The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-06
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'deadly wire"
CORNELL university has discontinued
its chair of journalism.
PRor. n1LLRoTH, of Vienna, believes
he has discovered cancer cure.
ONLY four members Of the last Kan
sas Legislature were reelected.
MORE bicycles are used by ladies In
Denmark than in any other European
country.
ELECTRIC motors are being intro
duced on the underground railway in
London.
QUEEN VICTORIA says she is opposed
to the introduction OF electric lights at
Windsor
In proportion to the population, three
times as much spirits III drunk in Scot
land as in England
AT Frankfort, Germany, 500 horse
power is transmitted by electricity to
distance of 140 miles.
THE cost Of feeding the prisoners at
the Missouri ponitentiary is only eleven
cents day per capita.
A JAPANESE author has just complet-
cd novel on which he has been steadi-
ly employed for forty-one years.
ALTHOUGH sometimes seen 400 leagues
from land, the frigate bird is said to re-
turn every night to its solitary roost.
A five-dollar gold nugget was picked
up from the gravel with which street
in lone, Cal, is graded the other day.
ANNIE E BAXTER was elected clerk
in Jasper County, Mo-, and is the first
woman elected to county Office in that
State
The Italian Government has ordered
that the study Of English shall be added
to the curriculum Of all Italian univer.
stiles.
PROF KOCH has reasons to fear, as
he says he does, the experiments OF
quacks with his anti-consumption
lymph.
MASSACHUSETTS claims to have the
champion producing cow. In one
year she turned out cream for 945 pounds
of butter.
AN English syndicate Is said to be try
ing to buy up all the seed gardens Of
this country. This is investment run
ming to seed.
SILK from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, has about the same elas-
ITCHY as ordinary silk. and is about two
thirds as strong.
JACOBS we'll and the plot Of ground
surrounding it have been sold by the
Turkish Government to the Greek
church for $4,000.
AN English company has made pro-
posal to the legislature of the island OF
Nassau to lay a cable to the coast Of
Florida II an annual subsidy is granted
it.
THE best speed OF railway train is
only a little more than half the velocity
OF the golden eagle, the fight of which
often attains to the rate of 140 miles an
hour.
The private correspondence of the
Prince of Wales is something enormous
He is said to receive four times as many
letters a day as does the President of
the United States.
Or all birds, the condor mounts high
est into the atmosphere. Humboldt
describes the flight of this bird in the
Andes to be at least 20, 900 feet above
the level of the sea.
A RAILWAY conductor has told re-
porter in Pittsburgh that General Jubal
A. Early declined to receive in changes
five-dollar bill recently because it bore
the vignette of General Grant.
The golden eagle may be distin-
guished from all white-heads by the
feathers on its legs. All white-headed
eagles have bare legs, while the leg of a
golden eagle are feathered down to the
foot.
EMMA ABBOTT is enormously cred
tied with being "the richest woman on
the stage" Patti can buy and sell
her half dozen times over, and even
Mary Anderson can raise as much
dust.
DARK-HAIRED persons have a better
chance in the great struggle for exist
ence than those of the opposite complex
ion, except in contagious diseases,
where blondes are comparatively ex-
empt
about the age of 300years. The holly oak
alone escapes this law, it is said, and
there is specimen of this aged 40
years in existence near Aschaffenburg,
In Germany.
COUNT Won MoLrKE is the first landed
proprietor in Germany to adopt the
eight-hour rule for the peasants work.
ing for him upon his estate at Creisau,
and Is we'll satisfied with the result Of
the experiment
MAJOR POND, Mr.. Stanley's manager.
is some thing of discoverer himself
He is discovering, among other things,
that there are great many towns
throughout the country that will not or
can not pay 1890 to hear his star.
The Panama canal works are wrecked;
even traces of the excavations are van
ishing and the constructive machinery
is worthless. This enterprise, in which
S40O, 900. 900 has been sunk, will figure as
tss monumental failure Of the age.
THE late Mrs. Astor had lace dress
which cost Sl5, 900, and it is stated that
another was recently sold to an Amer
ican lady for SIS. 900. There are num-
ber Of ladies in New York who each own
laces valued at from $50, ,00e to $50, 900.
A MATRIMONIAL statisteian has con-
cluded that the number Of marriages
is in the proportion of seventy-fve to
every one thousand individuals born,
and the time when the greatest number
OF marriages take place " in June and
Decem ber-about the time OF the sum-
mer and winter solstices
THE hop vine is said to be sinistrorse
because 1t twines with the motion Of
A.. a,n. that 90 from rinht N 1aft