The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-01-02
go pou Kuow?

That Cork is the cutter rind of the
cork-oak.
That Georgia negroes have s13,.
900, 600 in property.
That farm laborers in Belgium re-
ceive 46 cents day.
That the Berlin electric stations
supply power to 146 printing Offices.
That Mayor Allen, of Columbus,
has instructed the police to see that
all gamblers, not residents of the city
leave at once and there are many de-
partures therefrom. As the order
applies to all fskirs We very much
doubt if the members of the legisla-
ture are suffered to remain in CoIum-
bus for any length of time.
That there are at present two
Chinese girls at the University of
Michigan. One of them, Miss SHE,
has been elected secretary of the SEN
ior class. The ultimate object of
these women is to return to China as
Christian medical missionaries.
That the lamp mostly used in Africa
IS simple contrivanca. 1t is CO.
coanut filled with oil; bit of rag is
placed to serve as a wick and this
gives all the light that the natives
need.
That a country pewspapar pub-
Usher sizes up the "span of life" as
follows:
ga child is born, the doctor in at
tendance get $40 fee; the editor
notes it and gets O; it is christensd
and the minister gets So, and the ed
itor writes 1t up and gets 90; it mar
ries and the minister gets another
$40; the editor gets a piece of cake
or 900.
ssIn tie course of time it dies; the
doctor gets from SIS to a 500 and
the minister perhaps gets another So;
the undertaken s25 to $50; the editor
prints notice of death and obituary
two columns long, and a set of reso-
lutions of some lodge or organization
to which the deceased belonged, and
receives 0000. and then has the priv
ilege of running free card of thanks
and a lot of poetry besides"
That Ed Davenport has employ
ment at last, carrying book weigh
ing "a pounds.
That there are at present sixty-six
cardinals, of whom thirty-four are ital-
ian and thirty-two foreign. Only six
of these have been created cardinals
under the pontificate of Plus IX;these
six still living are Cardinals Oreglia,
DE Canossa, Mertel, Parocchi, La
and Hohenlohe. While
Plus TX was pope 1872 cardinals died
Since Leo XIII ascended the papal
throne 105 cardinals have died, the
last of these being Cardinal Luc;en
Bonaparte.
That Judge Chaplin of Detroit, re-
fused to reserve seats for w. c. T.U.
members at a trial held in that city a
few days ago.
That the Supreme Court of Ken
tucky decides that the bondsmen of
defaulting Ex-State Treasurer Tate
are not liable. Tate stole S24S,000
but 100000 was afterward recover
ed.
That twenty-four miners lost their
lives last Wednesday in the Nelson
coal mine, near Dayton, Tenn. by an
explosion of fire damp.
That cpe of the pleasant features
of the Christmas tide was the pre-
by the transportation de-
partmept of the Hooking Valley and
Siver divisions of the c. H. V. & I.
of handsome leather couch TO MS.
Corners, superintendent of the divis-
ions. In addition to making the
pres antation a surprise, the boys had
a local furniture company deliver the
couch at the home of Mr.. Conners on
Franklin rvenue at the unreasonable
hour If 2 a. M, forcing the genial
to dress and receive
The remembrance at such al hour by
way of novelty. A letter which
Chief Clerk Quigley sent with the
couch explained who the donors were
and expressed the hope that hc would
accept the present IN the same spirit
n which it was sent