The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-26
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toria is $4,000.
SECRETARY RUsK has taken up the
study of French.
GENERAL BUTLER is believed to be
worth Sc, 900, 900.
METAL ties for railroads are proving
very satisfactory.
THERE are more than $4,000 women
clerks in London.
A PETRIFIEp deer horn has been found
hear Sylvania, Ga.
EM1N P->SSIA now speaks twenty-seven
different languages and dialects.
A FACTORY for condensing milk and
ooffee has been built at Buena Park,
Cal.
a WISCONSIN woman left her hair in
Germany, sent for it and had to pay duty
on it.
THERE is said to be big opening
in Madras and Bombay for American
dentists.
FEMALE lobbyists are recognized fac.
tors of legislation in England and com.
mand high pay.
"a TITLE of most ancient and honor.
able description is advertised for sale
in English papers
LuD1NGToN, Mich, hastened the ad.
iournment of mob the other night by
turning hose on it.
TIE Presbytery for Oregon has decid-
I'd that all candidates for license must
quit the use of tobacco.
A GEORGIA lawyer who charged $500
for drawing a will has had his bill cut
down to $50 by the court.
A WEDDING had to be postponed at AL.
oany the other night because some one
had carried off the gas meter.
TIE Italian Government has under
taken to stop the manufacture of
bologna sausage of horse meat.
A MAN named Schmittschmitt was
chosen town clerk in the South Town
district of Chicago the other day.
EIGHTEEN persons out of every thou
sand die each year in this country. In
England the average is 30. 5; in Germany
&c. /.
A FARMER whose property was swept
by a recent tornado says that every
thing was blown off the farm except the
mortgage.
NJ, TIszA, the Hungarian ex-premier,
is said to have smoked more cigars than
any other man in Europe. He smokes
necessarily.
PHILADELPHIA ladies will endeavor to
solve the servant-girl question by es-
tablishing a training-school for domes-
tic servants.
THERE is a family in France named B,
one in Belgium named o, river in Hol-
land called the Y, and village in Swe-
den named A.
EMIN didn't lose much by being res
cued against his will after all. He is to
receive salary of $50, 900 year for his
services III Africa.
AN English baroness has established
q home for cats, where disabled and
decrepit fellnes are cared for by her
kind purrmission.
Ir is estimated that Great Britain's
10000, 900 population daily consume 81
643, 961 pills. or what would weigh in a
years time IFS tons.
II is not generally known that DIR.
Mary Walker has become cripple for
life. On Decoration day, last, she fell
and broke her right hip.
A WOMAN was restored to her mother |
in Northumberland, Pa, after having |
been stolen from her parent forty years
ago There was happy Easter reun-
ion.
The fund for the proposed Grady Me-
mortal Hospital in Atlanta, Ca, now
amounts to about $4,000. 1t is said that
$50, 900 more is needed to carry out the
project
ANDREW CARNEGIE has in contempla- |
tion the foundingat Pittsburgh, in addi-
tion to his library, of a great school or
institute for instruction in the arts and |
sciences
CUPID never cares any thing about !
State lines. Miss Winnie Davis, the |
Daughter of the Confederacy," is said |
to be engaged to Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson, |
OF Syracuse. n. Y.
BARON HIRscH, the wealthy German
Hebrew is said to have promised to con-
tribute $4,000 month for the better
ment of the condition of the Russian |
Jews who have immigrated to this coun-
try
'.IN order to obtain small, delicate |
hands, when in repose let them dangle |
at your side,'' says Miss Jenness. !,
Holding ones hands up makes the
StluS SNtll lhuuCco al ihiSt, SoaiSO
development"
A MAN named Catoni, giant above |
seven feet high and proportionately |
stout, with an enormous head, has just |
died in Italy. Before his death he sold |
his skeleton to the Anatomical Museum |
at Rome for 81, 900.
THE largest saw mill in the world is
located at Clinton, la. 1t cost S260,000 |
and is capable of saving 49, 900 feet of
lumber in eight hours. 1t has seven |
band and three gang saws and two bat
teries of ten boilers each.
A NEW and sure cure for stammering
IS said TO be this: Let the stammerer
not speak word for ten days. Then
let him resume speech, but only in a
whisper, for ten days more, at the end
of which time he will be cured-if the |
remedy works.
A YOUNG man advertises for place
as salesman, and says he has had good |
deal of experience. having been dis
charged from seven different wholesale |
houses within year.
The other day the wife of a special
officer at Chester, Pa, slapped him in
the face. Taking advantage of his Off
cial prerogative. he at once arrested her
and conveyed her to the lookup
A PAIR of bantam chickens we're sold