The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-03-21
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but Drds of praise for Frenchmen.
THE tea crop this year will be short
Of the usual product by about $4,000, 900
pounds,
STONES bearing undecipherable hero
glyphics have been discovered in North
Carolina.
THE new torpedo gun will throw
charge of 400 pounds of nitro-glycerine
1000 feet.
In South Dakota "a blind pig" is the
term applied to place where beer is
sold secretly.
A MISS of Quakertown, Pa, has made
patchwork bedquilt which contains
23, 29S pieces.
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
the order of the ShelSfat upon Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid.
A COLUsA Call farmer repaired the
door of his granary and killed 1880 rats
found underneath it.
A WOMAN of Racine, Wis, has been
fined S. and costs for making faces at
her pastor in church.
THOMAS A. EDISON, says rumor, is at
work on a sure cure for that swell an
noyance called the gout
THE people of Hawaii have strong
leanings toward a republic. The new
queen may have to join Dom Pedro.
KING HUMBERT of Italy takes great
Relight and finds a profit in managing
his large herds of camels and horses.
FRANK LORD, of Pottsville, Pa, has
three Easter eggs in his possession in
scribed respectively in 1850, 1868 and
1880.
THE richest man in the next congress
will be John L. Mitchell, of Milwaukee,
who is credited with fortune of S40,-
100000.
ALABAMA thinks it has the youngest
supreme court justice in the country in
Justice r. n. Walker, who is but "a
years old
Moss agates from Wyoming have been
introduced in some of the new jewelry,
as have also the almost ruby-red garnets
from Arizona.
A FoRLoRN-LooKING pocketbook lay
In the gutter at Lancaster, Pa, for four
hours because nobody suspected that it
contained S55.
Miss WILSON, a cultivated young lady,
daughter of the assistant rector of
L
the Salvation army.
To prevent train robbery San Fran.
cisco man proposes that every car shall
be provided with signal rockets, to be
used in case of an attack.
SAMUEL p. JONES, the Georgia evan
gelist, declares, in letter to a Boston
friend, that his health has failed and he
is on the verge of physical collapse.
THE youngest public schoolma' am in
the world lives at Bernville, Pa She
has 40 scholars, began teaching six
months ago, and is only 13 years old.
WILLIAM FOWLER Is the name of an
eight-year-old tramp now in Memphis,
Tenn. He began to travel when barely
six years old and has been all over the
country.
Mrs. ANNA BEsANT will represent the
British section of the Theosophical
society at the meeting of the American
section, which is to be held in Boston,
April 20.
SwEETBREAD sandwiches are some.
thing new, and are having fashionable
kun. The crust of the bread is all cut
off, and the sandwich made of triangu-
Ilr form.
NINE HENRI GREvILLE, who has seen
more of this country than most French
women, says the American woman
makes too many acquaintance and too
few friends
The Poncho springs in Colorado are
all on the side of a mountain, and
hot and cold water flows from the
ground in places not more than three
inches apart.
BEDS are articles of luxury in Rus
sia. Most of the common people sleep
in pelts on the floor or on benches,
while the nobility, including the czar,
sleep on nettles.
IT is estimated that to complete young
George Vanderbilt's castle in North
Carolina it will require ten years of la
Dor and the expenditure of from So, OOO,-
900 to $40, 900, 900.
A New HAVEN man found pearl in
one of the oysters he was disposing of
on the half-shell plan. 1t wasn't the
pearl without price, for jeweler has
offered him S75 for it.
GEN. LEW WALLACE and Secretary
Foster are almost doubles in personal
appear ance, their resemblanc being so
striking that they are frequently mis-
taken for each other.
IT was in a western city that Henry
M. Stanley received his first great
shock A colored minstrel show at
tracted all the people, who otherwise
might have attended his lecture.
CAPT. ALGERNoN SARToRIs, who mar.
ried Nellie Grant number of years
ago, is reported to be dying in the south
of France. Mrs. Sartoris has two
daughters and son aged 13 years.
A STERN father in Keya, Paya county,
Kan, with large family of girls; mas
passed the cold edict that each beau,
who frequents his domicile through the
winter must contribute a load of sawed
stove-wood.
MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND was some
what surprised recently to find check
for $500 in letter from an enterprising
man. In return for the money he
wanted her recollections of the White
house. Mrs. Cleveland promptly re-
turned the check.
A PAIR of curious Samoan cattle were
exhibited at Kansas City few days ago.
They are exceedingly small, the male
weighing only about $50 pounds, while
the female weighed $50 pounds. Both
are fully developed and have very large
heads and long horns. These little cat.
tie are only about 255 feet in height,
and are of a reddish mouse color marked