The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08
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day for licenses for circuses.
A LETTER from London says Queen
Victoria is passionately fond Of babies.
A WISCONSIN packing company has
paid out 500, 500 for cucumbers this fall.
A "MULTr-MILLIoNAIRE" is a term that
has been invented in the advance OF the
times
GEO. JONES, butter vender, Of Pleas
antville, n. j., has fallen heir to $780,
600, 600.
BUSINESS men are complaining OF the
scarcity OF paper money of small denom-
nations.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mimi, is about
one and quarter times as large AS Con-
uecticut.
POPULATION Of Davenport, To-, (cor-
rected), is 90, 500; increase, 1869, OF 80. So
per cent
LATEST reports from Michigan and
Wisconsin are that the corn crop Is the
best for years.
THE new baby hippopotamus in Gem
trail Park, New York has mouth seven
teen inches wide.
New ORLEANS Committee Of Fifty
wants $50, 900 to arrest and convict the
ASsaSSlnS OF that city.
THE leading citizens of hustin, Tex,
determined to put up cotton mill cost
ing half million dollars.
A BUNCH OF Louisiana rice shows
yield Of four thousand five hundred
grains from single seed.
A CENSUS of fruit bearing trees has
been taken in Los Angeles County. The
total number is 10, 365-S75.
THE name of Wayne is the title or
part of the title of more places in the
United States than any other.
MARRIAGE with deceased wife's sister
Is again disturbing the Pittsburgh Synod
of the United Presbyterian Church.
ROSWELL P. FLOWER complains that
every morning he finds on his table
pile of political mail two feet high.
A CHINAMAN in store clothes, wearing
Eyeglasses and riding bicycle, is one
OF the curiosties of life in Brooklyn.
An association of housewives in Phil
adelphia is to abolish kitchens and es-
tablish a cooperative central cooking
house.
THE Empress of Germany dresses with
great plainness and thus sets an excel
lent example to her husband, which is
wholly lost
The Hollanders get along pretty we'll
and their national BREAKFASTS very sim.
pie, consisting of coffee, brown bread
and herring.
THERE is not much more than half
crop Of potatoes in the United States
1913, 100000 bushels, against 234, 900, 900
bushels in 1889.
THE Sultan of Vitu is in open "rebel-
lion" against British domination, and
Portugal is again biting her thumb at
Jne same power.
JOHN SHEARER and Alex. Fleet, of
Washington, Pa, during the past season
have killed two hundred and eighty
three groundhogs.
A LASTING machine that enables one
operator to last 5000 pairs of shoes q
week is one of the latest things in labor
saving machinery.
BALTIMORE scientist declares that
unless dredging is stopped the Maryland
oyster will disappear from the market
within three years.
A LAW went into effect in Louisiana
recently requiring the railroad COM
panies to furnish separate cars for white
and colored persons.
GENERAL BoorH, the Commander-in-
chief of the Salvation army, wants
S., ZOO, 900 in cash, right off, to carry on
the work in England.
The Western cattle raisers are talk
ing OF forming combination to handle
their own products from the field to the
market, thus doing away with middle
men.
JOHN HAoKLEY, who has given q
100000 library building to Muskegan,
Mich, worked his way from Philadel-
phia to that city twenty years ago, a
poor boy, on lumber vessel.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, is the
third man who has been elected for a
fifth term in the United States Senate.
The other two were Benton. of Missouri,
and Anthony, of Rhode Island.
NAVIGATION company is in course
OF formation at Rome, with 60, 600, 900
lire of capital, for the purpose of estab-
fishing three rapid lines of steamers be-
tween Italy, India, China and Japan.
The best pictures so far taken of the
moon show that parallel walls, whose
tops are no more than 200 yards or SO in
"Auoh, ohu ato iioe ihOFo Iudu
1000 or 1,2OO yards apart, are plainly
visible.
TRIPLES change the course of events.
George Stephenson, the engineer, could
not raise the passage money to come to
America, and the United States lost the
honor Of giving the locomotive engine to
the world.
Four tame ducks have cost the county
of Cascade, Mont, about $4,000, owing
to cross-suits among neighbors for tres
pass, perjury and threats OF bodily harm.
One of the men has been sent to the
penitentiary.
SOME few years ago the Paris picture
dealer, Ferret, bought picture for SO
in rag and bone shop. He soon dis
covered that it was portrait by Jor-
dean, and got rid of 1t for $1,000 to tho
late M. Rothan, the diplomatist. The
picture-which Is in Jordeans bes tman-
ner-has just fetched S11,6O0.
PRESIDENT CARSoT, Partisan caterer
relates, finds dinner giving rather ex-
pensive. At his last there were covers
for four hundred, and the bill was seven
dollars per cover with fifteen hundred
quarts of champagne at two dollars per
quart, while the buffet for the reception,
flowers, music, etc, brought the total to
fifteen thousand dollars.
An exploration party sent by the Que