The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05

MS slxtleth birthday anniversary.
ADoLPH BUSCH, the St. Louis beer
king, receives salary of $50, 900 year.
THE common elder bush of the Allan.
tic States becomes tree in California.
ST. LOUIS claims to manufacture more
wagons than any other city in the coun-
sry.
A COUPLE of drops of camphor on the
toothbrush will give the mouth a clean,
sweet taste.
ST. PAUL and Minneapolis are charg.
ing each other with fraud in the taking
OF the census.
FRANCE is rewarded with territory
along the Amazon for recognizing the
Brazilian republic.
ENGLAND and Germany and Henry M.
Stanley are happy over the new parti'
tion of East Africa.
A. S. ALOE, who died recently in St.
Louis. was with the first Napoleon when
he entered Holland.
THE Government mailbag repair-shop
at Washington gives employment to 1856
persons of both sexes.
The proposition to give New York
City an enormous public bath-house is
rapidly taking shape.
Mrs. ALICE SHAW has signed con-
tract to go to st. Petersburg and whistle
for the Gar and mobiles.
STIFF BosoMED, standing collared
shirts for women are having revival Of
popularity this summer.
A CENSUS enumerator discovered a
family of ten children in San Francisco
who were all club-footed. A
The Wisconsin Supreme Court de-
clares all the methods of Chicago debt
collecting association libelous.
ST. LOUIS has a one-legged burglar
who hops around among the slumbering
night police as lively as a cricket.
HAMILTON GRAY, of Gray's Hill, Roane
County, Tenn, has been postmaster Of
that place continuously ever since 1928.
THE Government history of the war
can not be completed for at least ten
years yet. 1t will cost S33, 900 a volume.
A MAN, who claims to be the original
slack the Ripper" is writing threaten
ing letters to various people in New
York.
The United States Supreme Court is
to be asked to decide whether or not the
waters of Lake Minnetonka are "high
seas"
THERE are two hundred and fifty
thousand self-supporting women, exclu-
sive of those in domestic service, in New
York City.
FRANKLIN, Pa, has a child who sleeps
every other three days. The case baf-
fes the physicians. The child is in per-
feet health.
MRS. GROVER CLEvELAND's inherit
ance from the real estate of her grand
father at Omaha is said to be one-six-
teenth of $500, 1000.
A NEW electric brake, recently exper-
imented with in England, stopped car
travelling at rate of thirty miles an
hour in two hundred feet.
A REBELLION has broken out in North
ern Siam as the result of oppressive tax
alton by the King, who is one of the
weaithicst monarchs in the world.
SENATOR HEARST, who has already
spent Sl70, 900 on his seventy-room house
at Washington, says that forty years
ago he was farm hand and slept in an
attic.
Two men at Peculiar, Mo-, ruined the
postmaster's business by selling stamps
at less than cost and by collecting the
peoples mail and putting it directly on
the trains.
THE new railroad bridge across the
Hudson will have span of 1850 feet,
With an extreme length, anchorages in
cluded, of 6, 500 feet, that Of the Brook
lyn bridge being 3,700 feet.
AN ex-member from Iowa took a seat
on the floor of the House, the other day.
He thought he was going to hit chair,
buth missed it by couple of inches
and went all the way down.
THE fat women of Harper, Kas., held
a picnic recently in grove three miles
east of the city. Light-weights were
barred. and no woman was admitted
who didn't weigh 200 pounds.
BEN THOMPSON, city marshal OF Aus
tin, Tex, who was killed in hand-to-
hand encounter with Kingfsher in
theater in San Antonio, had the terrible
record of having killed thirteen white
men and over twice that many Mexicans
and Indians.
THERE are two hundred and eight
clubs in the city of New York, and very
few have less than two hundred names
on their rolls. Some are purely social,
while others mix politics or religion
or literature or athletics with socia-
bility.
JOHN II. LESTER, of the Henry Coun-
ty (Georgia) poor-house, claims to be
1913 years Of age; also, that he was three
times wounded in the Revolutionary
war and fought under jackson in 1912.
REV. CHARLES III. STURGEON inherited
large sum Of money little while ago
from an admirer in an English midland
town, but distributed the whole amount
among the poor relatives of the testator.
ONE of the few remaining picturesque
figures OF war times is General Pleasan.
ton, who can be seen nearly every day
strolling down Chestnut street, Phila-
delphia, wearing sombrero hat to
which he has clung for a score OF years.
A LETTER, recommending the bearer
as an honest, sober, truthful and indus
trious young man, was found in the
pocket of young fellow arrested the
other night in New York for stealing
silver watch from the pocket of slum-
bering Italian vender in upper Broad.
way.
The Parisians are expecting to be able
shortly, by dropping balf-franc piece