The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-01
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THERE are families living in Bar Har-
Dor cottages who spend $685. 900 in a
season.
CARL ScHURz is ranked among the
most gifted amateur pianists in the
country.
The United States collects 5000 and
spends S461 every minute of the night
and day.
THE interior of Labrador is said to
be the largest unexplored area on the
continent
WASHINGTON is the only city of its
size in the United States which has no
factory girls.
A TEN THOUSAND dollar monument to
Victor Hugo is to be erected in jackson
park, Chicago.
AT Birmingham, Ala, there is an old
hen that kills sparrows- She coaxes
them up with bait.
AUGUSTA, Ga, thinks of Atlantas ex-
ample, and is putting the cigarette
license to $500 year.
IN Kansas farmer, whose land has
been sold by a sheriff to satisfy mort
gage, is called "a whereas"
A PAIR of deaf mutes were married
the other day at Topeka One of the
presents was an alarm clock.
ONE of the train dispatchers in the
service of the Georgia Southern railroad
is woman, Mrs Willie Coley.
LORD SALIsBURY's advocacy of wom-
an suffrage meets strong opposition
among the English conservatives.
The immense apple crop of Pennsyl-
vania has caused the erection of large
number of apple-jack distilleries.
GEN. NEAL Dow is still living in the
house he built for himself in 1929. He
is over eighty-seven years of age.
A PREHISTORIC cemetery recently un-
earthed in Mexico contained the skele.
tons of men with distinctly developed
tails.
The grindstone quarries at Grind
stone City, Mich, employ over 500 men.
Four carloads of grindstone are ship
ped daily.
GRAND RAPIDS dog catcher, in at
tempting to catch big bulldog the
other day, nearly had his wrist
"chawed'' off.
Miss KLUFFKUFFsKYA is before a
court in Brooklyn on the charge of
alternating the affections of another
girls affianced.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN's grandfather had
seventeen sons, the eldest of whom bore
continental names-Europe, Asia, At
rica and America.
DR.. HAZARD, of Allegheny City, Pa, +,
has organized a league for the EXTERN
ination of the sparrow. Each member
must kill fifty birds.
WINsLow, the famous Boston forger,
how resides in Buenos Ayres under the
name of D. W. Law, and publishes the
best paper in the city.
PAsTEUR claims that of 1,540 cases
treated for hydrophobia at his institute
only five have died, and these were put
under his charge too late.
ST. HELEN, Cal, enjoys book agent
who has passed his ninety y-second year.
People patronize his gray hairs who
care nothing for his wares.
STANLEY is reported to have made
S1sl, 900 from his American tour. One
half of this sum came from his book and
THE most complete failure on record
was that of dry goods store in Car
thage, Mo. The sheriff found just
three cents in the money drawer.
Mrs. CLEVELAND preserves a volum.
nous scrapbook filed to the covers
with notices of her husband clipped
from the columns of the daily newspa.
pers,
BROOKLYN physicians are being swim
died by rogue who calls in their alb
sence and pays fictitious bills with
bogus checks, receiving the change in
cash.
The oldest living eX-member of the
cabinet is James Campbell, of Philadel-
phia, who was one of President PIERCE
secretaries. He is lively old man OF
eighty.
The German emperor was so pleased
with his reception in England that he
has invited the prince and princess of
Wales to visit Germany in full state in
the fall.
THE habitual fishermen of Boston
harbor say that the recent naval com.
motion there caused all the fish TO strike
out for deep water, and that they are
slow about returning.
UNCLE RUSSELL SAGE has shaved of
all his whiskers for the first time in
many years, and, although he is sew
enty-five years old, his face is rounC
and without a wrinkle
PARIS requires every vehicle travers
ing its street Mt night, if only {
wheelbarrow, to carry a lighted lamp
Safety is secured, and the avenues gilt
ter as if swarming with giant fire
flies.
A THOUSAND or more acres of wheat
grown on bottom lands in Carroll coun
ty, Mo, is still in the fields and will no
be harvested as it is now ruined. The
heavy rains prevented its being cut a
the proper time, il being impossible Il
run binders in the mud.
The life insurance carried by JohI
Wanamaker amounts to 81, 900
which is distributed in twenty-nine diff
ferent companies. The premiums OF
these policies amount to $50 900 year
IN recent storm in North Dakota
hailstones of such extraordinary siz,
fell that residents sought refuge in Gel
lars. One OF the hail,tones, it is said
measured twelve inches in circumfer
ence.
BEERBOHM OF London, says the ac
counts of the failure OF the Russian
wheat crop are exaggerated. and esti
mates that Russia viii ship little more
than two-thirds the average for the pas