The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-15
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ALASKA contains six volcanoes which
are in constant eruption.
THERE is horse-car line in Mexico
which is 72 miles in length.
IT is said that the ape and the camel
are the only quadrupeds which can not
swim.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, of the CEN
sus bureau, denies that he is about to
resign.
PARIS has dentists now who make a
business of attending to the teeth of
norses.
New SWEDEN, Me-, has new town
library. 1t came from Oscar, king of
Sweden.
SECRETARY TRACY has decided that
the Cramps shall build cruiser No. 10,
for 81, 900, 900.
Iowa has just discovered that her
statute books contain no law against
che prize ring
THE car of Russia will celebrate his
silver wedding next November in a
modest fashion near Copenhagen.
ENGLAND is having great excitement
over graveyard insurance, which seems
to be new thing in that country.
THE pope, like the German emperor,
speaks better English than many En-
glishmen. He seldom forgets face
PRESIDENT HARRISON has the credit of
being the greatest walker the White
House has contained for many year.
THE widow of Chief-Justice Waite,
though seventy-one years of age, has
dark hair and a comparatively unwrin-
killed. face.
A LYNN (Mass) shoe manufacturer
reports that the demand for cheap shoes
is falling off, especially in the South
and West.
STRAIGHT streets are unknown in
China. They are purposely made
crooked to confuse Satan, as the Chinese
believe the devil travels in straight
line.
The steel bridge being erected by the
Union Pacific across the Columbia river
at Vancouver Wash, will cost over S4,
600, 900. 1t is to be six thousand feet
long.
THE largest salary drawn at present
by any diplomatist, according to for
eign papers, is that of $50 OOO drawn by
M. Waddington, French ambassador to
London.
AUGUST has five Sundays this year.
And, beside that, she will have the
largest amount of moonlight vouchsafed
to any month of 1891, though July runs
her close.
MICHIGAN is shown by the census to
have six cities with more than 10000
inhabitants, fourteen with more than
10000 and thirty-eight with more than
1000 people.
BEARD seven feet two inches long
Hdorns the face of Henry c. Cook,
tailor, of Norwich, CT. 1t has been
growing thirty years. His height is
five feet six inches.
WASTE Stag from the basic steel works
is now used extensively as fertilizer.
Such is the demand for it in England
that its value has advanced from so
cents to $3.50 per ton.
A PRACTICAL colored woman took out
a marriage license at Leavenworth the
ether day, her intended husband being
unable to leave his work to arrange
that little preliminary
Col. ToURTELLoTTE, who was buried
at Lacrosse, Wis, few days ago, was
whom Sherman first sent the instruc.
tions to hold the fort
IN the 351 towns and cities of Massa-
chusetts 24S now have free public libra
ries, and the state has lately provided
aid for the 1O3 small towns and villages
which have no libraries.
A CONNECTICUT man won a 81 wager
by trick. He boasted that he could
eat 100 eggs in an hour. When the
money was staked, he ordered and ate
a nicely cooked shad-roe.
THE prettiest royal girl in eastern
Europe is said to be the Princess Hell
enc, of Montenegro, who, it is reported
is the allotted bride of the heir appar-
ent to the Russian throne.
The well that is being bored at
Wheeling in the interests of science has
reached depth of -fourths of a
mile. Progress is being made at the
rate of about ten feet day.
THE empress of Germany is loyal to
the fatherland to the extent of having
all her dresses made in Berlin and vi
emma. She buys her hats in Berlin and
only her gloves come from Paris.
THREE California lions were recently
Killed by hunter in Fresno county.
One of them measured fully eight feet
from tip to tip and is being stuffed.
The other two were nearly as large.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ROBERT PACKARD,
who reside on farm near New Hart
ford Ia. are the parents of twenty-nine
living children, The eldest is forty-nine
and the youngest sixteen years of age.
A FEMALE tramp at Parsons, Kan,
became intensely abusive the other
day and indulged in highly offensive
language because she was offered last
years bonnet by benevolent Christian
ady.
LORD WoLsELEY, the famous English
general, is a small man, with slim,
1.-THE figure. His face is ruddy, his eyes
blue and he wears dropping gray
mustache. He is now So, and his haiI
has grown white.
A CHARACTER in one of Willlie Col
Inns novel remarks: "Why should they
have bells on churches? They don't
have them on theaters, and people get
there all the same"
IN 1868, Robert u. Barker, of New
Bedford, Mass, read the Bible through
for the first time. Since that date he
has read it 90 times 1t usually take,
him two months to read it from the be
ginning to the end.
The man who PLAYS the bass viol al