The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-25
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home this year.
THE Japanese are about to establish
q colony in Mexico
RUSSIA has lawsuit still pending
which is 800 years old.
On Connecticut railroad is q news
boy eighty-two years old.
MICHIGAN university has twenty-av,
Japanese students this year.
AN Iowa woman has named her twir
daughters Gasoline and Kerosene.
GEORGE VANDERBnT's ambition is t,
collect the finest library in America.
THE Emperor of Germany says hi.
grand dream is to see Europe pacified.
NEARLY 5000, 900 acres OF the public
domain were patented to settlers last
year.
DIR. AGNUs, OF Chicago, claims to have
hypnotized men at distance Of eight
miles.
BREEDING OF buffaloes in captivity is .
new industry in the Dakota agricultural
world.
A LAWSUIT begun 600 years ago has
just been decided by the Imperial Courts
In Leipsic.
GIRLS ale hereafter to be allowed to
attend the Rhode Island State Agricul.
tural School.
THE submarine telegraph system OF
the world consists of 120,070 nautical
miles of cable.
DETROIT has a Jack the hair-cutter
who lies in ambush and deprives females
of their back hair.
PARIS bicyclists are required to obtain
n,I; hn hlro IN
case Of reckless riding.
ONE of the current poets has just ia
vored the English-speaking race with a
lyric entitled "Darning Fathers Socks"
IT is said that English matrons have
decided to boycott American girls with
the hope of giving their own daughters
. few chances.
AT Eichweller, in Germany, lady
left instructions in her will that when
she died she was to be buried in splen-
did ball costume.
Mr.. SHELTON, OF Hart County, Ga,
owns hog fourteen months old and
weighing 525 pounds. 1t is seven feet
seven inches long.
EDWARD ]. SANDERLIN, q negro bar
Der Of Denver, has acquired fortune of
$500, 900, and now devotes his time to
collecting his rents
In the epidemic of cholera by which
Japan has lost 0,2s5 people up to Sep
tember 7. carbolic acid rose in price from
$40 to $50 per 100 pounds.
Great human lines die out. 1t Is re-
ported that there are no direct descen-
dants now OF Napoleon, Wellington,
Washington OF Walter Scott.
ALEXANDER DUMAS has been amusing
himself by sending a play OF his anony-
mously to the Partisan managers, and
having it refused by them all.
OVER 1000 fathers with families Of 10
or more children, have applied for the
land offered by the province Of Quebec
kr that condition of parentage.
$50 MUCH in excess of the supply is the
J mand for whalebone that several tons
Pore sold recently in London at the
enormous price of s1,95O per ton.
MEssRs O'BRIEN and Dillon evidently
realize the value Of bit Of lyrical wis
dom, popular some time ago, that
there's time for disappearing"
THE hottest day of the year in New
Zealand usually comes at Christmas. |
in the coolest hooks of the woods.
FANEUIL HALL, in Boston, was rebuilt |
by lottery, after having been burned |
in 1861, and Harvard college received |
the benefit of a big lottery in 1878.
In Germany they are using strawberry
tea, decocted from the young leaves of |
the strawberry plant, after they have
been dried and prepared like Chinese
tea.
THE population of Syracuse, n. Y,
according to the official figures, is 81.
BIT, an increase of 80, Os5 in ten years.
This is remarkable growth for an
Eastern city.
A WOMAN entered an Oil City, Pa,
dry goods store, the other day, and con-
fessed to the proprietor that she had
stolen a cloak from him sixteen years
ago. She paid for it and was freely for
given.
PERHAPS in the course of the next
quarter of century, the express COM
anies or the railroad officials wall put
Two or three armed men in their express
cars so as TO cope with the festive train
robbers.
THE mothers OF two royal boys in Lis
bon are quarreling over the succession
TO the Portuguese throne and other play
things which must pass to one or other
Of the lads il King Charles is forced to
sbdicate.
PITTSBURGH client sued his lawyer
because he lost his case. This won't do
II it should become precedent it
would fill all the court doclkets, and
worse still, it would double the business
pf the lawyers.
OTTAWA claims to be the first city in
Ontario TO light its streets by electricity,
and five OF its churches are illuminated
by the incandescent light. 1t will soon
have an electric street railway and pub
ic swimming baths.
JUST at present there seems to be o
great deal of talk about flying machines
The principal defect in all flying
machines that have thus far been con-
ptructed is that they won't fly.
The Emperor of Austria has sub
scribed upward of $500, 600 toward the
various funds which have been raised
for the relief OF tho sufferers by the late
floods in his dominions. His brothers
have given 100000
''If you want to go TO sleep quickly"
'aid a Chicago physician the other day,
drink hnlf-pint of hot water or hot
milk. don't say it will act in every
,ase, but / will venture nv opinion that