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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
HERE'S A. CATCH.
Tho Richest Girl in America, and Whsrs
She May Iss Found.

Tho Richest Girl In America, and where
She May Ds Found.
Men who are hunting the society
meadows and beating the society bush
In search Of q fortune will fever find
Miss Jennie Flood, richest Of all Cali
fornia heiresses. Down In tho big
house at Menlo or up In the big stone
house on Mob Hill she may be seer
going about quietly, very attentive to
her mother. and having for q friend
and companion the widow Of the late
Gov. Sam" Purdy.
In her fathers last illness she was
his constant attendant She hadn't
cared much for society before. She
hasn't at all car ed for It since, says
the San Francisco Examiner. She
spends most Of her time at Menlo. Oc-
casionally the family comes to the city
and lets the light into q few rooms
Of the great mansion on the hill. But
there is no dancing, no feasting, NO
masQuerading there
Miss Flood is tremendously rich In
her own right. She has one block 6f
registered United States 4 per cent.
bonds amounting to $2,50o. 900. She
owns the big Flood building at the
corner Of Fourth and Market streets,
from which tho monthly rental Ia
about $1,000. No one outside Of her
family knows anything of her entire
wealth. Some people say her mother
is still worth $10,000,00 to Sis, 900, 900.
Undoubtedly, in the natural course OF
things, she will get the greater portion
Of this, as her only brother, James L.
Flood, Is rich in his own right and
presumably getting richer every day.
Though suitors have repeatedly
thronged about her, she has repeated.
" said them nay. Lords have come
from Europe and carpet knights Of
the New York drawing rooms have
Jared westward for the sole purpose Of
winning this great fortune. They
have wooed in vain. Once the engage.
ment of Miss Flood to u. s. Grant, jr.,
was announced and acknowledged, but
1t was broken of. Since then the
heiress has gone about in her quiet
way, as unostentatious as she was
when her father was thrifty saloon
keeper before the days Of the Big
Bonanza.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26

She might be about flfty-three of
ffty-four years Of age; she had been
perfectly beautiful In her youth; her
daughters Except Nine. Bacciochij re-
sembled her, nnd gave a good idea of
what her beauty had been. Her sta
ture was that most agreeable In wo-
men-about five feet one inch-but ae
she grew older her shoulders increas-
ed In breadth, which diminished her
apparent height, although her car
eiage always continued firm and dig
nifled. Her feet were tho smallest
and most beautifully formed l had
ever seen. A defect in her right hand
was conspicuous In one otherwise 30
pretty. The forehnger did not bend,
In consequence Of an ill-performed
operation; the nerve had beon cut, and
this stiffness had singular effect
when she played at cards.
At this period her teeth were still
perfect, and, like all the Bonapartes,
her smile was charming, her counter
ance lively and very intelligent. Her
ayes were small, piercing and very
black, but their expression was never
iil-natured, which IL more than can be
said for some OF her children. Ma
dame was very nice In her person. and
paid especial attention to dressing, al
ways conformable to her age and posi-
tion. She made, in short, o more re-
spectacle appearance than seine Prin-
cess and Princesses I have seen, who
stood sadly in need of their royal titles
10 distinguish them from the COM
monalty. The great Inconvenience to
which madame's situation exposed her
arose from her timidity and want Of
nuency in the French language.-Me-
mojrs Of the Duchess Of Abraute2
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26

