The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-04-21

write.
The offspring of parents of unequal
height most frequently follow the
shorter
DURING the last Turco- Russian war
the Russian army lost 10000 men by
measles
DEATHS from consumption are most
numerous in Russia, Denmark and
Norway.
ABOUT fifty different kinds of woods
are used in the United States in build.
ing cars.
being perpetuated only by artificial
breeding.
IT is computed that there are in the
United States As, 900 blind, and So, 900
deaf mutes.
In the United States in every 10000
deaths there are 800 annually from ty.
phoid fever
ENGLISH speaking people rule third
of the earth, and over 400, 600, 900 of its
habitants.
Cor. LAMB, of Norfolk, Va, is engaged
In an attempt to reorganize the old
Wing party.
that chicken stealing is not an extra
ditable offense.
THE old style square piano are things
of the past. there being no. demand for
them nowadays.
In Russia, as in France, Italy and
Spain, titles carry no privileges, either
official or social.
The various farmers organizations in
this country have 4 combined member
ship of over 10000 600.
In most countries diphthera has
early doubled the number of it's VIC
tins in twenty years
THE expansion of water in congela-
tion is such that eleven feet of water
make twelve feet of ice
In 1871 yellow fever carried off &c, 900
persons at Buenos Ayres, or over 10 per
cent. of the population.
NEARLY onc-ffth of the human race
die t:cm consumption or some other
lorm of pulmonary disease.
THERE are now scverty-four surviv-
prs of the famous Balaklava charge, so
far as the British authorities have
trace.
A TRIANGLE between Sixth avenue
Broadway and Thirty street
New York, is to be called the Greeley
tquare.
A STATUE to the memory of Daguerre,
the inventor of the daguerreotype, is
to be erected at Brie-sur-M Marine, where
he died.
THE first sawmill in Minnesota was
built in 1921 at the falls of st. Anthony
Now there are $50 mills, employing II,
F2 men.
IT was twenty-nine days from the
casting of the Lick objective glass be-
fore it had cooled sufficiently for safe
removal.
NEW electric railway to connect
Allentown with Easton, Pa, proposes
to give passengers Il twcnty-mile ride
for nickel.
CALIFoRNIA's supreme court has de-
clared unconstitutional the law rcmov-
ing the state capitol from Sacramento
to san Jose.
a DANvIILE Qll.) man is advertising
in Chicago newspapers that he thereby
renews his allegiance TO Victoria, queer
of England"
New SCOTLAND yard, London, is the
largest police Office in the world. /,
contains room in which 5, 900 inen car
lie assembled.
The 65, 900 post Offices in this country
consume six tons of stationery ever;
day and $4,000 pounds of wrapping
twine every week.
Mr.. FAUX, who has had forty years
experience in English libraries, put.
4, f. <.f
novel as nine months
AUGUSTUS SUTHERLAND, of Lynn
Mass, coughed up bullet recently, i
is said, that had been lodged in Iii
neck ever since the war.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Flor
enee, says that the titled ladies ther'
have taken most violently to bicycling
since the advent of fine weather
RECENT statistics show that abou
half the population of France live b,
agriculture, a tenth by trade, "a twenty
fifth by liberal professions ond three
fiftieths on private incomes.
ATTENTION has been called to tn,
fact that of the 55,76s,72 bushels o
grain exported from the port of New
York in 1893, not one bushel wa
shipped in vessel flying the American
flag.
LARGEST of all the residents o
Bloomington, H., is a young man of 9
years and 452 pounds weight, who is lo
caily known as Baby Bliss. He wear
1915 collar, a 7Ss hat and No. 1
shoes.
Mr. GLADSTONE is one of the creates
opponents of divorce in the Englisf
speaking world. lie believes that MAJ
.riage is contract for life which ca
pires when life itself expires.
The Santa Fe Railroad Co owns tn
biggest fire insurance policy ever writ
ten. H. is for $1,000. 900, and cover
every piece of combustible propert
that belongs 10 the company.
A MAN, whose corpulent appearance
sttracted Officer Starls's attention, wa
arrested in Chicago some few days ago
When searched he was found to b
wearing ten suits Of clothes. which b
had stolen.