The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-09
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SALMON, pike and goldfish are said to
be the only fish that never sleep.
KANGAROO farming is to become an
established institution in Australia.
OVER 200 wine growers from the
Rhine region will exhibit at the Worlds
fair.
vcnson are members of the Presbyterian
church.
A GILT engagement slate on tripod
Is now "a conspicuous thing in the
boudoir.
In Danish cities it is against the law
60 ride on bicycles faster than the speed
of cab
The flavoring used under the name
of vanilla is obtained from the fruit of
an orchid.
OLD-FAsH1oNED white beaver high
hats of many years ago are back again
this season.
The leaf Of the banana is usually six
feet long by two feet wide. The flow
ers are pink
The Salvationists are about to go in
for an extended line of operations in
this country.
A TUNNEL, to cost 81, ,OOO, ,OOO was
started at Leadville, Col, to drain the
mining camps,
RUSSIANS are colonizing the arid
counties of Rush, Lane and Ness in
Western Kansas.
THE emperor of Germany has over
1000 different suits of clothes and 500
pairs of trousers.
HENRY IRVING has had the degree of
LII. d. conferred upon him by the uni
versity of Dublin.
A TOPEKA woman thanked her friends
through the newspapers for helping her
20 obtain divorce.
THE drive well, one of the simplest
inventions, has yielded its inventor
100000 in royalties.
BETWEEN Paris and Berlin mail mat
ter is now transmitted in So minutes by
the pneumatic process.
THE railway dining cars in this coun-
try earn more than the sleeping and
baggage cars together.
THE first Italian Methodist Episcopal
church in the United States was recent
iv dedicated at New Orleans.
Headache almost always yield to the
simultaneous application of hot water
to the feet and back of the head.
GEN. EPPA HUNToN, Virginia's new
senator, rose in four years from the
confederate ranks to n major-general-
ship.
FOURTEEN logs. each sixteen feet
long were cut from one sugar pine
tree felled last winter in the Sierra
mountains,
WIN. FELHAGE, of Hartford, attempted
to open bottle of ginger ale, when the
cork flew out and destroyed the sight of
his right eye.
There are over 1000 tons of silver
bars, 90, 600, 900 silver dollars and $780,
100000 in gold coin stored in the Phila-
delphia mint,
GALUEo's first telescope was made
out of common lead pipe, into the
ends of which We're glued ordinary
spectacle glasses.
An Atchison county (Kan.) man has
a rose hedge 25O feet long. 1t is mass
sweetest fragrance.
The regulation afternoon costume
for the New York swell is frocll coat,
gray trousers, white overgaiters and
high black silk hat
MEXICAN bricklayers it is said, can
only lay 500 bricks day of eleven
hours, while an American can lay $500
in day of nine hours
A, A RowDy who disturbed the Salvation
amy while they were trying to save his
wretched soul, in Nevada, Mo-, has been
sent to Jail for sixty days.
The famous Treadweii mine in Alaska,
which has yielded more than $3,OOo,-
900 in gold bullion, was purchased by
the man for whom it was named for
$500.
Miss CATHERINE ANNIE HoPPN, of
Oberlin, o., was the one woman in the
graduating class of twenty at the late
commencement of the Oberlin Theolog-
ical seminary.
One OF the flourishing industries in
Cairo, Egypt, is the manufacture of
paint from mummies. The mummies
are ground to powder and this powder
is mixed with oil.
A SERMON which had been preached
in the Presbyterian church at Yelling
ton, Kan, the Sunday before the cy-
clone was picked up the day after the
storm on farm five miles from Wei
liSgton.
A committee of the Manchester IN.
H. Central church is going 10 set aside
one of it's horse sheds for the use of
bicycles. Quite a number of the con-
gregation ride to and from the church
on cycles on Sundays as well as during
the week.
E. p. Brown, the unique evangelist
ahd ex-newspaper man, who edits the
religious paper called the RAMS Horn,
of Indianapolis, Ind, seems to have an
inexhaustible fund of epigram to draw
from. He is more widely quoted than
any other paragrapher of the day.
AN Alpena (Mich.) boy patented a
nutmeg crater that was by all odds the
best on the market An eastern firm
has taken hold of it and will pay the
boy $1,000 "a year for five years.
WHAT is believed to be the largest
ranch in the world is owned by wom
an-Mrs Richard King. 1t lies forty
five miles south of Corpus Christi, in
Texas, and covers 100000 acres in ex
tent.
THE miscroscope exhibits 1000 mus
cles in common caterpillar, 1000 mir
rors in the eye of drone bee besides
proving that the large eye of dragon
fly is only collection of $4,000 polished
lenses.
A FENCE 500 miles long of wire net
fl,n grln loo -