The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-15

died on one of the snow-blockaded trains
in California.
JEwETT NORTON has donated $50, 600 to
the town of Trenton, Mo-, for free
public library.
A WICHITA man was fined ten dollars
for stealing loaf of bread from a
bakers wagon.
SENATOR STANFoRD's degree of LII. ID.
from a Tennessee college has cost him
thus far $1,000.
A TELEPHONE test between st. Peters
burg and Moscow has been successful on
ordinary wires.
JOHN H. APPLEGATE, of Asbury Park,
made $4,000 by inventing machine
for lasting shoes.
The newspapers of Italy are raising
subscriptions to erect monument to
Columbus on American soil
In little Uruguay, in fifteen days, four
thousand persons have been seized with
grip. The President has it.
RHODE ISLAND was once famous for
Ats greening apples, but the trees have
exhausted themselves.
THEY are to have a new color in Lon
don, according to fashion magazines, to
be called India sunset"
ROBERT E. GIcK, although serving
out life sentence in Joliet prison, acts
as the Warden's coachman.
GERMANY is the only civilized country
in the world wherein murders are still
beheaded with an axe or sword.
BURDETTE, the humorist, is little
man who talks in sharp, quick way.
He is tired of humorous writing.
IN Edinburgh it is found possible to
supply for half penny wholesome
meal of vegetable broth and bread.
GERMANY is importing live hogs from
the United States, and the new enter
prise is said to be profitable all around.
THE five counties comprising South
ern California have an area almost 1000
square miles larger than the State of
Ohio.
FERDINAND WARD, whose financial
Napoleonism landed him at last in Sing
Sing prison, looks like physical
wreck.
Boston is agitating proposition to
limit by law the number of passengers
that may be carried in street car at
any one time.
JOSHUA MONTGOMERY SEARS contin-
ues to be the highest individual tax
payer in the city of Boston. He paid
last year $50, ,950.55.
A PLUcKY Franklin County, Pennsyl-
vania, widow took an axe and attacked
and killed bear that was trying to
steal one of her pigs.
The coal dealers have Jared poor
ly this winter, but they have prospered
In comparison with the man who writes
"Shut the Door" signs.
VANDALs have girdled the Grant elm
at Lexington, Mass, which was planted
by the General on April 10, 1875, the
Tooth anniversary of the battle.
PHILADELPHIA final contribution to
the Johnstown sufferers will probably
be the four fire engines that have besp
In service in that town since the flood.
A KANSAS CITY family consists of sir
brothers whose names are as follows.
Jack Frost, Winter Frost, White Frost,
Cold Frost, Early Frost and Snow Frost
A BUTLER Pa.) County man, whose
entire property is assessed at SS5, is the
pwner of five dogs, on which he will
aave to pay $3.50 tax. His property tax
Is sa.75.
A SHOE trade journal says that the
best time to get fitted to shoes is the
latter part of the dsy. The feet then
ire at their maximum of size and sensi-
tiveness.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON comes from
40 old and formerly wealthy Southern
family. AT the outbreak Of the war he
had from 1000 to 5000 slaves on his
plantations.
PERHAPS the youngest couple ever
married in North Carolina have just
been united in Davis County. The
groom is thirteen and his bride two
years younger.
NEXT May G. j. Murphy's Indian corn
exhibit design for the Paris exhibition,
but not shown, will be displayed at the
Edinburgh exposition. There is much
interest in it there.
THE Supreme Court of Alabama does
not believe in sparing the rod and spoil
ing the child. 1t has Just decided that
teachers may fog their scholars if they
do it without malice or immoderation.
MISS PHGBE COUSINS, OF st. Louis, is
the first woman TO be appointed a spe-
cial agent of the census. She has been
commissioned to take charge of the sta
tistics of tho recorded indebtedness OF
st. Louis.
IT is reported that the Duke of Cam
bridge, for more than thirty years Com.
mander-in-Chief of the British forces,
will be soon retired, and that the Queens
third son, the Duke of Connaught, Is to
succeed him.
THE Cape of Good Hope can now be
reached by telegraph via the West
Coast OF Africa as well as via the Red
Sea and Zanzibar. So the Dark Cont.
nent is bound around by the electric
wire that is constantly making the
world smaller
THE tendency to luxuriousness In
cooking which the French encourage by
using silver saucepans has reached as
far as nickel in England, and good
many solid nickel cooking utensils are
taking the place of copper In the kitch-
ems Of the rich.
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught
will visit North America in June next
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