Wnot DVoWHuuK EUOnu AVaOs
There are several atlthentic records
Of the experiences Of persons who have
been snatched from 4 watery grave,
says the British Medical Journal, whom
life was all but extinct. One Of the
most interesting is that Of Admiral
Beaufort, a. described by himself,
When a youngster he fell overheard
In Portsmouth (England) harbor, and
before relief was reached him had sunk
below the surface. All hope had fed.
all exertion ceased. and he felt that he
was drowning. We give his account
Of his sensations In his own words:
From the moment that all exertion
ceased, clam feeling Of the most
perfect tranquility superseded the pre-
vious tumultuous sensations-it might
be called apathy, certainly not resig-
nation, for drowning no longer ap-
peared to be an evil. no longer
thought Of being rescued. nor was in
any bodily pain. On the contrary, my
sensations were now Of Q pleasurable
cast, partaking Of that dull but con-
tented sort Of feeling which precedes
the sleep produced by fatigue.
Though the senses were thus dead
ened, not so the mind: It's activity
seemed to be invigorated In a ratio
which defies all description, for
thought rose after thought with
rapidity Of succession that is not only
lndescribable. but probably incoH
ceivable by any one who has not HIM
self been in a similar situation. The
course Of these thoughts can even
now, in q great measure, retrace--the
event which had Just taken place, the
awkwardness that produced It, the
hustle 1t must have occasioned, the ef-
feet 1t would have on most affec-
tionate father, and o thousand other
circumstances minutely associated
with home, were the first series Of
reflections that occurred. Then they
took wider range-our last cruise, q
former voyage and shipwreck, my
school, the progress had made and
the time I had misspent, and all my
boyish pursuits. every incident Of my
life seemed to glance across my recol-
lection in retrograde succession; not
however, in mere outline, as here
stated, but the picture, filled up with
every minute collateral feature; In
ehort, the whole period Of my exist
ence seemed to be placed before me
In q kind Of panoramic review, and
each act Of It seemed to be accom-
panied by consciousness Of right and
wrong, or by some reflection on its
cause or its consequences; indeed
many trifling events which had been
long forgotten then crowded into my
Imagination, and with the character
of recent familiarity"
Two minutes had not elapsed befoSe
he was hauled up. and he found the
return to life much less pleasant thar
drowning.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
Holiday Excursions.

On the Buckeye Route. In or
der that you may VISIT your friends
end the old folks at home, tho G. III.
& I. Ry., will sell excursion tickets
on December Oath, 25th & 3lst, 1894
and January 1st, 1896, good return
ing until January End, to all points
on its lines and principal points on
connecting lines, at ahe low rate of
one and one-third fare for the
round trip. See Agents 9. H. v. &
T. Ry, for further particulars or
write w. H. Fisher, G p. G. T. A.,
Columbus, Ohio.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
v.s.ries Of tn. Imagination.

Nothing can be more singular than
the vagaries Of the Imagination. Hay
wood, In his Hierarchy" tells Of
young man who fancied that he was
dead. and urged his friends to bury
him. BY the advice Of physician
they consented. He was laid upon 4
bier. and carried upon the shoulders
OF four men to tho church, when some
Of them, up to the business, stopped
the procession, and inquired who It
was that they were about to inter.
They were told.
"Ay. and very good Job IL is; Tor
the world ia wei! rid of such bad
and vicious character. He would SOON
er or later have como to the sallows."
The would-be dead man, hearing
this, popped his. head up, and said
that they ought to be ashamed Of them
selves In thus traducing his fair fame,
and II he were alive he would thrash
them Gcundly for their insolenca. But
they proceeded to utter tho most out
rageous language. Dead G.sh and
blood could stand 1t no longer, and Up
he jumped. They ran. ho after them,
until no fell down exhausted. Hc was
put to bed. and the violent exercise he
had taken promoted profuse pergrira-
ton. and he ultimately recovered.
Then there is the CAGE of a watch
maker, related by Plntel, who insist
ed that he had been guillotined, and
another head had been by mistake put
on his shoulders instead Of his own.
Look at these teeth" he would
say. Mine were extremely hand
some, these are poor and decayed. My
mouth was sound and healthy, this Is
foul. How different is thu hair from
that Of my own head"
Benevenuto Cellini, tho celebrated
Tlorentine artist, in his own life
writes: 1.-THE governor of the castle
has q periodical disorder. One time
he conceited himself metamorphosed
Into o pitcher Of oil; another time he
thought himself frog, and began tc
leap as such. At length he thought
himself q bat, and when he went Il
walk he made Just such noises a. bate
do; he likewise used his hands and
body as II he were going to fy." One
thing is remarkable; that the writer
the painter himself Of nnother's by.
pochondricics, should himself stats
that resplendent light shone ovel
his own head from morning till ;
o'clock in the afternoon, and that Il
was conspicuous to those to whom hl
thought proper TO show t.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
"a 1w.N soRN lN a COAL MINE.

