The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-09-26

IHE production of silk annually
reaches over one million pounds.
The cork-oalS tree is now being sue
cessfully cultivated in California.
MICHIGAN university is to add women
professors and lecturers its faculty.
CoTToN having beautiful red color
is being grown in some parts of Geor-
gia.
The state of Alabama produced more
iron ore last year than did Pennsylva-
mia.
The emperor of Germany has had the
crown made so as to exactly fit his own
head.
The British war Office has given So
900 worn-out helmets to the Salvation
Army.
GEORGE VANDERBILT will have a
S5O,OOO tennis court in his palace at
Asheville.
Mrs. MACKAY is the possessor Of a
string of fawless diamonds two yards
in length.
The United States mint in San Fran
cisco is the largest one of its kind in
the world.
) HIS Bible shows that Jonas Carpen-
ter, of Denver, is one hundred and fifty
years old.
The damage to the cereal crops in
Canada by insects has been estimated
at S3S, 900, OOO
IN this country Z, 900, 900 persons are
engaged in farming-44 per cent. of our
wage earners.
NEARLY four-fifths of the sugar plan
tations of Hawaii are owned by Amer
leans, it is said.
HENRY B. HYDE, president of New
York insurance company, gets salary
of 500, 900 a year.
EIGHT thousand Jewish residents of
Odessa, nearly all engaged in business,
are under notice of expulsion.
OIL fields greater in extent than any
others in the world have been discover
ed in the region of the Caspian sea.
NJ CHAUCHARD, the wealthy Partisan
who owns Millet's famous picture, the
"Angelus," has insured it for $14O, 900.
Mrs. CORNWALL, of Bridgeton, L. l.,
had a dream and warned her hus band
pot to go to work. He was killed the
same day.
ATLANTA has musical prodigy,
girl nine years old, who is said to play
the most difficult pieces on the piano
after single hearing.
CHAs. GRAUMANN wants a divorce
from ia Graumann because she drags
him around by his whiskers. Why
don't Charles get shaved?
AN enthusiastic person says that
swords can not portray" the mag
nifcence of George Vanderbilts coun-
try castle in North Carolina.
AT the close of the civil war there
were 700 steam vessels entered on the
naval register of the United States, but
to-day only p Of them survive.
THE two new Cunard ships, to be 600
feet long and faster than anything
afoat, are guaranteed by the builders
to be ready for sea early in the spring
of 1898.
IT is said that the largest locomotive
ever built in Europe was recently sent
out of the Hirschou works, in Munich.
1t is forty-six feet over all and weighs
eighty-four tons.
APPLE-TREE contests figure among
the latest fads in Kansas. Everybody
has shake at the tree, and the man
that brings down the most apples car
ries off the prize,
A LONDON journal relates that the
Persian shah has been in retiracy late
ly because by mistake he used a rheu-
matte lotion instead of hair dressing,
and turned his hair beautiful myrtle
color
The first large quantity of American
sponges ever sent to European markets
were recently shipped from Philadel-
phia. The lot comprised 5000 pounds
each of two kinds of sponges from the
Florida coast
Two STONE slabs, one of them bear
ing the inscription, June l, 1716," and
the other the date 1716, were found
near LaHarpe, ILL.,, recently. They are
supposed to mark the resting place of
LaSalle's explorers.
THIRTEEN years ago a student in Ber-
lin was mobbed in the streets for APP
pearing on bicycle. Now the German
Union of Bicyclists, which has just held
its eighth annual conference at Breslau,
has IA, 900 members.
THERE is a deeply rooted superstition
in Scotland that May marriages are un-
lucky and are bound to turn out badly.
Last April there were ., O55 marriages in
Scotland, in May there We're but l, ,0O3,
while in June the number jumped to
Alas.
MISS MARION FOSTER, q niece of the
secretary, known as the "little invalid
artist, " is putting into her historical
picture for the Worlds fair, subjects
from every state of the Union.
DIsINFECTANT which com bines
cheapness with general worth is found
in permanganate of potash. One ounce
win make buclletful of disinfectant
Tt is crystal, and can be kept in this
state until ready for use.
'CnE tobacco crop of Pennsylvania is
valued this year at $500, 900. Two
thirds of it is Havana seed leaf; and
Nnen it pasquerades as Havana cigars,
the dear public will he invited to con-
tribute many times $780,, 600.
SOME Russian emigrants on arriv-
ing in New York were dubbed by the
police and cast into dungeon cells. The
New York officials seem determined TO
preserve the Russians against home
sckn sss by keeping up the customs of
their dear native land.
IN Freeport, Ne, not long ago, the
school teachers got such small salaries
that when a shoe factory was started in
the town the young women abandoned
teaching and took TO stitching machines.
Since then the school cOmmittee have