The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-01-20
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thirty to fifty 1-st long.
The Minneapolis flour output in 1898
will reach 0,2eO, 900 barrels.
THE flour output of the Duluth mills
In 1898 was 1,60T,618 barrels.
AT Milwaukee you can drop dime
In the slot and use telephone.
HAM g. BACON is suitable name Of
firm of Pennsylvania butchers
AMERICA is said to export $4,000 tons
OF apples to England every year.
The largest European city park is in
Deamark. 1t contains 4, 200 acres.
ONE-FIFTH of the population of Can
ada have found homes in the United
States.
The yield of gold from California
mines amounts at present to about S13,.
o00 900 year
The United States have 6s6 vessels
engaged in foreign trade, while Great
Britain has 5,96S.
THERE are 50, 900 miles of wire in
the telegraph and telephone subwaya
of New York city.
IT is said that wine is SO plenty in
France that it is offered at penny .
quart with no buyers.
The Paris opera house cost at the
rate of So, 800 a seat The Vienna opera
house cost $3.50 seat.
AMONG the recent inventions 10 q
Shorthand typewriter" designed es-
pee;ally for rapid work
EMpERoR WILLIAM is striving to buy
the biggest diamond in the world, it is
said. one valued at S5,OO0,O0O
Moe JoKAI is to have a dinner given
to him in London as the creator of
modern Hungarian literature.
THE largest movable dome in the
world is that on tho Paris observatory,
which is over sixty feet IN diameter.
DURING the year 1893 the police OF
New York made S5,812 arrests OF this
number 1852 were women and girls.
A TRAIN which runs at the rate OF
eigh ty-fiv miles requires a mile in
which to stop, when going at full
speed
THE currency of the Argentine re-
public consists altogether of paper
notes, ranging in value from cent up
to Sl00
A WOMAN without arms was recently
married in New Zealand. The ring
left foot.
Hon. RoB'T C. WINTHROP pronounces
Rufus Choate 1.-The most eloquent of
our jurists and the greatest jurist of
our orators"
BROOKLYN pays 100000 annually
for the education of 1OO 900 children in
her public schools, or twenty dollars
for each child.
A NEW idea is to have a bath tub on
wheels. The tub can be thus filed and
wheeled into bedroom, where the
Saith can be taken.
A TRIPLE soMERsAULT is turned by
Nine. Adelina Antonio, of Bucharest,
performing in London, during drop
from high trapeze.
THE loving care of an Emporia (Ilan. J
husband drove patient wife up tall
tree and made her stay there all night
She asks for alimony.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD daughter of George
Sneats, Glen Campbell, Pa, found her
fathers self-acting revolver and shot
her one-year-old sister
SIMS REEVES receives $3.50 per hour
for teaching at the London Guildhall
school. This is in addition to the fees
he receives from pupils.
THE Rio Grande for more than 200
miles above El Paso, Tex, is probably
the croolsedest and most widening
stream on the continent.
SLATER, Mo-, with population OF
less than 1000, has among her resi-
dents ten native Virginians who are
over eighty years of age.
SEALsKIN is totally out of favor this
season in Paris. Astrakhan and sable
are the furs most in fashion Blue foz
and beaver are also used.
IT is reported that navigable bal.
loon, made in Paris, has been tested by
Russian military commission at War.
saw with satisfactory results.
A MONUMENT is to be erected to the
violoncellist and composer, Jules de
Swert, in the Ostend cemetery, where
he was buried last February.
THE onion is one of the Oldest Of edi
BILE vegetables. 1t is supposed to have
been native of India, and the Egyp
tians knew it ., 900 years ago.
IN thirty-six state prisons in this
country solitary confinement is used al
punishment, and in twenty the pris
oner is handcuffed to the wall.
A LANDLORD in Lynn, Mass, to ge'
rid of an Objectionable tenant, stopped
up the chimney They stood the smoke
for three days and then moved
EUGENE FIELD, who has not had goot
health since he was attacked will
pneumonia couple of months ago, ha
gone to the Pacific coast for the win
ter
EIeHTY-FIvE per cent of New Eng
land farms are cultivated by their own
ers and three-quarters of such farm
are wholly free of mortgage indebted
I2ss.
THR European trout introduced il
New Zealand waters some years ag
have increased largely in numbers
making the sport of catching them
decidedly popular one.
In a suit in Brooklyn recently it wa
developed that the receipts of forty
eight nickel-in-the-slot machines use
In the sale of music, etc, at Coney Ii
land for three an" \ half months wer
g. Al.
A FAMILY named Walker, living j
Mitchell county. N. c., consists c
seven brothers nd five sisters, all {
whom are over six feet in height On
Of the brothers is said TO be feet
inches tall.
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