The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-01
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propriately named Suffer
THERE are about 800 women under
takers in the United States.
VARIOUS parts of California, like Aus.
tralia, are plagued by rabbits
AN eight-year-old pianist in Berlin
has taken in &c. 600 in ten days.
The turtle lives for nearly century,
and the pike for about 175 years.
ONLY two Americans, it is said, were
naturalized in England last year.
The New York police force is making
active war on the clairvoyants of that
city.
STARFIsH have the power to change
their color to that of surrounding OBJ
jects.
ONLY naturalized citizens will be eln.
ployed on Philadelphia public works
hereafter.
SECRETARY HERBERT promises to
strictly apply civil service rules TO the
navy yard.
The eulogy on Blaine in Boston, May
., will be delivered by Senator Frye, of
the Pine Tree state.
A DIME museum giantess who died at
Des Moines, Ia, the other day was
eight feet in height.
BosToN's three greatest fres-those
of 1872, 1889 and 1S03-were all rung
from the same box-52.
The widow of Gen. Sheridan went TO
the white house the other day to pay
her respects 20 the president.
CRoswELL, Mich, with a population
NJ 1- I,, 1,I.,.
more are being talked of this spring.
SECRETARY MORTON is to cut down
the working force of the agricultural
department and save Sc, 600 a month
RECENT census Investigations show
that nine-tenths of the whole gypsy
population of Europe are in Hungary.
THE king of Greece receives the
smallest pay of any European sover.
eign, his salary amounting to 500, 900.
A FINE herd of buffalo, owned by e.
M. Hewens, of Chautauqua county,
Kansas, will be taken to the Worlds
fair.
A DOCTOR in New York is said to have
just regained powers of speech and
Nearing after their absence for sixty.
five years,
The marquis of Londonderry has the
smallest pony in the world. 1t weighs !
only 16 pounds and at its birth was but
1873 inches high.
CoLDwATER, Mich, has factory that
manufactures a fine cedar" cigar box |
from white wood. The output for 1892 |
was 299, 500 boxes.
The largest aquarium in the world is
being completed at the Worlds fair.
specimen of every fish in the American
waters will be in it.
The German empress is said to owe
single Berlin store $4,000. Both the
emperor and the empress are said to be
very heavily in debt.
A LARGE hotel will shortly be built !
at Slater, Mo, by a number of colored .
capitalists for the accommodation OF |
members of their race.
Mrs. NJ. A. HAULENBEcK, who has
been commercial traveller for ten
years, earns $1,000 a year in commits
sions upon the sales she makes.
WHAT is known as plug hat is not a
article of headgear in Ger.
many. In one of the smaller towns il
Is worn only by chimney sweeps.
A WESTERN Kansas paper says that
ga fine new school-house has Just been
finished in that town, capable of ac.
800 students four stories
high.
A. NJ. CHISHOLM, who conducts a
farm near Hecla, S. D., claims tc
own a calf which has a wing grow
ing from its body near the shoulder
blade.
EX-SECRETARY TRACY says that in
addition to the hard labor and con.
slant anxiety, his cabinet life cost him
about $50, 900 a year over and above his
salary.
THERE is no Pacific coast represe nta-
tive in the Cleveland cabinet, and Mr..
Morton, secretary of agriculture, is the
only representative of the territory
west of Chicago
GOOD imitation of maple sugar can
be made by flavoring ordinary brown
sugar with an extract of hickory bark.
1t is said to be almost indistinguishable !
from the genuine.
The last surviving relative of Aaron
BUR- is dead He was the inventor of |
the Burr hat machine, which made mil
ions of hats in year, and revolution
zed the trade.
A BOY at Orlando, Fla, rides
bycicle and drives milk wagon at the
same time. He rides beside the wagon
lexterously handling the reins and
guiding the horse.
WIsCoNsIN's colossal Worlds fair
nonolith is likely to remain at its
quarry, for the Legislature doesn't see
is way clear to order S25, 900 spent to
remove the shaft to Chicago.
THE people of Philadelphia are insist
ng upon the appointment of milk in
'pectors. The proposed bill will per-
NIT the sale Of milk from registered |
1airies only by licensed venders.
Mrs. BELLAMY SToRER, of Cincinnati, !
the owner of the Rookwood potteries, is |
planning an elaborate exhibit at Chi. |
,ago. She received over one hundred |
awards at the Paris exposition of 1880. .
HARRY p. SWIFT, a recent medal win
ler in the postal service, on duty in .
New York, memorized in six months .
,ver half the post offices in the United |
States, which, in 1892, amounted to ST..
i6S
WILLIAM ORDwAY PARTRIDGE, the |
Boston sculptor, gets $40, 900 for his
statue of Shakespeare, and will receive
B27, 600 for his equestrian statue of Gar
ield. He is only thirty-one years of
lge.
TIE nebos of the whales the German