The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
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stone park, in Wyoming.
THE slaughtering of cattle by cleo
tricity is practiced in Scotland.
SAwDUsT compressed into blocks is
used for building purposes in Germany.
The University of Pennsylvania, at
Philadelphia, has a hospital for sick
dogs.
In Saxony about 20 per cent of the
workingmen earn less than $3.50 per
year.
QUEEN VICTORIA s new dining-room at
Osborne cost 100000 She paid for it
herself
A New YORKER is reported to have
killed himself to escape the annoyance
of flies.
A BOX turtle has been caught in
Rhode Island that is supposed to be 100
years old.
THE youngest man in the British
house of commons is % years old; the
oldest, 90.
DECATUR, Ala, has one Negro alder
man, one Negro justice and two Negro
policemen.
A RESIDENT of Excelsior Springs, Mo-,
killed himself in despair because he was
slave to cocaine.
A woMAN's tombstone is the only one
in England upon which the epitaph is
written in shorthand.
GEN. DYRENFoRTH is at Pierre. S. D.,
trying to draw rain from a sky that has
been dry for month.
JAPAN is shaken 500 times year by
earthquakes and has 700 stations erected
for observing seismic shocks.
4 II. 4.
has run out of names has christened
the latest arrival Thirteenth
DURING August the treasury depart
ment sent out between Sc, 900, 900
and 81, 900, 900 to move the crops.
GRATED clans stewed in cream with
truffe chips and herbs, masquerade at
Narragansett as Neptune salad"
Mr.. SUNDAY, who has been nominated
for congress in an Illinois district, is
the well know eX-base ball player.
THE queen regent of Spain is opposed
to bull-fghting and is doing all she
can in quiet way to discourage it.
BUTTERFLIES to the number of 100000
will be shown in the Pennsylvania eX-
hibit at the Worlds fir at Chicago.
A GAsTRoNoMIC fad at Newport, r. l.,
is serving only the wings of roast
chicken, the part held to be the best
SIR LYON PLAYFAIR just elevated to
the peerage, married in 1879 an Amer
lean lady, Miss Edith Russell, of Boston.
PROVIDENCE is to have permanent
exhibition of Rhode Island industries,
and in connection school of technol-
ogy.
The Columbia river contains trout
with large red spots on their bodies.
They have been named Dolly Warden"
trout.
The people of the United States read
and support as many newspapers as
England, France and Germany COM
bined.
FRENCH florists are cultivatinga plant
which bears flower that is white in
4 The morning, red at noon and blue at
4 night.
TAwAs CITY, Mich, sold sci 900 worth
of huckleberries and left s75. 900 worth
in the woods to rot. Picllers were
scarce.
ONE million dollars in gold coin would
weigh 3,GS5.S pounds. The same amount
4 of silver coins would weigh %, ,930. 8
i pounds.
A recent report shows that of 100, ia
4 regular soldiers in the British army
serving at home, but 1888 are natives
of Ireland.
The longest canal in the world is the
one which extends from the frontier of
China to st. Petersburg. 1t measures
in all 4,472 miles
Il BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTs, although
n 80 years old, avows an intention TO come
TO the Worlds fair at the head of the
philanthropic section.
: ACCORDING to United States statistics,
farm land in New Jersey is rated at an
r average of S65 per acre, the highest of
any state in the union.
. A CALIFORNIA judge decided that the
+ day of execution having passed, a con-
y demned murderer is dead in the eyes of
the law, though not hanged.
IT is said that one reason why Vice
President Morton sold his splendid villa
at Newport was that his wife never had
= good health while living there.
A FRENCH prince advertises that he
= desires to sell his title and arms, 1.-The
whole guaranteed by authentic parch-
ments of the reign of Henry w."
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, though still
under the care of his physician at his
home on Staten Island, is reported to be
recovering his health very rapidly.
Z. R. SIGLER, an Adrian Mich hor-
ticulturist, is the father of new vari-
ETY. of tomato called Ponderosa. fair
specimen of them weighs two pounds.
WHEN the Turk goes to his mosque ia
= worship he keeps his hat on, as he
thinks he would be unbecomingly fa-
miliar with divinity if he removed it
SAMPLES of tea grown and cured at
E Summerville, S. c., have been received
in Baltimore, which expert tea-dealers
have pronounced superior to East India
Il tea.
THE shortest will on record in Luz
~ Herne county, Pa, was filed the other
lay. The will is on a piece of paper
FiX inches square and is as follows: "Mr.
Bankers: Give all my money to Mike
Walkie."
The world-famous grapevine at Hamp-
q ton Court the largest in England and
supposed to be 1@5 years old, bore near
y 1900 lunches of ripe grapes this year.
The fruit was packed in boxes and sent
o the queen.
The name of the state of Wisconsin is
7afiva6 from, a t,,Yvt,,ra Of Eranol, ,rJ