The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-05
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THE output of matches in the United
States amounts to S12, 900, 600 year.
WHITE mules are in great demand
In the South, owing to their docility.
VERsAHLEs, Mo-, claims vein OF
coal 80 feet thick, the thiclest vein on
earth.
Two doctors and livery-stable man
were caught blowing open bank safe
n Gardner, Ill.
TROUBLE in Madagascar is feared on
account of the natives resisting claim
made by France.
The largest chicken ranch in the
world is on an island in Bellingham
bay, Puget sound.
IT is estimated that 8, 900 car loads OF
oranges will be shipped from California
during the coming season.
II is generally believed that congress
will make thorough investigation Of
the Maverick bank failure.
THE mail line between Halifax and
England has just been discontinued for
the first time in fifty years.
Mrs. ROBERT LINCOLN wife of the
United States minister to England, is
spending the winter at Tours
Two hundred and twenty women are
now in the Harvard annex, but they
don't count in football statistics.
The sufferers by the great Boston
fire, nineteen years ago, who still sur
vive, were paid 81, $50 during the past
year.
BY rabbinical law the Jew is allowed
TO drink TO intoxication on two days
~ Ia, IL, Al,
Torah.
IT is stated that the crops of this
year will enable the farmers of the
yest to pay off $1,000 900 of mort
cages.
DURING last year $50 men were killed
outright and 7S41 MANNED and mangled
while coupling cars on the railways of
this country.
A POLISH inventor claims to have dis
covered u process of manufacturing
smokeless and odorless coal at a cost of
a dollar ton.
Posi- OFFICES were first csta ablished in
France in 1864. The first English post
Office was opened in 1881, the first Ger
man office in 1641.
A CONNECTICUT man has invented
machine which automatically feeds his
chickens at night and morning. 1t is
run by clocliwork.
THE fame of some men is preserved
by their east-off clothes. An old hat
OF Dillon, the Irish leader, recently sold
in Australia for S25.
Mrs. THOMAS NELSON, of Astoria,
Ore, drowned herself few days ago
because her husband refused to allow
her to hold the baby.
Much of the barley arriving at Chica.
go is going on sales previously made,
and the stocks there are less than half
that of last year at this time.
THE arm of compositor who works
eight hours at the case setting type,
travels distance of from six to seven
miles, according to a statistician
THERE rs new element mineral
discovery in the Boleo mines. 1t is com.
posed of cubic crystals of fine blue
color, and has been christened ''bole.
ite."
TIRE wooden shoe-peg was invented
in 1918 by John Walker, of Massachu.
setts. Millions of walkers have since
then pegged along enjoying his inven.
ton
The first iron bridge, built in 17Ts,
still spans little river between Wor.
cester and Shrewsbury, England II
is about 0s feet long and weighs 37s
tons
The fashionable point for grasping
sticks and um mbrellas in London is
about six inches from the ferrule, the
handles being allowed to dangle down.
ward.
AN equestrian statue of Gen. William
Henry Harrison has been designed by
Rebisso, of Cincinnati, for that city. 1t
viii be cast in bronze at Chicopee,
Mass.
THE Tower bridge over the Thames.
built on the Bascule principle, has
caused the underwriters of Lloyds tc
refuse to insure vessels that have to
pass beneath it
WM. SAvEENY, of Catasauqua, Pa,
aged 1o3 years, believes that he is the
oldest tobacco chewer on earth, having
used the weed without days break
for over ninety years
AT the newly discovered metallifer-
ous mines in Texas, the miners struck
blanket lead" of silver ore almost at
the surface OF the mountain into which
they had been tunneling.
CHINA has been warned that at the
end of the appointed time the com bined
powers will seize her customs receipts
and hold them till satisfaction for the
mission riots has been given.
THE amount of wheat which the
United States will be called upon to
send to help out the European demand
is a round 1000, OOO, 900 bushels, which
will make big hole in the surplus.
MACON, Ca, is rejoicing over the fact
that the Ocmulgee river is now naviga-
bic from the city to the Atlantic
ocean," and has within year become
an important highway of commerce.
IT has been generally supposed that
Rev. Arthur Bell Nichols, the husband
of Charlotte Bronte, was dead but he
is still living in an obscure parish in
Ireland, where he occasionally breaches.
AGRICULTURAL labor is said to be so
Ecarce in some of the midland counties
Of England that the crops are lying on
the fields ungathered, Notwithstanding
that wages have been advanced twenty
per cent
Miss MARY SMITH, Of Whitesburp
c.. is the proud possessor of a bed. |
quilt quilted over 100 years ago by Miss |
Taylor, niece of Gen. Zachary Taylor,
who picked and spun the cotton of