The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-09
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BABH ALFONSO Is on VnS new SVpanlSn
postage stamp
AN inverted rainbow was seen a few
days ago near Jefferson, la.
New WORKERS propose to go to the
Worlds fair ia private yachts.
THERE rs n falling off of 500 in the
registratSoN of women in Kansas.
THE city of Philadelphia is sued for
100000 by hcirs'cf Benjamin Franlsliu.
BISMARCK used to say that Salisbury
was q pine latSn painsed to look like
iron"
EnmT+SoR Wm.LIAM is planning TO 60
a whaling excursion off the coast of
Norway.
IT will take two years to complete
che ironclnds the United States is pre-
pairing to build.
The sdheol chiltren of Japan on one
day of the year are taken on a rabbit
hunting frolc
A Poor RICHARD ALMANAcrof 175S
HoM for S35 at an auction in IHhiladel-
phia n few days ago.
A "cltILDREN's TEMPLE" is to be erect
ed at Camden, n. j., attached to the
Trinity Baptist church.
A'oRow with only one leg, end upon
that leg only one toe, was q curiosity
'shotrecently at Lenoir, n. c.
PREMIER LoUBET said France would
not tolerate politics from the pulpit,
and would close offending churches.
PRoBARLY the only monument to Co
lumbus in the United States is in Balti-
more, and was erected 100 years ago.
THE decree prohibiting tine export Of
wheat meal from Russian ports ON the
.Azof and Black seas mas been repealed.
IT was the Boston Courier man who
discovered that "a chaplain in apeniten-
'tiary never has to exert himself to hold
his audience"
A COCOON of a well-fed silk worm will
often yield a thread 1000 yards long,
and one has been producod which con-
tanned 1,2o5 yards.
AN Eskimo village, inhabited by from
fifty to seventy-fVenat of the frozen
regions, win be one of the sights at the
Worlds exposition.
B. f. HULL, on his placenear Orlando,
Fla, has grape fruit tree 81 inches in
circumference, and an orange tree As
inches in circumference.
A MONKEY in the Philadelphia zoo
tried to commit suicide by cutting his
throat with piece of glass, after his
mother had whipped him.
IN prosecuting her mission for the
lepers of Siberia, Miss Madden has trav-
eled 1000 miles on horseback and has
secured 81, 900 for hospital.
QUEEN MARSIIERTTA, of Italy, will
lend her famous collection of laces to
l,a 90 tf,r,, &c 70
be one of the finest in the world.
PULLMAN's daughter Julia selects the
names for all OF his sleeping and palace
cars, and he is said to pay her $1,000 a
year for the exercise of her ingenuity.
The new clock being made for st.
Pauls cathedral in London will have a
face thirty fcctin diameter. The ham.
mer which strikes the bell weighs CSC
pounds.
THE people Of Rome get their supply
of water, which is,saidto be remarkably
pure, from the Aponnines through an
aqueduct that was constructed 1000
years ago.
REV. Mr.. y'wIaa, of Middletown,
Mo, is not onRy an eloquent preacher
but also a skilled trapper He has just
sold S99.75 worth of skunk skins of his
own catching.
Cool as a cucumbe is scientifical =
ly correct. Investigation shows that
this vegetable has a temperature one
degree below Glut of the surrounding
atmosphere.
WOMEN from The land Of Isabella viii
find sisterly welcome at Chicago. A
Spanish club has been organized by a
number of Chicago women who speak
that language
UNDER 1870 of the wills probated dur
ing last year IN this country, the be-
quests for religious, educational and
charitable purposes have amounted to
shout 81 ,oG0, 600.
JOHN II. IFMAH, the richest man OF
the south, was .. drummer hoy in the
confederate array, und when the wai
was over he did not have cent or {
friend to help him.
A LOCOMOTIVE, drawing fonr passenger
coaches, has recently DOM =. mile in 80 4
seconds on the Reading road, which
would come very near to 100 miles al
hour if maintained.
Nor even a charming wife and big
salaries for lecturing can keep Henry
M. Stanley from Africa. He will go tx
the Congo again next summer, it is re
ported, to look after new interests ot
the independent state.
SENATOR GALLINGER, of New Hamp
shire, who was once a printer, has ac
'cepted an invitation 10 deliver the dedi
catory address at the ceremonies incident
to The opening of the Printers associa
ton lat Denver in May.
LEMONS are used for soap in many
countries where they grow. When the
men and women of the East Indies want
to wash their hands they squeeze tht
juice on % lemon over them brisEly ~
water until they are clean.
OXFORD county, Maine, turns out
nearly all of the spools on which the
thread of this country is wound. They
are made from white birch timber and
are produced by the million.
Gov. EAGLE, OF Arkansas, is by oa
eupation a farmer and by inclination q
preacher, baptist congregations some
times invite h.. to fill the pulpit, and
he is said TO ISe an cxhorter of no mean
power.
In German literary publications dur
ing 1891 theology held tho first place.
Out of 1880 literary productions, 1,703
belonged to the province of theology
and 1881 TO literature proper novels,
poems, dranas).
TIE archbishop of Canterbury has