The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-30
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'G.Geuer.
MIR. BLAINE will be sixty.two on the
last day of this month.
ABBAs PAsHA, the new khedive of
Egypt, talks English like n native.
The Dominion parliament will be
summoned to meet on February 1S
The railroads will expend $40, 900, 900
N preparations for the Worlds fair.
The Athenians, it is asserted, suffer-
ed from an epidemic of the grippe 500
years B. c.
JACKSON county, Mo, has a citizen
bearing the Wholesale grocery name Of
Coffee Rice.
REV. JosErn Cook of Boston, Is
mentioned in connection with the pro-
hibition nomination for president this
year.
The pope hopes to be buried in the
Latheran by the side of Innocent III,
whose tomb has just been finished
there.
IT is said that company is being
organized at st. Louis, Mo-, with ST.
900, 600 capital stock, to fight the Amer
lean Tobacco Co.
THERE is an attempt on the part of
yhe Edinburgh ladies to raise money
for the erection of statue to Mary
queen of Scots.
TIE first overhead trolley electric
street railroad in England is under con-
struction in the suburbs of Leeds by
an American company.
THE male defendant in a breach of
promise suit in Randolph, Mo-. has
compromised for $500, although jury
awarded the lady $1,000
SINCE Patagonia was divided between
Chilli and the Argentine republic, it
has been developed into wonderful
country for sheep raising.
A TRAMP was struck by train the
other night on the Pennsylvania road,
and on his person was found bank
book with a credit of S3O5.
THE prince of Wales has begun to
sign himself Edward" instead of cal
bert Edward" indicating that when
king he will be Edward III.
The proposition to choose U. S. sem
ators by popular instead of legislative
election is under consideration at both
ends of the national capitol.
TEwFIK PAsHA, the late khedive of
Egypt had but on wife and the
notices in the dispatches of his harem
refer to the companions and servants OF
his wife
THE Russian navy consists at the
present time of SO first-class vessels, As
second-class ships, SO third class ships
and 20 vessels of the fourth-clas or
total of 1872 vessels
PROBABLY the youngest woman evan
gelist in the country is Fannie Edwards,
tifteen-year-old Louisville girl, who
has been preaching the gospel to Ten.
pessee mountaincerS
The grand total of charitable be
quests in England during the past year.
excluding Baron Hirsch's $40, 900, OOC
for Jewish emigration, was Sl5, 600, 900,
as against Sl1, 800, 900 in 1899
THERE has just died in Poland once
celebrated beauty, who refused the
hand OF Napoleon III. She was the
Princess Helene Sagonsko and died
unmarried at the age of fifty-seven.
BosToN has a new law which prohib.
its the driving of vehicle nearer than
fifteen feet from the one in advance of
it Street car drivers are arrested for
violations and fined five dollars for
each offense.
FELIX NICKEL, a French horn player,
valued his ability to pucIer up his lips
at s., 600, and because his lips will not
pucker as they used to he has sued a
New York firm, whose wagon struck
him, injuring his lip.
THE fire losses of 1891 in the United
States and Canada foot up over Sl37,.
100000, an increase of about $50, OOO 600
over 1890 and Sc OOO 900 over 1850 In
twenty-seven of the fires the loss ex-
ceeded 500 900 each.
THERE is TO be new Prussian
throne. Frederick l. had one, but Napo-
leon took it off and melted it, and there
are now only two small chairs of small
value.
AN orange tree in yard in Yuba
City, Cal, has full yield of large ripe
or rnges of this seasons crop and hang
ing among them are a number of or
anges of the previous year in a good
state OF preservation.
IN Texas there is a stone about
twenty feet in diameter that has won.
ierfnl magnetic power 1t is said that
1t viii draw hammer or an ak to its
surface even when placed ten to fifteen
feet away on the ground.
The queen is so iavorably impressed
with the picturesque turbans worn by
her own Mussulman att, ndants that
she has requested Lord Lansdowne to
-cstore the old-fashioned Oriental head
dress whenever practicable.
The young blood of Egypt has rea-
son TO be entirely satisfied with their
recent change of rulers The new khe-
dive is downy youth in his teens, who
may undertake to compensate for lack
OF knowledge and experience by fertil-
ity of ideas.
PARIS is the finest city in the world,
yet the number of emigrants by suicide
is very large. No less than 500 escaped
that way last year The favorite meth.
DDS of exit among men were by hang
ing shooting, stabbing, poisoning and
osphyXiation.
THE Pennsylvania railroad company
has been sued for $50, 900 by a New Jer-
sey Methodist Episcopal church, the
congregation of which complains that
one hundred trains pass the church
daily. Ihe odors are offensive and the
noise insulfcrable
THE old mansion house that is being
torn down at Beaver Falls, Pa, was in
its day the finest cdifce in western
Pennsylvania, and many wandering
whites and Indians visited it out of