The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-05-14
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part of an inch thick.
In China slips of Mulberry bark serve
as money in the interior towns.
GEORGE EIFFEL has cleared $40, 900, 0oC
as his share of the Eiffel tower.
GLADSTONE, Salisbury and Chamber.
ain each have son in parliament.
BUT one person in 10000 insurance
experts say, attain the age of 100 years.
A GOLD coin depreciates5 per cent. OF
value in sixteen years of constant use.
EIeHTY-FIvE per cent. of the people
who are lame are affected in the left
side.
NINE. PATTI has fan on which are
the autographs of all the sovereigns OF
Europe.
AN Atlanta lawyer dislocated his arm
while making gesture to emphasize
his speech.
A SCHOOL of Buddhism has been
founded in Paris and is already oVerrun
with pupils.
A NORTH CAROLINA woman only
learned to write after she passed the
age of eighty-two.
A GOLD brick recently shipped from
Yuma, Ariz., TO San Francisco is said
to be worth 200.
IN Finland the women consider kiss
on the lips as the greatest insult, even
from their own husbands.
THREE hundred and fifty seats are to
be reserved for the daily press at the ma
tional democratic convention.
AsAFETIDA is said to be favorite
article of diet with the Hindoos, who
use it in all kinds of puddings.
THE authorities of Meran, in the Aus
trian Tyrol, have forbidden the outdoor
wearing of long trains by women.
AT Quito, the only city in the world
on the line of the equator, the sun sets
and rises at o'clock the year round.
THOMAS JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, the
newly appointed minister to France, is
a Sreat-grandson of Thomas Jefferson.
THE first Negro novelist has appeared,
Miss Sarah E. Faro, of Chicago, wom-
an of good education, aged about twen-
ty-six.
A MAN in Liberty, Me-, who is five
feet and seven inches in heighth, has
a beard six feet and three inches in
length.
master~General Fawcett is said to be
one of the best platform speakers in
England.
IT is said that Patrick Mccarthy, a
Brooklyn man, lived to be 1O1 years old
without experiencing the effects of
toothache.
The colored population of New En-
gland increases so slowly that the race
appears to be becoming decadent in
those states.
IT would take forty years for all the
water in the great lakes to pour over
Niagara at the rate of 100000 cubic
feet a second.
THE private in the German army is
paid $3.50 per month, or cents day,
out of which 3 cents is deducted for
mess expenses.
APPLIANCES connected with marine
railroad in Elizabethport, n. j., render
it possible to haul 1,5OO-ton vessel out of
water in nine minutes.
A MAN who enlistS in the United
States regular army may hereafter, if
he chooses, wear cravat. Hitherto he
has been denied that privilege.
AN eagle measuring ten feet from tip
to tip of its outstretched wings was
captured at Riverside, N. j., few days
ago, after attacking child and large
calf.
THE Grand Duke Paul, of Russia, is
so tall that he is obliged to carry his
bed with him, as he can not find cne at
any hotel long enough to hold all of
him.
THE great Astor property in New
York is practically entailed, and in the
hands of trustees; no Astor has more
than life interest in the income OF his
share.
GERMAN railway directors are expert
menting with rails made of paper,
which are said to be as superior to steel
rails as paper carwheels are to those
made of iron.
SAN FRANCISCO has an earthquake
proof hotel. 1t is constructed of iron
and in the form of two hollow squares,
one within the other, arranged so as to
brace each other.
AT Lubbenau, in Prussia, it is said
that small, reddish-brown mics have ap-
peared in great numbers in the fields
and are destroying everything. The
cats will not touch them.
Chilli, with an area of 293, ,970 square
miles and q population of 5000, 900, pro-
duces 81, 900, 600 bushels of wheat, "a
100000 gallons of wines and other
things on like scale yearly.
A CRIMINAL arrested near Hunting
don, Pa, has already served eight terms
In the penitentiary since the war, and
during that period has only enjoyed in
all year and half of liberty.
MoNzoLU, who says he came from the
t1al den OF Eden, is creating sensation
NV his preaching among the Negroes of
sast Tennessee. He claims to be Zulu
king, and IN support OF this wears red
shirt, a Turkish fez and an ivory ring
through his nose.
VAssAB college is to have a new Ii
brary, the gift of Mr. Frederick Thomp-
Non, OF New York, for whom it is named.
1t Is built of brick, with gray stone
trimmings, and will cost S75, 200. A new
Students hall is TO be erected by the
college, and is arranged to accommodate
100 students.
MILE. PAULINA, a native of Queens
land, Holland, is said to be the smallest
human being in the world. She is
nearly 10 years of age, her height is
=ighteen inches and Her weight seven
pounds. Unlike most of the "midgets"
she is remarkably pretty and accom-
plished, speaking four languages flu
emily.