The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-01-06
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over ihSU year uOtal.
AT present over 200 cities are lighted
by means of electricity.
The deepest silver mines in America
are the Comstock, 1900 feet
THE largest crabs found in the East
indies measure two feet long.
The first British translation Of the
Bible was in the Irish tongue.
In France the male school teachers
greatly outnumbcr the women.
The first American coins were made
In 1919 for the Virginia company.
JUPITER has a red spot and a white
spot, and both puzzle astronomers
1T costs England $1,000 q year in
maintenance for every man in her navy.
England's chief maker of playing
cards, Goodall, has died, leaving $780,.
900.
KLIcKrTAT, a Washington county, has
q frontage of 1.5 miles ON the Columb bia
river.
THE descendants of single female
wasp will often number 1000 in one
season.
A DISPUTE over regeneration by faith
ended in fight at Lawrence, Kas., the
other day.
The membership OF the active Colum.
bian guard at Chicago has been reduced
to $50 men.
EIGHT players lost their lives on the
foot ball field during the past season in
this country.
ONE of the novelties of California's
Midwinter fair will be veritable lake
of quicksilver.
THERE are in Florida 600, 900 cocoa
nut trees, whose fruit is all sent to the
New York market.
A sEvENTEEN-yERA-o OLD giant in Aus.
tralia measures S feet 81 inches and
weighs 800 pounds.
NINR-TENTHs of all the elective offices
in Chicago are now held, it is said, by
naturalized citizens.
The manuscript Of Swinburne's
'Poems and Ballads" was sold in Lon.
don recently for 920O.
EDISON is to connect a telephone with
the sun which will bring the music OF
its motions to our ears.
THE tongue of the toad is attached to
the front of it's jaw and hangs back.
ward instead of forward
A BUFFALO horse walked up fight
of stairs the other day and had to be
lowered away by tackle.
SKINS of catfish are being worked up
by a man at Old Orchard, Me-, into
strong and handsome leather.
WHILE driving the minister to the
funeral of Theodore Gugert, of Wayne,
Pa, Joseph Hayden went insane.
AT the dinner of the Pilgrim moth.
ers in New York men were admitted to
the gallery to hear the speaking.
The directors of the Chicago univer-
sity have decided to build the Yerkea
observatory at Geneva Lake, Wis.
JESSIE LOGAN, of Gilmer county, W.
Va, eighteen years of age, has eloped
with James Bishop, who is sixty-four.
For thousands of years the entire
world depended wholly on the honey
bee for all the sweetness used in cook.
cry.
Mrs. GLADSTONE owns property at
Niagara Falls, Canada. She owns three
acres of land worth about s1, 900 an
acre.
The Atlanta Constitution is Of the
opinion that the south has just about
recuperated in wealth what the war
cost her.
PEACH STONES find ready market in
NeW York. Perfumes, favoring ex.
tracts and prussic acid are distilled
from them
FEMALE FISH of all species are con.
siderably more numerous than males,
with two exceptions-the angler and
the catfish.
A TOWEL made from fax and claimed
20 be half a century old is in the pos.
session of Mr. John Worth, of High
Point, N. C.
A PROCESS by which all kinds of wood
can be rendered incombustible has
been invented by Nicholas I. Nelson, a
Chicago chemist.
JEwELRY buried by Mrs. J. X. Henry,
Of Greepyille, Ala, during the war was
unearthed few days ago and found 70
be in good condition.
THERE is a natural spring of small
surface dimensions, but seventy feet in
depth, on VIM. Wells farm, not far
from West Chester, Pa
THREE receivers appointed for a rail-
road have asked the United States
court at Milwaukee to allow them sal
aries of $4,000 year apiece.
The musicians of Paris are marveling
1T the fact that Alexander Battu, the
violoncellist, has paid $4,000 for q
Stradivarius violin dated 17l4.
The only piece of furniture in the Of
fee Of the secretary of war that was
there dnring jeff. Davis incumbency is
q clock, which still keeps good time.
The rubber tree comes into bearing,
SO to speak, in about seven years after
planting, and with proper care the tree
Is good for fifty years of production.
SOME of the healthiest children in
the world are found in the Scottish
highlands, where shoes are seldom
wofH at an earlier age than twelve and
thirteen.
An immense orange, weighing almost
two pounds and measuring five and a
quarter inches in diameter, has been
grown Ia the grove Of Mr.. Fessenden at
Tampa, Fla.
Ex-EDITOR STEAD is not meeting
with enthusiastic support from Chicago
ip his effort TO improve her condition.
4 local newspaper remarks, with much
ssrnestness, that il Mr.. Stead really
desires to relieve Chicago's distress he
Will please go away.
THB Chinese Y. M. c. A. in San Fran
elsco has recently sent s4S, 600 to Canton
- 9 contribution by the Chinese of that