The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-24
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ALABAMA miners have started .
newspaper.
The word penknife occurs but once
IN the Bible.
ONLY one person In 15, 600 reaches tho
age Of 100 years.
COUNTRY roads in China are not
bounded by fences
Two JUSTICES at Springfield, Mo-, are
canned Chinn and Bray.
TRANSPARENT leather is one Of the
latest inventions in Paris,
GUTTA percha, bamboo, gong and rat.
Can are all of Malay origin.
THE Connecticut national guard has
Dol musicians to 1,790 privates
The sultan threatens to expel Amer
can missionaries from Turkey.
ELECTRIC irons for laundries and shirt
factories are becoming popular.
The largest photograph in the world
b seventeen feet by fifty inches.
AN automatic sculpturing machine il
the invention Of M. Delin of Paris.
WHEN the vote Of jury in Germany
Stands six to six the prisoner is ac-
Quilted.
A FRENCH naval officer has invented
rifle that fires two kinds of explosive
bullets
TORIES were originally bands of Irish
outlaws. The Celtic word toree means
robber.
UTAH produced s,107, 5es ounces of
silver last year, having a net value of
sa233, 365.
PADEREwsKI is probably the only mu-
sician who has made $50, 900 in sim
gle season.
SOME $70o have been subscribed by
friends as memorial to the late Theo-
dore Child.
A WALNUT burl weighing over 5000
pounds was recently found in Grundy
county, Mo.
LAWN is the fine linen bleached on
the lawn instead of the ordinary dry.
ing ground.
A BDDEFoRD (Me.) man proposes to
combine hotel, cafe and Kelley cure
under one roof.
A HOME for invalid servants, the gift
OF Mrs. c. Davis English, is to be built
near Berwyn, Pa.
IT is said that the only Hard Shell
Baptist newspaper in the world is pub
lished in Missouri
Bur twelve cities of the world have
over 1000, 900 inha bitants and four of
these are in China.
The Chinese have a superstitious
dread Of black and blue, but regard
red as a lucky color.
Edison claims to have in his labora-
tory every substance, organic and in.
organic, in the world.
NEW York has 200 female physicians.
Ten of them are reported to receive
about $4,000 each per year.
The biggest sawnill in America, just
sold at Upper Lake, N. y, contains
$50, GOO worth OF machinery.
In Franklin county, Nebraska, the
authorities have rugged up Jail out of
a disused creamery, and it works first
rate.
PADEREwsKI's wife died after they
had been married one year. He has
one child, a son, of whom he is very
fond.
A NEW set of stamps are to be issued
by the French government. Prizes
ffe offered for the most suitable de-
signs
LIE Berlin exhibition of 1895 is as
suming proportions almost justifying
the government to make it a national
affair.
The Regent diamond, the property
of the French government, weighs 1876
earats. and is valued at $4,000, 00l
francs
WHEN fine ruby is found in Bur
2ah procession of elephants, grandees
and soldiers escorts it to the kings
palace.
THE question at issue in case now
before the Connecticut courts is wheth
er oysters are real estate or persona
property.
IT cost $40, 900, 600 to maintain oul
army last year. The expenses in OIL
war department in the year 1866 were
. s1,o3l, 10000
BUILDING to the Young Mems
Christian association of Troy, n. v, is
70 be erected, the gift of Mrs William
Howard Hart.
GEN. WEAVER, of Iowa, and Col
Streeter, of Illinois, are both squatte(
in Arizona awaiting statehood and sen
atorial honors.
A FLORIDA horticulturist says soup
pcrnong vine can be made to cover te,
acres of land if started off properl.
when it begins to run.
A DRUM which was used on boar
Commodore Perry's ship on Lake Fri
during the war of 1872 is relic prize
by resident of Leslie, Mich.
HERBERT j.. KELSEY mas been EN-
ployed rs compositor on the New Oh
leans Picayunc since that paper starte
publication in 1887. He is eighty year
old
Mrs. STOWE, who will be eighty-eigh
years old in June, is in such a feebl
condition mentally and physically tina
she is constantly in charge of an al
teGdant
AnTific1AL India rubber from cottor
seed oil is one of the latest industris
products, and claimed to possess con
inercial adaptations of peculiar pra'
eicaf value.
The contract for building the Soutl
ern Pacific railroad bridge over til
Mississippi ut New Orleans, has bee
awarded to the Phenixville (Pa
Bridge Co., at the cost of s5, ,000, 900.
JOHN RIDER of Dutchtown, Mo, WI
out coon hunting the other night, al