The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-11-20
CURRENT TOPICS.


cinnamon as a perfume.
JOAQUIN MILLER thinks that mon whs
write poetry should die early.
HORSEBACK exercise Is ultra fashionable
for New York ladies this season.
FRENCH army officers are experimenting
with the bicycle as an adjunct of war.
Two young ladies, students of the State
college, Me-, have been suspended for haz-
ang
THE United States Fish Commission dis
tributed ninety million shad fry during
1885,
Mrs. NELLIE GRANT-SARToRrs will soon
come over from Europe on visit to her
mother
LAKE TEMIscoNATA, in the province of
Quebec, is the deepest fresh water lake in
America.
SEVEN Thousand miles Of railroad tracks
have been laid in tho United States since
January 1.
Rev. DR.. SroRRs has heen pastor of the
Church of the Pilgrims, in Brooklyn, for
forty years.
GERMANY has forbidden the employment
of railway workers for more than eight
hours day.
THE Philadelp ia Press says that some of
the schoolhouses of that city are a dis
grace to humanity.
THE new oleomargarine tax is said to
have started bo m in the manufacture OF
the imitation butter.
"KAsCH pade for olde Knuze-papers" is
the announcement at the door of a Water
street, New York, junk shop.
BARONESS BURpErT-CoUTrs is to accom-
pany her husband on his tour to this coun-
try, planned for next spring.
LIBERTY does not enlighten the world so
much as they thought she would. So far
her light has been rather dim.
A DRIVER of the Lacrosse (Wis) street
railway has received notice from Germany
that he has fallen heir to $4,000.
DIAMONDS are now found in South Africa
at the rate of ton a month, and the Lon
don market is glutted with them.
The tai est boy in Lancaster, Fa., is
George Kersey, son Of DR.. Kersey. He is
thirteen years old and seven feet high.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT was not elected
mayor of New York, but he is going to
marry one of the incest girls in England.
OSCAR WILDE was sinking into obscurity
so fast that he has again taken to wearing
his hair long, that he may attract atten-
ton.
MEN will argue sometimes that they have
no time to be polite, forgetting that it takes
the same amount of time to be uncivil and
disagreeable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, now visiting Lon
don, is mentioned in the London Netos as
"a man who has been marshal of the
United States"
THB her day the remains of General
Israel Putnam were removed to the site for
the monument at Brooklyn, Conn, and
buried there in a metallic casket.
WILD geese are being slaughtered by the
Thousand at Beaver Lake, in Northwestern
Canada. Two men recently killed 1000
and dried the meat for winter use.
ONE million eggs of the white fish, with
66,0OO eggs of our lake trout, have been
sent to Switzerland. When Matched,
the young fry will be placed in the Swiss
lakes.
A TEssELATED pavement made in white,
black, red, yellow and pale blue pieces has
been found in Colchester, England, and
transferred bodily to the museum of the
town.
The newest buttons are large balls of
wood highly polished and showing the
grain. Beans and seeds are employed as
buttons. Etched ivory buttons show fine
designs.
ARCHER, the English jockey, who killed
himself, is reported to have left fortune
of over 81 ,0OO, 600. His hobby wa, a winning
horse, and ON that he galloped on the road
to wealth.
THE oldest old maid in the world, wo-
man named Benoite, has been discovered
at Anch, France. She is 100 years old,
born tire year before our declaration of in
dependence.
A CHINAMAN has purchased for SIC, 900 the
exclusive privilege of selling opium in
Panama. Tho money is devoted partly to
hospitals and partly to reducing the Gov
ernment debt.
WHEN Minnie Hauk sang at Tin Cup,
Ariz., twelve Apache chiefs retired behind
the theater after the entertainment and
drew lots to see who should marry her.
Minnie escaped.
In is estimated by internal revenue Off
cials at Washington that the income to the
Government for the fiscal year from the
tax on oleomargarine will amount to more
than l0O,0000O0.
THE records in the Bell Telephone cases.
now before the Supreme Court at Washing
ton, comprises 25,OOO octave pages, and
copies enough for the judges occupy fifty
cubic feet of space
"BoosE, the busy mans lunch, 8 cts;"
s'Nose Paint, 5 cts. :" "Blood sizzler and
eye bulger, cts," are some of the signs
conspicuously displayed in Chicago barrel
house whisky saloons.
A CURIOSITY in the shape of a full grown
white buzzard has been frequently seen Of
late on Captain Troupe Randle's prairie
plantation, near Union Springs, Ala The
bird is perfectly white.
PARTISAN dolls are now constructed after
the model of famous actresses. Sarah
Bernhardt, Mary Anderson and other
theatrical celebrities appear faithfully rep
resented in the wax piaythings
A MILWAUKEE lady found Sos in gold in q
lar Of preserves. She had placed the money
in sugar box for safe keeping some weeks
before and when making the preserves un.
consciously seasoned them with the money.
A NEW use for the tobacco plant is said to
have been discovered. Its stems and waste,
1t IL claimed, are equal to linen rags In the
manufacture of paper. Tobacco waste
costs less than $40 a ton. linen rags $40 to
$50.
MEDICAL students don't seem to be wild
over torchlight professions. A company of
Atty could not be raised out OF oOO students
in attendance at the Harvard Medical
School tn march In the procession the other