The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-23
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manufacturing center in the world.
PHEyAiATIc tubes for mail will prob
ably be In operation at the Worlds fair.
TIE emperor of China has ten men
whose sole duty is to carry his UNI
brelLa-
TBR most expert woman conductor of
music in the world is Miss Clara Novello
Davies
Tue palace at Versailles, France,
which Louis XIV. built, cost $780,
O00, ,oOs.
ONn-HALF of the paper useo in the
United States is manufactured at Hol-
yoke, Mass.
SECRETARY RUsK proposes TO have u
plantation of rubber trees in the ever
glades Of Florida.
THB fastest ship aHoat il the City of
Peitia owned by the Pacific Mail Co.
She cost 81, 100000
OK an average there are 1O0 boys born
to every 100 girls, but moro boys die in
tnfnncy than girls.
IT Is estimated that about 1000
horses were ousted from street car serv-
ice Last year by electricity.
JAY GoULD's unmarried daughter
Helen, has now three lovers who are in
mates Of the insane asylum
FREEcH reporters now take notes at
night BY the light of tiny incandescent
lamp attached to thepencil
RSMNT data places the population of
the glObe at 1,4S0, 900, 900 souls; the land
area at 81, S21 900 square miles.
In 1895 tame elephant could be
bought in India for $225; now their
prices range from $3.50 to $4,000
The sole personal effects of man
who died in Auburn, Me-, recently,
were Bible and pack of cards.
AN English doctor has traced the in
fuensa in many cases to infected post
age stanps on letters from diseased per-
sons.
A FAMILY now living at Helena,
Mont. possesses bones so brittle that
they Ore broken by the most trivial acci-
dents
NrR young men are about to walk
from Americus, Ga, to Chicago, ILL.,, q
distance of 1000 miles by road, on
wager.
THERE is a brisk trade in secondhand
tonbstOnes in London. Still stranger is
the custom of selling family vaults part
ly filed.
DELIVERY wagons, the motive power
of which is electricity are the newest
vehicles in London. A green-grocer had
the first
ALUMINIUM water bottles in the Ger
man army have failed on account of cor
rosion. They would stand water, but
not brandy.
AFTER 4 search of thirty-nine years a
son found his father in the Allegheny
mountains, in New York, living the life
of a hermit
THE anti-slavery societies of Europe
are 10 mako an exhibition at the Chi
cago fair Of all the instruments used by
slave captors.
A STREET letter box, charged with
electricity from crossed wires, gave a
severe shock to a Pittsburgh letter car
rier recently.
THE latest discovery in dentistry is
that new teeth may be grated on old
roots and made to grow as finely as the
natural teeth.
THE Italians invented the term influ-
enza in the seventeeth century, and at
tributed the disease to the influence of
certain planets.
s. R. PARK, of Mexico, Mo-, has what
Is said TO be the bill of sale of ''Eliza,"
one OF tho principal characters in
"Unele Toms Cabin"
SBEAToG VOORHEES,, of Indiana, will
deliver the Grafton at the formal open
Ing of the new steel bridge over the
Mississippi at Memphis, May IL.
Ex-SPEAKER REED has one of tho
largest mails that come to the capitol.
Every morning an enormous batch of
letters and papers covers his desk
A New YORK scholar in tailoring has
enriched tho English language with the
word pantorium, which signifies place
where pants" arc pressed for hire.
A LARGB cave was recently discov-
cred in Montana which contained the
bones of hundreds of animals that had
fallen into 1t and were unable to es-
cape.
TIE Rothschild family, of Europe,
says Herr F1arscheim, the German econ
omist, is estimated to be worth 81 ,O0O,.
900 900, and their income TO be $780,
O00, goo.
THERE is whirlpool in the Sante Fe
river, three miles northwest of High
Springs, Fla, into which 1000 feet of
line has been lowered without finding
bottom.
IN about eight out of ten cases of di-
vorce in the United States it is, from
statistics of the past twenty years,
found to be the wife who asks for the
separation
AT the school election at Evanston,
Ill, recently, Mrs. Mary Willard, the
venerable mother of Miss Frances L.
Willard, cast her first vote, at the ripe
age OF 80 years
A MAN has been arrested at Bedford,
Pa. for sitting under the window of his
divorced wife in the small hours of the
night and playing Home, Sweet Home"
on a French harp.
TIE last male heir of Pulaski the
distinguished Pole who aided the patri-
OTIS of the revolution, lives in Savannah,
Ga, where he earns a scanty living
peddling small wares.
TEE coffee crop oS Brazil has been
largo that the railroads of ono blocked,
every available car being in service,
freight depets being crowded and fur.
ther receipts of coffee being declined.
A KANSAS CITY man has mania for
killing rats. be sallies out at night
with terriers and engages in the work
with much enjoyment, He saws he will