The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-31

emperor Of the country.
A FULL-BLooDED Sioux maiden, Jo-
'ephine Crowfeather, has just taken
VOWS as Benedictine nun.
LONDON grave digger died so sud
denly that he fell into grave that he
was excavating for another person.
IT Is expected that the bronze statue
of ex-President Woolsey, to be erected
on the Yale campus, will cost $4,000.
INDIA ink is made from burnt camphor
and gum The Chinese and Japanese
are the only manufacturers of this ink.
AMERICAN physicians are forming par
ties to attend the Tenth international
Congress of Physicians at Berlin next
August
JULIA HoNoRE GRANT, the sixteen
year-old daughter of Minister Fred
Grant, can speak Spanish, German and
French.
ALAN ARTHUR, son of the late Presi
dent Arthur, has no taste in the direc-
ton of politics. All his predictions
are social.
THERE are ninety more firms carrying
on business in the flood-swept district of
Johnstown than there were before the
flood came.
BY an overwhelming majority the
school children of New York City have
voted in favor of the golden-rod as q
State flower.
A FEW days ago Hon. Chauncey NJ.
Depew was summoned to appear in court
for the first time in his life. and he is
fifty-seven years old.
THE use of electricity as motive
power for street cars will be an import
ant section of the census investigation
If the electrical industry.
WALT WHITMAN has chosen his burial
place. 1t is in Harleigh Cemetery, near
the little New Jersey town of Camden,
where he has lived so long.
THE quantity of Arctic icebergs met
with by ocean steamers this spring has
been enormous, and it is pretty safe
indication of a cool summer.
THE new German Chancellor is a de-
scendant of one of the Oldest Italian
families, Caprivi. branch of the houses
of Caprara and Montecuculi
DIR. C. E. BLIvEN has discovered a
prototype of Volapuk in the Chinook
jargon which is used by the Indians in
nent.
NOTWITHSTANDING the constant heavy
emigrat ton, the population of Great Bri-
tain has increased more than 1000, 600
since 1885. The total population is about
3s, 0O0. 900.
BARNUM having declined to give the
Brooklyn aldermen free passes to his
show, those statesmen increased the Ii
cense fee for circuses from $3.50 year to
$500 day.
LARGE numbers OF applications for
pensions are daily received in Washing
ton from the Southern States from SOL
diers who served in the Mexican and
Creek Indian wars.
THE charred stump of 'Old Sequoia,
the giant of Californian forests, is forty
one feet in diameter. 1t has been cal
culated that the tree must once have
been nearly 800 feet in height.
JAMES SEwALL, 10l, and Mrs. Amy
Torrance, SO, we're married recently
at Laurel Forks, W. Va. The children
of the groom did not object, as the old
gentleman had outlived them all.
Ten thousand dollars is now the high
est recorded price for violin. The
Alard Stradivarius has passed from
France to England for that sum, to go
into the collection of Scotchman. 1t
Is dated 171G.
THERE is plan afoot in New York to
establish a flower market in Union
Square that shall rival the famous mar
kets of Paris and London. Five hun.
dred men go to New York every day
with flowers to sell.
The lady whom Mr.. w. OBrien, the
Irish leader, is about to marry is by race
and religion Jewess. She will. before
her marriage, be received into the
Roman Catholic Church. She has an in,
come of 1000 year.
A coLoRED dentist in Macon uses no
instruments except his fingers in ex-
tracing teeth. BY means of long prac-
tice his fingers have become as strong as
forceps, and he claims that he can pull
teeth faster and with less pain than any
dentist with instruments.
The Queen Dowager of Portugal on
one occasion brought home from Paris
1000 pair of shoes Subsequently she
ordered no less than seventy dresses
from Worth. TO be delivered together,
which on melr way home were lost at
sea. Her Majesty, no way disconnected,
sent word to Worth to supply seventy |
duplicates, and these reached Lisbon |
safely.
THERE has been discovered in convent |
at Ravenna, Italy, painting by Giotto
containing portrait Of Dante, the only |
really authentic portrait Of him known.
IT is decidedly different from the ac-
cepted idea of the poets looks.
The Cinnamon OF Astoria, Ore, are
amusing themselves with huge top
made ont OF an empty 25-pound white
lead keg. A square opening is cut in
the side, and 1t takes three men to spin
1t. one To hold the top and two to pull
the string with stick which sets it III
motion. While spinning 1t sounds like
the Whistle or a steamer, and can DO
heard three blocks away.