The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-29

Victor Emanuel, only takes one meal
eay.
THE monkeys at the geological gar
den in Vienna have all died of consumr
ton.
oNLY forty-three per cent. Of tn
arabic land in Austro-Hungary is cult
vated
MASSACHUSETTS has a man wht
breaks grindstones and such like will
his skull.
IHE horse has smaller stomach il
proportion to its size than any othe,
quadruped.
A MISSIONARY society at Hebron, Ct.
holds 81 acres of land under a lease TO,
1900 years.
The Garrison girls, three of whom to
gether weigh 900 pounds, are native
Nissourians.
THE population of Italy is 27o per
square mile; of Germany, $40: OF
France, 100.
Soil in Egypt is titled by exactly the
same kind of a plow as that used there
5000 years ago.
STOCKHOLM has the highest death
rate from drink of any city in the
world, 80 in 1000.
A KANSAS paper notes the case of a
woman who is recovering from '.fa-
tai" stroke of lightning.
A TON of gold recently taken from
the South African mines was on exhi-
bition at Pretoria lately.
RATTLEsNAKE in the 900" at At
larta, Ca, has not eaten any thing, it
Is said, since last August.
GEORGIA will spend s1,O6S, e51. 81 for
the public schools this year-more than
ever before in it's history.
A TABLET to the memory OF Jenny
Lind is soon to be placed in Poets
corner, Westminster Abbey.
A LARGE black turtle, weighing
nearly 1000 pounds, was caught off
Cape Lookout, N. c., recently.
IT is said that in the history of Mis-
souri, no man ever lived out a sentence
of twenty-five years in the peniten-
tiary.
In England during the 167 years from
1923 to 1890 only one useful invention
appeared at an average of 81 years in
terval.
A New YORK man is about to walk
from that city to Chicago. He expects
to accomplish the journey in two
weeks.
IHE new internal revenue collector
for the Louisville district has al
ready received 5000 applications TO,
positions.
NEW letter carrier in Plattsburp,
N. Y, anxiously inquired if he would
be expected to deliver the letters when
it rnined.
IT is an old belief of native Hawaiians
that the spirits of their warrior chiefs |
tnhabit after death the bodies of their !
amous horses.
OF Sir Walter Scotts novels three
are assigned to the sixteenth century,
seven to the seventeenth and thirteen
to the eighteenth.
A. II. NEWMAN, of Arkansas City, !
raised 1000 bushels of wheat this season |
on 800 acres of ground and sold it for |
Rfty cents a bushel.
1T has been discovered that the work.
men employed in the Paris sewers arc
as long-lived and as free from disease
ss most other people.
THE church at Coldwater, in Wayne
county, Mo-, is infested with feas,
and peculiar gestures.
ME Bonner will case at Carrollton,
Ca, has been settled by compromise,
and the gold mine, one of the richest
In the south, will be reopened.
WHAT we need, says convict who
has been in the Kansas penitentiary for
some time, and who has eleven more
years to serve, ''is increased circula.
ton"
The flesh Of forest rats is esteemed q
culinary delicacy in parts of Cuba
Their main article of diet is Brazil
outs, which impart good flavor ia
them.
The Westinghouse Electric Co. arc
about to make, by appointment of the
state, a series of experiments concern.
ing electricity as motive power on
the Erie canal.
A LOCOMOTIVE engineers ear becomes
30 acutely trained to the noise of his
engine that when a bolt gets loose or
any thing goes wrong its sense of hear.
ing informs him of the trouble at once.
IHE mosaic copies in the vatican of
large pictures by Raphael, Domenchino
and Others occupy from twelve to
ewenty-h i've years to execute, and re-
quired from $4,000 to 20, 900 different
ihades of color.
A FEW days ago $1,000 was paid
Into the treasury of Philadelphia as
the result Of one years business man
agement of the city's money. Most
caties realize nothing from the use of
their idle funds.
The oldest actor in England is be- F'
lieved to be Mr.. James Doel, ninety
years old, who played First Grave
digger to Edmund Kean's Hamlet"
ind has played with Macready, Sheri-
dan Knowles, Blackstone, Miss Cush-
man, Miss Fanny Kembls and Mrs.
Kseley.
An invention Of great usefulness, IL ,
luccessful. has just been tested in New
forif. 1t IL = method Of disinfeotine | I
lswAge, by DIR. A. e. Woolt, OF that city.
At , cost Of - q day It will disinfect
a 'ooo gallons Of sewage every twenty /
|osr hours, killing the germs Of sll CON
eGious diseases. Ia