The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-03
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worth S45, 100000
ARCTIC owls are being shot on Long
Island this winter.
THE Utes pronounce the Government
"heapum big liar"
The number of winter passengers for
Europe is unprecedented.
Dom PEDRo's throne brought fom
hundred dollars at auction.
A PosT-oFF1cE in Charlton County,
Mo-, has been named Mike.
BIsMARCK's inseparable companions
are two large Danish hounds.
A CLOCK can now be had for the eco
nomical outlay of seventy-fve cents.
The people are taxed in the United
States for federal purposes $500 a min
ute.
OF the 362 colleges in this country 272
are supported by religious denomina.
tions
FORTY per cent. of Georgia's pine
forests have been killed by turpentine
farmers.
SITTING BULLS ghost has revisited
the glimpses of the moon, so some In
dians say.
L. E. BLoCHMAN, of Cat Canon, Cal,
has a perfume farm containing over
5000 lavender plants.
The celebrated star Algol has diam
eter of 1,116,OOO miles, or 1850 times
greater than our sun.
A MINISTER in England made $50, 900
by inventing an odd toy that danced by
winding it with string.
I'm, nop,;pioy, fatharo ro 40 1,cI-
ing school of Oriental language and
Scriptural studies at Jerusalem.
FARMER DRIsKo, of Jonesborough,
Me-, has plow, it is said, that has
been in constant service for fifty-three
years.
MANY a society girls age goes back
ward, after the manner of the crabs
locomotion, when she has been out a
long time.
THE Sutlej, a large river in British
India, with descent of $4,000 feet in
$50 miles, is the fastest flowing river in
the world.
Mrs. KELLEY, the veteran English
actress, has just entered upon her
eighty-sixth year, and is still in vigor-
Gus health.
DURING the last one hundred years
$500 patents have been issued by the
United States. There have been GOO, 900
applications.
THE pure juice of the pineapple is de-
clared to be an unfailing remedy for
diphtheria, and has the recommendation
of being harmless.
THERE will be a small spring rush to-
ward the Crow reservation in Montana,
one-third of which will be thrown open
20 settlers in April.
AT the christening of Chinese baby
in New York, a few days ago, each
guest presented the child with $50
gold piece wrapped in red paper.
THEY have found the cave where the
Younger and James gang hid after the
Northield, Mimi, raid and in it the
skeleton of the youngest of the James
boys.
DR.. KOCH is the fourth citizen upon
whom Berlin has conferred the freedom
of the city. The others are Prince Bis
marck, Count Won Moltke and DIR.
Schliemann.
Mrs. RICHARD A. PROCTOR, the as
tronomer's widow, proposes to perpetu.
ate her husbands name by building an
observatory on Mission Heights, at San
Diego, Cal.
The Columbus celebration of 1899
will be held by Spain at Huelva in
Andalusia, the "discoverer having sail
ed from the estuary now known as
Huelva harbor."
AS THE result of an agreement arrived
at by the mayor and theatrical men of
Milwaukee, show bills must be submit
ted to the chief of police hereafter be-
fore being posted.
PROF. KOCH has notified United States
Minister Phelps at Berlin, for the bene-
fit of Americans, that he can not de-
part from the principle of only giving
the lymph to hospitals
THE announcement comes from the
City of Mexico that the sport of bull
fighting has been prohibited there, and
that the arenas have been cut up into
lots for building purposes.
THE sun gives 100000 times as much
light as the full moon, 1000, 900, 600
times as much as the brightest star in
the sky, and 36, 900, 900 times as much as
all the stars in the heavens combined.
The largest productive farm in the
world lies in the southwest of Louisiana.
1t measures 100 miles by 25, contains
more than l 800, 900 acres, and is owned
by a syndicate of Northern capitalists.
JOHN Ross, the present treasurer of
the Cherokee nation, Busl ,yhead, Bou.
dinot and others of them are college
graduates, or have been educated in the
East, and don't indulge in the Sioux bal
let.
TKE Chinaman, who lighted his pipe
while repairing a powder mill, has
given up smoking. 1t takes long time
for some men to learn that tobacco is
injurious, says the Louisville Courier
Journal.
The German Emperor has given Or
ders that the schools in Berlin shall |
close at noon on Mondays during the |
skating season, so as to enable the pu-
pills TO indulge in the sport.
ZOE GAYToN, San Francisco woman,
is walking across the Continent for a |
purse of 81 mile, providing she walks
more than fifteen miles day. She is
in Nevada, about one hundred miles |
ahead of time.
MORE than a hundred writer's in Eng. |
land, male and female have written the |
life of Gladstone and have the manu- |
script all ready SO they can rush to a |
his death is announced.
Meat is so expensive in Germany that |
the people are compelled to live mostly |