The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-01
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fruit two feet long is one of the sights
1T Leavenworth, Kan.
MARRIED couples in Norway are
privileged to ride on railroads ut fare
and half for each couple.
CAPT. ANDERSEN, who commands the
Viking ship is an editor and is enjoy.
ing vacation that ends August 1.
The world contains about 100000
Hebrews, about S,4o0, 900 of whom dwell
in Russia, and 1, roo, 900 in Austria.
MISS INEz SHERRY Of ST. Louis and
Mr.. Cary Bacon of Chicago were we'd
ded in the former city. No remarks.
THE Gray Ladies sro society of gen.
tlewomen living together as friends to
help in church work south of London.
The smallest bird is the West India
cumming bird. The body is less than
an iRch long and weighs only twenty
grains.
CONCERNING the income tax, Senator
Pettigrew opines that the big fellows
should be hooked and tine small fry let
60 free.
A LIVE alligator, nearly two feet
long, clogged up water pipe in Pitts.
burgh, the other day, causing much in
convenience.
EUROPE produces almost as much to-
bacco Us does the United States, Aus
tria supplying about one-third of the
European crop.
SEVENTEEN moderate Strawberries
raised in the state of Washington fill 3
quart measure. Evidently the bottom
Is in the ascendant.
Mrs. CURTIS, the widow Of George
William Curtis, has esta blished free
scholarship fund in the Staten Island
Academy and Latin school.
The average yield of potatoes to tho
acre in France is 102 bushels; in Ger.
many, 121; in Italy, 1874; in Holland,
lit; in the United States, 70.
PRINCESS EULAL1A understands the
art of tipping. She left S400 in gold, to
be divided among the hotel servants
who waited on her in Chicago.
CORONER CLARK, of Ann Arbor, rode
on the first train of cars ever run in
America. He made the trip from
Schenectady to Albany in 1885.
THE Indians of the Pacific Northwest
are great admirers of the telephone,
and they cheerfully pay their money
for the fun of talking Siwash over the
wires.
The difference of farthing pc.
pound in the total trade turnover Of su.
gar in the United Kingdom for a year
means no less than 100000 pounds
sterling.
The letters in the various alphabets
OF the world vary from 10 to 202 in mum.
ber. The Sandwich islanders alpha bet
has the first number named, the Tarta-
rian the last.
FooD producers bakers, confection-
ers, brewers, butchers, dairy workers,
millers and walters have organized a
national federation in Germany with
100000 members.
a. ST. Louis lawyer recently gave an
opinion to the effect that printers are
not mechanics but artists, and there
fore can not take advantage Of any
mechanics lien law.
GEORGE PENN and George Oatmeal
were the singular names OF two men in
Mercer county, w. Va, sent to the pen
for q year lately for perjury and selling
liquor without license
RECTOR AHLwARDT, the notorious
Jew batter, who is now serving prison
sentence for libel, has been returned to
the reichstag by big majority, sweep.
ing everything before him.
A YOUNG man visiting Lancaster
Pa, for the first time ate some campho,
balls while under the impression that
he was eating Il new kind of candy. II
took two doctors to pump his stomach
dry.
CHICAGO last year slaughtered IL,
1874 animals of one kind and an
other, including G,401, 74s hogs; and we,
its people can't understand why enthu-
city.
The attachment of dog to children
was well illustrated at Corpus Christi
Tex, one day lately, where @ dog de
hberately committed suicide by drown
ing after the death of his masters chill
dren.
KAISER WILHELM is reported to havs
gone through the Hebrew quarter o,
Berlin recently in the guise of He
brew peddler with view to obtain al
idea of tie condition Of the poorer
Jews.
HOTELS in China are quite uniform
architecturally. They never differ il
point of cleanliness and other details
but they are almost invariably built il
the form of quadrangle inclosing
court.
AN entire family rode on bicycles tn
other day from Cottonwood Falls t.
Emporia, Kan, in three hours. Th
distance is twenty-five miles, and ther
are no halfway houses along the road
DIR. GARFIELD, aged IT years, of Al
gona, Ia, intends taking q trip to th'
Worlds fair on a bicycle. He expect
TO arrive in Chicago, over 400 miles dis
tant from Chicago, in less than min
days after starting
The body of the astronomer, Prot
Richard A. Proctor, now lies in neg
lected grave in Greenwood cemetery
and Miss Mary Proctor, his daughter
It is said, is trying to raise funds t.
purchase suitable lot and monument
PROBABLY the most remarkable knit
In the world is that in the curiosit,
room of the factory of Joseph RodgeY
Sons, in Sheffield, England. It ha
800 blades, and ten blades are adde,
avery ten years. Another curiosity
three pairs OF scissors, all OF which cal
b severed by a thimble.
NIcH~EL p. CHALK, of Duluth, tn
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