The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-03-08
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Ex-KING MILAN, of Servia, is living
In grand style in Paris.
WAsHINGroN's birthday was generally
sobserved throughout the country.
THERE are now nearly 80, 900 members
of the Farmers alliance in Kansas.
A MINISTER of Sedalia, Mo-, preached
sermon recently against gum-chewing.
A FASHIONABLE hotel has been opened
at the foot of the Great Pyramid, in
Egypt.
The new Cornell register shows to-
tai of l,3o6 students, of whom 157 are
women.
HENRY CUNNINGHAM, of Clark County,
Ill, has just sold hog that weighs 9S5
pounds.
IT is stated that the advertisements in
the Century Magazine amount to $4,000
month.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's friends have OBJ
served of late that he is growing fatter
than ever.
DURING the month of March three
army chaplains will be retired from ac-
tive service.
EDUCATION in Russia is at low ebb
Only twelve per cent of the population
can read and write.
In Denmark most of the girls are
trained i'm agriculture which is there an
important industry.
THE Prince of Wales has become a
very regular attendant at the sessions of
the English Parliament.
THE English government proposes to
make seven hours the legal day for
clerks in the departments.
A GIANTEss is being exhibited in
Osaka, Japan, who is fully eight feet in
height. She is said to be only sixteen
years old.
j. w. KEITH, of Holliston, Mass, has
just had removed from the calf of his
leg pin which he swallowed sixty-fve
years ago.
THERE are now on the rolls the names
of 10,567 pensioners on account of the
war of 1872, which ended seventy-five
years ago.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Ontario Legislature extending to the
Jews the privileges of other religious
organizations.
Two hundred women of Colby, Kas.,
have demanded of the council that the
paint be removed from the windows of
billiard halls.
JUSTICE LAMAR, of the Supreme Court,
will deliver an address at the commence
ment of the Boston University law
school, June 4.
FATHER JEROME, of the Benedictine
Order, has compiled Prayer Book for
the Sioux. 1t will be printed in the |
Sioux language.
SURGICAL operation has been per-
formed on that delight of the cartoonist, |
Ben Buffers dropping eyelid, and it
droops no longer.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has had six private |
secretaries, each of whom now holds
political post. Their salaries aggregate |
$4,000 annually.
GENERAL CIALDINI, who, with Carl
baldi, conquered Naples for the king
dom of Italy, is suffering from an incur
able disease at Legnorn.
THERE is a lady living on the east
side of the river" says an Augusta, Me-,
paper, who is in her seventies and is
cutting a new set of teeth.''
A sTATIsTICIAN calculates that the to-
tai tonnage of the world, steam and sail,
is in round numbers, 81, 900, 900 tons, of
which so per cent is British.
The last surviving signer of the Tex
an Declaration of Independence, Colonel
S. w. Blout, died at his home in st. Au-
gustine, Tex, few days ago.
Miss REGINA RoTusCHILD starts from
Port Townsend, Wash, to encircle the
globe in siXty-one days. The citizens
subscribed $4,000 for her expenses.
A NUMBER of maids in St. Louis have
appealed to the mayor to interfere in
their behalf to prevent the widows from
capturing all the marriageable men.
NATURAL gas is now used in 1o4 steel
works in this country, but the supply
shows signs of failing, and companies
are thinking of returning to the old
fuel.
Mrs CoRDoLLo, of Pomona, Cal, is a
great-grandmothe at the age of fifty.
She married when fifteen years old her
daughter when seventeen and her grand
daughter at the age of sixteen
ONE of the keepers in Bushey Park,
England, lately discovered two fine
bucks lying dead in ditch with their
horns locked together. Both animals
aad received severe body wounds.
AoNE-LEGGED negro in Egbert Coun-
sy, Ga, has produced the first bale Of
cotton every season in that county for
several years. He is prosperous, and is
rcumulating handsome independence.
r. o. PATE, a citizen of Hawkins
vile, Ga. is the proud owner Of Unit
I'D States currency note dated Septem-
Der 20, t77s 1t is a thirty-dollar bill,
and was issued by the Congress at Phil
adelphia.
BY theuse of the phonograph it is
now possible for aiman to sing at his
own funeral Captain Frank Cunning
ham, of Richmond, Va, who has sung at
395 funerals, means to have his voice
heard in melody at his own obsequies.
The Chanute (Kas) Blade tells of a
armer living near that town who sold
butcher beef for two cents a pound,
Igreeing to take quarter for family !
Ise In settling up the butcher charged I
he farmer regular rates and the conse-
Iuence was that the farmer owed the
iItcherS2
HILBERT SPENCER lives all the year !
ound in boarding houses. Sometimes !
be clatter grows unbearai le but the \
rises to the occasion. He
as two little buttons designed by an
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