The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-06-17
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write with both hands.
ONE of the lost arts IS the manufac
ture of malleable glass;
A Mr.. NICKEL. married n Miss Penny
out in Oregon few days ago.
WOLVES annually devour Russian
domestic animals worth 50, oOO, 900.
A PLOT of land on Broadway, New
York, recently sold for $55 square
foot.
ONE planter at Orlando, Fla, ha.
10000 pineapple plants under single
shed.
EXCELLENT wrapping paper is now
made from the stalk of the banana
plant.
NEARLY all the beef, mutton ant
poultry used in Florida comes from the
north.
A PROJECT is on foot in Denver tc
gild with silver the dome of the state
capitol
SEVERAL Shanghai chickens with /,
toes are the boast of George III. Ball, o.
Perrydale, Ore.
Four students named King, Duke
Earl and Lord attend school in South
Atchison, Kan.
OVER 1,SO0 stray dogs were captured
by the police during the past month in
the streets of London.
THE arrival is reported of a British
ship in London with G,OOO sealslIins
from the Antarctic ocean.
The emigration from Ireland during
1892 showed the smallest volume, with
four exceptions, since 1851.
AN ipS ip,,rnn1 Z, oo,,,
pany to guarantee the genuineness OF
alleged foreign noblemen.
PUBLIC schools have been in existence
in Massachusetts since 1645, and police.
men in New York since 1897.
THE horn fly has appeared in Vernon
county, Mo. 1t bites cattle day and
night and rests on their horns.
ARTHUR DAY, of Fayctte, Tex, has
been presented with twins by Mrs. Day
for the fourth time in six years.
A BAND of wild horses, which have
been a nuisance to British Columbia,
We're killed by the severe winter.
GREAT BRITAIN is gradually abolish
ing second-class railway coaches, re.
tanning the first and third classes.
OVER $4,000 women in this country
ferens kinds of china and pottery.
The kangaroo readily leaps from six
ty to seventy feet. The highest record
ed leap of a horse is thirty-seven feet.
A CLOTH of very fine texture is made
from the bark of the paper tree, null
berry growing in the South sea islands.
A BOMBAY newspaper calls attention
to the virtues of the castor oil plant as
means of protection against mosquit.
oes.
A YOUNG woman shot and killed a
shoe peddler near Midwife, Ga, few
days ago, who had sold her pair Of
shoes that did not suit.
A COMPANY of blind men recently ar
rived in birmingham, whittier they had
ridden on bicycles from London, dis.
tance of over one hundred miles.
A THOMAS county (Ga.) farmer has
Just purchased 600 barrels to ship his
cabbage .grown on eighteen acres,
which he says will net him $500.
JAMES L. LAYTON, of Goshen, Ind,
was granted a divorce, the other day,
and within an hour he had paid the
costs and married another woman
The breeding of canary birds is now
one of the most thriving Industries of
Germany. About 250,0CO of the little
songsters are raised there every year.
CHARDoNNET, an ingenious French.
man, has invented process for manu-.
featuring artificial silk that is said to
compare very fav0rably with the real
article.
A SEASIDE resort exclusively for the
use and enjoyment of the colored race
will soon be opened in Gravesend, l.. l.
The place will be called Douglas Park
by-the-Sea.
The wealth of the Russian State
church is almost incalculable. 1t
could pay the national debt amounting
TO nearly E200, ,006,O0O, and still be
enormously wealthy.
IT cost a young man nearly $500 at
the New York custom-house the other
day for goods he undertook to smuggle
Through and which he claimed were
presents for his f,ther.
CHARLES GoEsoD is white-haired,
stoop-shouldcred man, with soft smil
ing blue eyes and 2 full beard of old
gold copiously streaked with gray, and
Is much addicted to sealksin cap and
Q huge fur collar.
WHATEVER the poverty of the Brook
lyn tabernacle, DIR. Talmage himself is
not poor man. He is credited with a
fortune of 100000, and an income Of
e26, 900 from books, sermons, lectures
and editorial work.
M. PAsTEUR, the famous French sci
entist, has been suffering for some time
from organic weakness of the heart.
Many of the savant's friends fear that
he will never again entirely recover his
strength.
Ten pairs of Mongolian pheasants
have been sent from Portland, Ore, to
Mt Vernon, Gen. Washington's old
acme. They will be turned loose on
the estate to multiply and adorn the
grounds with their brilliant plumes.
CHRISTMAS island is one of the most
interesting in the world. 1t is 200 miles
from Java and consists largely of coral,
which rests on volcanic foundation.
The coral forms almost inaccessible
cliffs covered with luxuriant vegeta-
tion. In the day it swarms with huge
Grabs and at night with rats. Man
could not live on the island, as it does
not possess fresh water, the rain sink
ing into the rock.
The smallest child in North Carolina
was born to Mrs. James Delap, of