The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-26
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IN ST. Petersburg, Russia.
1T is officially announced that Boston
has population of 5a0,0ON
oNE-THiRD of the worlds population
peak the Chinese language
WOMEN, on the average, marry four
gears earlier in life than men.
THE value of Canada's fisheries yield
Rst year is announced as s1S, 941, I'll.
NEW variety of orange from the
West Indies meets with much favor
Two-rHIRps of the gold now in use
has been discovered within fifty years.
SOME of the most palatable "chicl-
en-" croquettes about this time are made
OF veal.
CLOVER grows wild in Europe and
Asia. 1t was first cultivated in Holland
in 1860.
MASSACHUSETTS has one public H.
brary for every four thousand of its in.
habitants.
A WASHINGTON man has been arrested
charged with selling beer as soup in
large bowls.
A FUNERAL procession was attacked
and routed by hornets at Plainfeld, N.
j.. recently.
TIE German empire ha 5,27e, 900
farms, Of which e,e5s, 900 are cultivated
by the owners.
TAXING all the year round the coldest
hour OF the twenty.four is five o'clock
in the morning.
The duke Of York has become ten
ant farmer, and is to try his luck breed
ing Berkshire pigs
ALI the schools in the south of
Russia are being closed on account of
the prevalence Of cholera.
THE village of Millbrook, in Dutch
county, New York, counts eleven mill
lionaires among its residents
The public schools Of this country
have three hundred and sixty-nine
thousand teachers and thirteen million
pupils.
BELGIUM proposes to open an exposi-
tion next May, but the next great in
ternational fair will be held in Paris
in 1900.
LONDON adds nine thousand new
houses annually to its already immense
number, and twenty-eight miles of new
streets.
A New YORK sou ubrette advertised for
the return Of her 'long golden-haired
wig" in the metropolitan papers, few
days ago.
FISH, fruit and rare steaks should bs
the diet Of the aged, according to
magazine writer who forgets the
monotony.
OWING to the hard times six of the
seven churches in Kansas town have
dismissed their pastors and all wor-
ship together.
A KANSAS barber six months ago
taught his wife how to shave, and now
she is boasting that she can shave two
men to his one.
IT is new theory that watercresses
act on the lungs benefcially. Moreover
they are declared to possess wonderful
tonic properties.
THE Croton aqueduct is forty miles
long, having sixteen tunnels and
collecting reservoir of three million
gallons capacity.
NAIL-DRIvING contests for women
competitors are a leading feature at
county fairs and social gatherings in
Missouri just now.
A PARIS medical journal declares
3aundice is, or can be cured by eating
nothing but lettuce and lemons. What
do the doctors say?
A SAFETY envelope Just patented ia
DO folded and pasted together that il
can not possibly be opened without be.
ing entirely destroyed.
A BROOKLYN thief was betrayed by
hut ~f ;ol I, Lea /
hind in the fanlight of house he had
robbed few days ago.
In every mile Of railroad there is
seven feet and four inches that is not
covered by the rails-the space left be-
tween them for expansion.
AN Italian woman left her husband
In pawn with creditor in New York
recently while she went to cash check
with which to pay the debt
The Renville (Minn.) authorities
have put NJ. j. bowling, an editor, in
Jail for refusing to pay his poll tax.
He has neither legs nor arms.
The finest specimen of native gold
ever found was in Ural nugget, which
gave nearly 80 per cent of gold. the
balance being silver and copper.
A nugget Of gold ore containing
twenty-one ounces of gold, and worth
about s4oo was picked up in creek
near Grants Pass, Ore, recently.
The largest waves are seen off Cape
Horn, between latitude 55 S. and longi.
tude 1oS W., rising to 40 feet in height
and 766 feet long from crest to crest.
IT takes seven days after death, ac-
cording to Siamese belief, for the soul
to reach Heaven, and prayers are kept
up during that period to help it on its
way.
BY the tenth census ga, O10, 900 inhab.
itants Of the United States were sup
ported by agriculture, 1880, 900 by
manufactures and 15,62O, 900 by com.
merce.
The National Bank Of Italy, like tho
Bank of England, manages the finances
of the government 1t is practical
monopoly and has branches in every
large city.
CONSTANT AGONY was the sad name
OF a track walker on the Delaware &
Hudson railroad, who was struck and
instantly killed by an express train, at
Beckmantown. N. Y, few days ago.
THE destination of one of the duchess
of Yorlk's wedding cakes was poor
home in the east end of London. One
of the cakes was Z feet 9 inches high
and weighed between 800 and 900
weight
PROBABLY the greatest feat TO be ac-
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