The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-05-21
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THB waters of spring at Auburn,
CAL, are said to restore hair to bald
heads
GEORGE EIFFEL is said to have made
1909, 900 as his share in the Eiffel
tower.
AN American has made large fortune
by introducing the American pie into
England.
A READING (Pa.) clergyman has been
damages.
NOTWITHSTANDING the disordered con-
dition of affairs, Paris is crowded with
Americans.
DARK brown is the prevailing color
of the hair of the people of English
nationality.
THE absence of tourists in Germany
is great source of complaint from the
hotell1eepers.
John McWinter, of Boltonville, Conn,
lived to be 105 years old, and then died
of heart disease.
RIDER HAGGARD thinks Egypt the
most interesting and the least explored
country in the world.
THE Kansas City statutes present tho
citizen the alternative of voting or pay
ing poll tax of $3.50.
A COLT was born on farm at Irving,
N. j., with only one eye, and that in
the center of the forehead.
THERE are $50 women students in the
University OF Michigan distributed
through all the departments.
IT is estimated that the German
Empire will lose 100, 900 of it's popula-
tion by emigration during the current
year
A FAMILY named Bates in Lawrence
county, ILL.,, claims to have the original
manuscript of Bunyan's Pilgrim Pro-
gress.
The duke of Westminster offers re-
ward of $4,000 for the discovery of the
culprit who poisoned the race horse
Orme.
SINCE the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has spent two thousand two hun
dred million dollars ON her army and
navy.
The private railway train designed
by the emperor of Germany, for his own
use, is at last completed. 1t cost
s75O,OOO.
IT is said the street preachers in Lon
don are mcrelya blind" to have crowds
collect to give picllpockets oppor-
tunitics.
A SHARPsTowN, Pa. mother has
ordered her son to marry one of three
young ladies of the town whom she has
selected.
The California state board of health
is trying to start a movement for the
esta blishment of lazarette for the
eare of lepers
THE house of representatives passed a
bill appropriating S15O,OOO to pay our
share of the expenses of the Behring sea
arbitration board.
IN court in Mississippi an important
case was interrupted because one of the
jurors caught the mumps and gave it
to the other eleven.
THE earth, at the equator, moves at
the rate of a mile in Sc seconds, four
tenths of second slower than the
velocity of cannon ball.
The office of college president seems
to go a-begging nowadays. Seventeen
colleges have just elled out full year
with the head chair vacant.
The Legislative assembly of Styria, in
Austria, has passed law forbidding
poor people to marry without a special
license from the authorities.
BARON HIRsCu's turn winning amount |
ed to S35, 900 last season, and he intends |
to benefit his own race by devoting the |
entire sum to hospitals and like institu-
tions.
The Chinese have kitchen god, |
which is supposed to go to the Chinese |
Heaven at the beginning of each year to
report upon the private life of the fami-
lies under his care.
A PARIS policeman begins service |
with seventy-seven cents day and |
after twelve years ne gets eighty-fve |
cents day. The police have asked for
81 a day as the minimum.
SENATOR BLACKBURN is credited with |
being the readiest of congressional |
speakers. He carries at his tongues |
end a vocabulary which is remarkable
for its range and copiousness.
THE farmers of Iowa and Texas are
greatly encouraged over the condition
of the crop prospect this season, and |
from the present outlook a great crop |
of oats, wheat and corn will be Sc
cured.
JOSEPH MURPHY is put down as the
richest of actors. He is said to be worth |
s4oO, OOC most of which represents the |
savings from his annual income for he |
is one of the most economical of stage |
artists.
A LITTLE colored boy was struck by |
the tail of an alligator while he was
wading in pond in jefferson county,
Fla, the other day, and had one leg
broken IN two places. The stroke
threw him on shore.
A TOPEKA man was born Elder and |
christened Berry, but the people in
sisted on calling him Elderberry. and
he finally yielded to public sentiment
and the name Elder Berry now appears
over his place of business.
The French papers have a story that |
the young crown prince of Germany
used as a target for his pistol practice
an image of a French infantryman, and
that he recently asked his father if he
would not be permitted after his pro-
motion to n lieutenancy to fire at Il Rus
sian officer.
CREUsoT, France, has the most gigan-
JIG iron chimney that has yet been con.
,tructed in the world. 1t is funnel
shaped big end down, twenty-three
feet in diameter at the bottom and
seven at the top, 1t is exactly 27g feet