The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-10

A GENUINE American Negro is Gu
riosity to the Germans, for they seldom
have a chance to gaze upon one.
SAID that French dealers have obtain
ed options on 80, 900, 900 bushels of our
wheat at about dollar bushel.
UMBRELLAS are now made of paper in
France. They are made waterproof by
gelatined bichromate of potassium.
INDIANS who live along the Pacific
railroad in Western Canada make liv-
ing by selling polished buffalo horns.
THE Princess Ludwig Bavaria, gave
birth a few days ago to her thirteenth
child. Twelve of her children are liv-
ing
THE Shah of Persia has recently be-
come so unpopular with his subjects
that they are said to be ripe for re.
volt.
IT has been announced by Prof. Com
stock, of the Madison wis Observa-
tory, that the rings of Saturn have van
ished
IN certain portions of the Ural dis
lie used, some large farms possessing a
hundred camels
JOHN PHILIP SoUsA, leader of the Ma
rine band in Washington, after a for
eign tour, pronounces the French bands
the best in Europe.
EDGE, the British bicylist, has broken
the record from London to Edin burgh,
covering the 997 miles in thirty-eight
hours and forty-four and one-half min
Utes.
SOME one estimates that getting born
costs the people of the United States
$3.50, 600, 900 annually; getting married,
100000, 900, and getting buried, S75,-
900, 900.
The hamlet of Foust, situated in the
lower Pyrenees, belongs neither 10
France nor Spain. 1t has over 100 citi.
zens. They have no mayor nor other
civil Official.
AN Austin (Minn.) COW is the proud
yet puzzled mother of young animal
that seems to be half calf and half
bear. She ought to start board of
trade with it.
Mrs. HALLE 7. DILLON, NJ. d. (col-
ored daughter of Bishop B. T. Tanner, is
not only the first colored woman physi-
clan, but the first woman of any race to
pass the Alabama state medical exam.
ination.
MAJ. WIssMANN has left Europe for
the Dark Continent He will lead an
expedition from Saadani to the in
terror, and will take with him crew
for the steamer given by Germany for
lake service
A PRETTY Japanese maiden is about
to settle in Chicago in order to study
dentistry and to fit her to carry back ia
ier own country a knowledge of the
profession which will justify her in
practicing it.
THE balance of nature has surely
been somehow disturbed 1t takes 500
expensive roses to make a teaspoonful
Of perfume, while pennyworth of
Sool1ed onions will scent the whole
ueighborhood.
IN London a Negro can go into the
finest restaurants and be served Just
like white man. He can sit at any
public table, if he is quiet and can pay
the bill White walters serve him with
out murmur.
DECATUR, Mich, has four peppermint
oil factories and they are all kept busy
distilling oil from the plant raised on
the large tract of swamp land near
there that a few years ago was con-
sidered worthless.
A SHE bear with two half-grown cubs
neandered through the principal streets
of Vancouver, b. c., the other day,
greatly to the surprise of the citizens,
who did not view the native Americans
with complacency.
The emperor of Germany protests
that he said ''conqueror," not ''parve-
nue." when he referred to the first Ma
foleon. Doubtless the new whiskers
lnterfered with his articulation.
THE prompt way in which the Span
ish government has taken hold of the
murderous railway collision at Burgos
must send cold chill down the backs
of some American railway directors
A PROCESS has recently been discov-
cred for making flour of bananas.
Chemical experiments show that this
flour contains more nutriment than
rice, and that when eaten with beans,
corn or sago, it forms o very palatable
and nourishing diet
LUCKY" BALDWIN, the multi-mill,
ionaire miner and horseman of Cali.
fornia, has just purchased in Chicago
furniture for his three big hotels-ope
at Santa Anita, another in Eldorado
county, but the largest a 49, 900, 900
structure, in San Francisco
How the Rothschilds are housed at
Ferrieres near Paris, may be judged
by their live establishments, worth
$4,000 OOO, needing the services of 15O
people The stables contain one hum
hred horses. When Louis Napoleon
visited Ferrieres the Rothschilds gave
grand breakfast in his honor. the cost
of which was s3OO,0OO