The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-06-10
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delivering messages on n bicycle
In some western cities letter carriers
now make their rounds on bicycles
RAPID growth of the finger nails is
considered to indicate good health.
VERY handsome dresses, and window
curtains as well, are now made of glass
in Austria.
ThE Mazarin Bible, one of the first
printed in metal type, has just been
sold for S24, 75O.
The bones or tombs of over two hum
dred giants have been found in various
parts of Europe.
The United States is the first city in
the worlds history to have three cities
of over 100000.
ADDIE +. JOHNSON, who lives near
Tallyho. w. Va, is engineer for grist
and planning mill.
IN Malaga workmen are allowed fif-
teen minutes leisure in every hour to
smoke cigarettes.
The Russian authorities have forbid
den the publication of marriage offers
in the newspapers.
IT would require 600. 900 full moons
to produce day as brilliant as one Of
cloudless sunshine.
The quantity of oranges and lemons
raised in Southern Italy last year is
placed at 81 900 tons.
THE Infanta Eulalie is represented in
the Chicago fair by two pretty vases
that she herself painted.
The emperor of Germany has had n
piano built, the case of which is made
out of bits of stags horns.
A MONSTER fur-bearing seal weighing
1900 pounds was caught in Elk creek,
ut Tilamooll, Ore. recently.
The state of South Carolina is the
largest producer of phosphate in tho
world. Florida ranks fourth.
OF the one hundred and seven grad
yates of the st. Louis high school this
year only sixteen are young men.
ACCORDING to the Kansas City Star
who can breathe through his ears.
Mrs. U. S. GRANT and Mrs. jeff Davis
will spend the summer at the same
hotel at Cranston's on the Hudson.
DIR. SARAH HACKETT STEVENSON, of
Chicago, was recently appointed mem
ber of the Illinois state board of health
OLD CHIEF JOHN, of the Saanich,
Indians, who died lately at Saanich
Arm, B. c., was reputed to be $50 years
old
THE state of Massachusetts at one
time previous to the revolution claimed
the Pacific ocean as its western bound
ary.
Mrs. WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS wife
of the American minister to Germany,
has crossed the Atlantic sixty-five
times
THE microscope made by the Munich
optical institute for the Chicago fair
magnifies 1000 diameters and is worth
SS,75O.
HAULING in the Brock mines at
Brockwayville Pa, is to be shortly ac-
complished by electricity in place OF
mules.
The highest masts of sailing vessels
are from 100 to $50 feet high, and
spread from 10000 to 100, 900 square feet
of canvas.
The Chinese, and not the Germnns
were the first discoverers of gunrow.
der, and, to their credit, they have
made the least use of it.
THE head of the dead sea lion is tc be
preserved in alcohol as a relic of the
only animal of its kind that ever put in
winter on Lake Michigan.
THERE is a cob-pipe factory at Hia.
watha, Kan, which has a standing or
der from an Ohio firm to take twenty.
five gross of pipes every day.
A DETROIT doctor, who undertook to
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located the knee joint of his patient
The victim has sued him for s., 600 dam
hges.
ONE of the dress reformers says that
If Providence Intended that woman
should wear II long skirt on rainy day
she would have been given third
hand.
PADEREwsKI is said to be one of the
most pious men!and his private chap
lain,- Rev. Hugo GoerlitZ, travels with
him to conduct morning and evening
prayers.
The Woman's First Dental Associa-
eral sessions in Chicago this summer at
the time of the dental congress, and as
part of it,
The remains of a gigantic race of ex.
tinct human beings have been dis
covered near Vasa, MINI. Each had
double teeth in front as well as in the
back part of the jaw.
MICE ate a hole through the bottom
of Adam Hinkleman's granary, near
Huntington, Pa, and three hundred
bushels of wheat streamed through in
TO the horse stable below.
THE skeleton of the whale lizard" 4"
discovered in Alaska last summer,
weighs 2, 400 pounds. This is the second
of the species so far known to science.
1t had both legs and wings.
MONTREAL citizen has succeeded in
getting his hired girl fined and impris.
oned for deserting his service without
notice. The fine was five cents and the
term of imprisonment five minutes
The highest chimneys in the world
are two in Glasgow, one being 46s feet
high and the other 455 feet, while one
near Cologne comes next with height
of All feet
THERE ere twenty-seven foreign-born
members of the Fifty-third congress.
Five of these are from New York, all
born in Ireland. But outside of New
York, Ireland can claim only three
men bers to her native soil.
THERE are stones in the Baalbec
walls 30 feet above the level, several OF