The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-03-28
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in England
A BROOKLYN clergyman has left his
pulpit to practice law.
UNITED STATES navy enlistments
nave been closed. The limit is reached.
FAITH in the grounding has been
fully confirmed by the weather this
year.
EX-SPEAKER REED is fond of the bicy.
Gle and takes long rides on the handy
steed
THE adjournment of Congress makes
the news field in Washington dead
waste.
BALTIMORE recently shipped a train of
zen cars loaded with oysters for San
Francisco.
In some parts of Australia locusts
and caterpillars are several inches thick
on the ground.
MICA is now used instead of glass in
Germany for the support of gelatine
Photographic films
SPAIN says she can and will hold
Cuba against any outside attempts to
gobble up the island.
GEN MALONE is preparing to build a
town at the mouth of Cove creek, in
Tazewell county, Va.
LORD TENNYsoN has declined to write
a song for the worlds fair opening
He urges that he is too old a man.
HENRY M. STANLEYs Zanzibar SER
cant, Selah, was elected from a Cali
fornia theater because of his color.
RHODE ISLAND will have four parties
in the field this year, the Bellamyites
being the latest accession to the show.
A FAMILY named Boyle has set up
a claim to the ownership of much of
the territory occupied by Lansing, Mich.
On factory bell in Saylesville, r. l.,
is an inscription purporting to show
that the bell was cast in Amsterdam in
1868.
A FRENCH authority estimates that
cats are responsible for thirty per cent,
of the cases of common contagious dis
eases.
PASSENGERS baggage on incoming
steamers is hereafter to be examined by
customs officers on board ship, instead
of on the dock.
IN DeKalb county, Ala, lives a six
teen-year-old boy whose every bone and
muscle, even to having two rows of
teeth, is double.
THE oyster is one of the strongest
creatures on earth. The force required
to open an oyster is more than 1900
times its weight
A CHICAGO professor, in talking about
the number of words in the English
language, says that no man living can
use one-ffth of them.
THERE are about 900 women typeset-
ters in New York. They are employed
chiefly in the publishing houses and on
the afternoon papers.
IT is becoming dangerous even to sit
quietly in chair. A Newburg girl
fell from chair while asleep the other
day and broke her neck.
A NEW YoPF woman is earning a
teaching fashionable ladies how to play
q scientific game of whist.
The New York legislature has just
passed law requiring the employment
of police matrons in all prisons to take
charge of female prisoners.
The Baltimore Sun says that the
peach buds and prospects in Maryland
from Caroline county to Kenton county
are showing up well this year.
THE duchess of Connaught is col
onel in the German army. All of the
women of the Hohenzollern family, in
fact, have titular rank in the army.
A PRACTICAL Boston Christian scien.
tist always demands pay in advance
when she treats poor patients. She
claims that prayers without faith avail
nothing
BY the will of the late DR.. Homer
Dix, of Boston, about $1OO, 900 is left in
trust to provide sick and poor children
with excursions to the seashore and the
country.
AN immense two hundred-ton piece OF
granite which will dress to pillar six
feet in diameter by forty-fve feet long.
has recently been quarried near Peters
burg, Va.
FRANK PARMLEE, the omnibus man,
has lived at the Grand Pacific hotel,
Chicago, since the house was opened,
and in that time has paid the hotel 500
900 for board and lodging.
In his will, Alexander William King
lake, the historian, asks his brother to
prevent the publication of any of his
posthumous writings and also requests
him TO destroy all his papers.
A PENNSYLVANIA judge discharged
boy who killed his uncle with a base
ball bat, on the ground that ball bat
is not deadly weapon. 1t was deadly
enough in this case, however.
SAM JONES, the Georgia evangelist,
who thought recently that he was on
the verge of physical collapse, now
says he is going back to preaching
shortly with recuperated energies.
THE late Mr.. Bradlaugh had a most
improvident way of living. 1t was his
habit to get little money together
by lecturing and writing, and then
to live on it until it was almost ex-
hausted.
JUSTICE STEPHEN, of England, has
been pronounced insane. He is to re-
sign his position on the bench at once,
and retire on pension equal to his full
salary, $1,000 year.
NEWFOUNDLAND has the tndepend-
ence to demand that she be allowed to
make her own negotiations at Wash
ington for reciprocity, regardless Of
canada-a demand that Lord Salisbury
has so far denied.
THE latest registration of voters in
Chicago shows that S4, ,319 are native and
6s,061 are foreign-born. The German
born number 80, 964, the Irish 10, 334, the
British and Canadian-born II, ,729 and
the Scandinavians 0,70s.