The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-03-29
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LIE SllNSr uOllar Ol 1000 Is WorOu 9SVs
II is said that p. T. Barnum made
Sl5e,00O in England.
A MAN has been fined $40 for snoring
in New York church.
'As DEAD as q one-button glove" is a
new phrase of any thing very old fash
ioned.
SOME new parasols are fringcd with
glass and have a beauty mirror in the
handle.
THERE are eighty-three creameries in
operation in Missouri and three in course
Of construction.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's hats are now fully
size larger than those he could wear
twenty years ago.
Miss Rose ELIZABETH CLEVELAND is
large and successful investor in Flor
'da orange groves.
RECENT homicides have caused an agi-
tion for q re-establishment of the death
penalty in Michigan.
NEAR the town of Snyder, N. Y. there
Is gander over ninety years old, and
still strong and vigorous.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has at last con-
cluded to print its lustral catalogue in
English instead of Latin.
THEY are talking at Fordham, n. Y,
of erecting monument to Edgar Allen
Poe, who long lived there.
A PENSION has been granted to the
widow of Stonewall Jackson for his SER
vices in the Mexican war
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, con.
siders Americans the most interesting
foreigners who visit Paris.
THERE are now five men in New York
who must suffer death by electricity un-
less the new law is repealed.
MONUMENTS to Garibaldi and Victor
Emanuel are to be inaugurated in Flor
ence during the coming summer
WHENEVER William e. Gladstone
catches cold he at once goes to bed. This
has been his rule for fifteen years.
LOVERS of beef tea will shudder at the
thought that, according to the London
Lancet, it is now made of horse flesh.
BURcHELL, the Niagara Falls murder
er, has been identified as Lord Somer-
SET" who swindled many people several
years ago.
THE Santa Fe New Mexican reports
that not more than one per cent of the
stock of New Mexico has been lost in
wintering.
GENERAL FREMONT is now 76 years
DID, and entered the army fifty-two
years ago, when he was appointed to a
1ieutenancy.
AN Australian town has given its
streets chemical names, such as Argent,
Beryl, Cobalt, Kaolin, Iodide, Bromide
and Sulphide.
Two weeks ago Hollis Mosher, Of
Rockford, Pa, drew sparrow bounty of
S41.19. The other day he presented 1874
heads and drew S56.25.
MARY ANDERSON will be married tc
Mr.. Navarro, of New York, in June.
The combined fortune of the couple is
estimated at 81, 900, 900.
THIS is from a San Francisco paper:
Juan, died at San Diego yesterday, leav-
ing widow lO2 years old.
EDoUAHD RoTHscHILD, son of the
head of the great European banking
house, is travelling through the United |
States on sightseeing tour.
Miss r. +. WILKINSON is said to be |
the only female landscape gardener in |
London. She is very successful, and |
ranks high in her profession
WIN. ENDIcoTT, of Boston, has just en-.
tered his ninety-second year. He is the
solo survivor of the seventh generation |
of John Endicott's descendants.
EZRA MARBLE, who died recently at |
Fall River, Mass, aged eighty-three, set |
up and put in operation the first calico
printing machine ever used in the Unit
ed States.
IT is said that Henry NJ. Stanley will |
spend the next three years in lecturing, |
and that he expects to make thereby |
$3.50, 900 in Europe and as much more in
this country.
RUSSIAN government will attempt in |
April tolift two English steamers, which |
were sunk off Balaklava during the Cri-
mean war. 1t is believed one of the YES
sells contains 100000.
In Boston persons afflicted with rheu-
matism ride in electric street-cars as a
cure. 1t may be all Imagination, but a
number of people claim the efficacy of
the novel treatment.
FIFTY shillings an ounce was the price
paid in England the other day for an
Irish toilet service in silver of the time
of William and Mary. 1t was not very
highly ornamented, but it sold for
SIS, $50.
GENERAL E. Ii. RIPLEY is keen
featured and broad-shouldered, and
draws salary of S25, 900 year for su-
perintending the title-searching, lease
drawing and rent-collecting of the Astor
estate.
In Derry, N. H., flannel is distributed
to the poor under legacy left for the
purpose. Many who need it shrink from
making their claims, and, as for the
others, they find the flannel does the
for them.
paper in Louisiana called the Eye
Opener, is about to suspend. The ed
itor says that he succeeded beyond his
expectations in opening the eyes of his
readers, but failed dismally in his at
tempt to open their pockets.
WHILE sinking we'll in the Santa
Lucia range, San Luis Obispo County,
CAL, Mr.. Anderson exhumed the fossil
vertebre of whale. His we'll is 2,50a
feet above the sea level.
The Crown Prince OF Sweden and Nor
way during his recent stay at Meran
adopted two little Tyrolese boys, sons of
a poor carpenter, and they are now mem
bers OF his household at Stockholm.
TAmAoNo, the great tenor, who gets