The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-05-20
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ing.
In domestic architecture the proper.
tions of IL room are us one to one aud q
half
The shah has written to Queen Vic
toria kindly offering to pay her another
visit.
NONE of the twelve consuls to the
Congo free state has ever returned
alive.
THERE are five Durbins IN the Mis-
souri, state penitcntiury. sons OF one
mother.
1T is estimated that Butte. Mon. will
produce l3O. 900, 900 pounds of copper
this year
A. Is FLORIDA, who committed sui.
eide In st. Louis. carried SlS50Oo life
insurance.
CoLoRED people in Virginia are said
to pay taxes op properties valued at
$4,000. 900.
DENMARK allows every subject male
Or female, who is sixty years OF ags, u
small pension.
THE Chinese, Japanese, Malays. Sa-
tnese, New Iealanders and North Amer
lean Indians are bcardless.
ScoTLANp's population in the middle
OF last year was 4,063, 452- 1861. 40l
males and 2.l02.05l females.
In CHRisTIANIA, Sweden, with it's
160, 600 inhabitants, there are only
twenty places where liquor is
retailcd.
THE new Scotland Yard is the largest
police Office in the world 1t contains
room in which 5000 men can be as
semblcd.
EArrIEsNAKE and blacksnake re.
cently had u terrific battle. near Way
cross. Ga. which resulted fatally for
the latter
oNE cent pieces are being introduced
in Oakland. Cal. for the first time The
smallest legal tender formerly used was
i've cent pieces.
ONE of the rules at the new Univer-
sity of Chicago is that every student
must take ut least one hours physical
exercise every day.
A COMPANY of colored people is being
formed at Charlotte, N. c., for the pur
pose of building q cotton factory to EN-
ploy only Negroes.
THE most expensive Legislature in the
world is that OF France, which costs an
nuall $4,000 eco. The Italian parliament
costs $3.50, 600 Il year.
THE pennsy lvauia legislature has
passed a law prohibiting political or
ganizations from paying the naturali-
zation expenses of foreign born citi
xens.
TWENTY-FIVE women are employed In
the Pittsburgh post Office. Miss Mary
Steele. superintendent of the money
order department, handles 81, OOU. 600
year.
THE outlook for successful salt in
dustry in the state OF Washington is
reported to be very promising, as that
mineral has been discovered in several
places.
LONDON contains one-eighth of Great
Britain's population, has u larger daily
delivery OF letters than all Scotland,
birth every four minutes and Il death
every six.
WoMEN's work is said to be never
done, but the Women's building at
Chicago was Il good deal nearer COM
pletion at the opening than many OF
the mems building.
PERHAPS the best authority on Theo-
sophy among Washington women ia
Mrs. Efiie REGIME Osborn. who is state
regent of Illinois for the Daughters of
the American revolution.
A NEW fellowship. worth 5000 year,
has been established at the State Uni
versity of California, and Miss Kate
Werts. of the Oakland high school, has
been selected for the place.
QUEEN MARGARET, of Italy, refused
to accompany King Ilumbert on visit
to Queen Victoria in Florence recently
because Queen Victoria had neglected
to return her call of five years ago.
THE crown of the old Scottish kings
is still preserved. 1t is formed of two
circles of gold, the upper and narrow
circlet being surmounted by row of
crosses and gem-incrusted imitation
flowers.
A TRAMP serving sentence in the
Ingham county (Mich.) Jail whitfield
out novelty, and on his release sold it
for fifty cents and with the proceeds got
gloriously drunk and returned behind
the bars.
PET dogs are being dyed so as to har-
monize with the color OF the ladies'
boudoir. They are dressed in tailor
made clothes. The fashionable color
ing for small white poodle is two
shades Of violet.
TIP building of the proposed free
library in Philadelphia will cost nearly
million dollars. All citizens will be
entitled to the use of it without charge,
and they will be allowed to take the
books to their homes.
SECRETARY CARLISLE was asked re-
Gently by removed official why he had
been dismissed. The secretary's an
swer, characteristically short, and to
the point, was: ~ removed you, sir,
solely for political reasons. wanted
your place for a democrat"
WHAT is believed to be the larg est
shad ever taken in the waters near the
head of Delaware bay was caught oppo-
site Delaware City few days ago. 1t
measured twenty-seyen inches in length,
four inches in thickness and nineteen
f. inches at it's greatest circumference
Its weight was ten pounds.
THE greatest sum ever paid for tele-
graph tolls in one week by newspa
per was the expenditure of tn. Loplon
Times for cable service from Buenos
Ayres during the revolution in tho AR.
gentine republic. The cost of cabling
from Buenos Ayres to London was .75
. word, and the Times paid out $50, 900
Tor one weeks dispatches.
JAMES WHITcoMB Riley has a habit