The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-11
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which 27,353 more than half are Nor
mons
A CHURCH in Connecticut has set the
example of using its pretty girls as
ushers.
THERE are in the United States 2O0,-
O59. 20 miles of railroad track of all de-
Bcriptions.
INDIA, it is estimated, will produce
100000 900 pounds of tea during the
coming season.
ACCORDING to recent indications the
Delaware peach crop is going ahead of
all records this year.
THE chief of the reorganized weather
bureau must be civilian, and he will
have a salary of $4,000 year.
Word comes from London that Lady
Macdonald, widow of Sir John, will
probably be raised to the peerage.
THE union of Minneapolis and St
Paul. under the name of Federal City,
is being agitated by Bishop Ireland and
others.
AT military dinner in New York the
other evening the ice cream came in the
form of cannon balls, guns, swords and
drums.
SARDoU, the great French play
wright, writes hand so fine that it al
most requires magnifying-gla to
read it.
EVERY workingman in Japan wears
on his cap and on his back an inscrip-
ton giving his business and his employ
er's name.
A MAN bought s45S worth of farm ma
chinery in various parts of Arkansas
City while his wife was selecting a
spring bonnet.
MRS. GERTRUDE BOWEN, widow of
Rev. Wm c. Bowen, has succeeded him
as president of the Bordentown On. J.)
female college.
AT Danvers, Mass, a horse tipped
over a beehive in pasture the other
day, and was set upon by the bees and
stung to death.
CHINESE workmen who labor at the
looms making mating consider them
selves lucky if they earn five cents
day by hard work.
BowDoIN college is going to send a
score of students to explore Labrador.
This is what may be called turning the
y
EX-SENATOR TABOR, of Colorado, will
build a residence in Denver which
is expected to cost over $500, 900 and
eclipse any thing else of the sort in that
city.
THE trade dollar bars and subsidiary
silver will be recoined into other de-
nominations deferring the question of
the continued coinage of standard silver
dollars.
ACCORDING to accounts there are four
different mountain peaks in Idaho that
by actual measurement are from 13 to
90 feet lower than they were fifteen
years ago.
A VALLEY more wonderful than the
Yosemite, except in the matter of wa
terfalls, is said to have been discovered
in Kings river canyon, above the far.
famed Yosemite.
The wild beast business seems to be
very active Carl Hageback, of Lon
don, has during the past year disposed
of TAI lions, over 700 tigers and $50 ele-
plants and panthers.
RUSSELL SAGE, whose wealth is esti-
mated at $40, 100000, patronized bar
gain counter in New York city the 9TH
er day and purchased three neckties at
twenty-five cents each.
CALIFORNIA has taken an invoice OF
her giant trees left standing, and finds
2,675. The largest of these is sixty
nine feet in circumference. Visitors at
the Worlds fair will see one of them.
KING HUMBERTs son the Italian
fD II
royal conventionalities and marry the
girl of his heart, the daughter of a,
English clergyman who is living il
Italy.
THE United States assay office has
transferred So, 900. 900 in gold bars to
the Philadelphia mint, which is pre-
pairing to coin about $50, 900, 900 in gold
besides a large amount of subsidiary
silver.
IN the promised union of st. Paul and
Minneapolis there need be no question
as to which should be regarded the
bridegroom and which the bride, since
it will be St Paul who will wed Minnie
Apolis.
Mrs. GEN GRANT is aging rapidly.
There has been n marked change both
in appearance and in her manner with
in two years Her hair is silvered, and
her slow and uneven steps betoIen her
advanced years.
A TURTLE four feet across the back
has been located in Current river,
Mo-, for fifty years. The other day a
hunter shot it between the eyes, but the
ball glanced off and imbedded itself in
tree, while the turtle swan placidly
into deep water.
THE Japanese language is said to con-
tain sixty thousand words, every one of
which requires different symbol. tits
quite impossible for one man to learn
the entire language, and we'll educat-
ed Japanese is familiar with only about
ten thousand words.
A MOST curious clock is displayed in
the window of tobacco store in Phila-
delphia. The frame is made from cigar
boxes fitted together The round dial
is marked by coating of smoking to-
bacco. Two clay pipes OF different
lengths serve for the hands and the fig
ures are made of cigarettes.
THE queen of Italy, on visiting the
hospital Della Consolazione" in Rome,
was conducted TO the bedside of a young
Jewish girl who had been crippled for
life in the recent explosion of a gun
powder factory in the Eternal City. Her
majesty on learning that the poor girl
Vas an orphan, undertook to provide
for her future.