The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-02-04
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10 Stralghten whaleboneS hold them
TO the steam of boiling water.
WINE in Theoretically sealed TASKS
was recently found in Pompeii.
COFFEE cups now should be high and
slender; tea cups low and broad.
A DARIEN (Ga.) colored man claims
10 have gathered 900 lemons from one
tree.
A PHILADELPHIA burglar robbed two
dentists of their false teeth the other
night
SOUVENIR forks are coming in, If only
TO lessen the monotony of the souvenir
spoons.
A CHICAGO burglar, when caught, de-
clared that he only wore a mask to hide
his bushes.
acres of land is looked upon as a
monopolist.
The marquis of Queensbury has made
his appearance on the lecture platform
in England.
CINNAMON is said to destroy microbes
effectively, if not as quickly, as corro.
sive sublimate.
THE catch of Spanish mackeral in the
Gulf of Mexico this season is reported
to be very large
JACOB GREENABAUM, who committed
suicide at Miami, Mo-, had his life in.
sured for $4,000.
THE full name of the new populist
governor of Kansas is Lorraine Demos
themes Lewelling.
PEOPLE guessing at Mr.. Clevelanda
income put it at s25, 600 year since he
left the presidency.
The rats of Ishpeming. Mich, are SO
large that they, it is said, run off with
the traps set for them.
DR.. WIELoBYcKG, president of the
society for the study of inebriety, in
London, is 100 years old.
THERE is a reward of $4,000 for the
liar who started the falsehood about
the San Juan gold fields.
CHOLERA and cleanliness do not travel
together, and the cities of this country
will have to make a choice.
PAPER teeth are now manufactured
by Lubbock dentist. One set has been
in use thirteen years, and is as good as
ever
EIGHT olive trees now exist in the
Garden OF Olives at Jerusalem, which
are known to be at least eight hundred
years old.
As MIGHT be expected, the marriage
statistics of 1892, show q veritable boom
in the matrimonial market. 1t was
leap year.
WHILE Parisians may not crave horse
meat, they certainly eat good bit OF
it Last year they consumed over So.
900 horses.
THE Welsh spinning industry is to be
demonstrated at the Chicago Worlds
fair by number of Welsh girls in their
national dress.
STATISTICS carefully compiled show
that of the 1,5OO, 1000, 900 people inhabit-
ing the world fully 700, 600, 600 are but
partially clothed.
TwENTY-sEvEN bears were killed in
the Cache river bottoms in days hunt
recently by party of Lee county
ark sportsmen.
AN aged colored woman is said to be
wandering through the southwestern
part Of Georgia claiming to be The
Queen of Paradise"
IN some parts of China a formal I'M
PRODUCTION is given in these words:
This is my friend If he steals any
thing / viii be responsible"
Mr.. MOODY is scrupulous about trav-
cling on Sunday, no matter how impa-
tient he may be, or how worthy the
mission on which he is bound.
FoRTY-TvE years ago canned toma.
toes sold for fifty cents can, White at
the present time the average price Sc.
cured by the packer is about seven
cents.
A WOMAN died recently in the poor
house at Sheerness who was born in the
institution ninety-two years ago, and
has lived there all her life, public
charge.
OUT of population of about so, OOO.-
900 in Prussia, only about one-tenth of
EN- possess, it is said, an income of
300 marks Il year, which is equal to
about 1928.
A YOUNG man who lives in Coldwater,
Mich, is said to have grown So inches
per year, on an average, for the past
three years. He now stands feet "a
inches in height
A STEAMER which has just left Mel
bourne for London has on board $4,000
cases of butter of the value of G35, 900.
This is the largest shipment of Austria
lian butter on record.
The status and authority of Mgr.
Satolli is no longer in doubt. He is the
first incumbent of a permanent apos-
tolic delegation which the pope has
established in the United States.
w. j. WEEKS, of Yaphawk, l.. l., who
is seventy-two years old, challenges, it
is said, any man in the world to a
match at slate-writing, the sentence
to contain not less than hundred let
ters, and to be given Out by the Judge
at the time of the contest.
ONE of the most startling announce.
ments that has come across the sea for
long time is that there is oper antag-
onsm to the revival of the crinoline
and probability that it will succeed.
1T is proposed to erect an electric
overhead road from the Chicago post
Office to the exposition grounds to
transmit the mail at high rate of
speed The road will be built over the
tops OF the houses.
Or American apples nearly 1,50O, 600
barrels are exported TO England every
season, about n fourth of these finding
their way to Covent Garden. The bar
rels weigh from lao TO 150 pounds and
Rre excellently packed.