The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-11-18
the OHIO DEMOCRAT.
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NSuho vi oiic isiunu cI MauapaSCar.
OVER three hundred lynchings hav,
@ ssksn place in the south during thu
The principal mosque OF Damascus
has burned to the ground, causing {
loss of 50, 500, 900.
IT is said that Kansas can show ,
record of forty-four poor-houses with
out any inmates
PARTY of Kalamazoo hunters have
returned from Upper Michigan with
twenty-five deer
A GUEST at Chicago marriage stole
The wedding cake and n pot containing
che broiled chicken.
TnE United States has 6s6 vessels en-
ragged exclusively in the foreign trade
Great Britain has 8. e6S.
THERE are fewer lawyers in the Eng
lish parliament than in the American
house Of representatives.
TIE two-year-old son of Fl. w. Pamm
Of 'Hillsdale, Mich, cheked to death
the other night on bean.
An editor in Six Town, Me-, recently
became disgusted with his profession
and became 6sh peddler.
The Shaker community at Shirley,
Mass. has just celebrated the one hun.
dredth anniversary of its establish.
ment.
The largest gold nugget ever found
was the Bellarat Welcome nugget,
weighing 2,166 ounces, and was worth
e41,sSS
A HINDusTANI work on music saws
that music is the painfully acquired
art OF speaking very loud IN shrill
voice.
WHILE Mrs. Catharine Malloy, Of
Brooklyn, was returning in a cab from
9 funeral recently she died of heart
disease.
JOHN MCDONALD, Of the New York
senblance physically to President
Cleveland.
IT is stated on authority that Mr.
Cleveland is worth to-day e25o, eco and
that his salary is being spent as fast as
It comes in.
THE larger part OF the exhibit at the
Worlds fair of Costa Rica has been do
aated to Fairmount park museum in
Philadelphia.
The United States has the highest
death rate from diphtheria, 4so In 1o,-
600. Holland and Sweden come next
with 44o each.
In Moscow the winter cold is SO in
tense that it freezes quicksilver, while
She summer temperature is as high as
that of Naples.
IT may interest many to know that
from an artistic point of view a wom-
ans face is more beautiful when view
ed from the left.
JAMES j. VAN ALIEN, the minister to
Italy, expects to bring out his nineteen
year-old daughter in Rome during the
present winter.
The Caspian sea is the largest in
closed body of water in the world. 1t
varies between TAO miles in length and
goo miles in breadth.
To open a new highway in Minneap-
oils the graves of the founders of the
city are being despoiled and the bones
moved to potter's field.
WAGES in the Michigan lumber camps
this winter will range between SIG and
zee per month, with board, compared
with $50 to s26 last year.
The forty-four United States owe,
collectively, 1924, 600, 900, and they pay
to the holders of state securities s1O,.
100000 year as interest.
A New YORK widow lately secured
husband for $40 at an agency. The
man has decamped, and the woman is
advertising for his return.
PRETTY schoolma'am in Weymouth,
Mass, has succeeded in tanning the viii
lage terror, the worst boy in the school,
and is going to marry him.
SINCE the beginning of the century
France has fallen from the second to
the fourth place in point OF population
among European countries.
THERE are now twenty-one law firms
In this country composed of husbands
and wives, and also over two hundred
women who practice at the bar.
FRUIT growers and merchants of
British Honduras are talking of charter
Ing line of steamers to trade between
the United States and other ports.
THOMAS NELSON PAGES mother, Mrs.
Lathrop, died at her home in Illinois
few days ago. She was the niece OF
She late Judge Barbour of Virginia.
MARSHAL CANRoBERT, at the age OF
eighty-fve, says ''This life of a SOL
dier is the finest of all. To become
soldier again, what sweet dream!'
GEN. JOSEPH C.. BRECKENRIDGE, in
spector general of the United States
army, says that the condition of our
southern coast defense is disgraceful.
MOUNT ORIZABA, in Mexico, is now
believed to be the loftiest peak on the
continent, as it has been shown to be
300 feet higher than Mount ST. Elias, in
Alaska.
OWING to the recent coal strike in
England the Great Eastern railway is
fitting up twenty-five locomotives with
d liquid fuel apparatus to buru crude
oil or tar.
SEVERAL of the graceful launches
which have been used in the lagoons
at the Worlds fair have been sold to
proprietors of summer hotels in the
Wisconsin lake regions.
REV. DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, of
Boston, is collecting children's "say-
ings" in the hope of obtaining con-
illusions from comparison and analysis
of them that will be of interest and
possible value to students.
OTTO WELLS, full-blooded Com.
anche, who entered the Carlisle Indian
school in a blanket as a boy pupil,
stood up in a dress suit at the school
the other day to be married to Miss
Psrkhurst, an Oneida girl
. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT paid $50, 900
Drsvs fho <pld .1, l.