The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-16
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rags boiled in soda.
The authentic history Of China COM
menced 5000 years b. G.
HORSES are dying from the grip in
certain parts of Maryland
The first photographs produced in
England were taken in 1902.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN says he is toI
old to be president. He is 60.
The directors of the Worlds fair have
spent 200 already in postage.
New YORK state has thirty three cities,
Niagara Falls being the youngest.
A MAINE boy of eight years is said to
be able to repeat forty chapters of the
Bible.
IT cost over 5000 recently in legal fees,
in South Carolina, to settle u claim
of IS.
The contractor who built an Indiana
Jail now occupies one of its cells as
prisoner.
LYNNE, Ct, has citizen who owns q
communion cup with the date 1887 in
scribed on it.
HERBERT SPENCER has an intense dis
like to eating his meals with or before
other people.
FouR thousand one hundred and sew
enty-fve men are now employed upon
the Worlds fair grounds.
A PRBsBYTERIAN pastor at Greenville,
Ill, has a pulpit made of olive wood
from the Mount of Olives.
FoBTY thousand people witnessed the
launching of the cruiser Raleigh at
Norfold. Va, the other day
PHILADELPHIA has the biggest reel
truck. 1t weighs 16, 900 pounds and can
carry or bear $50, 900 pounds.
THERE seems to be an epidemic of
elopments in Scranton, Pa, five couples
having disappeared in ten days
Ex-QUBRN ISABELLA receives $150, 900
q year during her exile, but even that
large sum fails to cover her expenses.
The Jains, of India, frequently un-
dergo fasts of forty days, partal1ing
during that time only of warm water
A CASE Of the United States against
Chicago bank for $4,000 damages has
been pending in the courts for fifteen
years.
If all the money in the world were
equally divided among civilized people
every person would get six dollars as
his share.
FEWER paten is are granted to Missis-
sippians in proportion to population
than to tho citizens of any other state
In the union.
WHILE attending college at oberlin,
Steve Dorsey used to do odd jobs, such
as painting houses, to keep body and
soul together.
THE Koh-i-Noor, or mountain of light,
Is said to have been discovered in the
diamond mines of Golconda, more than
5000 years ago.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has given s100, 600
for library and gymnasium at Home
stead, Pa, to be used mainly by his
own workingmen.
OF the confederate generals only one
full general survives-P. 7. Beauregard
but there are upwards of 1870 surviving
brigadier generals.
The artistic work of the spider in
spinning his web is shown by the fact
that it takes 80, 900 of the fine strands to
cover an inch OF space.
THE empress of Russia is the first
lady to answer from a European throne
TO the invitation to take part in the
women's work of the Columbian exposi-
ton.
Mrs. JACKSON, the confederate SOL
dier's widow, is devoting all her time
now to the education of her two moth
erless grandchildren, Julia and Jackson
Christian.
SOME American surnames in Maine
are peculiar. For instance, Coolbroth,
Youngbaby, Lovely, Law, Look, Sensa-
bough, Comforth, SuclSforth, Skeetop,
Segar, etc.
A PATENT has recently been issued for
this "hair-tonic": Oil of onions, oil of
cabbages, oil of parsley, borax, sulphur,
sugar of lead, aqua-ammonia, salt, al
eohol and bay rum.
OLD peach trees are now being re-
ported from various parts of the coun-
try, but southern papers claim that the
oldest ree-bearing tree is living in
Georgia and is tifty-two years old.
THE temperature of well that is be-
ing sunk at Wheeling, w. Va, which
was 70 degrees at a depth of $500 feet,
is said to have increased to 10S degree
at 1890 feet and Ill degrees at 5, 400
feet
KING LEOPOLD, of Belgium, desires to
give his subjects voice in the govern
ment by allowing them to vote on
public questions, but strange to say
the Belgians are loath to accept the
proffered power.
TWENTY-FIVE cents was paid for a
horse at sale in Bucks county, Pa, the
other day, and the auctioneer threw il
halter to make respectable bargain
The horse dropped dead before the pur.
chaser got him home.
THE French minister of war has issued
an order that henceforth every officer
and every man in the French army shall,
when on active service, carry on his per
son material for first dressing in case
of his being wounded.
THTsTLEs in the pampas grow to q
height of ten feet, and clover rises -four
or five feet. Marigolds and camomiles
in North Africa grow to four or five
feet. In India the rhododendron grows
to the height of thirty feet.
In an article upon the recent Rou-
manian election, a French paper saysI
One of the candidates, M. Protopopesco,
former mayor of Bucharest, hit upon an
ingenious WY of increasing his chances
at the poll. Some time before the cleo
ton he purchased large stock of top
boots, and distributed a right boot to
each of his doubtful supporters, the left
Ipeing promised provided he was re-
turned.