The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-24
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lHE WealUn OF w. IL. NanuerOllJa
cons is estimated at 5000, 100000
"SoUMeULLIoN" is the euphonious
aame of n new town in Georgia.
The Egyptian is taxed 80 cents on the
palm tree that grows in his garden.
In the coldest part of Siberia the
ground is frozen to depth of go feet
IT will cost only eight cents to regis
ter letter at the post Office after jan
1ary 1.
ACCORDING to the census $50 of the
eO4 cotton mills in the country are in
Ghe south.
A PETRIFrED turtle was recently blast
ed out of the rock in a quarry near
Atchison, Kas.
A MONSTER mountain lion is said to
be soaring people in the neighborhood
of Cortez, Colo.
JUSTICE RYAN, of New York, has sent
a woman to Jail for throwing eggs at
one of her neighbors.
The trust funds held by the govern
meut for the various Indian tribes ag-
gregate over s24, 900, 900.
A SINGLE row of pearls as large as
peas, and perfectly round, were sold re-
Gently in Paris for 1920, 200.
GEN. DYRENFoRTH is said not to be
discouraged by the failure of his rain
making experiments i'll Texas
New YORK is so rich that down
town building lot could not be bought
by covering its area with $40 bills
IT is said that the New York state
treasury will receive from Goulds
heirs about $3.50, 900 as legacy taxes.
Mrs. LAvINA FILLMORE, of Clarence,
N. Y, cousin of Millard Fillmore, re-
Gently celebrated her 1O5th birthday.
Mrs. HARRIET MAXWELL CONVERSE,
of New York, has been elected chief
of the Six Nations of Indians in New
York.
ALL green vegetables growing above
ground should be cooked in salt water.
Those growing below ground in fresh
water
1T is no longer housekeeping" in
Boston. They call it "the science of
oekology," from the Greek word for
house.
AT recent chrysanthemum show at
Dalles, Ore, four hundred varieties
of that plant are said to have been ex-
hibited.
OAKLEY RHINELANDER, of New York,
has collection of antique armor that
is said to be the most complete in the
country.
HORSES are so plentiful in Buenoa
Ayres that every body has at least one.
1t is said that even the beggars beg on
horseback.
THOMAS LINCOLN, a cousin of the
lamented President, is still living in
Fountain Green Township, Ill, and is so
years of age.
THREE Englishmen now have statues
IN France-Lord Brougham at Cannes,
Jenner at Boulogne sur-Mer and Shak-
speare in Paris.
The title her royal highness" means
something in the case of the crown
princess of Denmark. She is six fec
three inches tall.
SAMUEL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tin
peddler," is the legend inscribed upon
the card of Russian commercial trav-
eler in Connecticut
THE first aluminium microscope, weigh
ing ore-third as much as brass micro
scope, has been exhibited to the Royal
Microscopical society.
A WOMAN in Ohio has churn which
has been in her possession for fifty-fve
years and which has made more than
$4,000 worth of butter.
CHIEF JUSTICE Turney, Governor-elect
of Tennessee, will not resign his pres
ent Office, and will appoint his own
successor after his Inauguration.
The anniversary of Washington's
crossing of the Delaware is to be OBJ
served this year on Christmas day, at
Trenton, by the Sons of the Revolu-
tion.
Mrs INCREASE SUMNER, StarlSe, Fla,
raises her own tea. She gathers three
crops year, and the bushes furnish her
tea which in China would cost large
sum.
"GHsoNITE, a variety of mineral
bon or asphalt in it's pure form. The
Utah vein is three feet wide and mile
in length.
AT a cost of five years labor and
more than 81, 500, 900, the four-mile tun-
mel under Lake Michigan at Chicago has
been completed and is now ready to re-
ceive water.
Miss VIOLA FULLER, of Mitchell,
s. D., will present to the Chicago
Worlds fair unique opera cloak. 1t
Is made entirely of the feathers of
prairie chickens
NINE. DIAz, wife of the Mexican pres
ident, is organizing an orchestra of
forty-fve Mexican women, which she
will send to the Chicago exposition at
her own expense.
The most costly piece of railroad line
in the world is that between the Man
sion house and Aldgate station in Lon
don, which required the expenditure of
close upon $40, 900, 900 mile
A STREET railway car, fully squipped
for collecting, postmarlSing and distrib-
ating mail matter en- route, the first Of
its kind in the world, was put into OPP
GRAFTON in ST. Louis few days ago.
GEORGE VANDERBHT's palace near
Asheviile, N G., will stand on an estate
of 5000 acres Its cost is estimated all
the way from $1,000, 600 to $40, 900, 600.
About 5000 people are now employed
on the place.
The Japanese government has pro-
vided for vi'at of 1000 Of its middle
class citizens TO the fair at Chicago next
year, and then look about in other
large cities in this country before their
return home.
THE hair on the ordinary doll is made
from the hair of the Angora poat This