The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-01
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In France the copyright of an author
is for life.
LAMrwIcKs brushed off daily require
no cutting.
PorR LEO speaks French fuently, but
no English.
MORE champagne is drunk in America
chan in all of Europe.
A SCHEME is on foot to join Scotland
and Ireland by tunnel.
EIeuTY varieties of grapes were grown
ut the Kansas State agricultural farm
this season.
AN Atchison man eats blackbirds and
Is so fond of them that he buys all the
boys can kill
The National Liberal Club of London
has appointed provisional committee
on Irish distress.
New York has twenty-eight theaters;
the gross seating capacity of which is
over so, 900 people.
THE Vanderbilts pay tax to the city
of New York on eight million dollars OF
personal valuation.
THE Duke of Portland is thirty-three
years old, and one of the fattest men in
the United Kingdom.
STEPHEN II. TYING, the once popular
New York pastor, is doing life insur-
ance business in Paris.
The greatest city park in the world is
Fairmount park, in Philadelphia, con-
tanning over 1900 acres
A SAN FRANCISCO woman has been ar
rested as nuisance because she played
her piano incessantly."
A BILL to forbid and punish the maxi
ing Of caricatures has been introduced
In the Vermont Legislature.
THERE is talk about one or two Brit
ish gun vessels being adapted for the
use Of captive balloons at sea.
JAY GoULD's income is said to be
million month. And with tho whole
of it he is unable to buy health.
A FLOCK of blackbirds three miles
long and half mile wide passed over
Arlington, Ga, day or two ago.
THE Earl of Feversham makes it
point to never pay his servants or trades
men until they engage in general
strike.
A LARGE number of carriages in cities
are now supplied with rubber tires to
prevent violent jolting and deafening
clattcr.
Ex-JUDGE LEONARD, of New York,
has received a legacy of $3.50, 600 for a
forgotten favor that he did stranger
five years ago.
THE offer of bicycle for the use OF
mounted policeman has been made to
the police commissioners of New York
by q manufacturer
A JAPANESE husband has married and
divorced thirty-five wives and is about
to take another. He is bound to be
suited at all events.
THE highwayman who held life In
surance agent up at Now Albany was in
prison with four years. sentence with
in fifteen hours after committing his
crime.
THE Michigan State Board of Health,
believing consumption communica-
BILE disease, advises that all pupils af-
fected be excluded from the public
schools.
A SUCKING pig carelessly wrapped in
brown paper with both ends open was
an article sent through the English
post-ofiice and delivered to the ad-
dressee.
CoMPTE DE PARIS dresses plainly and
looks like prosperous business man.
He is easy to approach, and, in fact, there
is nothing of the snob about any one Of
the party.
five feet through solid rock at Pullman,
Wash, when water was struck. The
discharge is said to be about 1000 gal
Ions minute
THE country place of G. w. Childs Of
of Bryn Mawr, is said to be one of the
finest in the United States. The pay
roll for servants alone averages about
$1,000 month.
The discoveries made by Stanley show
that the Nile is the longest river in the
world, being at least 4,190 miles in
length, or as long as the Mississippi and
Missouri together.
THE Hungarian born citizens of the
United States are about to start sub
scription to raise sufficient funds to
srect a monument to the great Hungar-
ian patriot, Louis Kossuth,
srREET-cAR conductor has noticed
that men always mako room for woman
and that women always make room for
men. But neither sex budges to mako
room for one of its own sex.
ZOE GAYToN, San Francisco woman.
Is walking across the Continent for
purse of a dollar mile, providing she
walks more than fifteen miles day.
She is in Nevada about 100 miles ahead
of time.
II. c. ANGEL, of Weatherford, Tex,
was in good health on Sunday, but he
told his wife that he would die Monday
night. He made his will, attended to
business Monday as usual, and that
night lay down and died.
THE latest application of the slot
principle is an automatic stamp-selling
machine. One drops nickle in the slot
and gets two postage stamps. Tho odd
cent pays the storekeeper and for the
wear and tear on the machine.
FIVE factories make the little cap
sules in which nauseating medicines are
concealed. The largest of them is at
Detroit where quantities of the little
gelatine boxes are manufactured.
KING ALFoNZo persists in calling his
friends by their Christian names; his
governess is trying to teach him to say
''the Duke" or "the marquis" but the
little King laughs at her, persisting that
ne mast say Juanito or Xiquena.
A NOVEL. fight was witnessed on the