The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-05-27
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and OF excellent quality this year.
THERE are more than 90, 100 varieties
Of apples raised in the United States.
KANSAS is rated rs tho first egg pro
ducing state and Missouri tho second
A ANusKALoNeE weighing sph pound,
was caught recently at Alpeng. Mich
Tuh Maryland peach crop this sum
mer Is expected to be unusually heavy
IT Is said to cost $40. oUo year to
keep st. Peters church at Rome in re.
pair.
ONE out Of every $50 inhabitants OF
tho United States owns or rides q
bicycle.
TIE population of New York state Is
greater than the entire population oi
Canada.
IT is reported that an effort Is being
made In London to ro-introduce tha
sedan chairs.
GALVESTON artesian we'll was sunk
5000 feet without encountering either
rock or water.
THERE are two towns in Kansas which
report an even 1000 populatio.a-Alma
and Cherokee.
OWING to the rate war in Colorado
one can ride 800 miles in that state for
twenty-five cents.
A IEXAs man has stone which he
claims will cure all aches and pains To
which flesh is heir
PENSION OF 5000 francs asyear has
been granted to Mme Renan by the
French government.
WEST NipnISY. -. IL. L = \
woman who has two distinctly differ
ent voices-bass and tenor
ALL sorts of wonders are found in the
soil OF Jasper county. Mo. A petrified
hornets nest is the last one.
A JACKSONVILLE (Ore man has sued
one of his neighbors for calling him a
bigger ass than Pennoyer."
IHE total number Of American news
papers has grown from 5,3I9 TO 2O,OOa
during the past twenty-five years.
The empress of Russias physician
when in attendance upon his august
patient receives q fee of $3.50 day.
THE mail carrier between Troy and
Asheboro. in North Carolina, walks a
distance of thirty-:hree miles every
day.
The royal family of England is the
largest in Europe. Her maicsty's fam
lily circle numbers fifty living descend.
ants.
THE backward season iu Nevada has
protected the fruit. and the pasturagc
will be exceedingly tine. owing to heavy
rains and snow.
SEVERAL letters written by Queen
Victoria, an oddity in the autograp oh
market. were recently sold at good
prices in London.
RAFTsMEN have found the petrified
body of man named Graham. who dis.
appeared eight years ago. in the Big
Sandy river. w. Va.
DR.. WlRoRa. chief Immigrant inspec
tor for Chicago, and his assistant IN.
spectcd, last month, 100 trains of All
oars, with 1871 passengers.
A Girl. residing in a Lake Michigan
town has recovered $500 damages from
a steamboat company for naming
boat after her without asking her per.
EVEN in Finland women have gone in
quests OF their rights. and with success,
for they are now employed there as
clerks. doctors, dentists, house build.
ers. etc.
A CHICAGO man has constructed
checker board in which there are 2s,.
070 separate pieces of wood. glued to.
gether with the finest art. 1t is valued
1t $1,000.
THE total attendance at the Worlds
fair during the first eleven days is near
ly 2lS, 900 greater than that at the Cen.
tennial exposition during the cores.
ponding period.
THE Harvard authorities will make
use of the legacy of sl5O,OOO left to the
versity by Katherine Page Perkins
erect q dormitory to be known as the
erkins hall.
GEORGIA editor recently bought
cycle, so that he might run down
delinquent subscribers; but the sheriff
levied on the bicycle and is now run
ming dowMthe editor.
THE only member of the British royal
ty who does not pay postage is the
duke OF Cambridge. exempted as com.
chief. All the others hav.
70 put up their stamps
THE state capital at Albany, N. Y,
even 10 Its unfinished state. is the cost
liest building of modern times. Nine,
teen million six hundred Thousand dol.
lars have been expended upon it TO
date.
THE most expensive municipal hall in
the world and the largest in the United
States is the city building of Philadel-
phia, upon whose yet unfinished tower
the largest clock in the world is TO be
displayed
DURING the recent cyclone an old
barn on the plantation of Mr. Johnson,
near Quitman. Ala. was blown apart.
but several hundred bushels of field
peas that were upon the floor remained
THE largest gold nugget ever found
In Colorado weighed X pounds; the
largest in the United States weighed
l6l pounds and 6 ounces; the largest in
tho world. 22s pounds and ounces.
The Butler (Mo) Times says that G.
A. Todd has t new design for jail.
The cells are made of water pipes.
When one is cut into the water shoots
sut and the pressure being relieved,
yives the alarm in the jailcr's Office.
MAE. IDA LANE My of Vienna has
liscovered a new use for cigar ribbons
She made gown of 5000 narrow yellow
oues, with stripes of plain black dress
goods. This gorgeous robc has been
greatly admired at a soirec in Vienna.
TxE old mint at Philadelphia is soon