The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-10-07
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belgium has 15O, 900 saloons and 8, 900
schools
THE petticoat was first worn exclu.
sively by men.
INFANTRY tactics were originated by
the Athenians.
A New YORK STOCK EXCHANGE seat
sold recently for slT000.
THERE are 242 life-saving stations on
the coasts of this country.
The latest ocean steamship sugges.
tion is submarine trolley.
ABOUT one-fifth Of the whole number
OF Gotham's criminals are women.
THE unicyle is expected by the inven.
tor TO go mile in twenty seconds.
The earliest record of cavalry is on
the Assyrian monuments, about 1000
B.
Mrs. ULYSSES S. GRANTS memoirs
will not be published during the au-
thor's life.
The Harpers are said to have on hand
more than $50. 600 worth of accepted
manuscripts
Two-rHIRDs Of the gold now in use in
the world was discovered during the
last fifty years.
The formation in European armies is
the two-rank line introduced about
seventy years ago.
RECRUITS from the Chinese army are
not accepted unless they can jump q
ditch six feet wide.
ACCORDING to the English census
there are 26, 226 Americans living in
England and Wales
A PSALM book, printed in 1699 is in
the possession of M. w. French, Of
Union county, Mich.
The United States has q lower per-
centage Of blind people than any other
country in the world.
The children of the Aitutaki island.
ers are born with the left leg an inch
shorter than the right.
WOMEN voted for the first time in
New Haven, Ct, the other day at the
annual school elections.
In the army of Alexander the order
was SO close that the soldiers in the in
terior files could not turn.
AT the close of the Napoleonic wars
the English field artillery was con-
sidered the best in the world.
A TROUT with golden scales is re-
ported to have appeared in the streams
of Mt. Whitney in California.
The largest tomb in the world is the
pyramid of Cheops, 461 feet high and
covering thirteen acres of ground.
W. II. HUDSON, of Stevensville, Mich,
cleared $4,000 from his blackberries
this year. He has 100 acres of fruit.
The French government proposes to
impose fines upon railway companies
for trains that run behind schedule
time.
The name ''milliner" really means
"Milaner," the first hat trimmers in
England having been ladies from
Milan.
c. Fl. BIcKNELL is said to have chased
bear into a hotel at Fifield, Wis, Mr..
B. leading the chase by about a rod and
q half.
M. EMILE ZoLA is collecting funds
for the purpose of erecting monument
to the memory of the late Guy de Maui
passant.
BUFFALO, supposed to be virtually
extinct, are said to exist in great num-
bers in the northern wilderness of
Canada.
A MAN advertises for wife at Lex
ington, Mo-, and specifies that she
must be member of the Methodist
church.
IN Boston women own over $780, ,000,-
600 worth of property, and pay into the
local treasury every year about $780,.
900 in taxes.
The receipts from traffic on the
Brooklyn bridge are $50 day less than
last year. but the use of the promenade
has increased.
WITH hops scarce the world over,
Washington (the state) has had such
a great crop that she is sending part
of it to Berlin.
IT is estimated that the farmers Of
the United States lose 500, 900 an
nually from the depredations of various
kinds of insects.
BEING unable to collect town debt,
firm of contractors at Williams
Bridge, N. Y, have had the sheriff
seize the village safe.
FRENCH paupers are provided for by
the fund arising from a ten per cent
tx on theater tickets. This tax aver
ages $40, 500, 900 Il year.
The wings of butterflies are shown
by the microscope to be covered with
very minute feathers, each provided
with quill and flaments.
The average yield of potatoes to the
acre in France is 102 bushels; in Ger
many, 121; in Italy, 1864; in Holland,
1T; in the United States, 76.
ScULPToRs are working for 60 cents
per day of ten hours in Milan, Italy;
young artists who go to Italy to study
are satisfied to receive 25 cents per
day.
UPON the recommendation Of all the
governors of Russia the cZar has abol-
ished the use of the knout in the en-
pire, a. he found it has been greatly
abused.
THERE are 1875 male teachers in the
public schools of Boston and 1872
women. The average salary of the
former il s246. 06 per month and of the
latter $70.69.
FAYETTE county (Pa.) reports a
spring whose waters make the drinker
hilarious. A sportsman from Connells.
Vile found crowd of hilarious Hunga.
rians about the wonderful spring.
They let him drink, but swore him to
secrecy as to its location.
THE duke of Westminster, the rich
est nobleman in England, is known
among his intimates as ''Jack Shep