The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-18

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FERDINAND DE LEssEPs is said to hav,
lost his whole fortune in the Panam;
canal project
ONE fashionable New York woman
and her daughter spend 91S, 900 annual
ly for clothes
VIM A. CoRKLE was inaugurated gov
ernor of West Virginia at Charleston
the other day.
A WEATHER record for 1892 shows that
there were $50 cloudless days out of the
5G5 at Tucson, Ariz.
The origin of the geysers at Sanoma,
Cal, is supposed to be volcanic crater
filled by landslide.
The marriage ring of Luther's wife
has recently been discovered at Alma,
not far from Coburg.
A DEALER in Dundee, Mich, is ship.
ping ashes to Florida by the car load
for use as a fertilizer
SUGAR beets weighing on an average
of sixteen pounds have been grown in
Floyd county, Georgia.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERGDeE, OF
England, will probably visit this coun-
try during the Worlds fair
A CONDENSATION of folding bed and
billiard table is one of the latest
triumphs of inventive genius.
The government patent office will
show upward of $500 models, many OF
them being working machines.
THE bullet shot into Clearfield (Pal
veterans leg at the battle of Gettys.
burg was extracted few days ago
A SWORD has been discovered near
BRENNAN, Tex, which has Sam Hous.
toms initials carved upon the handle.
EDIsoN's children by his first wife are
familiarly called dot" and Dash"
from the characters in the Morse alpha.
bet.
THE second office of the govern.
ment," said Jefferson, 'is honorable
and easy, the first is but splendid
misery"
WHILE digging the foundation of a
building at New Alexandria, Va, the
other day workmen eXhumed three
skeletons.
A MAN in Bridgeport, CT, wears a
wig that was also worn by his father,
grandfather and great-grandfather in
their turn.
THE king of Servia is only seventeen
years of age, but he rules with a wis.
dom and frmness that were denied his
unhappy father.
THE National museum at Washington
will display at the fair collection of
coins and other metal money valued at
nearly $1,000, coo.
Four members of the cabinet are di-
rectors OF either banks or railways, or
both, namely: Messrs. Bissell, Olney,
Lamont and Smith.
STREET cars at Wheeling, w. Va. are
not run after o'clock in the evening,
as the mayor of that town deems it
dangerous to do So
A LOUISIANA mother locked her
daughter in a room for three days re-
Gently for appearing on the street
dressed in hoop-skirt.
ONCE It was great honor and privil-
ege to walk under an umbrella. In
some countries it constituted part of
the insignia of royalty.
AT Central City, Mich. there is an elm
tree with diameter of nine feet at the
bottom. 1t is estimated that it will
SSdlS loiOOO lccI VI JluluCE.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HEMINGWAY, of
the Arkansas supreme court, has re.
signed, declaring the pay too small.
He was serving his second term.
PERHAPS the greatest of all nuggets
of gold was taken from the Monumental
mine, near Sierra Buttes, in 1866. 1t
was estimated to be worth $50, 200.
A HARTFORD florist, who would fur
nish green pinks, had to pay for ruin
ing lady's ball dress, as the green dye.
stuff came off the gruesome flowers.
PRESIDENT HAYES was inaugurated
March 6, but he had taken the oath of
Office two days before. His address was
not lengthy, but it covered the ground
THE purchase of the Cherokee Strip
for $4,000, 600, to be paid in five annual
installments, is authorized by the In
dian appropriation bill, as finally passed
by congress.
MRS. FLORA ELLICE STEVENS, OF
Chama, N. NJ, as a notary public, re-
Gently administered the oath of office to
her husband, William l.. Stevens, who
had been elected justice of the peace.
A WOMAN in Brockton, Mass, can
boast of having lived under the admin |
of every president of the |
United States, She was born the day
preceding Washington's retirement
from office.
EVERY member of President Cleve- |
lands cabinet, including the presi- |
dent and vice-president, is married,
with the exception of Hilary A. Her
bert. secretary of the navy, who is |
widower.
A FRENCH syndicate is buying up all |
the worn-out ponies on the frontier for |
export to Paris, the intention being to |
convert them into food for the people |
0f TIE gay metropolis
A MEMBER of the Pennsylvania senate
has introduced a bill which provides
for the punishment of bribery at cleo
lions by fine of 1000 and disfran
.hisement for fTe years.
A LAW ha, oeen enacted in Ontario
the spraying or sprinkling
'f fruit trees while they are la Gloom
with any mixture containing paris
yreen or other substances poisonous OF
INJURIOUS to bees '