The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-02
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In the United States there are 67S,-
CAS- free masons and 647, AL odd fellows.
EIGHTEEN of the London theaters are
occupied for divine services on Sunday.
THERE is not lizard or snake north
Of the southern extremity of Hudson's
bay.
WHEN terrified an ostrich travels at
Nhe rate of about twenty-five miles an
hour.
Coon players of the harp are said
70 be the scarcest of all musical per-
formers.
OFFICERS of the Indian government
have decided that currency reform is
accessory.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for
the electrical illumination of Niagara
Falls at night.
NEW boolImarlSers are in the form of
o little paper fan that slips over the
corner of the page.
A CHICAGO burglar stole some jewell
ry but subsequently returned it, saying
that it was worthless.
A LARGE lot of Heinrich Heine's
hitherto unpublished letters are soon to
be printed at Hamburg.
SCIENCE has produced an instrument
for counting the number of dust notes
that exist in a sunbeam.
; GRO. APGAR, young clerk, died at
Jersey City recently from accidentally
inhaling sulphuric acid fumes.
RUSSIA seems to be threatened with a
famine next year as great as that
from which she is just recovering.
IT has been decided by judge at Mt
Vernon, Ill, that the women members
of the school board could not hold Of
fee.
THE most skillful quot pitcher in
Dauphin county, Pa, is John w. Kautz,
who has been blind for thirty-two
years.
THE fund for the Washington memoir
ial arch in New York, SIPS, 900, has been
completed at last 1t was started May
Q, 1889.
In one of the public schools in New
York city there are 71O pupils, all but
ten of whom are of foreign birth and
languages.
HARRISON and Reid were both grad
Hated from Miami university, which has
just conferred the degree of LII. d. on
Gov. Mckinley.
As illustrating the feminine idea of
business, Belle Plain (Kas.) woman
cut up $3.50 worth of silk and velvet to
make crazy quilt
A PHOTOGRAPHER says that next to
babies young married couples are the
most troublesome, the bride especially
being hard to please.
A DAUGHTER of Director-General
Davis, of the Worlds fair, took the
prize for breadmaking few days ago
at La Sale seminary.
The demand for the revised version of
the New Testament in 1881 exceeded
that for any other book that has been
published before or since.
THE house at Youghal, Ireland,
formerly occupied by Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, the great adventurer, was recent
~ sold at auction for S6,25o.
So LIGHT is the spiders web that
'ound of it will reach around the world
I'd then leave enough to reach from
lew York to San Francisco.
ENOUGH rain fell on Cove county,
Mo-, during the month of May to have
0rmed lake ten miles long, two and
nne-half miles wide and nineteen feet
ieep.
MILES DARDEN, who was living in the
tate OF Tennessee in 1857, was the
largest man known to history. Clad in
thin summer clothes he weighed 1,OS7
pounds
FIRST edition of Gray's "Elegy,"
originally published at 1915 cents, has
been recently sold at s295, while first
edition of Walton's Complete Angler
realized S1,050.
RAILWAY managers of Holland have
found it impossible to get men to work
the switches who cali be depended upon
TO let liquor alone, and have therefore
substituted women.
AT Clifton Springs, n. Y, recently,
several languages were used by those
who united in the hymns sung during
the services 1t must have sounded just
like opera in English.
MANUFACTURERS of obituary monu-
ments in the United States have the
right to remove their handiwork from
graves in the event of its not being paid
for within six months.
IT is said that the little island of ia
maica annually sells to this country
sufficient bananas to more than equal
in value the entire American apple,
peach and cherry crop,
THE business of preparing shrimp for
the Chinese market is assuming impor-
tant proportions in California. The
shrimps are taken in huge nets, and
boiled in great iron watts.
JAMES MILLER, postmaster at Gauley
Bridge, Fayette county, w. Va, was
appointed by President William Henry
Harrison. He has served continuously
under every president since.
THE three tallest trees in the world
are believed to be sequoia near Stock
ton, Cal, which is S25 feet high, and
two eucalypti in Victoria, Australia, es-
timated TO be 4S5 and 450 respectively.
THE fact that three newspaper offices
were demolished in the recent cyclone
in Kansas leads the editor of one OF
them to remark that ''even the Lords
chosen sometimes get it in the neck"
THE late Father Mollinger's will has
not been found yet, but later facts
show that he left an estate of over
1000, coo, including his sacred relics,
all of which, it is believed, has been de-
vised to the church
Mrs, REED, lady manager of the
Worlds fair for Maryland, has estab-
lished system of classes in American
history in the schools of that state, and
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