The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-01-27
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net high.
LIE is the name of the leading Nor
yegian novelist.
MAY DAY lives in Green township,
Clay county, Kan
STRAWBERRIES are reported to be in
Noon at Lexington, Ga.
In Paris the undertaking is monopo.
Heed by the city government
The traffic in secondhand shoes is .
SECULAR business in New York.
EIRsT-CLAss fare for twenty five miles
On the new Congo railroad costs $40.
The practice of ringing the curfew
bell is still in vogue at Fayetteville,
n. G.
The Tartars take man by the ear
90 invite him to eat or drink with
Them.
THE Eskimo Bulletin is the only jour
aal now published within the Arctic
circle.
Mr. ASK keeps tavern at Oxford,
Kan. where you may always get good
"find."
THE oldest peer in England is Earl
Grey, who is almost ninety-two years
of age.
THE total value of the war material
Of the French army amounts to nearly
$500, 900, OOO
AN albino robin is claimed to have
recently been seen in the vicinity OF
Ogelthorpe, Ga.
MoToRMEN who ring gongs with their
feet get n peculiar pedal malady which
they call trolley foot"
STEPHEN ]. FIELD is the oldest mem.
Der of the United States supreme court.
His age is seventy-seven.
THERE will be two eclipses of the sun
during the year, but both will be in.
visible in the United States.
THE Hollanders are the greatest tea
and coffee drinkers, using 24O ounces
to the inhabitant every year.
THE original MS. of Walter SCOTS re.
view of Maturin's novel, "Women," was
sold in London lately for sS5.
THERE is said to be two terrapin
farms in the United States. located at
Mobile, Ala, and in Maryland.
New YORK state hasn't any debt, but
New York city owes enough-a round
800, 600, 900 or soto make it up.
THEY are remembering in Italy MAJ
zini's prediction that "Crispi will be
the last minister of the monarchy"
.'MARcELLUs REDToMAHAwK" and
"He Vets 1t" are two Indian brothers
on the government payroll out in Kan
Sas.
FLORENCE ZIP and Elizabeth Jones,
In love with the same man, fought at
Holman, Ind. Florence was knocked
out.
The McFall (Mo) Magnet men tions
the fact that a woman named whistle
Bleeches'' was in town on Christmas
day.
AN uncut copy of the first edition Of
Gray's "Elegy," published in 1857 at
siXpence, was sold lately in London for
fS1O.
This November Nuremburg will cele-
brate with great national festival the
4OOth anniversary of the birth of Hans
Sachs.
A MAN was called hypnotist at
Pittsburgh recently and wanted to
fight without looking at the dictionary
at all
TIVE smallest coal-burning locomo-
tive in America is the work Of G. D..
young, of Denver 1t weighs but 235
pounds
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY fat rabbits
were given to the poor of Wichita as a
result of days rabbit hunt by an Odd
Fellows lodge.
The court of appeals of New York
has decided that fishing in that state
on Sunday is an unlawful and a pun.
ishable offense.
PHILADELPHIA, which owns and oper.
ates its own gas works, has reduced
the price of gas from S1.5O to 81 per
1000 cubic feet
The physicians of Brussels have re-
Gently banded themselves into union,
pledged not to accept any fee below a
certain fixed sum.
THOUGH no survivor of the battle OF
Waterloo is now alive in England,
there are six in France to whom the
government pays pensions.
The annual message of Gov. Brown,
of Maryland, was finely and copiously
illustrated with pictures of public
buildings of which it treated.
ALFRED McANDREws was killed by a
train at Greenville, Pa. This is the
third son of Mr.. McAndrews killed or
the railroad within two years.
The Field Columbian museum al
Chicago has been enriched by the pres
entation of $50 cases of Japanese goods
and many exhibits from other lands.
A New YORK victim of the cocaine
habit has been sentenced to the peni
tentiary for year for forging doc
tors name to prescription for cocaine
REFORMED church preachers of tn,
Leh;gh valley, at a meeting in Allen
town, Pa. declared that Santa Claus
entertainments in churches are irrever
ent
A TOPEKA mau who asked his wifi,
what she thought of his three days
beard was told to let it grow TO
mercy's sake and get it out of his sys
tenn.
THERE is bold ridge of gray vol
canic mountains in the Cape Verdi
islands, the crest of which is said u
form an exact likeness of George Wash
ington.
A PORTLAND (Me.) young womal
had q rather queer experience the othe
day. She bought some photograph
views of the Worlds fair, and on look
ing over them discovered her own pic
ture in one of them.
EVERY crowned head of Europe wit
the exception of that of Turkey, is de
scended from one of two sisters, tn
daughters of Dui.e Ludwig Rudolph, o
Brunswick Wo]fenbuttel, who live,