The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-17
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Pleasant Valley Cal
FRANCE gathers window tax on
more than 1000. 900 houses
THK Eye is the name of the local
newspaper at Needles, Cal
MISSOURI has twenty-eight counties
that produce lead and zinc ore.
The assessed value of property in
California has doubled since 1880
THE catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about 100000 people.
The Boston Phillips Brooks statue
fund now amounts to about $50, 900.
A NEW alkaloid has been extracted
from the cotfce bean and named coffea.
rine.
DANISH lighthouses are supplied with
oil to pump on the waves in case of a
storm.
BELLS toll for the making or break
ing OF engagements in some German
towns.
SATISFACTORY gas pipes are now
made of manila. paper coated with
asphalt.
IT is estimated that one of the larg.
est stones in the pyramids weighs fully
eighty tons.
The comptometer, n new calculating
machine, is operated by keys like the
newest typewriter.
In North Carolina's penitentiary the
colored convicts outnumber the whites
about five to one.
LANCASTER, Pa, is credited with be-
ing the banner tobacco producing
county of the world.
ALL the glaciers in the Alps would
Rot equal in size one of the largest iii
the territory of Alaska.
YALE's junior class this year is the
largest ever recorded at that college
1t numbers l65 students
RUSSIAN women and Japanese men
are said to excel all the other worlds
workers with the needle.
ARCTURus, the giant of the plan.
ets," is estimated to be about $780, 900
times the size of the sun.
THIS year the Italians will celebrate
the three hundredth anniversary of the
production of the first opera.
AN international mining and metal
lurgical exhibition is to be opened in
Santiago, Chilli, next September.
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK, the southern
poet is dividing his time between
writing poetry and turkey raising.
IT is stated by authorities in naval
; architecture that IL steel vessel can
carry 20 per cent. more than an iron
ship
WAYNE MACVEAGH, ambassador to
Italy, carried with him a new bust OF
George Washington for the legation at
Rome.
TIE United States is first in the val
ue of horses, Great Britain coming
next, France third and Germany
fourth.
c2-jUDGE LAMBERT TREE, formerly
L. S. minister to Belgium, is about
starting for Il tour of the African coast
to Asia.
A WRITER, who claims to speak with
authority, says that Texas felt the
kard times less than any other state in
The union.
THB people of the United States con-
sumo nearly one-half of the seven mil
lion ounces of quinine produced in the
world every year.
A PROPOSITION for a great shipway
through France, between the English
channel and the Mediterranean, meets
with much approval abroad.
IF a piece of a Negroes skin be grated
on white man, the transplanted piece
will gradually assume the color and
texture of the surrounding cuticle.
A NINETYFIvE-YEAR-oLD beggar OF
Pesth, Hungary, attempted suicide be-
cause he was no longer able to support
his parents, who are l25 and 100 years
old.
A school,. building at Southampton:
Pa, was blown down by recent gale
The building was filled by scholars,
but all of tbem escrped without serious
injury
Jules CI.ARETIE paid visit TO Mile
Rosa Bonheur recently, and he says
that in spite of her seventy years she
Is bright and alert and quite youthful
in manner.
A New YORKER weighing over 800
pounds fell off II dock into the Fast
rirer the other day. 1t required the
united efforts Of six men and tackle to
rescue him.
In the most crowded precinct of Bos
ton, the recent tenement house census
4OuHo Vic Va IC' ociio
in a honse to be l7.Sl, and the average
number of persons in room l.G3.
Historic old Castle Garden has been
converted into Il magnificently appoint
cd aquarium. The work on the build
ing has been completed, and but little
remains to be done in the interior.
CAPT. r. ID. BELL, of Alaska, says
that the Indians of that territory are
being cleaned out by disease and bad
whisky at such rate that in ten years
an Alaskan Indian will be almost a
curiosity.
WITH it's tributaries. many of them
large and important rivers, the waters
of the Amazon form an inland naviga.
tion of not less than fifty thousand
miles, line double the circumference
of the globe,
RABBI WISE. of Cincinnati, who ia
trying TO find out how many jews
there are in the world, has come to the
conclusion tina. there are over II, 000,'
900 Of them.
THERE are more than 5000 articles O,
various descriptions that were lost by
visitors during the Worlds fair season,
stored away in room of the old ser
vice building at Jackson park await
ing claimants
ONE of the shortest Wills on record