The Other, Very Strange 70 Say. Was
Born Above Ground.
Mrs. Katharine Schmidt, says the
st. Louis Republic, is the mother Of
bouncing twin babies. There Is no.
thing remarkable in that, but when
is mentioned the fact that one Of the
new arrivals was born down In q coal
mine. 100 feet beneath the ground, and
that the other was born on terra iirma
at the mouth Of the coal shaft q few
minutes latel. the double birth be-
comes unique.
John Schmidt is miner, and delvea
for dusky diamonds In the L6nz coal
mine near Belleville, Ill. The mining
company Is behind In its supply, and
For this reason the men are allowed
TO work overtime II they desire. The
begrimed miners have reached q coal
vein 100 feet below the surface, and
there they were digging and shovel
Ing when the noon hour arrived for
changing the "shift." John Schmidt
concluded to work extra time. He
sent word to his wife. with request
that she send him luncheon.
Mrs. Schmidt prepared the ediblee
and then decided to carry them to the
mine herself, a. she had done many
times before. While Mrs. Schmidt
was In the mine she gave birth to q
boy.
AZ soon a. possible the helpless onss
V9e placed In the cold iron cage and
hoisted from the gloomy depths to the
bright sunshine above Messenger
wore sent hurrying for Q physician
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
eouaasT ON FOOTBALL
Graphic Pan-ficsnre Of the Taugis o.
Young T.tnns.

uraphlc ran-fiesnre Of the Tansis Of
Young T.t"ns.
Paul Bourgot, writing In the New
York Herald, says OF footbaH: 1t u Q
terrible game. which w itself would
sumce to indicate the differences be-
tween the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin
woyld-o game OF young bulldogs
brought up to bite. to rush upon the
quarry, q game at for q race mado TOR
wild attack. for violent defense. TOR
lmplacable conquests and struggles
even to determination. With their
leather vests. with tho Harvard sleeves
Of red cloth, and the Pennsylvania
blue and white vests and sleeves, 10
soon to be torn-with the leather
Rltogo 70 protect their ehtns, with
tAe1e great Shoes and their long hair
oeSting around their pale and pink
sn1o thnse scholarly athletes are at
once admirable and frightful TO see.
- soon - the 6smoa oe contest has
enterod into them.
The brutality With which they seise
the bearer Of the ball 10 impossible TO
imagine without having witnessed u.
He is seized by the middle Of the body.
by the head. by the legs. by the feet.
He rolls over and his assailants with
him. and as they fsht for the ball and
the two sidcs come TO the rescue, It
becomes q whole heap Of twenty-five
bodies tumbling on top Of one another
like IN inextricable knot Of serpents
with human heads. This heap writhss
on the ground and tears ITSELF One
sees faces. hair, backs or legs appearing
n : monstrous and agitated melee:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Having travelling representatives
will find 1t much to their interests
to purchase for their use Buckeye
mileage tickets which are accepted
over some fifty four transportation
lines, covering Buffalo, Cleveland,
Toledo, thicago, st. Louis, Carlo,
Terra Haute, Decatur, Indianapolis
Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and
all the important Commercial Cen
ters of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Mich
igan, Pennsylvania, and New York.
They are sold at the rate of twenty
dollars and are good one year from
date of sale, Write, w. II. Fisher,
q. p. & r. A., g. H. V. & II. R'y, for
complete list of roads covered. Mil
age sent to any address in the Uni
ted States or Canada on receipt Of
$4,000.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
RESOLUTION.
A Resolution Declaring the Haten-
tioa of the Village to Curb and
PAGE Sidewalks on Main Street.

