The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-02-18
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phia netted about $22, 900.
JUPITER was known to the Chaldeans
as planet as early as b. G. 5000.
HEBER NEWTON is spoken of as a
successor to the late Bishop Brooks.
A WYOMING caucus has nominated
Mr.. Corn for senator from that state
GARF1ELD's son Irwin McD. is chosen
senior class day president at Williams.
A FIvE-LEGGED hog, it is reported, is
an animal monstrosity of Howells, Neb.
The stocking of Pacific coasts waters
with Holsters is meeting with great sue.
cess.
RESIDENT of Colon, Mich, adver.
tises that he will clean chimneys and
wells.
SINGLE factory in North Carolina
iS now turning out 1000, 900 cigarettes
daily.
The strongest telescope brings the
moon to an apparent distance of 100
miles
The Paris-decreed hoopslSirt has al.
ready made it's appearance in New
York.
Mrs. GEORGE DREW BARRYMORE has
entirely recovered her health, it is re-
ported.
THERE is said to be more illiteracy in
Portugal than in any other country OF
Europe.
The Alabama legislature has finally
decided against calling a constitutional
convention.
ECLIPsEs of the sun were calculated
by Egyptian and Athenian astronomers
as early as 1886 b. c.
A sEvENTEEN-MoNTHs-o OLD hog, owned
by resident of Sedalia, Mo-, is claimed
to weigh 726 pounds.
IN Spain it costs 500, 900, 900 to main.
tain the army and only $1,000, 900 to
educate the children.
The suggestion is made that the ma,
ton proceed at once to the erection of a
monument to Mr.. Blaine.
The oldest American citizen now in
public life is Senator Morrill,, of Yer.
mont, who was born in 1S10.
CHARLES A. DANA will be invited by
the Boston common council to deliver
the eulogY upon Gen. Butler.
ANY one who can pay the fare can
now go from New York to Egypt with
only one change of steamers.
The hotel proprietors of Jacksonville,
Fla, say that so far this years business
n far ahead of any previous season.
JOHN TRIPLETT, resident of Black
Fox, Tenn, claims to have shot rabbit
the other day which weighed twelve
pounds.
The landau used by Marshal Bazine
during the siege of Metz is now used as
postal wagon between two villages in |
Lorraine.
GENUINE amber is becoming very
scarce and it is believed that within a
few years the worlds product will be
exhausted.
The average weight of the Chinese
brain is said to be heavier than the
average weight of the brain in any
other race.
THE pin is no new contrivance. They |
are found among the mummies OF
Egypt and in the prehistoric caves OF
Switzerland.
The use of ornamental terra Gotta as
u building material has increased |
greatly in New York city during ths
past ten years.
THE pastor of Sedalia, Mo-, church |
a3vertises good music and short ser.
MONS" with the result that his church |
is always filled.
A STEEL chimney has been built in |
Chicago which, it is said, is $50 feet
high, with an outside diameter of nine |
feet five inches
THE Mount Blanc observatory is prac. |
tically complete, and will be placed in
position as soon as the parts can be car
ried to the summit.
AMONG the estates left by persons
who died in Vienna intestate, and |
whose heirs have not been found, is one
consisting of an opera-glass.
A PHILADELPHIA minister manifolds |
his sermons and sends them to those |
members of his congregation whose |
absence he notes during service.
Mr.. PowEEs, an advertisement wri- |
ter for a cod liver oil company, earned |
$50, 900 the same year that w. d. How |
ellis received SIS, 900 from great maga-
zine.
The khedive of Egypt uses a type
writer, and is SO pleased with the in
strument that it is said he has con-
ferred the honor of the Mejidie on the |
inventor.
The federal and cantonal authoritie |
o. Switzerland will shortly begin prep |
arations for the art and industrial expo |
sition to be held in the autumn of 1896 |
at Geneva
IT is said ice will be higher next SUN
mer because it was more expensive to |
cut during the very cold weather
Nothing seems to work in the consum-
ers' interest
MAXINE LIsBoNNE, Frenchman,
drives through the streets of Paris in a |
conveyance propelled by electricity sell
ing Revolutionary fried potatoes" to |
the Parisians-
A BEAR recently chased West Vir- |
ginia boy and the lad only made his
escape, it is reported by crossing the |
river on the ice, jumping from blocl to |
block.
The Bellefonte (Pa.) furnace, which |
has been idle two years, will resume |
about March /. The Bellefonte glass |
works will also be blown in. Employ |
ment will be opened for nearly 1000 |
men.
VIM HEADLEY, of Union City, Erie |
county, Pa, has taught school in that |
vicinity for forty-eight consecutive |
terms and is still teaching. He is per-
sonally known to nearly every man in
the county.
IL the sun were TO be represented by |