The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-09-23

nreuy Is caused Oy tn0 SLOW comOu
tion of phosphorus in the system.
The guillotine upon which Marie An
toinette was beheaded Is claimed to be
on exhibition at the Worlds fair.
THE trichine found in infected pork
aro sometimes so numerous that 80, 600
have been found to the cubic inch.
JOHN MORRIS, of Yorkville, Racine
county, Wis, is the possessor Of a curl.
osity in the shape of horned hog.
The Veragua fund still consists Of
cavity surrounded by q great lack Of
confidence and filed with stlingency.
IT is claimed that Missourrs sorghum
crop this season will be the greatest
ever known in the history of the state.
MRS. LILLE DEvEREUx BLAKE treas
ures among her possessions yellow
brocaded silk dress worn by Theo 'osia
Burr.
WAsps are the most inveterate
enemies of flies. Reaumur says he has
known one wasp to kill a thousand flies
In day.
In recognition Of his services in con.
nection with the Behring sea arbitra-
ton, Hon. c. b. Tupper has been
knighted.
THE confederate monument at Chi
cago will be unveiled October Z. Col
W. c. P. Breckenridge will be th. orator
Of the day.
AS showing tho hardness OF the
times, bold highwayman the other
day held up a palace car porter and
''only got a."
In the United States and British
America there are 1s0, 1877 Sunday
schools. These are attended by over
ten million pupils.
A BUNCH Of sweet peas placed on q
piece of newspaper makes an excellent
fy-trap. The flies are said to suck the
deadly sweet of the flower and then
die.
A HEN owned by an Atchison (Kan.)
farmer, which. recently Matched out q
brood of ducks, says the Kansas City
Journal, has become natural swim
mer.
LIGHTNING struck a tree in Fitch
burg, N. Y, the other day, and laid
open cavity filed with choice honey.
But not a bee, dead or alive, was vis-
ible.
A YOUNG woman of Kalamazoo, Mich,
whose lover was recently sentenced in
Toledo for forgery, followed him to the
Jail, procured license and married
him.
Mrs. LIE BEAU, daughter of Mark
Beaubien, the man who, in 1888, built
the first frame house in Chicago, was a
visitor at the Worlds fair the other
day.
THE sad news comes that President
Carnot, of France, is suffering from a
cancerous affection of the liver, which
will require a dangerous operation
soon.
The tenth census shows that 24,-
100000 inhabitants of the United States
are supported by agriculture, 1880, 900
by manufactures and Is, $40, 900 by COM
merce.
A NORTH CAROLINA girl was halted
on the highway by three men. She
whipped out pistol, and firing on the
crowd, wounded one man and put them
all to fight.
EX-SENATOR THOMAS w. PALMER, of
Michigan has presented to the city OF
Detroit for park purposes farm of ono
hundred acres on which his grandfather
fled an entry in 1920.
The publishers of the Chicago city
directory claim that the statistics gath.
cred by them show that Chicago has
now population of q 100, ,0OO or 400, 600
more than New York.
N. c. CREDE, the founder of Creede,
Col, who was poor man a few years
ago. has purchased for $4,000 house
in Los Angeles, Cal, where he intends
To reside for his health.
ASA BARNETT, JR., a railroad brake
man residing in Lexington. KY, caught
with pole and line from the water
works reservoir a German carp weigh
ing sixteen and half pounds.
The latest born son of the crown
prince and princess of Greece makes
the number of the queens great-grand-
children sixteen. He is the eleventh
grandchild of the Empress Frederick.
The schooner Polly, which was
launched at Amesbury, Mass, in 1904,
is believed to be the oldest vessel
afoat. The Polly is now harbored at
Rockland, Me.
SNAKEs are more numerous along
the Mississippi and Wisconsin river
bottoms than ever before and many
large rattlers have been killed. They
are driven from the highlands by the
dry weather.
ANXIOUS mothers with marriageable
daughters might do worse than emf
CRATE to johannesburg, ia the Trans
vaal The population of that place is
said TO be ON the basis OF ten men to
every woman.
ora wager Negro named William
Neville, of Raleigh, N. c., attempted TO
drink i've cents worth of laudanum the
other day. He was unconscious for
twenty-four hours
A MACHINE for making tacks was
patented In 1906, but not put into prac-
Ncal use until near the middle OF the
eentury. Now the world consumes
$4,000. 900 tscks day.
CoLUNBIAS souvenir coins have not
proved Srontabls investment and
they ere finding their way back TO the
treasury in large punbers. along with
sthsr subsidiary coina tor redemptios
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