The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
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opened in London.
The cost of the capitol at Washington
has exceeded s3O 900, 900.
A PENNY changes hands 1875, 600 times
in the course of lifetime
CONSUMPTION is said to be unknown
where cows milk is not used.
IT is limited that Inauguration rates
from the south may be cut to cent a
mile.
A LIVERPOOL hotel has placed in each
room a telephone connected with the
office.
IT is twenty years since Pasteur be.
gan his notable experiments in germ
culture.
SCARCITY of grain cars in the west
is causing great annoyance to large
shippers.
The new Union station in St Louis
will cover thirty-two trains and cost
$500, 900.
A BALTIMORE man is sueing young
woman of that town for possession OF
his love letters.
FEMALE suffrage was beaten in the
Missouri house of representatives by
vote of 65 to 4S
The Mexican government has adopted
measures to retire the big copper cents
from circulation.
TEXAS permits high-toned convicts to
hire substitutes to work for them in
the convict camps.
A NEW county in the pine country OF
northern Wisconsin has been named
after Senator Villas.
TWENTY-FIVE boy pupils of a school at
Milton, Ore, were recently expelled for
smoking cigarettes.
IRELAND sends annually 10000 tons
cf eggs-some 640, 900, 900 in round num-
bers-to England alone.
SEVEN new planets, all small, the
largest of the ninth magnitude, were
discovered during January.
THE province of Ontario has decided
to admit women to the practice of law
In the dominion of Canada.
A LARGE boulder of galena recently
mined at Carterville, Mo-, is said to
have weighed ., 45O pounds
A HANDSOME park, in memory of Ed
ward p Roe, the late novelist, is to be
laid out in Cornwall New York.
ORIENTAL gardeners produce Change
able roses" which are white in the
shade and blood-red in the sunlight
Two Chattanooga policemen were
'held up" by one man. He got the
drop on them, but that was all he did
get.
ALL railroad lines leading to the south
are short of cars This indicates good
movement into q country fast develop
ing.
AN investigating committee of the IL
linois legislature found in Chicago
sweaters who were paid four cents an
hour
A LITTLE borax put in water in which
scarlet napkins and red-borGered towels
are to be washed will prevent them
from fading.
A NERyY correspondent of the Boston
Pilot tried to work 1.-THE Burial of Sir
John Moore" off on that journal as ar
original poem.
A POT of gold and silver coins OF
American raintage was dug up neal
Pittsfield, ILL.,, recently. The value OF
the find was 1925.
MME. PATTI is said to have relin-
quished her intention to visit the birth.
place of her father in Sicily, owing to
her fear of possible capture by brig.
ands.
IN the south an average mule is
worth S7O and a pair of extra good
ones will bring $500 or more Louis
vile is the great mule market of the |
south
IN the British patent Office, where of
all places in the world one wouldeX.
pect to find things ordinarily ''up to |
date" the steel pen is unknown and the |
antediluvian goose quill absolute and |
supreme.
THERE are now living within radius
of ten miles of Ashland, Me-, eight
American women who are the mothers |
of 102 children, eighty of whom are liv-
ing in the enjoyment of good health
and sound minds.
WITH nothing but a jackknife,
Adolph Sjohrim, Marquette Swede,
has constructed the frame of clock
representing an ancient castle. He used
various kinds of wood and worked on
the job for two years.
A VALUABLE contribution to the rel
les for the confederate museum, at
Richmond, was received several DAYS
ago. 1t is a bound album containing
over eighty specimens of notes issued by
the confederate states.
"WHAT foolish nonsense for men to
say they are too poor to we'd" says
Susan b. Meredith THAT is the ex,
cuse they make when they wish to
shirk their duty. Every man can marry.
1t is money in his pocket"
AN immense ore dock is being built at
Onesta, near Duluth, MINI. The struc-
ture, which, it is claimed, will be the
largest on the lakes, is to be 2, 500 feet
in length, so feet wide and height above
mean water level, 525l feet.
GENUINE volcanic dust has been founo
in Kansas and the Indian Territory.
There is a deposit near Galena in the
territory which is said to be many feet
in thickness.
A NUMBER of leading statesmen in
Montana are of the opinion that at
least twenty-five Per cent of the cattle
on the ranges in that state have per.
tshed in the late cold spell.
HUNTERS in and around Crisfeld, Md,
claim to have found many thousands OF
terrapin in the marshes near there dur.
ing the past month. The terrapins usu.
ally lie dormant in the winter, but have
been frozen out of their holes by the in.
tensity of the weather
A RESIDENT of Kansas Citv. Mo. WIN