DE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the
" Village of Logan, that In the opinion of
the Council, 1t Is necessary to curb and have
sidewalks on Main Street of said Village, be-
tween Gallagher Avenue, or street leading to
Depot, and west to the termination OF Main
Street into Hunter. And 1t Is hereby declared
the same should be constructed In accordance
with the plans and specifications on file in the
Mayors Office. And the Mayor Is hereby in
owners and agents of owners of the property
bounding or abutting In said street of the pas
sage OF this resolution.
Passed November q, 1894.
Dec. -, 3w. w. r. BOWEN, Mayor
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
Holiday Excursions.

For the Midwinter Holidays, the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
R'y will sell tickets at one-third
fare for the round trip to all points
on its own lines and principal con.
nections. Tickets will be sold De-
cember oath, 25th and 31st, 1904,
and January 1st, 1895. For partic-
ulars, ask any agent B. & O.S. w.
R'y. j. M. CHEsBRouGH, General
Passenger Agent.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26
MISTAKES or HISTORY.

Errors That Creep Into the Popular Mind
and Arc Hard to Eradicatc.
"what is history but universally
accepted fable?" said a learned Smith
Donian professor to writer for the
Star. 81 quote the great Napoleon.
For example, consider Plymouth Rock.
In the town 6f Plymouth is q rock
with fence around 1t. It is a sort Of
local fetish. On Forefathers' Day
every year exercises are held there
commemorating tho alleged fact that
on this rock the pilgrims landed. Az
q matter Of fact, there Is no evidence
that such was tho fact. Prof. Chan
ming, the historical expert Of Har-
ward, has traced the story back, and
believes It to have been started by an
old man named Faunce, who many
years ago pointed out the rock tc
some children, saying: Here they
landed
History states that the pilgrims ar
rived on Sunday, but refrained from
landing until Monday lest they should
break the Sabbath. That is pure nom
sense. AS matter of fact, the wo-
men and children stayed on the ship
all winter because It was more COM
Portable.
1.-THE gorgeousness and high civil
i1ation OF the ancient Mexicans at the
time Of the Spanish conquest have
been permanently embalmed in his
tory. The whole story is misrepre-
sentation. Cortez naturally wished to
give an impression ut homo that he
had conquered great and rich ma
tion. In reality 1t was only q half
civilized and untutcred people. The
mode OF nvlnS was patriarcnai, wnoie
!aml!les OF 1vV OF more persons nv.
ing IN ono mousse Ihe communal
oweiHng was OF one story ana neces-
serily OF large size. Tnese structures
were described Dy the Spaniaros as
palaces The people ate only one
cooked meal eacn Gay, I0r the rest OF
teeif Ioou depending on 'gruD diet
picked up anyhow. Tne dinners. par
tAken OF by 20 many individuals, are
reported IN history a. 'banquets.
The scnootboy learns that Colum.
tos was the man who first conceived
the Idea that the world was round
Nothing could be more nonsensicai
The truth is that no merely accepted
notion on this subject which had
been handed down from classic times
by scholarly men. Strabo, the Latin
author. was one OF these. The con-
ception was for many centuries as
faint light glmmering In darkness.
Let me call your attention to ar
instance OF the making OF fictitious
history. There are excellent reasons
Tor believing that the Norsemer
reached the shores OF North America
before Columbus. The records o.
their sagas. however, give M
notion OF the locality where they
landed. Only few such non-descrip
tive facts are stated as that they founf
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26

AlNlEHlXNkSSHy SHyXiLIIH1zZNSZ2 Z2N
For years we have sup
piled the people of Logan
and Hooking county with
their winter wear at fair,
honest and living prices,
and we expect to continue
to supply them for years
to come, because we have
the Best Goods at the Low
est Prices. We do not ad-
vertise a Two-Dollar Shoe
at Fifty Cents to catch the
unwary, but advertise on
the square and deal on the
square. Call in and see us.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-26

