The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-19
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The Worlds fair buildings will con-
tain twenty-nine acres of glass
ILLINOIS now pays a bounty of two
cents apiece for sparrows' heads
A BRANCH of the dead-letter Office Ia
70 be established in San Francisco
The Chinese government is whipping
her rebels, and killing them as she does
It.
THE only speaker of the house who
ever became president was James K
Polk.
THE famous Winchester elm, in Bos-
ton, recently cut down, was standing
full grown in 1860.
QUEEN VICToRIA's granddaughters
outnumber her majesty's grandsons by
almost three to one.
CooN-HUNTING with Roman candles is
newly invented sport in the mount
aims of Pennsylvania.
THE undergraduates Of Cambridge
Eng, have taken to drinking tea after
dinner instead of wine
LORD LYTToN was the sixteenth earl
TO die this year. Scotland lost two,
Ireland four and England ten.
THE Chinese language is said to be
the best adapted to telephone conver-
sation, because it is monosyllabic.
The price of platinum has advanced
fully 100 per cent, owing to its in
creased use for electrical purposes.
IT is said that the new lord mayor
of London has laid down six hundred
dozen of wine in the mansion house cell
lars.
A French officer in Buisson has in
vented hippometer which will regis
ter the PAGES and ground covered by
horse.
THE population of the Cherokee ma
tion, which has just sold 5000, 900 acres
of land to the government, is about
80, 600.
AN electric plow has been invented
in Minnesota. Horses aIe dispensed
with and the power supplied by stor-
age battery.
kENNEBUNK, Me-, claims the young
est grandfather in the state in the per-
son of David Parent, who is only thir-
ty-siX years old.
Gov. MERRIAM, of Minnesota, has
succeeded in refunding the debt of the
year in the interest charged.
CHICAGO has frontage of twenty
two miles on Lake Michigan, and
navigable frontage on the Chicago river
of about twenty-three miles.
The Cincinnati Southern has let a
contract for 12, 600 tons of 75-pound steel
rails, to be laid on the fourth division,
from Oakdale to Chattanooga.
JESSIE BENTON FREMONT is reported
as being engaged on an important piece
of literary work, which has engrossed
her attention for the last six months-
The new speaker of the national
house of representatives., was born in
Sheffield, Eng, on the 29th of January,
1s45, and is, therefore, nearly AZ years
old.
THE New Orleans Picayune reports
that the cotton crop this year has been
handled so well that 900 900 more bales
have reached the port than at the cor
responding date of 1890.
AT the grand receptions of President
Carnot in Paris, the president does not
shake hands with the guests, but bows
TO them in a solemn way as their names
Rio DE JANEIRo is said to have the
finest harbor in the world. The en-
trance to it is lined by strong fortifica-
tions, and vessels can anchor imme-
diately at the quays of the city.
FLORENCE, the actor, was near-sighted
and could never recognize any of his
friends in the seats of theater from
his place on the stage. He thought hN
could play better for that reason.
SENATOR PRoCToB, late of the war
department has long worn full beard,
except that he shaved his upper lip.
He is now growing E.ustache, and it
is said to change his appearance greatly.
FIFrYoNE young American sailors
completed the two years course of
study on the Saratoga the other day.
Her sister school ship at Philadelphia,
the St Mary's, will graduate about the
same numter.
The Empress of Austria has ordered
that fifty thousand rose trees should be
planted around the statue of Heine, to
be erected on her property at Corfu, ON
a rock over two thousand feet above
the level of the sea-
THE body of Gam BETA is in Nice.
His brain is in the museum of the Paris
Anthropological society. His heart has
just been deposited beneath the monu-
ment erected to his memory at Vile
d Array, where he died.
A NOVEL wager is to be decided in
Belfast, Me, where one man has bet
IS that no one can drive a pig mile
without the porker turning to see who
is driving, and another man has risked
hig dignity and SIS to prove the con-
trary.
PARNELL's widow claims as her per.
sonal property SIT, 500, now locked up
in Paris. This was all sent from
America for the relief of the suffering
Irish, and the late Mr. Parnell succeed
cd in preventing it from reaching its
destination.
Two fishermen at Isle au Haut, Me-,
recently captured a devil fish which
measured four and half feet in length
and twenty-three inches across the
back and weighed over 100 pounds The
creature fought furiously and would
have been more than match for one
man.
GEORGE JAYNEs, of Gainesville, Mo-,
n q rattlesnake farmer in large way
OF business, having about 10, 900 of the
reptiles in stock. He keeps tho pests
for the sake of the oil which he gets
out of them when they are fattened
and killed, and he slaughters about