The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-23
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ney because he lost his case.
RIBBON grasses are now used to tie
bouquets instead of silk ribbons.
THE ruby is coming into favor as the
ring to bind matrimonial engagement
BARON HIRscH, the richest man in
Europe, is coming to America this fail.
IT is proposed to revive tho grade
of fLieutenant-General for General Scho-
field.
THE Spanish Government has abol-
shed its legation at Borne, Switzer-
land.
SENATOR GoRMAN is said to be tho
handsomest man in the United States
Senate.
A DIVORCED husband of New York
sold his interest in their boy to his wife
for $500.
WHAT'S in name? Mr.. Mudd is a
real estate dealer in one of the towns of
Southern California.
A MEMPHIS negro stole his neighbor's
:orn and then asked him to haul it to
town and sell it for him.
Mrs. GEO. B. MCCLELLAN has been en-
tertaining in London, but expects to re.
turn to this country soon.
A LOBSTER caught by Maino fisher
man was thirtyfour inches long and
weighed twenty-one pounds.
DETROIT has reduced its water rates so
that it now supplies six and half bar
rels of pure water for cent
DURING a row which followed Hun
garian christening at Middletown, Pa,
the newly-christened child was killed.
Mrs. GLADSTONE always attends
meetings of Parliament when either
her husband or her son Herbert is to
speak.
THE Crown Princess of Denmark is
the tallest princess in the world. Her
height is announced to be six feet three
inches.
WM X. VANDERBILT has given
his check for $1,000 to young
man who was bitten by one of his pet
hounds.
IN the next Alabama Legislature
there will be only Democrats in the Sem
ate but the House will have three Re-
publicans.
BEN DIXON, colored man in st.
Louis, has only two fingers, but he can
the same time.
THE summer season is wearing away
and the chances of the Asiatic cholera
reaching our shores this year are rapid.
ly diminishing.
IN recent speech Mr.. Gladstone reel
ed off sentence containing 214 words
requiring twenty-four lines of type in
the London News.
BIsMARcK's wife is expert with the
needle and is famous as cook. She is
also remarkable for her simple piety and
for her charities.
THERE were more American physi-
clans at the international Medical Con-
gress at Berlin than physicians of any
other foreign nation.
THE rough count made by the census
officials renders it possible that New
York will lose Congressman after the
next apportionment.
Four of the two hundred and thirty
one census enumerators in Maine were
women, and the supervisor finds that
their reports are without mistakes.
KANSAS produces about one-third OF
the castor beans raised in the United
States. There are 10000 farms in the
State on which they are cultivated.
THERE is growing belief that EN-
peror William is planning diplomatic
surprise in the way OF arrangements for
the disarmament of the European ma.
tions.
JUNGLE" ANDY LEVI, once noted
circus man and the first bareback rider
in the United States. died few DAYS
ago in the Pettis County (Mo.) poor
house.
PoRTIoNs of Kemmler's remains have
been picked and will be used for scien.
tific purposes. Parts of the corpse are
referred to as choice specimens for Ian
tern slides, etc.
JAMES FRAIsER was excused from jury
duty at Philadelphia the other day on
the ground that he was over seventy
five years of age and had shaken hands |
with Lafayette.
THE longest American railroad tunnel |
is the Hoosac tunnel on the Fitchburg
railroad four and three-quarter miles;
the St Gothard tunnel in Europe is |
nine miles long.
IT is stated that Ex-Queen Natalie, of |
Servia, has resolved to devote the bulk |
of her fortune to the erection of nun
merry in Russia, in which she will install |
herself as Abbess.
RID.R HAGGARD IS said to look moro |
or less like the Emperor of Germany.
He has the blue eyes and light brown
hair and the general physical appear
ance of tho Kaiser.
In a recent battle in Guatemala thir- |
ty-six Brigadier-Generals and six pri-
Yates were killed. 1t is difficult to un-
derstand why so many privates should
have been in the fight.
The exodus of Jews from Russia In
obedience to the recent edict Of the
Government has begun. Thousands OF
Hebrews are leaving the Government of
wilma and will emigrate to Brazil.
IT is said that there is room for just
100 more graves in Westminster Abbey.
1t is interesting to speculate what Eng
land will do with her dead worthless
when the old abbey is full.
Miss SALLIE HOLLEY, Virginian, is
establishing small schools in that State
forth purpose of teaching negro girls
how to sew, darn and cook, and giving
them an opportunity to learn to read,
write and make correct change.
THE Duke OF Fife is one of tho
shrewdest OF business men. All his in
vestments turn out we'll. He took some
founders shares in a London trust
company not long ago at $3.50 each, and