The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-23
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ganize war on the English sparrow.
FOREST fires have begun their cam
paign of destruction early in the sea-
son.
EMPERoR WILLIAMS coachman re-
ceives 5000 annual wages and his house
rent.
MARK TwAIN's long sojourn abroad
will enable him to revisit the tomb of
Adam.
In twenty years there has been no
sounterfeiting of Uncle Sans postage
stamps.
THE king of Greece has made S6,OOO,-
900 in speculation on the London
change
THE bishop of London has framed
bill to reduce the cost of weddings in
churches.
The New York legislature adjourned
without making an appropriation for
the Worlds fair.
A COW in Phillips, Me-, recently
drank five gallons of maple syrup. She
ought to give sweet milk.
MAUD EVANS, of Beaver Falls, Pa,
who is only sixteen years of age, has
third set Of natural teeth.
IMAGINATION and Bismarck are the
only prominent actors in the Franco
Prussian war remaining alive.
SINCE the first of the year nearly
thirty-four million dollars in gold has
been sent out of this country.
DUBOIS, the French sculptor, piqued
that his statue was badly placed in the
Do,.ic col b
IT is said that thousand barrels OF
maple syrup have been put on the mar.
ket this spring by single Burlington
(Vt) firm.
THE widow of the late Gen. Han.
cocks only son, it is announced, will
shortly marry Lieut.. William Rathar
day, U. S. A.
IT is explained that heavy imports
preceding the application of the present
tariff law is the cause of so much gold
going abroad now
ELISHA BAssETT has resigned his
clerkship in the United States district
court at Boston after fifty ne years oi
continuous service.
PHILADELPHIA is proud just because
there are five baby lions, two baby
bears and one baby buffalo in it's "zOo,n
all born in captivity.
PROF. EssENwELLER, of Geissen,
claims to have discovered the bacteria
which produces badness by destroying
the roots of the hair.
S. II. Brock, chief of the government
bureau of statistics, predicts that corn
will not go below forty cents a bushel
when the new crop is gathered.
A ST. LOUIS physician is authority
for the statement that hypnotism has
been very largely introduced into the
everyday practice of the doctors of
that city.
IN the national printing office, st. Pc
tersburg, Russia, documents can be
printed in every known language. It
is the most complete office of its kind
in the world.
LOUIS KossUTH, the Hungarian pa.
triot, is eighty-nine years old. His eye
sight is failing him, and other infrm-
tiles remind him that he is nearing his
earthly goal.
JUSTICE FULLER, of the supreme
court, has graver air than when he
went on the bench, and he has shorn
the long and curling locks that hung to
his shoulders then.
SIX miles off the Ladrone Islands, in
the Pacific Ocean, Russian vessel took
sounding a few weeks ago and found
depth of five miles, the deepest spot yet
found in any ocean
WHILE a bride was arrayed in her
wedding finery in the presence Of 2OC
guests at Keyport, n. j., she received
note from the groom that he couldn't
be present as his wedding clothes didn't
fit him.
THE foreign steamship owners are
not at all pleased to have the immigra,
ton officers inspect their cargoes of i'm.
migrants before they land, but the ad.
ministration is in earnest about this
matter.
A MONUMENT will be erected shortly
in Tutlingen, in the Black Forest, tc
Max Schecllenburger, author of ''The
Watch on the Rhine" The fund for this
purpose is $4,000, and contributions are
still solicited.
Two japanese mining engineers are
travelling among the coal mines in
Pennsylvania studying American min
ing methods, which they desire to ap.
ply to the development of the coal de.
posits of Japan.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., has the oldest act.
ing and active banker in the country
This is Eli AylswCrth, who, at the age
of ninety, knows gilt-edged paper on
sight, and is an encyclopedia of flnan.
cial information.
THE dime savings bank inventors are
now fighting out their rights to priority
Hf claim in the law courts and the law.
ySrs are making harvest that will
need the emptying of thousands of lit.
tie safes to satisfy them.
THE fact that Italians are coming tc
this country at the rate of l 400 pei
week shows that the people of that
country do not share the opinion o,
Premier Rudini that it is a country full
of dangers for immigrants.
GEN. ADRIAN DAILY, of New York, is
one of the few remaining survivors O:
the last war with England He is 9t
years old and receives only S. per mont
from the pension bureau.
THEY have begun making arrests IL
Philadelphia for docking horses tails.
There is no special law on the subject
in Pennsylvania, but the offenders are
to be prosecuted under the general law
against cruelty TO animals.
IT is explained that Minister Porter
1,oJ o,,,o1;o5 fo,. "a 1aoyo of aI, f,o..