The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-29

sticlipins.
The distance from the farthest point
of polar discovery to tho pole itself is
$50 miles,
In Norway the average length of life
Is greater than any other country on
the globe.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's summer house is
called Belvoir, which means fair to
look upon
a CLOAK made of prairie chickens
feathers viii be exhibited at the
Worlds fair.
A New YORKER is suffering from
blood poison, the result of bite from
a pet parrot.
AT Troy. Kas., it took two iuries two
days to disagree about forty cents
worth of wine.
a PUBLISHING house in New York has
press that turns out five thousand
novels an hour.
STATESMEN in Rhode Island are hired
for 81 per day to work as members of
the legislature.
A CONVICT in the Vermont state prison
received S12, coo for u piece Of real estate
q few days ago.
TIE oldest violin in the world was
found in an Egyptian tomb dating
about 1000 B. c.
SOME one suggests a Christian cele-
bration of all Christians in 1900, to be
held in Jerusalem.
THE most perfect echo is at Killar-
ney, Ireland. 1t repeats cornet note
nearly twenty times.
A NAN at Exeter, Me-, who is worth
100000, takes delight in leading q brass
band as drum major.
The United States has o less percent
age of blind people than any other
country in the world.
THERE are no less than twenty-five
well known journals devoted to spirit
ualism and ghost lore.
ALFRED MACE, u son of the once fa-
nous pugilist, Jem Mace, is now
preaching in the west.
FRUIT prospects, according to the
Missouri state board Of agriculture, are
She best for some years.
we largest single fortifcation in the
world IS Fortress Monroe. 1t has al
ready cost over S3.O0O,OOO.
KANSAS, Colorado and Nebraska rain.
makers have formed a trust and will
charge $1,000 for one rain.
PARIS has an insurance company that
refuses to issue policies on the lives of
any people who use hair dye.
TIE deepest English colliery at pres.
ent is Moss colliery, near Ashton-under-
Tyne which is sunk 2,s2O feet
Two society women of Sea Cliff, L.
l., are accused Of putting paris green
in the coffee to poison the servant.
~ the district court at Darlington
the other day witness named Wind
Pigler gave evidence in criminal case.
TwENTY-sIN murders were committed
in Ebert county, Ga, during the last
two years without a single conviction.
IL Springfield, Mo, at a recent meet.
ing of the Women's club, one of the
toasts was The Men We Left Behind
Us"
a SYLvANIA (Ga.) merchant, who has
a lot of crinolines left over from the old
days, has placed them on sale in his
store.
IT is an open secret that Mrs. Jeffer.
son Davis, who is now living in New
York, is not in comfortable circum-
stances.
A RUSSIAN immigrant clad in long
coat made from the skins of more than
1000 Russian mice arrived in New York
recently.
A DIVORCE was recently granted to
woman at Paris, Tex. and five minutes
later she faced the judge with another
man and was married.
Mrs LAURA DE Force GORDON, well
known woman lawyer of the Pacific
coast, has fled her application for the
consulship at Honolulu.
A LARGE piece of crystallized soda,
weighing 2,s40 pounds, from the soda
lake near Laramie, Neb., will be exhib-
tied at the Worlds fair.
IN the relief of paupers 2,191, ,172
pounds sterling We're spent by local
government relief boards in England
and Wales during the last half Of last
gear.
CAPE CoLoNY's export of gold during
March amounted in value to 43O, 900
pounds sterling, as against 334, 900
pounds sterling in the same month last
year.
TWELVE hundred beds at penny
night each are offered to London's
homeless poor in new Salvation army
shelter, erected on the bank of the
Thames, near Blackfriar's bridge.
Mrs. MCKINLEY, of Duluth, Mimi,
recently admitted to practice law, has
one advantage over fellow-members Of
that bar. Her husband is Judge of the
circuit court in which she practices.
ROSWELL G., HoRR, who was raised in
the west and went east to grow up with
the country, uses the identical chair
that Horace Greeley used to sit in, and
he writes for the New York Tribune
on its founders favorite subject--agri-
culture.
A ST. PAUL man fell into the MiH-
Souri river the other day and was rob
bed by the individual who rescued him
from drowning. Now he demands the
arrest IL the life saver.
JOHN JACOB AsToR will erect chapel
on the corner of SiXty-fifth street and
Madison avenue to the memory of his
brother William Astor 1t will te un-
der the administration of Trinity
shurch.
THAT was touching tribute paid by
Prince bismarck to his wife when he
assured the throng who came to con-
Eratulate her on her birthday that his
Hgreen old age and happy family life"
Gero due tc her.