The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
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SECRETARY FOSTER likes to see q
good game of base ball.
OUR Indian wars from 1870 to 1886
cost the government 5000, $780, 200
SENATOR HEARsT's fortune has been
appraised and found to be over IS, o0o,'
900.
THE latest reports from the cotton
states are that the crop will be one OF
She largest ever known.
SKILLED workmen can be imported
to establish the tin plate industry, says
the treasury department.
CAPT. HERMAN KoPPERHoLD, of Wal
loboro, Me-, has fife that footed at
the battle of Bunker Hill
MISSOURI is the most populous state
west of the Mississippi and is nearly as
big as all of New England.
PROF. GARNER, of Washington, Is GO
ing to Africa to make scientific study
of the language of monkeys.
The experimental station for produc-
Ing rain by artificial means has been
located at Medicine Lodge, Kan.
The czarina of all the Russias does
not disdain to wear a calico gown when
she is on board the imperial yacht.
By an act of the last congress, okla
homa will be divided into counties, each
comprising about 700 square miles.
CHIEF JUSTICE LUCAS, of West Vir-
ginia, is only four feet high, but his
decisions are up to the legal standard.
The largest bay in the world is Hud-
son bay, which measures $50 miles
north and south by 900 miles in width.
ROBERT BONNER has been such
lover of speedy trotters that he has
spent more than 5000, 900 in gratifying
his tastes in that direction.
THE German emperor is alleged to
have requested his mother to submit a
programme of her movements for his
approval whenever she may wish to
travel.
No one was much surprised when the
London Times, in its ''city article" de-
clared that Chicago was destined to be-
come one of the greatest grain-growing
states in the Union.
MANY of the large seaside hotels
have provided for the comfort of the
amateur photographers by having dark
rooms built where they can develop
their negative plates.
The mayor of Elizabeth, N. j., is out
with his scalping knife. He gave his
police instructions to kill all unmuzzled
dogs and the first victim was his own
little curly-tailed pug.
MONTANA is larger than the empire
of Turkey. Texas is larger than the
whole Austrian empire by 80, 900 square
miles, and New Mexico is larger than
Great Britain and Ireland together.
MRS. RICHARD MANNING, of South
Carolina, can boast of being the moth
er of a governor, the wife of a govern
or, the sister of governor, the niece
of governor and the aunt Of gov
ernor.
Ex-SECRETABY BAYARD is growing
heshy as he advances in years. His
face has become set in severe lines and
his hair has whitened rapidly since
death robbed him of his wife and his
favorite daughter
THREE years ago two Mississippi men
went to law over an old COW, valued at
SIT. The litigation has just been set
tied in the supreme court. The costs
aggregate 5000, while the fees of attor-
neys amount to more than 81, 800.
The microbe theory is about 2, 900
years old, for Terentius Varro wrote,
81 B. c., that there are invisible animal
cules growing in swampy regions,
which get into the body by way of the
mouth and the lungs, and cause serious
diseases.
THERE is post at the corner of the
public square in Fairmont, Mo-, which
gets a bolt of lightning from nearly
every thunderstorm that comes along.
Three men, five horses and twenty or
thirty sheep have been electrocuted at
the spot.
Mrs. LOGAN has left the generals IL
brary just as it was when he last occu-
pied it, untouched, except by the dust
brush, and unchanged. His arm chair
still retains its customary position, and
hardly paper has been moved from
his desk.
BENEATH footbridge, that is favor
ite meeting place for South Bethlehem,
Fa.. lovers, swarm of yellow jackets
have built their nest, and between
Cupfd's darts and theirs the young
lovers are said to have most interest
ing time.
The use of oil to smooth the sea in
rough weather has been applied to a
life-buoy. Valves are opened automat-
ically, releasing the oil gradually and
preventing the heavy waves from break
ing over the buoy and sutfocating the
person in it.
A MAN walked into Lowell Mass.
bar-room, bought twenty-five cents
worth of cigars, and offered 81, 900
bill in payment. He was somewhat
taken aback when the saloon-keeper
pocketed the bill and counted out for
change 5000. 75 in silver.
FATHER MoLLINGER, Allegheny City,
Pa, whose alleged cures have attracted
so much attention, is flooded with let
ters of inquiry from every part of the
world. They number two thousand a
month. He answers about half of them
and throws the rest away.
ELIZA KNIGHT, an aged widow, who
resides in Brooklyn, has fallen heir to
the fortune of Lord Amman, in Dunn
frieshire, Scotland The property is
valued at upwards of 81, 900, 090.
MRS LUCIAN MAYBERRY, of Little
Rock, Ark, is the mother of ten boys,
all born within married life of thirty
nine months. There are two sets o4
triplets and two pairs of twins, They
are all well formed, bright and healthy
n body and mind. Mr.. May berry is a