The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-24
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" rental from its street railways.
THE Emperor of Germany is photo
Erapher, like the Prince Of Wales.
A DAM is to be built In Bear Valley,
Cal, whose height will be 1870 feet.
GOVERNOR HILL in his message recon-
msnded law compelling citizens to
vote.
STRAWBERRIES are now being shipped
from Los Angeles County, Cal, to Chi.
cago.
THE deepest coal mine in the world is
near Tourney, Belgium; it is 3,542 feet
In depth.
The largest library is the Imperial of
Paris, which contains over two million
volumes.
THE Sultan of Turkey has attached
to his bodyguard soldier who is ITO
years old.
THERE were $50 cremations in the
capital of Japan Iuring the month of
November.
PRESIDENT CARNoT contemplates the
entire demolition of the Notifications
about Paris.
AT coming ball in Bangor, Me-, the
prompter is to be suspended from the
center of the ceiling in basket.
The First National bank of Aurora,
N. Y, has elected Miss Emily Rowland
member of its board of directors.
WALDO STORY, son of the American
sculptor, is to design the marble decora-
tions for Baron Rothschild's house.
THE highest mountain on the globe
is Mount Hercules, on the Isle of Papau,
or New Guinea, SO, 7e8 feet in height
THAT was remarkable pony on
which Sitting Bull was killed. Three
museums now have it on exhibition.
PROF. KOCH has been invited to &C
cept the hospitalities of about every
medical and surgical college in Europe.
The Louisiana sugar crop will yield
from 800, 900 to $50, 900 hogsheads this
season, which is the largest since the
war.
AT funeral in South Bethlehem, Pa,
the undertaker's list of meurners con-
tained the names of forty-nine McFad-
dens.
A NEW way of serving raw oysters at
dinner is in a good-sized china shell, in
which the bivavlves lie in their own
juice.
The State Worl1ingmen's Alliance,
which is expected to be a rival of the
Knights of Labor, was incorporated at
Albany.
MRS. HENRY M. STANLEY says the
American women are the brightest in
the world. Henry maintains discreet
silence.
MEXICAN contractors are importing
thousands of Chinese laborers to work
on railroads in course of construction
3 n that land.
y THE copper shipped from the mines
lin the Lake Superior region during the
season of navigation in 1890 amounted
to n, 6S6, Ala pounds.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE saloonkeeper was
recently tried on 1000 distinct charges,
and was convicted on 715. The aggre-
gate of his fines was $4,000.
EUROPE has not had winter such as
this for years. The weather has been
cold and damp. In some sections weeks
have passed without sunshine.
PROF. BRAMANN, one of the physi-
clans who attended the Emperor Fred
erick in his last illness, has been en-
nobled by the present Emperor.
THE Imperial Tribunal of Leipsic has
decided that henceforth refusal to rise
and participate in a toast to the health
of the Kaiser shall constitute high trea-
son.
SEVENTEEN hundred of the Sioux are
members of the Episcopal Church, and
Baptists, Catholics and Congregational
lists are also well represented among
them.
SECRETARY WINDOW has fixed tho
salary of Miss Phoebe Couzins as SEQ.
rotary of the Board of Lady Man
sgers of the Chicago fair at $4,000 per
annum.
A CHANGE in the channel of the river
Stour, at Sandwich, England, has re-
Vealed the wreck of vessel believed to
have sunk at that spot during the reign
of Henry VIII.
In the search for phosphates, many
discoveries have been made which have
added materially to the wealth of fair
Florida, but probably the most interest
1ng one is the find of deposit of genu-
ne meerschaum.
JACOB KAHN, a Cleveland shoemaker,
tlaims that he has invented and will
nave in operation in sixty days a COM
pressed-air moter that win propel
street-car twenty miles an hour at
cost OF three cents.
THE vestry of the parish of st. Sepul-
chre, London, has started fund for
''reStoring the tombstone of Captain
John Smith, founder of Virginia" If
his namesakes would each-but why
pursue the impracticableP
A TEST case in Maine has settled the
fact that man can not be legally ar
rested in that State for refusing to pay
for meal he has eaten in restaurant.
The restaurant keepers are arming
themselves with stomach pumps.
AT Superior, Wis, the other night, a
burglar got into the house Of Mrs.
Katherine Hoefer. She arose and took
gun out of bureau drawer, shut her
eyes and began - shoot. There was q
yell, crash of glass as a bulky form
shot through the nearest window, and
the burglar was gone, empty-handed.
GENERAL BEALE says that General
Grant was won't to pronounce Ii Hung
Chang, the Prime Minister of China,
the wisest man whom he met in his
journey around the world. The Chinese
statesman paid the ex-President the
delicate compliment of having their
photograph taken while sitting to-
gether,
In a breach of promise case in New
Hampshire the lover put in as offsets all