irish daily: Wanted,
gentleman to undertake the sale of
patent medicine. The advertiser guar
antees it will be profitable to the under
taker."
ERAsTUs LovETTE, of Rome, Pa, is
1O4 years old. He goes ten miles on foot
to visit neighbors, has plenty of hair