The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-30
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Boston schools.
New YoRK is TO have a newspaper
printed in Arabic.
IN Cazenovia, N, Y, horse-powef
Gre engine in in use.
PADEREwsKI, the pianist, practices
lrom six to eight hours daily.
WOMEN used to wear nightgowns
Now it is dream robes that they wear.
THERE are twenty representatives IN
congress who are under thirty-six years
of age.
A rIoT has been discovered TO depose
the sultan of Zanzibar in favor of the
prince of Muscat.
PRINCE GEORGE, sou of the prince of
Wales, will, it is announced visit the
Worlds fair in 1898.
THERE were at the beginning of last
year s,O07 artesian wells in the western
states and territories.
SECRETARY ELKINs is said to have
more daily callers than any of the war
ministers since Stanton.
PATTI has watch no greater than a
ten-cent piece in circumference, which
is said to be worth 81 1000.
The De Rcszkcs, jean and Edouard,
took away s1s5,OOO of American money
when they sailed for France.
ABLACK man has been sent to Jail for
two weeks in Lexington, Mo-, for ours
ing and swearing ON the streets.
STEAM plow at work in Cheyenne
county, Kan, tears up the earth at the
rate of two and onc-half acres an hour.
A PARTY of lads entered the Harrison
vile IN. j. cemetery few nights ago
and turned over twonty-one tomb
stones.
Col. ROBERT G. INGERsoLL stepped on
the Astor house scales the other day
and tipped the beam at exactly 2g1
pounds.
HE weather in Florida during the
past winter has been remarkably bad
and very discouraging to natives and
visitors.
SEVENTY-FIvE per cent. of the older
trees on Boston common are afflicted
with slow consumption, caused by the
too compact soil.
Patti seasons have resulted in net
profit to Abbey, Schoeffel &c Grau of not
far from 100000
SENAToR and Mrs. Leland Stanford
have homes in San Francisco, Sacra-
mento, Nculo Park, and at two of the
Stanford ranches
THERE will be building at the
Worlds fair where woman can leave
her baby and get check for it while
she secs the show
ALBERT WAKEFIELD, Bangors veteran
lawyer, wears pair of calf-sliin boots
that he has had since 1861, and they are
in good condition now.
Ex-GOv. NEWTON BooTH, of Califor-
mia, is slowly dying at his home in Sac
ramento of the same disease which end
cd the life of Gen. Grant.
YOUNG man hypnotized at an enter
tainment in Paris remained senseless
for two days, and was with difficulty
brought back to consciousness
New YORK has 1000 saloons, or one
for every 200 people. Placed in q
row and each given twenty-five feet,
they would reach distance of thirteen
miles.
SUSPENSION bridges which were built
in the tinc of the Han dynasty (2O2 B.
g. to 92O A. d. are still standing: strik-
neering skill.
GERMAN importer of immigrants
has offered to settle 400, 900 Germans in
The northwestern territory of Canada,
bot wants price per capita for all
whom he lands
BECAUSE the jurors disagreed in Il
murder case in Philadelphia recently,
the judge told them that they were a
disgrace TO society, and were defeating
the ends OF justice.
TO FIND the relative distance of the
sun and stars, suppose the earth and
sun but one inch apart. At the same
relative distance the nearest fixed star
would be just eleven miles away
THERE is a dentist in Rome named
Fra orsenic0 who has been known to
extract 400 teeth day without the use
of forceps. He makes use of his thumb
and ferefinger in drawing molars.
IKE discovery is made that She Alaska
soil and climate are peculiarly adapted
to hop-raising. An Oregon syndicate |
has purchased a large tract near Fort |
Wrangle and will plant it with hops.
A BLUE and white ginger-jar, of tho |
period of Kang-ce, brought 81, ,O5o at tho |
American Art gallery sale. 1t had a |
silver corner of a more recent time, but |
there was no ginger in it of any period. |
SALT docs not enter into the food of |
the poor Wenetians. They never taste it,
and the hospital for the scrofulous chill |
dren at Lido is filed by those who have
not had this necessary article in their
food.
THE little fye-year-old king of Spain
has civil list of 81, ,45O, 900 year His
eldest sister, now about nine years of
age, has q fixed income of 500, ,OOO
EH-Queen Isabella receives $3.50, 900 per
annum.
The telescope we owe to some chill
dren of a spcctacle-maker placing two
or more pairs of spectacles before each
other and looking through them at the
distant sky. Their idea was followed
up by older heads.
BERLIN is to have a new $4,000, 900
cathedral The city is very badly pro-
Vidcd with churches 1t is reclsoned that
no more than $4,000 out of $50, 900 in
habitants could be seated at one time in
all the Protestant churches
CoSsIDERABLE swindling has been
in connection with the
opening Of the Sisseton Indian reserva-
tion. Persons calling themselves attor-
neys have advertised all over the coun-
try that for S25 they would obtain farms