The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-24

mELbOUhNb WduuS 10 bell MS RAIN
producing secret to the government for
81, 000,0O0.
CoLoRADoANs believe that that state
will before long rival California even in
its fruit-growing resources.
CONNECTICUT last year took out more
patents in proportion to population thar
any other state in the union.
WHEN Edison gets his new electric
cars a-going we can bid trolley-la to
the deadly system now in vogue.
LOUIS KossUTH, the Hungarian pat
riot, has just entered his ninetieth year
he is in fair health in his Italian home
AMATEUR hunters are having no trou-
BILE finding deer in the Adirondacks this
season The animals are unusually
tame.
THE food allowed to sailors in the
American navy is better than that
furnished in any other navy in the
world.
MEXICO has a rock that serves as n
weather prophet by changing color
with every approaching change in the
weather
SECRETARY FOSTERS portrait has just
been painted for the treasury depart
ment by Miss Blanche +. King a young
Washington artist.
GREEN boughs of the eucalyptus trees
are said to be among the best disin-
fectants known for room where
scarlet fever exists.
A PERFUME lamp, which burns CO.
logne and spreads a pleasant scent
about the room, is among the late
household novelties.
The proposed suspension bridge
across the Hudson at New York city
will be nearly mile and half long
outside the approaches.
CAPT. B. j. CROMWELL has been or
dered to the command of the Norfolk
navy yard, being detached from the
League Island navy yard.
FLORIDA, which was not represented
at the centennial at Philadelphia in
1915, will raise $780, 900 for its display
at the Chicago exhibition.
In the 5000, 600 letters that reached
The dead letter Office last year there
was money amounting to S2S, 642 and
checks and notes of the value of 81, AL
S71.
MRS. HANNAH r. RANDALL, Rhode
Island woman of 90, has Just made a
journey across the continent to San
Francisco. 1t was her seventh excur-
sion of the kind
BoULANGER was once under contract
w.ch an American manager to take
lecture tour of the United States, but
was dissuaded from the purpose by the
Duchesse dues.
THE fishing industry in Saginaw bay
has been almost extinguished owing to
the refuse matter from saw mills and
salt blocks, which kills the young OH
the spawning grounds.
The largest sheet or pane of glass in
the world, is set in the front of build
ing on Vine street, Cincinnati, o. II
was made in Marseilles, France, and
measures 1S6x1O4 inches.
They are planning in England to es-
tablish an agricultural school for wom-
en- in which especial attention will be
paid to teaching dairy work and the
raising and taking care of poultry.
PROF. II. w. S. CLEVELAND, of Min.
neapolis, has an autograph letter of
Benjamin Franklin informing the post
master in Boston that he should not ex-
emPt governors from paying postage.
JOSEPH TAPER, a Negro, gave pecu-
liar reason for trying to hang himself
in Pittsburgh the other day. He is
now 107 years old and he had given up
the hope of ever dying in the natural
way.
THE powerful chloro- chronic battery
% -, 1
The lamp and battery weigh about the
same as the old oil lamps. The light is
much stronger and the cost is very mod
crate.
The three tallest trees in the world
are believed to be a sequoia near Stock
ton, Cal, which is 1926 feet high, and
two eucalypti in Victoria, Australia,
estimated to be 435 and 45O, respec-
lively.
ALTHOUGH it is now nearly sixty
years since Charles Lamb died, the
little cottage in which he and his
sister resided at Edmonston shows
but slight evidence of any external
change.
MISS MARY DICKENS, the novelist's
favorite daughter lives in pleasant
suburb of London. She is a woman
past middle age, but preserves a vivac-
ity of manner that makes her appear
much more youthful.
ACCORDING to Herr Japing, the hour
ly rate of water falling over Niagara
Falls is 100, ,OOO,O 600 tons, representing
16, 100000 horse power, and the total
daily production of coal in the world
would just about suffice to pump the
water back again.
A BOUND BROOK, N. j., man who
sneezed so badly as to fracture a rib
has been notified by the Preferred
Mutual Accident Association of New
York that payment on his policy is re-
fused on the ground that the fracture
was not caused by external or acci-
dental means. He will sue the COM
pany for the amount of the indemnity,
which amounts to $3.50.
Ir is reported that Mrs. G.. w. Fall,
the heiress of the deceased widow of
President Polk, has retained counsel to
contest President Polk's will, on the
ground that the clause leaving his real
estate to the state, to be held in trust
for his own family, is void
LIEUT. maxwell, of the United
States army, says the Dakota climate
adds to ones stature. When ordered
TO that country he was over twenty
one years old and had reached that age
wnen growth was supposed TO stop,