The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-03-07
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from the coast of Maine.
The Legislature of Oregon has passed
an act prohibiting profanity.
A HOTEL is to be built on the top of
Pixies pealS-14 200 feet above the sea
level.
EVA RAY MANN (ex-Mrs. Hamilton)
says positively that she will not go up
on the stage.
HANNIBAL, Mo-, warns its street cars
with electricity and lights it's churches
with coal OIL.
A COLLECTOR of idols who died recent
ly in San Francisco had collection of
500 little deities.
APETRoLEUM-MoToR tricycle. has been
invented that will run forty miles on
one gallon of oil.
THOMAS A. EDISON, according to
friend of his, is vegetarian, eschewing
flesh, fowl and fish.
IHE census which was taken in Japan
last year showed the population of the
empire to be 40,072,O2O.
A LONDON editor has been mulcted in
the sum of S32, 500 by fair plaintiff in
a breach of promise suit.
The Oldest woman in Austria-Hun-
gary, is n widow named Jenei, who
proves that she has lived ia years.
THE savings banks deposits in Ire
land are now larger than ever before
known in the history of the country.
A WHITE man stole an umbrella at
Atlanta, and within fifteen minutes was
brought into court, tried and convicted.
Mr.. HANsBRoUGH, the new senator
elect from North Dakota, is said to have
been twelve years ago touring COM
positor.
IN recognition of some present sent by
the dey of Algiers, the Italian king has
performed the miracle of turning the
dey into knight.
A GYMNASIUM for women is to be
opened in Rome on April 1. The date
is unpropitious, but there will be no
foollshness about it
THE copper mines are being taxed to
their utmost to supply the demand
for copper wire and the other appa-
ratus used in the application of cleo
tricity.
THE state of Georgia is about to
advertise for site for a state college
for colored people, which is to be con-
Gucted as a branch of the state uni
Sersity.
AN electric light company has been
started in Jerusalem, and a pleasure
steamer is about to be launched to ply
between shore resorts on the sea of
Galilee.
AN Atchison (Kan.) man paid
plumbers bill of nine dollars because
his wife had taken the covering off the
hydrant to wrap around fifteen cent
rose bush.
A FOX which had been chased by
forty horse-men and twenty dogs for
an hour, was killed with a stone by a
Farmland at Lower Merton, Pa, the
other day.
Miss MINNIE CHADWICK, Brooklyn
girl of 10 summers, ate an average of
two pounds of candy per day for seven
months and then died singing Sunday
school ode.
THE managers of the Columbian ex-
position expect to spend SIS, 900, 900 be-
fore che great show opens, which is
more money than was ever devoted to
any exhibition before.
JOHN HAHPDEN, an Englishman, who
made himself conspicuous by writing
pamphlets and lecturing to prove that
the earth is fat, died recently. The
world still goes round
THEY say that Gen. Sherman and
Gen. Johnston entered into an agree
ment, soon after the war, that the sur
vivor of them should serve as a pail
bearer at the others funeral.
THE knights of Tara, of New York
city, have started fund to erect a mon
ument to Robert Emmett on the ground
where he was executed in Thomas
street, Dublin, September 1903.
WHISTLES, rattles, soap boxes, key
rings, billiard cue chalkers, cork screws,
spool cases, cheese tops are a few of the
things made in solid silver for the de-
light of those who can afford them.
THE Harvard faculty has voted to
grant the petition of Japanese stu
dent who asked to be allowed to substi-
tute Chinese and Japanese for Latin
and Greek at the entrance examination.
GEN. CACEREs, ex-president of Peru,
is the most ilustrious Peruvian living,
His fame was established by his sup
preston of brigandage in Peru, after he
overturned the government of some RE
val.
Two years ago the Delaware peach
ITop was failure; last year it was
failure, and it is feared it will this year
likewise be failure. 1t begins to look
as though the peach was the forbidden
fruit.
A New SALEM (Pa.) man put cart
ridge between his teeth and accident
ally bit hard upon it. 1t exploded,
and the bullet buried itself in an OPP
posite wall, while the man was unin-
jured.
A MISSOURI weekly paper recently in
dulged in some critical remarks about
Shakespeare, and farmer named John
Shakespeare, thinking the family insult
ed, came TO town and gave the editor
thrashing.
WHITE tar is one of the latest inven-
tions or discoveries. 1t will not become
soft under the suns rays in any climate,
and is expected to be used largely in
caulking the deck seams of fine yachts.
BARON GERsoN Won BEIcHRoEDER,
the wealthy Hebrew banker, of Berlin,
has given !, 1,000, 900 marks and twenty
five acres of land for the purpose of es-
tablishing a hospital in which the Koch
treatment is to be used.
WHEN a certain New York woman got
an upright piano, she made red plush
cover for it, so that the rosewood
wouldn't get scratched, Then she