The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-09-13
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CRops in the Saguenay district OF Que.
bee are n total failure.
RAILROAD property in West Virginia
Is assessed Sl7,27S, 666.G1.
TIE capital of the Vanderbilts is over
four hundred million dollars.
Rosa BoNHEuR is sixty-seven years OF
Nge, and n brush is still busy.
TIRE oldest United States pensioner Is
a colored woman, Mrs. Henry Ray.
A SNAKE two feet long wriggled out OF
mail box in Bridgeton, N. j., the other
day.
AN Englishmap proposes to lay deep
sea electric cables by meaus of submarine
boats.
THIRTEEN cantaloupes raised by a
farmer near Bridgeton, N. j., filled
barrel.
MORE than 5, 900 men in New York do
business under protection of their wives
names.
BEING ioclsy in England is not bad
business; it pays on an average of $500
week.
The name of the Pennsylvania Sem
ator is pronounced as though spelled
'Kway."
RUSSIA, of course, wants peace, and
has just ordered half million rifles to
that end.
UPWARD of SO, 500 volumes were added
10 the library of the British Museum
last year.
THE Crown Princess of Denmark is aid
right in crowd. Her height is six feet
three inches
The national convention OF colored
Y. NJ. c. AS will be held at New On
leans, October $3.50.
THE Supreme Court has decided that
only children of the first wives of Nor
mons are legal heirs.
SENATOR STANFoRD's fruit-farm in
California is the largest in the world. 1t
contains so, 600 acres
THE Eastport sardine factories report
ga most wonderful run of fish," a great
crop is being gathered.
JOHN SARTAIN, whose name is known
wherever engravings are known, is now
eighty-seven years old.
ONE hundred thousand New York chill
dren will be turned away from school
this year for want of room.
A GEORGIA woman who is engaged in
the chicken business has sold $50 dozen
eggs from % hens this year.
OSCAR WILDE's mother has been
placed spon the British pension list
But it was not because of Oscar.
The mayor of Boston receives from
the West End Street Railway Company
5000 free tickets weekly for charitable
uses
MIR. PAUL DU CuAILLLU is thorough
American, having been born in Louis
lana, and not in France, as is common
ly supposed.
GENERAL LoNGSTREET is understood
to be engaged upon history of the civil
war, and especially of the campaigns in
which he had a share.
IT is estimated that the accidents to
various warships during the recent En-
glish naval maneuvers have cost the
government S1,250,000.
GLOVES with webs between the fingers
are recent invention, intended to aid
swimmers getting better purchase on
the water than the bare hand gives.
A DWELLING house is in process Of
erection on one of the best streets in
Brooklyn which is only seven and one
half feet wide by fifty-nine feet deep.
RECENT trustworthy calculations of
the population of the Chinese Empire
by Russian authorities reckon it at 3S2, =
600, 900 and the annual increase at 4, ,000,-
900.
THE Fort Worth Chamber of Com
merce has forwarded by express to Presi'
dent Harrison a watermelon grown in
Tarrant County, Texas, weighing 1o1
pounds.
GENERAL BIDwELL's ranch in Chico,
CAL, is eighteen miles in length and
three in width and contains 1,500 acres
of orchard ground. The entire crop has
oeen sold to Eastern buyers.
DURING play in New York recently
real fish was cooked on the stage,
and the theater was filled with the odor
of real cooking, which made the major
ity of people in attendance feel right at
home.
A FRENCH sardine trust has been Or
ganized. There is nothing alarming to
the American people in this, SO long as
the herring fisheries of Maine hold out,
and a plentiful supply of oil from the
cotton fields of the South.
New YORK has established a homo for
cats. Six acres of land on the beautiful
banks of the Harlem have been conse-
Grated to the noble cause, and it is re-
ported that no less than 1000 city cats
win be given refuge there at once.
EXPERTS are by no means sure of how
It will be with them. The best SWIM
mer at Newport was drowned few
days ago and now a New York lady, a
thoroughly skilled horsewoman, is
thrown from her animal and killed.
THE movement for the re-colonization
of Palestine by the Jews has received
an impetus by the revival of the Anti
Semitic laws in Russia. Hundreds of
families Of Russian Jews are arranging
to emigrate to Jerusalem to escape per-
secution.
A CORRESPONDENT says that the price
of a good-looking female slave in the
United States of Colombia is 500. These
women it is stated are usually excellent
cooks, and many of them are expert in
diving to the bottom of the streams in
the gold districts and bringing up q
gourd full of gold-bearing sand.
THE legend as to the origin OF woman
Is different with various nations. Not
moro than four nations accept the legend
that she was made from a mans rib.
The japanese believe that she grew on
tree, the Laplanders that she was once