The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-30
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worth sixty cents an ounce.
THE Maryland peach crop is reported
10 be far below the average.
A PROCESS for making whisky out of
molasses has been patented.
A MILWAUKEE minister married nine
couples on the Fourth of 5uly.
GRATED pineapple in so-called Swiss
water ice is the newest from the cater
ers.
IT costs over 5000 recently in legal
fees in South Carolina to settle a claim
of S..
RIors with loss of life continue in
Russia as result OF the cholera epi-
demic-
THE cocoon of healthy silkworm
will often yield thread 1000 yards in
length.
Miss WINNIE DAVIS is now at work
On a book of personal recollections Of
her father
the earth than it will be again for 6f-
teen years.
CAPT ALVIN HALL, of Deering, Me-,
has a pair of mittens made from his
wife's hair
A RECENTLY discovered manuscript
proves that Columbus was born in Sa-
coma, Italy.
ALEAD mine which yield almost pure
lead is reported to have been discovered
at Turner, Me.
SARATOGA, Kan, has $50, 900 opera
house, but only the music of insects is
ever heard there.
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France the socialists carried the cities
of Marseilles, Toulon, Toulouse, Mar
bonne and Roubaix.
ALL the pawnshops in Moscow, owned
by Jews, will be closed this month by
order of the government
A ROMAN scientist, DIR. Fornesari has
demonstrated that tobacco smoke kills
nearly all kinds of germs
SENATOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky,
appears in the senate wearing a suit
of clothes that cost him 81.
PERSIA has a race of pigmy camels,
which are but twenty-five inches high
and weigh but fifty pounds
A GERMAN geologist estimates that
the Dead sea will be one mass of solid
salt within less than 500 years.
IN different sections of Kansas this
year the threshers are boarded in cars
which accompany the machines
RUSSELL SAGE shaves himself His
clerks pay fifteen cents for shave and
tip the barber ten cents in addition.
MINNEAPOLIS has the largest grain
elevator in the world; it's storing
capacity is 100000 bushels of grain.
A sIX-YEAR-oLD Salem (Ore. girl be-
came so excited about a fire that her
heart stopped beating and she dropped
dead.
THE first oil well was discovered in
Wayne county, KY, in 1929, thirty years
before the discovery of oil in Pennsyl-
vania.
A LAWRENCE (Kan.) barber went to
shave corpse and being gabsent-minded
called out Next" when he had fin.
ished.
SEwELL county,. Kas., has an on
which measures IA feet in length, 81
feet high, and, when fat, weighs 800
pounds.
REV. DR.. JOSEPH NoURI, who claims to
have discovered Noah's ark on Mount
Ararat is expected to arrive in New
York soon.
A PIECE of ground was recently sold
in Chicago at a price which in silver
would cover the entire lot with three
layers of dollars.
SERVANT girls in California receive on
an average S25 per month. Nurse girls
are paid from $l3 to $40 and good cooks
ON $50 upward.
OF all the royal ladies whose photos
are exhibited in certain shop windows
of the Rue de la Paix, the queen of Por-
tugal is the handsomest.
THE center of the United States is
said to be the stone at Fort Riley, Kan,
which marks the grave of Maj Ogden,
who died of cholera in 1855.
METAL match boxes have been put on
the market in the shape of profile heads
and busts of Cleveland and Harrison,
and the designs are copyrighted.
II is interesting to note that of the
5c8,OO0 divorces granted in the United
States during the last twenty years
$4,000 were granted at the request of
wives.
THERE is tree in Jamaica known as
the life tree, on account of its leaves
growing even after being severed from
the plant; only by fire can it be entire
ly destroyed.
THE fire losses in the United States
during the first six months of 1892
are estimated by good authority to be
over tG5, 600, 900, against $50, 600, 900 for
the same period last year.
THERE is an unwritten law among the
best workmen: Thou shalt not take
thy neighbours job" No wise employer
will lightly lose his old employees Car.
negie, in Forum Magazine.
RECENT improvements in photo
graphic plates have been so great as to
make it possible to take accurate photo
graphs of Il rifle ball travelling at the
rate of 5000 feet second.
As AN example of woman's levelhead-
edness, it is cited that Mrs. Plumb re-
Gently patented device for keeping
railroad cars supplied with fresh air
without the attendant dust and cinders.
A NEW variety of birds, embling
English robins in color and form, have
made their appearance in Delaware
county, N. Y, which eat the potato bug
with Gvfdity. Wherever the birds go
the potato vines are safe.
LoNGFELLow's birthplace in Portland
has been bought by John Musgrave,
who is remodeling the house. This
gives relic hunters a glorious chance,
one of them recently carrying off a
whole mantel-piece in his arms.
Mrs. WILL j. GORDON of Eminence,
Ill, shot u hawk which measured four