The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-04
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weather bureau early in July.
ANNA DICKINSON is said to be rapidly
recovering her mental faculties
ISAAC RED Owl, an educated Indian
boy, is employed in an Omaha restau-
rant.
CANADIAN factories are busy with
large and mysterious orders for ammu-
milton.
THE governor generalship of India is
worth $500, 900 year in salary and per-
qusites
In its way la grippe is quite as unde.
sirable an importation from Europe IA
the Malta.
Mrs. STANLEY is the direct descend.
Ant-the seventh in line-from Oliver
Cromwell.
THE thinnest and at the same time
one of the toughest feathers tanned is
a frog skin.
OYSTER shells are exhibited on Long
Island twelve inches long and four
Inches wide.
MIR. DIssToN, of Pennsylvania, is the
possessor of broad acres to the number
of about 1900, 900.
THE Irish delegates, recently arrived
in this country, find the task of raising
funds for Parnell rather difficult.
A WOMAN heavily yelled visited Sher.
mans grave recently and besought the
guard to sell her some dirt from it.
THE only statue of Maryland states.
man within the limits of that common
wealth is that of Chief Justice Taney
THIRTY shop-girls of New Haven, Ct.I
caught Yale student on the street re-
Gently and kissed him until he scream
ed for help
IN st. Paul (Minn.) company makes
business of cleaning and inspecting
chimneys and finding the cause of bad
drafts in chimneys.
IT is estimated that in 100 cents there
is about II cents worth of metal, and in
twenty nickel cent pieces there is less
than cents worth.
A PHILADELPHIA surgeon has dissect-
ed and mounted the complete nervous
system of a human being, something
never before accomplished.
TEXAS claims 1,512,2s5 horses and
heads the list. Illinois next with 1, 123,.
9F3. In valuation Texas claims $49,.
61S,329 and Illinois $89, ,214,sO9.
AN engineer on Texas railroad
found a big flock of sheep huddled to-
gether in a cut to get out of the storm,
and in driving through them killed sew.
enty-eight.
The thieves of Philadelphia must be
experiencing very hard times. Within
the past month twenty churches have
been robbed of the contents of their
contribution boxes.
JUDGE HAMMOND of the superior
court, Boston, said at dinner recently,
that he did not believe there was ever a
judge who felt himself fully competent
to perform the duties of his office.
FRENCH railroad men propose to build
a net of railroads in Poland by which
the most populous towns and factory
districts of the whole region will be
connected with the principal lines now
IN operation.
A SYNDICATE of English capitalists is
about to engage in the growing of cram
berries on a gigantic scale in the New
Jersey bogs. Five thousand acres OF
crsnberries will be in cultivation with.
in the next two years.
A NEW YORK girl has been sent to
the insane asylum because she thought
every man she met was in love with
her, but was deferred from proposing
marriage for the reason that all sup.
posed her too good for them.
THE snake is the fashionable emblem
In New York this year. A correspond.
ent declares that its sinuous shape is to
be seen on hats, parasols, fans, brace.
lets, and even embroidered upon the
ankles of shapely silken hose.
THE only man tried, found guilty and
executed for treason during the exist
ence of the United States was William
B. Mumford, in 1862. The execution
took place in New Orleans under an or
der of Gen. Benjamin f. Butler.
PRINCE NAPOLEON was the most Ma
poleonic looking of his race, and when
his features were in repose they were
startling reproduction of the facial
contour of 'the Little Corporal" But
the resemblance went no further.
THREE years of locusts and drough in
the Soudan have utterly paralyzed the
people, who have survived starvation,
and the power of the mahdi's successor
is utterly broken. The locust has eff
fected more than could the army of
Egypt.
THE highest chimney in the world,
that at Halsbruckner Hutte, near Frei-
burg, SaXony, has been finished, 400
feet high. It's diameter at base is 33
feet and 16 feet at the top, the inner
diameter being feet. 1t is built of
clay stone.
AN Oswego IN. " man felt funny
the other morning, and he said to lady
who was going to the grocery, "Trot
along after your coal oil, sissy" She
had him arrested, and the court decided
that sissy was slander and gave her a
verdict for $50.
QUEEN OLGA of Greece presented the
crown prince with chapel and altar
for use in the field upon the occasion OF
his assuming command of the First
regiment of infantry recently. The
small church can be divided into num-
erous pieces and carried in bags. 1t can
be set up on low or moutainous lands.
MISS GABRIELLE GREELEY, daughter
of the late Horace Greeley, lives at the
old homestead, Chappaqua. Her family
consists of her cousin, one maid servant
and three dogs. She lives entirely for
others. She ministers to the sick, the
poor and the aged in the little hamlet of
Chappaqua and the town of Pleasant
vile, which is about two miles distant.
M. DIEBLER, the French executioner,
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