The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-05-28
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will turn out 1000 corkscrews day.
IN all there are 356 representatives in
congress to be elected next November.
A CRUSADE is on in New York city
against the littering of the streets with
paper.
PORTRAITS of six American women
hang in the present exhibition of the
Paris solon.
Mrs. HARRISON has a passion for
orchids, and the executive mansion is
decorated with them.
THE great cathedral in the city of
Mexico is the largest in America, and
cost nearly 100000.
The Turkish government has forbid
den the importation of all patent medi-
cines into that country.
GLYNN county, Ca, has woman
hermit who has only spoken TO three
persons in sixteen years,
THE Buffalo directory credits that
city with u resident named Peterje
Zmuchzizkonskekow
THE writings of Mr.. Gladstone fill
twenty-five pages of the printed cata-
logue of the British museum.
THE poet Burns spelled his name
Burmese (his family name) until the
publication of his poems in 1886.
PARIsIANs are so fond of snails as an
article of diet that they consume 100, ,0od
pounds Of them day, it is said.
THERE are more priests, monks and
nuns in Jerusalem in proportion to the
population, than in any other city in the
world.
GUsTAvE DoRE, who never saw the
Niagara Falls, put upon canvas one of
the grandest paintings of them ever ex-
ecuted.
A NBw religious sect has been estab-
lished in Virginia by Negro named
Nathaniel Brown, which he calls the
"No Meat Eaters"
THKRE will be more than eleven
hundred delegates to the national pro-
hibition convention that assemblies in
Cincinnati June 2S.
In her will Miss Amelia B. Edwards
endowed a chair of Egyptology. Her
valuable library she bequeaths to Som
erville hall, Oxford
THE Roumanian crown is made of
metal from the cannon that were cap
tured from the Turks by the Rouman-
ians at Plevna in 1877.
THE flume which conveys the water
from the mountains to the reservoir at
San Diego is thirty-fve miles in length,
and composed almost wholly of red
wood.
GoUNoD, the composer, is an eccentric
individual, and will only work at his
own time and to order. 1t is said that
he has twelve unfinished operas lying in
his MS drawer.
IT rs seriously stated that Hassan Ben
Ali, Morocco's commissioner to the
Worlds fair, is filling in his meantime
and turning an honest penny by travel
ing with circus
OK the eastern shore of Maryland
biliousness is treated by boring three
holes in carefully selected tree and
go way, bilious"
WHuR the west is suffering from the
floods, the state of Maine is suffering
from drought. Lake Sebago is eight
feet and nine inches below its normal
level at this season.
AN educated Indian who recently
spent half an hour in reading the
epitaphs in a cemetery, remarked:
''Huhl l guess the only good white man
is dead white man"
ARCHBISHOP KENRICK, of st. Louis,
whose failing health and advanced age
lead to grave apprehensions, was one Of
the prelates who vigorously opposed
the dogma of infallibility.
In Japan the man of quality"
never forces his steed out of walk; il
the errand is one which demands speed,
the rider dismounts, ties the fore
legs of his animal together and strikes
off at a brisk gallop on foot.
AN Indianapolis man has invented a
process for "aging" violins. He claims
that in two weeks time he can impart
to any ordinary violin all the fullness
and richness OF tone possessed by a
Stradivarius.
THE deepest mine in the world is the
rock salt mine at Spezenberg near Ber-
lin, 4,17J feet. Tie deepest perpendic-
ular shaft is in the Kuttenberg mine, in
Bohemia, SITS feet deep. The deepest
nritish mine is the Ashton colliery, 8, $50
feet.
TIE London World declares that there
is no truth in the story that the engage
ment of Prince George of Wales to the
Princess May Of Teck will soon be an
nounced. 1t says that he is likely to
be berothed to the Princess Alex OF
Hesse.
THE prince OF Wales is suffering from
an affection of the throat and gossip
conpects the late Sir Morell Macken-
zie's name with the opinion that it may
develop into a malady such as carried
off the late emperor Frederic of Ger
many.
PRESIDENT CLARK, of the Union Pa
cific railroad, began life as a brakeman
on gravel train. He is particularly
popular with all the labor organiza.
tions, and no trouble has ever ariseL
from these sources since he became
manager.
PRESIDENT HARRISON. Grover Cleve-
land and Franklin Pierce are said to
have descended from colonists of Wo-
burn, Mass, a town which is soon to
celebrate its s5Oth anniversary.
PHILADELPHIA boasts of the prize
mean pan. One morning recently he
raised the window and called out to the
millSman: "You needn't leave but pint
this morning-my wife died last night. 4"
BLACK glass was once used for mir
rors, as well as transparent glass with
Some black substance on the back. 1t
is related that the Spaniards found mir
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