The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-09-27

THE trades unions IN England are
every where moving for an increase OF
pay and shorter hours.
WILLIAMSON HOWELL, OF New York,
has invented machine for making
ahoe strings out Of paper.
The Gar of Russia is so strong in the
fingers that he can tear pack OF cards
70 pieces, fifty-two cards at a time.
REPRESENTATIVE KENNEDY, Of Quay
attack notoriety, enlisted in the war as
private and came out Brigadier!Gen-
eral
SOMEBODY estimates that 80 would
- 49,, oua;narv locomotives to draw
30 silver now in the U. S. Treasury
vaults
The Korean alphabet is phonetic, and
30 simple that any one can learn to read
in a day; nearly all the women in Corea
can read.
A NEW mania for collecting has
broken out. This time it is not snuff
boxes or canes, but shaving mugs.
What next?
B. l. FARJEoN, the popular novelist,
was once a newspaper man in New Zea-
land, where he was the proprietor of a
small newspaper
IT Is reported that diet OF fresh
sweet butter-milk has often been found
favorable and even effectual to the cure
of Bright's disease.
NINE. CoURDABc recently eel brated
her 111th birthday in Bergerac, ance.
She distinctly remembers the first Ma
poleon and his first wife.
THE demand for photographs of &C.
lebrities has fallen off so largely in Lon
don that photographers are dropping
that branch of their business.
WOMEN are longer lived than men;
woman of twenty may expect forty
two years more of life. a man of the
same age only thirty-nine years.
FINNEY COUNTY, in Western Kansas,
has an abundant crop of corn this parch-
ed year for the first time in it's history,
and it is attributed to irrigation.
IT is said that more than 1000 wom-
en- work around English mines on sur
face jobs. The wages they receive
scarcely give them the necessities of
life.
CAssIUs M. CLAY, JR, president Of
the Kentucky Constitutional Conven-
tion, is nephew of General Cassius M.
Clay and cousin of the late VIM. Cas-
sius Goodloe.
MAJOR LEWIS GINTER, of Richmond, |
Va, will soon occupy his elegant man
sion, on West Franklin street, in that
city. 1t contains fifty rooms and cost
about $500, 900.
ADvICEs from St. Petersburg state
that the Gar has given directions for
special exemption from conscription of
all men who have widowed mothers de-
pendent upon them.
The theory that good apples can not
oe grown in the South, seems to be dis
proven. Apples ten and thirteen inches
IN circumference are raised as far to-
ward the equator as Southern Florida.
A THEATRICAL manager has been for
bidden by Philadelphia authorities to
hang posters in that city representing
his ''star" actress dressed in tights and
with what are described as 'decollete
trunks"
THE heroes of no less than s5 of the
novels reviewed in the London Specta-
tor since last October stood six feet or
over in their stockings marked in
crease in average height in heroes Of
romance.
THE balloon proposed for polar ex-
plorations is ninety-nine feet in diam
eter and 100000 cubic feet in volume.
The journey is to be begun from Spitzber-
gen, and with favorable wind is ex-
pected to last four or five days.
THERE are twenty-five post-offices in
the United States named after the cele-
brated French General who did this
country great service during the Revo-
lutionary war, and twenty of them are
spelled La Fayette and two Lafayette.
JAMES M. TURNER, whom the Repub-
1icans of Michigan have nominated for
Governor, is several times millionaire
and yet farmer. He lives on a 2,0O0-
acre farm near Lansing, runs dairy OF
1900 cows, and has large quantity of
fancy stock, including kennel Of dogs.
A SNOWMAN billed small town in
Georgia some time ago with announce
ments that he would distribute luck
stones" gratis at each performance.
These proved to be painted beans, but
the recipient OF one of them has since
sent him 800, with tho news that he had
been notified the day after he got his
'luck stone" that deceased uncle had
left him $1,000.
SENATOR HEARsT's Washington
house contains seventy rooms. So far
$17O,000 has been spent furnishing it,
and this is said to be only beginning.
Thirty years ago the Senator occupied
an attic room in Missouri farmhouse,
where he was working for his board.
This is blooming country.
IT is not generally known that Cyrus
w. Field is successful poulterer, and
II the worst comes TO the worst could
soil enough eggs to make both ends
meet At his country estate at Ards
Icy, on the Hudson, he has 2,oOO chick
ems and 900 ducks. Has focks yield over
nEys thousand dozen sggs yearly