The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-16
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AOuuOn Is mdue OF American WneAU.
JUDGE WELLHoUsE, of fremont, Kas.,
has an orchard containing 1,O7s acres.
INDIANA has two cabinet officers, and
the cabinet has two Secretary Fosters.
Col. ELLIOT +. SHEPARD is building a
million-dollar house near Scarborough,
NY.
A MAINE woman conducts a large
foundry and engine works at DunSirk,
Ny.
OVER 100000 postal cards are nee
essary to meet the daily demand in this
country.
The Eiffel tower is said to be eight
inches higher in hot than in cold
weather.
A MISSOURI man ate eleven dishes of
Ice cream and did not die till a week
afterward.
A MAN was arrested at Lawrence,
Kan, the other day for stealing ride
on street car.
MOVEMENT is on foot in England to
secure the ultimate canonization of Car
dinal Manning.
ONCE every eight years the locks on
the United States mail bags are changed
to insure safety.
ST.. PAUL is the first city to make no
distinction in the wages of male and
female teachers.
THE greatest distance covered by
steam vessel in one hours run is fixed
at twenty-siX miles.
AN ordinary day coach weighs about
$4,000 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh
about $4,000 pounds.
WELLsvILLE, Mo-. has twice as many
dogs as inhabitants. 1t has LAO resi-
dents and $3.50 dogs.
THE old-fashioned notion of ring
in the brides cake is being revived at
fashionable weddings.
WHILE there are now about 1000, 900
Jews in the United States, there are
owes 100000 in Russia.
THE largest Masonic library building
and the only Masonic library in the
world are at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
IT is proposed attempting to stamp
out tuberculosis in cattle in Denmark
by vaccination with Koch's lymph.
A FARMER living near Rockport Tex,
has been married twice, and is said to
be the father of thirty-eight children.
ONE of the Partisan newspapers is re-
ported to be experimenting with type
made of glass, with gratifying results.
A CALF with only three legs is the
oddity that attracts scores of visitors
to the farm of John Rinl5er, Lehigh
county, Pa.
THE original portrait Of Pocahontas,
painted in 1912, now the property of a
Londoner, will be exhibited at the
Worlds fair.
KANSAS has four cities in which the
vote of the women is larger than that
of the men. One entire set of council
men is women.
POLITICAL riots and campaign fights
still continue in Ireland, and the candi-
dates for parliament have to invoke
police protection.
A GERMAN man of science says that
the lands in Germany devoted to grains
used in beer production would support
b0,0OO,O 900 people.
A MALE beauty is wanted as the
model for Worlds fair picture. The
picture is to adorn the dome of the hor-
ticultural building.
IT is stated that among every 1000
bachelors there are thirty-eight GRIM
inals; among married men the ratio Is
only eighteen per 1000.
IT is proposed to rear insects for or
namental purposes the same as foreign
flowers and plants are acclimatized in
lighthouses and gardens
A BRASS BAND in New London, Conn,
apnounces that it has received two new
rges and is prepared to play at fune-
ais at the lowest figures
THERE is a sign on the entrance to a
cemetery at North Wales, Montgomery
county, Pa, which reads: mo admit
tance except on business"
GEN. BIDwELL, prohibition candidate
for president is native of Ohio, and
like Harrison, Reid, Cleveland and
Stevenson, Presbyterian.
JOHN A. BRAsHEAR, of Allegheny City,
Pa, the astronomer and manufacturer
of telescopes, was once laborer in one
of the Pittsburgh iron mills.
A CALL has been issued for a conven-
ton of confederate veterans to meet in
Columbia, S. c., on July 10 to organize
grand army of confederates.
KING OSCARS refusal to allow the es-
tablishment of separate Norwegian con-
sulates has caused widespread feeling
and demonstrations of disapproval in
Norway.
A SOLID gold brick, weighing 500
pounds, and worth $3.50, 200, will be ex-
hibited in the Mines and Mining build
ing at the Worlds fair by Helena
(Mont) mine owner.
THE new Kansas state house, on
which over 81, 900, 900 has been expended,
and which is not yet completed, is said
to be in danger of falling down, owing
TO poor material used.
LEO XIII was made pope at the age
of sixty-eight, and now, at the ad-
vanced age of eighty-two will attend
his parochial duties. His life has been
full of romantic and dramatic incidents.
ONE of the most eloquent preachers
In Canada is DIR. George Douglass, whose
arms are paralyzed and who is totally
blind. His arms hang helplessly by his
side, and his voice seems to come from
. dead body.
Az Ohio inventor has patented col.
lar in which the end buttonholes are
placed in tabs made of thinner mate
rial, thus avoiding the annoyance and
difficulty of buttoning a stiff and
atarched band
"PRNcE MICHAEL" the Iang-haired
leader OF the Detroit fanatics who has
just been sent to the stato prison, has
cold his hair and whiskers to a dime