The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-02-25
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THE inventor OF the velocipede is to
have a statue in France
The Inauguration of President Cleve-
hnG will cost about sec, 900.
THIRTEEN universities have been sup.
pressed by the Italian government
An epidemic of sneezing is reported
TO have broken out in Jamaica, L. l.
GRESHAM is n record breaker He had
two cabinet portfolios under Arthur.
EJeNIF1ED and moral Philadelphia
had twenty divorce cases in one day.
MAPLE sugar-makers are predicting a
great season for that toothsome prod
uct
A MURDERER hanged in ALBANIA paid
his lawyer his last nickel on the scaf-
fold.
CATS are being extensively used in
New Zealand for the destruction of
rabbits
Two women are fighting in the courts
ut Atlanta, Ga, over the ownership of
n rooster.
AFARMER who lives near Lamar, Mo-,
has u beard which measures seven feet
in length.
THERE are fourteen women and two
men in one of the church cnoirs at Otta-
wa, Kan.
SAN FRANCISCO boasts of "a highway.
man in a buggy" and two highway
lady robbers"
A LARGE plant for the purpose of
freezing sturgeon is to be established at
Kalamn, Wash.
New YORK has at least ninety monu-
ments erected to her dead on Gettys-
burg battlefield.
SOME of the fine old oak trees of Way
erly, Mass, are supposed to date from
the tenth century.
A FRENCHSfAN has written a volume
of two hundred pages to show that
oysters rest the brain.
The ice on Sand Beach harbor, Michi-
gan is seventeen inches thick, the thick
est clear ice since 1888.
The lost books euclid, in Sanskrit,
are said to be now N the library of the
Maharajah of Jeypore.
A LAUNDRY in England, owned by
women and employing only females,
earned S25, 900 last year.
ALUMINIUM tobacco pipes are The lat
est invention. The bowl is, however,
lined with meerschaum.
A CHEDDER cheese valued at S4S7 and
composed of hundreds of smaller cheeses
will be exhibited at the Worlds fair.
IT is stated that great number of
small frozen frogs fell with a snow
storm in Fulton county, Pa, recently.
Or the 1892 female depositors in
the savings banks of Philadelphia, s, 1926
ere described as boardinghousekeepe
The colored citizens of America pro-
pose to hold grand jubilee on the
Worlds fair grounds, on August II,
1898.
THE Chicago Historical society has
novel written by President James Mad
ison called Jonathan Bull and Mary
Bull.
BOBBY BURNS is to have a statue
erected at Denver, Col, w. Grant
Stevenson, of Edinburg, being the de-
signer.
The Hong Kong papers say the few
Englishmen in the service of China are
being replaced by Germans, Belgians
and Americans.
DURING the past twenty years 32S, ,OOG !
divorces have been granted by the !
courts of the United States, 90 per cent. |
of them to women.
IN one of the Catholic churches in |
Chicago congregational singing OF |
hymns in the language of the people |
has been introduced
Mrs DEWITT TALMAGE makes her
husbands pastoral and social en-
gagements, and all his lecturing inter.
ests are in her hands.
THE curios of the late King Fernando, |
of Spain, are for sale at auction, which |
will last two months, and the catalogue |
comprises 1000 articles.
IN Hawaii the climate is said to be SO |
remarkably equable that the Hawaiian |
language has no word to express the
general idea of weather.
The Church of All Hallows in Lon
don still possesses an income originally
given to it for the purpose of buying
faggots for burning heretics.
Mrs. NARY A. ANDERSON was elected
assistant sergeant-at-arms to the Ar
kansas house of representatives, defeat
ing twenty candidates of the opposite
sex.
Gov. FLORES, of the Mexican state of
Durango, believes that he has discov-
cred the famous mountain of gold, the
legend of which is household story in
Mexico.
Az American girl rules the republic
of Guatemala, through her husband,
the president, Gen. Barrios. She is the
leader of all woman movements in that
country.
THERE is pond in the vicinity of
Md, that has never been
known, it is said, to have even a skim of
Ice on its surface, and during the late
cold spell it is said that it was not
frozen a particle.
CLoTURE (the French form of the
word closure) means, briefly, the shut
ting off of debate and of motions, So as
to force direct vote to be taken on the
question before the house.
The city of Seattle, Wash, will here
after employ all idle men who wish to
work They will be furnished with
tools and will be paid eighty cents for
every cord of wood they chop for the
city.
A ''PINK butter bill" is the latest leg.
Islative fad in Missouri 1t declares
that oleomargarine or butterine sold in
that state must be colored pink, so rs
20 indicate on its face that it is not the
-cal article.
ONE of the Ian gest forests in the
world stands on ice. 1t is situated be-
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