The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
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on Mars.
SIR w. HERsCHEL discovered the polar
ice caps of Mars.
YORK, Mont, has natural ice mine
In n gulch near there.
THERE are 100000 commercial travel
ers in the United States.
The elm tree worms are causing much
damage in New England.
TWIN watermelon is a fruit freak
of Ware county, Georgia.
A MARYLAND widow set bear trap
and caught a young man.
No LESS than fifteen thousand police
men are employed in London.
MARS is five times as bright now as
he will be when on the far side of the
sun.
THE postmaster of Polo, NO., bears
the remarkable name of U. L. Sidebot-
tom.
A YEAR on Mars is two years and
forty-nine and one-half days long, earth
time.
The latest fad in Crisfeld, Md, is to
take your girl out riding in baby car.
riage,
CHINA has no telegraph poles The
RSSRAS
them.
UP to August the Worlds fair Off
cials had spent-literally paid out-S7,-
250,O00.
THE length of a day on Mars is
twenty-four hours and thirty-seven
minutes
BJoRNsTERNE BJoRNsoN gets a PEN
sion OF S450 year from the Norwegian
storthing.
The total amount of taxas to be
raised in New York city in 1899 is nearly
S34, 900, 900.
ANOTHER fifty-cent increase in the
price of anthracite coal is promised at
an early day.
A Moscow dentist has successfully
made false teeth assume fixed place in
toothless gums.
The Spanish government has con-
cluded loan of 100000 with the
Banque de Paris.
In one of Gladstone's own elections
his friends are said to have expended
S240, 900 in his behalf.
CROP experts estimate that the two
Dakotas will produce 125, OOO 900 BUSH
els of wheat this year.
The fastest time in which train has
been known to travel is mile in forty
nine seconds and fraction.
A CHINESE sect believes that women
by embracing vegetarianism will be-
come men on the judgment day.
A. A. ROBINSON, of the Santa Fe rail-
toad received an eighty-pound water
nelon from Texas the other day.
CALIFORNIA has the biggest soda
fountain in the world. 1t is a natural
lake, and has $4,000, 900 worth of soda
in it
WHEN the shah of Persia goes on
is holiday outing in the summer time
he is accompanied by three hundred
wives
THE men who bought W. X. Wander
bilts yacht, the Alva, under water ex-
pect to make 100000 out of the trans
Action.
On the icy peaks of the Himalayas,
in India, there is a "snow maggot,"
weighing nearly pound, and excellent
tn eat
APPROPRIATIONS made by the first ses-
sion of the Fifty-second congress just
closed amounted to S5O7, 600, 900 in round
figures.
KATE FIELD asks Secretary Tracy to
name the next new cruiser, the Isa-
bella, in honor of the friend of
Columbus.
ARTEsIAN wells were known at Thebes
ms long ago as the time of Timerton,
1000 years before the beginning of the
Christian era.
WALTER BEsANT, the English novel
ist was intended by his parents for the
church, but he turned naturally to
literary work.
THE Greek government has voted the
sum of 800, OOO drachms to be expended
on the reproduction of antique works
of art for the Worlds fair.
MONROE county, Mich, has bought
nearly s4 900 worth of English sparrow
scalps in three years, and reports that
there are as many birds as ever
DETRoIT's new city directory contains
l00,s names, from which they figure
out present population of 800, 900. The
last census gave the city 2O7,741.
A MISSISSIPPI man who brought suit
against railroad company for the
value of ticket which he bought, and
was unable to use won his case.
A RECENT novelty is composite
metal wheel made up of a skeleton of
wire for the spokes, hub and rim, the
whole being imbedded in cast iron.
THE Oldest man in Vermont and
probably in New England, is John
Francis LIE Maistre, of Brighton. He
was born in the Isle of Jersey, April 4,
1884.
In the latest summer novel the hero
inc saves the hero by taking off her
suspenders and lowering them over the
edge of cliff to the ledge where he is
clinging.
AN enterprising Auburn. Me-, woman
was shingling the roof of her house
few days ago. She was unable TO get
carpenter to do it, as they were too
busy, so she did it herself.
The tallest man known to the news
paper world of this country is Francis
j. Kelly, of Pittsburgh, who, when he
unfolds himself to his full height, lifts
his bald spot seven feet above the heels
of his boots.
A CHIMNEY piece carved from wood
over 5000 years old has recently been
erected in house in Edinburgh. The
wood, an oak tree, was found in a sand
pit at Musselburgh, thirteen feet below
the surface.
The branch observatory which Har-
ward instituted at Arequipa, Peru, is
5000 feet above the sea. The glass is
thirteen-inch one Natural adyantaOes