The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-05
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OHIO

very satisfactory.
The name of the Methodist minister
'at Eureka, Kan, is Ananias.
ILLINOIS wheat and fruit is seriously
injured by cold weather.
IT is proposed to create Columbus
National Park in Washington, ID. c.
NEAL Dow, the temperance agitator,
has celebrated his eighty-sixth birth
day.
ARTHUR RoTHscHILD has recently
sold his collection of postage stamps for
$50, 900.
FoUR silver salt cellars of the six
teenth century sold in London lately
for $500.
RuMoRBD that on leaving the Isle Of
Jersey Gcneral Boulaager will come to
New York
The Rainbow fire company, of Read
ing, Pa, celebrated ivs 1l7th anniver-
sary recently.
THE new German Chancellor, General
Caprivi, is an inveterate smoker and a
moderate drinler.
ZACHARY TAYLOR is the historic name
of man who is TO be hanged at tWaynes-
burg, Pa, in April.
TWELVE hundred disabled confederate
soldiers draw pensions in North Caroli-
ma, and 9, 500 widows.
IT is said the most skillful amateur
bull fighter in Mexico is the son of the
President of the republic.
Cnops in South Carolina have been
damaged several hundred thousand dol
lars worth by the cold snap.
E. A. ABBEY, the artist, is to receive
$4,000 from the Ilarpers forillustrating
new edition of Shakespeare.
THE negro members of the Mississippi
Legislature presented the Democratic
Speaker with a silver service.
THE astronomer 'of the Cincinnati OBJ
servatory says that so far;as he can dis
cover there is no comet in sight
THE Gar has abolished the German
Court Theater at st. Petersburg, and a
French Company will be introduced.
A LONDON genius has invented hot
water apparatus to warm piano keys, so
that dainty fingers may not be chilled.
JOHN HICKS, United States Minister
to Peru, informs the State Department
that the Peruvian girls are very pretty.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS is said to
be worth IS, ZOO, 900, the greater part of
which is invested in railroad securities.
THE newest freak of Paris fashion is
a looking-glass stand for the menu, so
that the ladies can seeihow they look at
the table.
The richest negro in the West is Ed
ward j. Sanderlin, OF Denver, who has
made fortune of 5000, 600 out of his
barber-shop.
TRADEsMEY ,of al sorts at Utica, n
Y. not only sell their delinquent ac-
counts at public sale, but advertise them
In the papers.
An English medical commission has
been experimenting as to the effects of
tight iacing upon female monkeys. The
monkeys died.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR, since his
fathers death, has had cards engraved
bearing the simple, yet suggestive le-
gend, Mr.. Astor."
THE Archbishop of Paris denounces
cremation and orders his clergy to dc
so. He says II is a triumph of material
ism over spiritualism.
PHOTOGRAPHY willbe fifty-one years
old this summer. What wonderful
strides Shat art has smade in that COM
paratively brief period.
A New York syndicate offers to estab
lish postal telegraph. at the terms and
rates proposed in the bill prepared by
the RostmasteriGcneral.
JACK NORTON, "a twelve year-old boy
of ElKo, New, has made many long trips
on snow shoes this winter. Thirty
miles day is an easy journey for him.
A KANSAS woman who staked off
claim in the Cherokee strip had no flag
to hoist, 80 she ,ranmp red petticoat on
pole at tne corner of her quarter SEQ
tion.
GEORGIA. editor in announcing his
marriage says: I'VE have taken this
step fOr better or for worse; but it is
poor woman that,can't support one ed
itor''
A FLaf'PANr contemporary viewing the
warfare between the white laundrymen
and their Chinese brethren in New York
concludes that 1T tis likely to- be clothes
fight.
A sTE>lNGE.Gondition, of affairs exists
at Hydetown, Pa. Thevillage has three
churches, and only one solitary member
Of any Ot them Ewes within the borough
limits.
IT is peporteh chat many farmers in
the neighhorhood of Kingston, Ont, ow-
ing to aneir heavy indebtedness, are
mortgaging their farms and leaving for
the United States.
UYDER the laws of New.Jersey Ia dis
orderly person" may bea Gperson "'who
stands and aaolss over a fence al wsman
standing ON a -step-ladder to wash
kitchen Window
THERE is 70 plague of iloelsts in the
province of Gtizeh in Egypt. In 6ve
days the authorities destroyed six toms
of them. In blowing, quantities of their
eggs are turned up. Exposure to thu
sun destroys the eggs
HERE are twoaentenoes, each of which
all the aelters,sf the alphabet.
''Jokn quickly extemperized five tow |
bags" and THE ,quid4, bTewn fox
jumps over the lazy dog"
A LETTER written ny George Washing |
ton at Philadelphia, im 17aS, intros ucing
the painter, 10 the COM
nander at Georgetown, was sold for
'eyen gIineas at SOt&erbyis, London,
.he other day.
REAL crown OF pure gold with 1000
diamonds and valued at t37, 500 is to be
put up at ahction at Singapore. 1t fsr-