The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-28
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her public schools.
THUNDERBoLT is the name of a new
post Office in Georgia.
THERE are 6,3S5 women in charge OF
American post offices.
A COLONY of 800 colored persons have
Iottled in Alexandria, La,
NEW York is about to undertake the
erection of new city hall
AN eagle perched on Trinity steeple
In New York. the other day.
The rice crop in the south this year is
estimated to be 215, 900, 600 pounds.
IT is said that So, coo varieties of goods
nrc now manufactured from wood.
A GENEVA man has invented a watch
which speaks the hours and quarters.
WOLVES are reported to be very num-
eTous in the vicinityrof Elk River Minn.
A vAULT1NG editor in Kansas adver-
tises for dressed hog on subscription.
ST. PETERSBURG is preparing to build
a bridge over the Neva to cost S14, ,oOO,,
900.
Cock fighting has been reported by
seven judges as a legal sport in Scot
land.
MARIETTA man writes that in 1892
he made S2 90 net from each hen on bis
place
The Worlds fair buildings will cost
$40, 900, according to the latest esti.
mates
Mrs. HANNAH CHARD, of Port Norris
N. T., is reported to be nearly log years
of age.
THERE are stars whose diameter is
greater than that of our whole solar
system.
CHINESE evade the anti-opium law IN
this codntry by hiding the drug in wal
nut shells
THos j. CARPENTER, of Canton, Ga.
raised hog last fall which weighed
60e pounds.
KING HUMBERT and Queen Marghar-
ita are to celebrate their silver wedding
ON April 81.
Il HE city Of Lubbock, Germany, is pre-
pairing to celebrate this year its 75Oth
anniversary.
A LARGE deposit of alum, tits claimed
has been discovered near Asheyille. |
North Carolina.
Miss MARY MOODY, niece of the ia.
nous evangelist, intends to engage in |
missionary work.
A New YORK city shoemaker DISPLAYS
sign which reads as follows: "Squeaks !
taken out of shoes"
LITTLE alligators sent to France from
Florida are popular pets with fashion
able French women.
GLADSTONE has now attained a great
er age than any other prime minister of
England ever reached.
IN Prussia the price of medicine is
regulated by the state, and new price
list is issued annually.
Mrs. SnIoNs Of Sodaville, Ore, is
over 100 years old, and draws a pepsion
from the 1912 war fund.
Ice is quoted at six cents a ton at
Devils Lake, Mich, and at a cent a
pound at Shreveport, La
OF lS4,3S2 recruits received into the
German army and navy recently only
e24 could not read or write
The mineral production of Idaho for
1892 was S15, 5,OT5,OOO, a falling off OF
nearly so per cent. from 1891
MCILYIN FRILAY, OF Bangor. Ne, ,,
broke his collar-bone a short time ago
while trying to put on his ulster :
The Kansas State Agricultural col. !
lege has received a4S, 900 from the United ,
States during the past two wears.
MRS JEFFERSON DAVIS has declined r
the proposition of her Georgia friends :
to raise for her cash gift of $40, 600. +
IHE governor of Mississippi offers a p
reward of 100000 for each white cap :
convicted in the courts of that state. n
SOME Missouri tobacco seed raised ,
twenty-nine years ago was planted in 2
kentucky in 1892 and grow nice crop. d
PUBLIC library has been founded in t
Panama in commemoration of the 80 itn q
anniversary of the discovery of Amer. f
Ica.
THE valley of Roam creek, near De-
Beque, Mesa county, Col, has been =,
stocked with several hundred eastern Y
quail l
II is related of Maximilian, the giant =
Roman emperor, that he could grind to -
pieces of hard store to powder between -
lis fingers. =
THE Sedalia Razoo describes Gov. =,
stones inaugural address as "beautiful /,
is tinted sky and fragrant with the "
'oses of thought" =;
LYMAN WILCOX, living near Hudson.
Mich, had eight teeth kicked out by
'icious colt. They were false, and the
ientist fixed them in again e:
PRESIDENT DIAz is one of the hardest o
worked men in the republic. He is v
iXty-two years old, but his life has IL
'een so temperate that he looks much d.
s.
j. M. HoLLEDRoF, colored. who was NJ
ately elected tax receiver of Camden III
ounty, Ga, is said to be the first col 3
red man ever elected to that position al
n the state.
TABLE constructed of various his
oric woods is to be placed in the wom- n,
ms building, at Chicago, by the ladies n,
I Dauphin county, Pa The center M
iece is of olive wood from the Mount dc
+ Olives. :;
AN English sparrow flew into toy
tore at Port Carbon, Pa, and alighted
pom the money drawer. The voracious III
ird seized dime and took wings for !"
be outside world. or
THERE are in existence, it is claimed. 20 20
oecimens of paper made from rags as ~ ~
arly as the fourteenth century, the -
ldest extant being, it is reported, a A. A.
'tter from Joinville to Louis x. OF VI
rance, dated A. D., 1916.
MORGAN RUSSELL brought suit at Boil.
lr, Mo-, for payment of services in st
ringing about the marriage of John c. ia!
aymond and Miss Nancy L. Carter. po