The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-12
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penitentiary at Galveston.
GENBRAL Won CAPRIvI, the new Ger
man Chancellor, is a bachelor.
LoTrA is rated as the richest single
woman in the world who has earned hel
own money.
THERE is bill before the New Yorl
Assembly to abolish capital punishment
in that State.
THE ground on which Helena, Mont,
is built yielded $50, 600, 900 in gold when
it was mined.
THE widow Of q carpenter at Reading,
Pa, found $1,000 secreted in her hus.
bands tool chest.
A Miss TARDY OF Boston has sued a
DIR. Early of the same city for breach OF
promise of marriage.
Ten miles of railroad track, in litiga-
tion at Wichita, was torn up by one OF
the parties to the suit.
A FRENCH scientist says that people
are growing dark, and that all will be
black in few centuries.
Mrs PHEBE WILSON, of Hartnett
County, n. c., is 1o9 years of age. She
has been thrice married.
The latest automatic machine in Eng
land tells your fortune when you have
dropped penny in the slot.
WILLIAM SALMON, an English physi-
clan, who will be soon 100 years Old is
the oldest living physician.
ALL of the bank note currency of the
Italian Government is engraved and
printed in the United States.
Miss BRADDoN, the novelist, is col
lector of brc-a-brac, and has a very
large and valuable collection.
ONE of New Yorks dudes is said to
have twenty-five different silk hats, but
only one head to wear them on.
Mrs ANN FERRY, who was buried
the other day at Lcavenworth, Kas.,
had reached the remarkable age of 113
years.
Mrs. 81. s. GRANT leads a very quiet
life in New York. Her eyesight has be
come poor, and she seldom appears in
public.
IT is q curious coincidence that the
representative sons of Bism,cck and
Gladstone should bear the name of
-'Herbert.'
in Massachusetts to induce the Legisla-
ture to authorize women TO act as nota-
ries public
GENERAL NEAL Dow, the temperance
agitator, has just celebrated his eighty
sixth birthday, and is still hale, happy
and hearty.
PARNEIL. is tall, slender, and has the
air of confirmed i'll health. His cheeks
are pallid, his neck thin and his shoul-
ders bowed.
A BILL has been introduced in the
New York Legislature to abolish arrest
in civil cases, and it appears probable
that 1t will pass.
THERE are dozen factories in Am
sterdam kept busy night and day max
ing genuine old spoons, knives and forks
for American tourists.
ACCORDING TO the calendar March is q
spring month, but this mistaken classi-
fcation was never more apparent than
in the month just past.
SENATOR BLAIR's speeches on his edu-
cational bill would make two volumes as
large as those composing James G.
Blaine's Twenty years of Congress-"
MARYLAND's new cigarette law re-
quircs the seller to pay an extra tax of
$50, and TO make affidavit that the cigar
cites he sells contain no injurious drug.
PRINCE ALBEIT VIcToR has been
bucking the real tiger in India. And
with more success, it is said, than no
had with the fgurative animal in Lon,
don.
A fErBisAI. official in Baltimore re-
ceived enough applications for Office
in one day TO easily fill, his private
secretary estimates, two bushel meas
ures.
IL the last ten years the State of New
York has spent s26, 900, 900 on her canals
and there are now pending appropria-
tion bills for $4,000, 900 for the current
year.
THE price Of ice in Philadelphia has
been Exed at 81 per hundred. AS coal
sells for twenty-five cents per 100
pounds, VI wll be cheaper to keep warm
than cold.
TIE pfLe sS old boards at Harper's
Ferry called John Browns fort" has
been bought by Chicago as com mpanion
piece 10 the pile of old brick called Lib
hey prison.
Two Chester pa fishermen quarreled |
about tire ownership of boat and |
neither would surrender his claim. The |
boat was finally sawed in two, and each |
took Il part
THE kangaroo is doomed to extinction |
in Australia. The farmers object to |
that annssl for the reason that he eats |
grass that would otherwise provide |
pasture for sheep.
THERE ia q large trade i'll alligators |
along the Florida rivers A fair speci-
men is worth S25, and negroes with las !
soes occasionally make two or three
captures in day.
TIE other day Minnesota clergyman |
Travelled thirty miles, made six calls !
visited two schools, gave an afternoon |
lecture and shot seven jack rabbits, all
between sunrise and sunset.
THOMAS SEYMOUR DENTON has in
vented the word ''manuprint," verb, adj
jective and noun, for work done with a
1t is at once more accurate
and suggestive than manuscript for
such work.
WooD river. Oregon, is quite alive
with deeM Frequently they may be
seen feeding with cattle on the range.
The panther. in his hunger, frightens
the timid deer into companionship with
the cattle for protection.
NJ. DE BREycINET, who has become for