The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-01
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NEVADA, Mo-, taxes her whisky to
pay for her water.
A MEXICAN editor has gone to Jail for
libeling Adelina Patti
A GEORGIA boy has won the first prize
in oratory at Princeton.
A WHITE rat with black head is
curiosity at Penn Yam, n. Y.
CHIEF JUSTICE CoRLIss, of North Da-
kota, refuses to accept railroad passes
REV. Mr. STURGEON is crippled with
the sciatica, and is unable to leave Men
tone.
THE Southern strawberry crop is
ripening from six to ten weeks ahead of
time.
A FLORIDA newspaper the other day
rejoiced over rain, the first since Novcm-
ber 90.
THERE is steady influx of visitors
now at the North Carolina pine re-
sorts"
Mr.. STANLEY is expected to make a
prolonged stay in Cairo for climatic
reason.
VENEZUELA last year contributed 30o.-
900 bags of coffee to the worlds visible
supply.
A PROJECT is on foot at Middletown n.
Y, to run a pipe line for milk to New
York city.
It's at such time as this that the
country feels the crying need of uni
form way of pronouncing quinine.
GENERAL BUTLER has given valua-
BILE collection of books and papers to the
New Hampshire Historical Society.
MARSHAL FoNsEcA, chief of the pro-
visional government of Brazil, speaks
and writes four different languages.
SIX cases of leprosy have recently de-
veloped among the immigrants who
have settled at New Vincent, MINI.
A LITTLE Boston girl remarked the
other day that she had got piece OF
bread head first down her cough pipe.
REPRESENTATIVES, Henderson of Iowa,
Stern of Kentucky, and Boothman of
Ohio have only three legs in the party.
THE King of Spain's mother considers
his recovery remarkable, even miracu-
lous; so does the public. He had nine
doctors.
WILLIAM OswELL LIVINGSTONE, third
and last surviving son of the famous
African traveller, died recently at st. AL
bans, Eng.
NJ. EIFFEL, the builder of the famous
tower, has, it is stated, just purchased
ior 100000 a town house in the rue
Rabelais, Paris.
IT Is reported that the Prince of
Wales, with one or two members of his
family, will visit New York State and
Canada next spring.
THE Pope has changed his habits. He
now devotes the time between $3.50 and
10 at night for the ardent perusal of
newspapers of all nations.
COLONEL BERGER, who is on the re-
tired list, is the next Oldest living Off
Ger of the regular army to General Sher-
man. He served forty-one years.
IT is said that number of Boston So
ciety ladies are reading law with prom
inent attorneys of that city, simply for
the purpose of improving their minds.
Two Alabama boys, aged four and five,
dipped their three-year-old brother into
water which had been used for scalding
hogs. Death followed almost instantly.
DIR. ONoFRoFF. now in London, is a
mind-reader of ability superior TO any
that has been exhibited before him. He
reads minds without contact with the
person.
CAPTAIN Cook, the recently elected
doorkeeper of the Kentucky House of
Representatives, is 33 years old, feet
in height, weighs 26O pounds and wears
No. 13 shoes.
pf int " hr
uses cosmetics, got wrong chemical of
some kind into the lotion for his face the
other night, and found that he had
turned gseen.
A WEST POINT cadet who violates the
law against cigarette smoking is
obliged to pace back and forth, rain or
shine, for twelve hours with musket
on his shoulder.
THIRTEEN HUNDRED working girls
held reunion and ball in New York
the other evening. All of them were
dressed in cheese cloth of various colors.
There wasn't man present.
THINK of four pears weighing 20
pounds and three onions 21 pounds, a
potato IA inches long and peaches IL tc
Is inches in circumference. These are
products of Los Angeles, Cal.
BARON HIRsCH, the millionaire bank
er, who was black-balled by the Paris
Jockey Club, has sent a letter to the
Car offering $4,000, 900 to found prima'
ry schools for Hebrews in Russia.
QUEEN MARGARET, of Italy, the love
ly and brilliant consort of King Hum
bert, to whom she was married wheI
only seventeen years old, is said to be
the most beautiful Queen in Europe.
JOSEPH II. CRAIG, of Kentucky, who
weighs 600 pounds, claims to be the
heaviest Odd Fellow who ever got safely
through the third degree, and he carries
gold medal to commemorate his feat.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS will edit the
authorized biography OF Henry W.
Grady. the matter being compiled in the
first instance by other of Mr.. Grady's
co-workers on the Atlanta Constitution
ONE of the railroads proposes to place
on its limited train between New York
and Chicago a pretty stenographer and
typewriter, so that the business man
may dictate his letters while travelling
WHEN Walker Blaine got out of bed tc
attend his fathers reception tho doctor
told him that the chances were fifty tc
one that he would have pneumonia. q
will take the odds,' he replied, and tn,
odds won.
The famous "Roclfing Stone" a
Buenos Ayres weighs close on to twenty