The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-05-19

IOSIAdE StNInpS are now CanCeleu Dy
little machines run by electricity.
The czar of Russia holds the largest
individual estates 100, 900. 600 acres
TEN per cent. of the inhabited houses
of England and Wales are in London
The crop of corn in this country last
year aggregated 1,619, 494,O 900 bushels.
The largest flower is the rafflesia ot
Sumatra, whose diameter is nine feet.
The streets of Memphis are to bs
sprinkled by an electric street sprinh
Ter.
AN ordinary teacup holds about six
ounces of fluid and tumbler about
ten.
The wool production of the world is
estimated at ., 456, TT3, 600 pounds annu.
ally.
AUNT CHLOE" WRIGHT, of Hot
Springs, Ark, is reputed to be in her
Hath year.
The greatest bee owner on earth is n
Mr.. Harbison of California, who owns
5000 hives.
New YORK boasts that $4,000 people
witnessed the first ball game of the
season there
Ex-senator INGALLS, is under con.
tract to write several magazine articles
on Coxeyism.
The drill plow in every essential
point was known to the Chinese nearly
. 1900 years ago.
THERE is girl in Easton, Pa, who
drops asleep whenever she gets in the
bright sunlight
THOMAS CoNEX, father of j. S. Coxey,
has been buying lead mines near
Doylestown, Pa.
The Astronomical society of the Pa.
Rose O'Halloran.
THERE are said to be $4,000 species o1
fishes, of which about one-tenth in.
habit fresh water
The popular belief that May is an
unl1cky month for marriages dates
from Roman times.
No fewer than 1,76O ancient manu-.
script copies of the New Testament in
whole or in part exist.
CHARITABLE societies are to be Or
ganized in France to aid convicts whose
terms have expired.
A BOY at Hull England, had dis
eased lung cut out. Within three
months he was well.
WILLOW wood is most commonly used
in the manufacture of artificial limbs,
owing to its lightness.
The statement is made that the prod
ucts of southern factories now exceed
the products of its soil.
TIE frigate bird, the fastest of all
in, mi
rate of 100 miles an hour.
The Bay of Bengal and the Bay OF
Fundy have the highest tides, measur-
ing sixty and seventy feet.
THE health commissioner of Brooklyn
has determined to stop the use of soft
coal in factories of that city.
AN Italian musician suggests that
those of an audience who desire an en-
core be required to pay for it,
The German mile of to-day is Isis
feet in length, more than four times
and a half as long as our mile.
The jungle fowl of Australia builds
nest that is about twenty feet in
diameter and fifteen feet high.
WALTER BEsANT is an anti-woman
suffragist He holds that as men con.
quer the world they should rule it.
The state of New Hampshire is pay.
ing 81 bushel to farmers for all the
grasshoppers that they can destroy.
THE Chinese are putting $4,000, 00G
into great rolling mill at Han
Yam. An Englishman is bossing the
job.
IT is estimated that between $40, 000,.
00C and s50,0O0,00O are expended in
this coGntry annually for church edi.
fees,
THERE is in Jerusalem n branch OF
the Young Women's Christian associa.
tion which numbers about eighty mem.
bers.
THE Suez canal is eighty-eight miles
long, and reduces the distance from
England to India nearly 1000 miles for
ships
born in foreign lands Mcmillan in
Canada, Pasco in England, and Walsh
In Ireland
Mrs. ANN WHEELER died recently
aged 102 years, at Ashmore, Eng, ir
the house where she was born and haG
lived all her life.
A MUscALoNGE weighing forty-cight
pounds, all but an ounce. is on eXhibi
tion in Chicago. The fish was caught
in Fox Lake, III.
On the banks of Lake Nyassa, few
years ago the habitation of cruelty
there are now Christian schools Will
$50 teachers and 1000 scholars.
SHAD fishing has been practically
abandoned on the Connecticut river
because OF the use of pounds along tn,
north shore OF Long Island sound.
A RESIDENT of Phoenix, Arizona ter
ritory, was fined s. the other day fol
going to sleep in the courtroom ant
disturbing proceedings by snoring.
THE Connecticut state building, from
the Worlds fair, will be set up in New
Haven where the British troops
camped when II town was invaded il
ITO
A PICNIC was held at Mcconnell,
mills, Pa, in celebration of the Greel
Easter. at which the ancient custom O
burning Judas lscariot in efiigy wa
observed.
FREDERIcK BENNINGTON thinks tina
the American caval-yman Is as fine
horsemun as lac hi IS ever seen. 10
sven excepting the famous Cossack
and Arabs.
R0uGn figures Of horse and rider ol
III nj ltAt. AL 10,