The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-30
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1871 engineers
The largest arsenal in the world is at
Woolwich, Eng.
GOLD and silver umbrella-handles are
no longer good form.
The heavy frosts did not endanger
the crop of immigrants.
BISMARCK announces that he will not
appear in the reiehstag at once.
The emperor of China is said to have
an abnormal appetite for oysters
A MONTREAL judge has decided that a
hotel cook is not a domestic servant.
FIFTEEN convicts in the Michigan
penitentiary are studying telegraphy.
The forests are disappearing fast
enough without the fire taking hand.
GRACE GREENWOOD is to leave New
York and make her home in Washing
ton.
e. G. WILLIAMS, of Madison county,
Tex, has duck that lays black eggs
regularly.
taste. The Alaskans are for3 Uf straw
berries soaked in oil
DIR. BERT1LLoN's summary of the CEN
sus just taken in Paris shows a total
population of 2, 422, 1863.
A STEEL wire of equal strength and
tension power to copper wire has been
discovered at Worcester, Mass.
TELEPHONE girls in Germany wear
uniforms, and are treated with distin-
guished consideration By patrons.
THE directors of the worlds Column
bian exposition are pondering the ques-
ton of an American Indian exhibit
SCIENTISTS say it will not be long
before bicycles will be propelled by
electricity instead of muscular force.
A RESIDENT of Mebanes, N c.. pur-
chased secondhand mattress and upon
opening it found S1,O11 in greenbacks.
TEXAS has set on foot movement
for raising $500, by subscription for
making an exhibit at the Worlds
fair
A MAINE farmer cut his boot and saw
his red sock; thinking it was blood, he
tainted, but his wife explained and he
revived.
CHINA has formally accepted our in
vitation to participate in the worlds
Columbian exposition, and will make a
full display.
THE premium on gold in the Argen-
tine Republic is 272-that is, it takes
sS79 of Argentine paper money to buy
e100 in coin.
ADELAIDE R1sToR1 although seventy
years old, is still erect and strong. She
attributes her good health to always
having slept we'll
THERE are now 10, 379 newspapers of
different classes in the United States
and Canada, net gain of 1918 over
last years record.
The Czarewitch of Russia would tax
the patience of American trainmen.
During his recent Indian tour he re-
quired no less than thirty carts for his
luggage,
THE theater at Savannah, Ga, is said
to be the oldest playhouse in the Unit
ed States. 1t was built in 1918 on a solid
rock foundation, with walls that are
four feet thick.
EMPEROR WILLIAM goes about dis
guised at night to certain places, where
his soldiers and sailors are to be found
in order to pick up criticisms of his
army and navy.
Miss OCTAvIA HILL buys up lot of
London shantics every year, improves
and cleanses them, and lets them to
picked tenants. This is her ideal of
practical reform.
CAPT. RENY, who commands the Char
lesion, is native of Iowa, graduated
at the Naval academy in 1S.J, served
during the civil war, and has the repu-
tation of fighter.
ANOTHER expedition to Mt. St Elias
will be sent ont this summer by the
National Geographic society. The
prime object is to ascertain the true
height of the peak.
VILLAIN with wife and family a,
Damascus, Pa, recently cloped with a
blind girl. The girl is perhaps excus.
able for her shortsightedness, but not
so the gay decciver.
THE payroll of the servants alone of
George w. Childs country place at Brvn
Mawr amounts to 81, 600 a month. TINS
is said to be the finest country residence
in the United States,
SOME time ago a Boston butcher died.
His fellow butchers sent for the funeral
a floral emblem representing a ham
with one slice cut off, and the motto:
"Hc is out of pickle at last"
CARMENCITA, the Spanish dancer. is
reported to have laid up $50, 600 as the
result Of her artistic performances in
this country She is the one fortunate
person who dances, but does not have to
pay the piper.
Portions of the vertebrH have been
removed from the spinal column of
Frederick Eichhorn, of Philadelphia.
The young mans body was paralyzcd
by an accident he received in the early
spring, and by the removal of the parts
mentioned the paralysis entirely disap-
peared.
A JEwELER has invented device for
use in sleeping cars that promises to
become popular 1t is n ladder COM
posed of tubes of leather that provides
easy access to upper berths.
THE biggest orange tree in Louisiana
is claimed to be in Terrebonne parish.
The Houma Courier claims that it is
fifteen feet in circumference and fifty
feet high The yield this year is ex-
pected to reach 10000 oranges.
CORNER lots are not always thu most
valuable In Winnipeg they ask $50 q
foot less for a corner lot than for an in
side one, because it costs so much to
clear off the snow in winter around cor
'er lots that people don't prefer them.