The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-16

carting off two avenues
LABOUcHERE says that the Princess
May, who is engaged to Collars and
Cuffs, rs decidedly pretty.
IT is estimated that at least $50, 0OO,.
600 of the governments paper money
has been lost or destroyed.
OF the 49, 6S4 deaths in New York
city the past year, Is, ,225 were of chill
dren under five years OF age
IT has been estimated by a shoe
man that the people of the United
States spend $3.50, 600, 900 annually for
shoes.
Mrs. JOHN SHERWOOD says it is not
unusual for New York hostess to
spend 81, eOo on luncheon for twenty
women,
If we'll could be dug to the depth Of
forty-siX miles, the density of the air at
the bottom would be as great as that of
quicksilver.
NEW YORK is said to employ an army
of cash girls 30, strong many of
whom are nearer twelve than fourteen
years of age.
GEoRGE FRANCIS TRAIN is patrolling
Broadway, New York, every afternoon
east of Duluth.
FOLDING linen is IA accomplishment
IN which each woman in Holland is ex-
pected to be proficient before she be-
comes mistress of home.
JUDGE Noon, of Chattanooga, has
charged the grand jury to investigate
railroad accidents and punish employees
where carelessness is shown.
JOIN REDMOND, who has been chosen
over Michael Davitt by the people Of
Waterford, was once clerk in the
house of commons, at $3.50 year.
FAIR maidens and timid bachelors,
this is leap year. Custom has defined
your respective privileges and the lest
interests OF society demand their exer-
else
A CI.ERKsHIP in the agricultural de-
partment Washington, has been secur.
ed by Frederick Douglass for girl
whose father owned him in slavery
days.
lHEEE are some queer folks in Eng
land In Dover certain persons, suf.
fering from influenza, have been fined
So apiece for appearing in public
places.
a OIssoLUTE linguist a teacher of
seven different languages, has been
jailed at Laramie, Wyo., for beating
his wife, who supported him by taking
in washing.
RoAsTF n, crickets are a iavorite arti.
Gle of diet with some tribes of Utah
and California Indians, while among
others the grasshopper is reli5hed as q
culinary delicacy.
c. A. DoUGHERTY, who is secretary OF
the American legation in Mexico, is
son of Daniel Dougherty of the silver
tongue. He once occupied similar
position in Rome.
THE space devoted to the Chicago
Worlds far is 800 acres. Philadelphia
had 236 and Paris 143. The buildings
will cover $50 acres. and the cost OF
equipment will be $14, 900, 600
BUTTONS are now made from pota-
toes. The tuber is treated with acids,
hardened ly means of great pressure
and the buttons manufactured from it
can not be distinguished from those of
bone.
A WOMAN has just died in Connecti-
cut whom the doctors gave but a. year
to live, way back in 1877 The art of
healing has not reached the stage of
infallibility and prophecy is not one OF
it's gifts.
OREGON and Washington papers have
been full Of reports OF second crops of
fruit gathered out there, and of flowers
found growing on the wayside The
latest crop indicated by telegraph was
a blizzard
The rates for the transportation OF
corpses OH railways are so high in Ger
many that the Berlin Crematorv So
ciety is petitioning to have them re-
Guced, as it materially interferes with
its business.
The smallest railroad in the world
runs between Ravenglass and Boot, in
Cum berland, England. 1t is hardly
more than toy affair, for which the
engineer acts as fireman, conductor,
%:cket agent and porter.
The German government has sent a
circular to all the state railways to the
effect that the depressing financial con-
dition is such that all wages must he
reduced and all men dropped from the
pay rolls who can be possibly spared.
PRINCESS LOUISE and Mrs Harrison
are the only women ever permitted to
set foot within the cloisters of the
monastery of Santa Barbara. After
their departure the ground trodden by
'hem was reconsecrated with solemn
ceremonies and much fasting and
prayer.
Miss CoNsU2Lo VANDERBILT, the four
teen-year-old daughter of Mr.. w. X.
"anderuilt, is beautiful child with
hair and eyes as dark as spanish
gypsy, and the imperious manners of a
young princess. She is quite marvel
~ erudition, and speaks German and
French, Chinese and Italian with equaI
tueney.
RHODE ISLAND man made n net
profit of s., 700 in six months by rails.
lIg skunks for market lie sells the
pelts of the odorous animals at good
figures and manufactures skunk oil,
which he disposes of to the druggists
Tor rheumatic cure.
A NUGGET of gold weighing 2O3X
ounces and valued at about So 600 is re-
PORTED TO have been found recently in
the Ruby drift mine above Forest City,
Sierra county, Cal 1t measures eight
inches in length by five in width, and
is from two to five inches IN thickness
A JET black swan was He'd ON the
California coast recently.