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Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

"A local Democratic contemporary de-
nounces as humbug the act of New
York business man who. because of the
Republican victory, has advanced the
wages of his employees to the point
where they stood before the Democratic
tariff-smashing began. But it is form
of humbug which must be highly accept
able to the men.
1t will be time enough to discuss the
Administration currency plan when it is
formulated. But if it follows the lines
marked out by the American Bankers
Convention, it will not go far wrong. The
next two years should be favorable for
the settlement of currency questions, be-
cause the tariff will be out of the way.
Among the defeated are Professor
Wilson of West Virginia, the bounding
Springer of Illinois, Watchdog Holman
and Bynum of Indiana, Silver Dollar
Bland of Missouri, Sockless Simpson and
Lawless Lewelling of Kansas and Blood
to-the-B 'idies Waite of Colorado. Not
a man is on the list whose personal loss
is not a distinct gain to the country.
The Republican triumph is no more
of godsend to the navy than it is to the
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16

The trouble over the probable outcome
of fight for a city charter for Barre
village, seems likely to be settled by the
passage of an act by the Legislature, in
cooperating the entire town into city.
A public hearing on the subject was
held at the State House, Wednesday
night.
In the House Wednesday, the bill fix
ing the weight of a bushel of grains,
fruits, etc., was brought up, and recon-
mitted pending motion for a third
reading. The substance of the bill is:
"a bushel of wheat, potatoes, peas,
clover seed, beats and turnips shall be go
pounds; a bushel of beans, 81 pounds;
bushel of rye or Indian corn, SO pounds;
bushel of oats. 80 pounds; bushel of
barley or buckwheat, 4S pounds; a
bushel of Indian wheat, 46 pounds; a
bushel of herd grass or timothy seed, 45
pounds; bushel of apples or carrots, so
pounds; a bushel of onions, 52 pounds;
bushel of salt, Y pounds, as the stan
dard weight and measure of the same in
the purchase and sale thereof"
The committee recommended that the
word cider be inserted before the word
apples, upon which there were made a
series of clerical blunders that kept the
House in roar of laughter for some
minutes. The blunders reached their
climax when Speaker Stickney read, "a
bushel of cider for carrots" instead of
"a bushel of apples for cider and car
rOts, their weight" etc. Everybody had
some amendment to make, one member
going so far as to say that the word
"cider" should be excluded, as it was a
document of the State of Vermont.
There were quite number of argu-
ments and some exhibitions of bad
blood.
In the House the bill establishing a
fine for Sunday breakers was passed. 1t
makes it punishable Offense to indulge
in games, etc., from IL o'clock Saturday
day night, until II o'clock Sunday night.
The fates seem TO be against the Nor
wich cadets, who have set two dates up
on which to appear before the Governor
and Legislature and give an exhibition
drill and review. The last time, Tues
day, was so stormy that it was post
poned. Had the cadets arranged for to-
day, they could not have had better.
Passing down Main street Tuesday even
ing, heard one young lady from your
village, who is spending the week here,
lamenting the postponement and hoping
she would be able to see the parade. 1
re-echoed her sentiments, for there is al
ways warm spot in my heart for the
Norwich boys. 1t has been my good
fortune to see their parades and drills,
which are so cTedltable to them. The
first lieutenant, afterwards captain, of
the company in which enlisted in 1861,
was Washington county man, and got
his military education at Norwich. 1
enlisted in this town and never make a
trip down Main street but that l pass
the place, formerly hotel, in which 1
enlisted, and the room in which l slept
the first night. That was SO years ago,
and many changes have taken place in
and around that house.
Wednesday evening there was large
audience in Representative Hall, who
listened to a scholarly address from the
Rev, j. r. Fuller, who spoke on Oliver
Wendall Holmes. 1t was fit subject
and ably handled. NJ.