The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-27
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the startling name OF tho DeviPs River
News.
GENERAL. ROBERT E. LEES birthday,
January 10, is now a legal holiday in
Virginia.
THE census of Berlin, just compiled,
shows that the city has population OF
1874, 4S5.
Few people are aware that Prof. Sum-
ner, of Yale College, is an Episcopal
clergyman.
BIpDEFoRD Pool, Me-, is at present in
vaded by troop of snowy owls from the
Arctic wilds.
THE Car of Russia is rapidly becom-
ing one Of the most lavish art collectors
in tho world.
Mrs. BEIvA LocKwooD has decided
that she does not want to be a candidate
for President.
Mrs. PLUMB, the wife Of Senator
Plumb, Kansas, has been an invalid for
several years.
FRANCIS H., the last King of Naples,
whom Garibaldi overthrew, is living in
exile in Paris.
THE Car has issued an edict forbid
ding the employment of Austrian work.
men in Russia.
A PEcAN-GRowER of st. James Parish,
La, sold some choice nuts this season at
S45 per barrel.
LITTLE kerosene lamps, made to fit in
ordinary silver candlesticks, are in de-
mand for rich mems tables.
A NEW brick machine has been in
vented that will turn out twenty thou
sand bricks per day of ten hours.
DIR. EMILE WELTI President-elect of
the Swiss Confederation, has thrice be-
fore held this office, in 1875, 1880 and
1884.
A HOG with eight well-developed feet
two on each leg-was sold the other
day, at Mexico, Mo-, for pork, at cents
a pound.
MAYOR FITLER, of Philadelphia, gives
all the fees he receives for performing
the marriage ceremony to charitable
purposes
An interesting relic preserved at st.
Helena consists of two silver hairs that
were once part of lock cut from Ma
poleon's head.
In Paris, when a funeral is passing,
persons in view of the procession re-
move their hats and remain uncovered
until it passes.
THERE are five Taylors in the next
House-one from Tennessee, one from
Illinois, and three from Ohio. They are
all Republicans
The frs. apple orchard along the up.
per oLio 'e said to have been planted on
Beech bottom on West Virginia side
few miles above Wheeling.
A DENTIST at Eaton, Mo-, pulled a
tooth the other day for man ninety
years old, who had never before had
pair of forceps in his mouth.
SAYS the New York Press: ''The win
ter hunting season has opened in Rus
sia. The Nihilists are doing the hunt
ing and the Gar is doing the lodging"
THE famous pair Of seal-brown horses
that drew the Presidential coach when
the Clevelands were in the White House,
are now the property OF Doris, the circus
man.
JUSTICE BREWER, of the United States
Supreme Court, wore long beard when
he first went to Washington, but now
appears on the bench with smooth
face.
VIcE-PREsIpENT MORTON is said to
consider presiding over the Senate the
hardest work he ever did in his life. 1t
is task that makes him nervous and
timid.
Two Iowa Legislators are named Ham
and Mustard. The Philadelphia Press
suggests they enter the service of King
Kalakaua and rise to eminent positions
in the Sandwich Isles.
GENERAL LEE once refused $500, 900
and royalty to write Southern his
tory of the war. He did not think it
proper to write and publish any thing on
the subject during his lifetime.
A GIRL at Norristown, Pa., attacked
with the toothache, left the theater,
and going to a neighboring dentist had
the offending molar extrscted, after
which she returned to see the rest of the
play.
SENATOR SHERMAN is five feet three
inches tall but he weighs only $50
pounds. He looks no older than he did
fifteen years ago, and, though now six
ty-seven, his hair has just begun to turn
grey.
One of the most prominent Of the
Americans who have taken fortune at
the flood in Mexico is James Sullivan,
an old Brooklyn boy. He has made
nearly $1,000, 900 in railroad invest
ments
A CITIZEN of Chambersburg, Pa, has
retired to Jail for eighty days or one day
each on default of sixty-seven cents
apiece for that many profane oaths he
swore while in sulphurous mood some
nights ago.
WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT smokes q
special brand of cigars which he has
imported from Cuba. Each cigar has
golden band around it upon which
is Mr.. Vanderbilt's coat-of-arms. At
wholesale in Cuba they cost him 25 cents
each.
PROF. RoBERrs-AUsTEN, of the Brit
fish mint estimates that the great smoke
cloud that overhangs London. is three
hundred tons in weight, and contains q
carbon and carbonic acid gas Of the
yearly value of $4,000, 600.
The latest pen-picture OF Prof. Koch
describes him as a small man, not more
than feet o inches in height but
sturdily built His features are COM
monplace, and there is nothing striking
in his whole general appearance. His
eyes Uere once his strong feature, but
constant use of the microscope has
dimmed their brightness and weakened