The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04
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river tunnel has been excavated. =.
THE wife of the Chinese minister at
Washington has such little feet that she
can't walk.
THEY speak of the winter in England
being $50 mild that the violets are
blooming"
TIE German Reichstag has voted to
exempt students of theology from mill
tary service.
BETWEEN five hundred and six hum
dred patents are granted at Washington
every week.
MINNows two inches long are said to
have been taken from 74-foot we'll at
New Iberia, La.
NoR1H CAROLINA has 100000 acres of
swamp land to sell for the benefit OF her
education fund.
A CATsKILL saloon keeper advertiscs
that his limburgor cheese is the lad
miration of the town.
ELEPHANT, kangaroo and lizard are
the fashionable feathers for the ladies'
pocketbooks and card cases.
JACKSON, the negro pugilist stands
six feet two inches, and his arms reach
two inches below his knees.
SEVEN thousand men and boys are idle
in the Shamokin coal region. Too much
April weather in midwinter.
JUDGE BREWER, the new Supreme
Court Justice, is little above medium
height, vigorous and healthy.
II is said that Jay Gould fears the ex-
tension of the telephone system will
make telegraph lines valueless.
BLAcKwooD's MAGAZINE tells of
factory which makes 100000 tin sol
diers yearly out of sardine cans.
AN exchange states as news the fact
that tobogganing appears to be some
what on the decline in Montreal.
THE ring of the hour is fine gold
band with a Marquise medallion of dia-
monds. Quiet designs may be had for
1925.
THE year 2i1s, according to the presi-
dent of the Manchester Geological soci-
ETY., will see the exhaustion OF English
coal.
FARMER HARMS, of Kent, Kings Coun-
ty, Oregon, cut down a cottonwood tree,
recently, from which he took 700 pounds
of fine honey.
AFTER forty-seven years of labor Mrs.
S. Lizzie Weaver, Bridgeton IN. "
woman, has just finished crazy quilt
of so, 075 patches.
A SALEM COUNTY. New Jersey, wom-
an, past 80 years of age, saw the railroad
and took her first ride in a passenger
train n few days ago.
IN Williamsport, Pa, bulletin board
contains the information that Magnify
died in New York this morning from an
overdose of cheStnuts.
THE Supreme Court library of Tennes-
see is packed in about fifty boxes,
which follows the court wherever it
goes to hold its sessions.
TIE next 1l0 years will all be odd
numbered years. If luck goes in odd
numbers what long era of prosperity
is about to be ushered in.
BALD men are pointing with pride to
the fact that nearly all the Justices of
the United States Supreme Court are
more or less bald-headed.
For the first time in the history of the
country Western man-Henderson, of
Illinois-is made chairman of the COM
mittee on rivers and harbors.
A NEW French invention is a smoke
bomb, intended to be fired into the
ranks of the enemy who uses smokeless
powder, and obscure his view.
A CINCINNATI newspaper, speaking of
girl caught masquerading in male at
tire, says ''she is prepossessing and
chews tobacco in large guilds"
THE open winter has its drawbacks.
Reports begin to come of disease trace
able to it, especially those of pull
monary and typhoid character.
AN English syndicate has concluded
deal whereby $1,000 acres of coal lands
in Macon County, Mich, pass into their
hands. The consideration is 81, 2,000,0 600.
The fact that Whittier refused SO, 900
from a magazine for a short Christmas
poem leads the average poet to wonder
why youthful talent is not better en-
Souraged.
ILLINOIS has a new law under which
criminals who have been found guilty of
robbery for the third time are considered
incorrigible and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
IT has been decided by Judge Thayer,
of the United States District Court at
st. Louis, that it is unlawful to dun a
man through the mails by means of n
postal card.
Mrs. MUISU, "lle VI bne JtpuHeSe
Minister to Washington dresses hand
somely in costumes of Occidental make.
She has entirely abandoned her native
style of dress.
THERE are $4,000 persons employed in
the postal service Of the Government
and $4,000 others in the legislative, ju-
dicial and miscellaneous divisions of
the Government.
A CHAMBERsBuRG,( (Pa. )youth thought
he ought to try some of his girls cooking
before marriage. lie ate a dinner which
she prepared with her own hands and
hasn't been to see her since.
BIRDS were the innocent cause of
fire in England. They carried half
bushel OF straw into chimney for
nest, and the straw catching fire, the
building was nearly destroyed.
IowA's corn cropo of 1886, 600, 900 bushels
is worth 100000, and would fill
train of cars 800 miles in length. 1t
would give five bushels to every man,
woman and child in the United States.
A THIEF stole locomotive from rail-
road yard in Tuscaloosa, Ala, the other
night and got miles away with it before
overhauled by pursuers on a switch en-
gine, and then he got away himself by
taking to the woods.