The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-11
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tain about fourteen grains of gold-
IT has been colder in Constantsnople
this winter than for fifty years past.
IN Pennsylvania a man has been fined
$1,000 for calling another 'Molly Ma
guire."
A WRITER in the Critic estimates
Zola's literary earnings for twenty
years at S40O 900.
If you were on the moon the earth
would appear to you siXty-four times
larger than the sun.
AT Norwich, England, a thirty-fve
ton weight stone has been quarried. 1t
is the largest on record.
The California assembly has passed
a bill making prize-fghting with or
without gloves felony.
A MISSISSIPPI man is suing his wife
FOR divorce on the ground that she
makes him do the cooking.
COW at Gainesville, Tex, has an ap-
,tite for colored Autographs and post
bills, which it seems to enjoy
A LOUISVILLE girl who plays the cor.
net has discovered that playing wind
instruments produces dimples
A BIRD in the London ZOO, a shell
drake, committed suicide recently on
account of the death of it's mate.
To BE up with the times you must not
call it 'foul air" any more. The new
medical name is ''crowd poison"
IT is said that with vocabulary of
LOCO words a man can transact all the
ordinary business matters of life.
j. w. Felkuer, of Palatka, Fla, is
the owner of an English coin which, he
claims, bears the date of the year 1924.
GLADSTONE is to be the name of the
new city to be founded by capitalists
on the bank of Little Bay DNoc, Michi-
gan.
WOMEN are employed at railroad
switches and crossings in Italy because
they do not get intoxicated so often as
the men.
Mrs. STEVENSON, wife of the vice
president-elect, has been elected presi.
dent of the society of the Daughters of
the Revolution.
THE telautograph, an instrument for
transmitting messages in fac-simile at
any distance and with great rapidity, is
late invention.
REV. FRANCIS WELLS, who died late
been the inventor of the machine for
making paper bags.
Fort SCoTT will soon have the largest
paper mill of any kind in the state OF
Kansas, and the only one that converts
cane pulp into paper
IT is estimated that in the United
States and Canada six out of every ten
young men who have reached the age
of thirty are unmarried
TEXAS editor being asked why he |
discontinued publishing replied, Every.
body else stopped my paper, so l con.
cluded that l would too"
MISS JULIA BRYANT daughter of VIM.
Cullen Bryant, the poet has given 1000
volumes from her fathers library to the
trustees of the Tilden trust.
Mrs ENGMoNs blaine has given S1O,-
900 with which to found a library for |
the city of Augusta, Me. The gift is in
honor of her husbands memory.
AN Andrew county (Mo.) man who
stopped the mail carrier in the road to
quarrel with him has been arrested for
delaying the United States mail.
JOHN NJ. WEBSTER, of Tennessee, has |
brought suit against his wife for dam
ages, because she would not allow him |
to sell his farm and ferry for steam
boat.
DEATH has no terrors for Mrs. Annie |
Besant What the majority of mankind |
regard as theory to be decided she de-
fines as "a choice relief from the bur
den OF the flesh"
HERMAN ENDEMANN, a chemist, testi.
fed in the whisky trust inquiry the 9th
er day that tablespoonful of any of
the essences used in adulterating liquor
would kill a man.
IT cost Mrs. Fritz W. Hinkley, nee
Florence Blythe, of San Francisco, !
1884, 324 A to secure her inheritance of !
H,OOO,O0O, that being the amount |
claimed by her lawyers and the execu-
triX.
The imperial infantry and cavalry
bands of Germany, composed of one
hundred men, each of whom stands six
feet or more in height has made an en-
gagement to play at the Chicago
Worlds fair
Mrs. ANDREW CARNEGIE displays the
almost care in the distribution of her
charities. All the needy cases that
come to her notice are thoroughly in
vestigated, and help is given only to
She really deserving.
WHILE u peasant wedding party
was crossing the Dnieper, near Eltater-
inoslav, Russia, the ice broke and two
s'edges with ten persons disappeared
under the water. All were swept un-
der the ice and drowned.
ty-two years it is computed that the av-
erage life of women in France has been
thirty-eight years, and of len thirty.
six years. During last year, however,
the average rose to forty years for both
sexes.
QUEEN VICTORIA, Princess Christian
and Princess Beatrice will each con-
tribute at least one original piece of
literary work to the woman's exhibition
at the Worlds fair.
The greatest number of people ever
killed by an earthquake since the dawn
of history was roo 900. The date of
the terrible disaster was 1908, and the
scene of the most violent disturbance
at Yeddo Japan, and vicinity.
You may hire almost anything in
New York, even to an aquarium stocked
with sea vegetation and strange crea-
lures of the deep. The aquarium is sn
occasional table ornament at feast
and is usually hired for the occasion.
JOHN B. RonEN, storekeeper al
Rirminphnu Ala oftar lis+or;,,. a. .