The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-12-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

CUTTING Is actually executing his threat
10 lecture.
QUEEN VicrouA has now thirty liyias
grandchildren.
THE street cars of Pensacola are to be
run by electricity.
The cotton crop this year in Arkansas
will reach 700. 600 bales.
THE Farmers Alliance is said to have
half q million members.
Mn. GLADSTONE has rent-roll and land
income of so, 600 a year.
OLD-FAsIitoNEp Yule cakes for Christm as
are to be offered b. caterers.
CHURCHILL is now called BRUSHING Ran
dy" by irrevercnt Englishmen.
DuBuQuE girl tried to hang herself be-
cause she was called 'Tomboy."
MIR. SPuEoEoS and his enemy, the gout
have gone to the South OF France.
HERMAN GoLDING, of Beverly. N. j., has
died from the effects of a hornets sting.
The photographs of Mrs Cleveland are
In active demand in the City of Mexico.
LORD WoLsELEr, as Adjutant. General OF
the British army, gets only Sl3,50O year.
THE Legislat re of Al bama has elected
a woman for enrolling aud engrossing
clerk.
The Vermont Legislature has passed a
law prohibiting dancing bears in the
streets.
Cook County, ILL.,, in which is Chicago
has one insane person t. every 800 Of the
population.
Ex-PREsrDESr ARTHUR, it is said. was the
first member Of the New York Thirteen
Club to die.
ALABAMA is pro'pering. The increase in
the value OF property in the last four years
is 1856, 900, 600
BY way Of sharp contrasts in fashion,
we now have black velvet bonnets with
white strings.
oYsTEg plates are square, and have places
FOR five bivalves Enough is considered as
good as feast.
1T is said that Cape Cod is slowly wash
ing and blowing away, losing some two
feet every year.
1T is estimated that the Violet Cameron
venture in this country cost young Lord
Lousdale $4,000
PEANUT vines in Kearney County, Kan.
are said to have yielded thi ty bushels to
the acr this year.
DEER were never before so numerous in
the mountain regions of West Virginia as
They are this fall.
THERE are 96 OOO women on the rension
rolls as widows, dependent or relatives of
deceased soldiers.
DURING the present year there have been
seven embezz ements in Boston, which ay.
gregate 1888 400.
AN elderly New York lady bought seat
An street-car from a young man by pay
mg him one dollar.
THE Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway
10 v,in t,,,rr
its line in Michigan.
The telegraph reports the case of boy
who is held in Pennsylvania as security for
the payment of board bill.
The man who dug the grave for three
husbands OF Mrs. Foster, of Green Bay, be-
came her fourth husband this summer.
NAPOLEON at st. Helena predicted that
the Continent would gradually be subju-
gated by 1.-THE colossal Muscovite power"
MINNEAPOLIS saw-mills cut 81, ,O0O. 900 feet
less Of lumber, 2O,OOO, 900 less of shingles
and 23,00OU0 less Of lath this year than
last.
CHINESE woman has become noted in
new YORK merely because she was the first
of her age aud nationality to die in that
city.
A CITIZEN of Salamanca has United
4.
back are the words, 1T is death to counter.
.feit."
NINE. BouLIcouT, Of Paris has given a
pension fund offs, 100000, "hich is available
for all who have been in her serv .ce twenty
years.
TUE Territory of Montana wants to be-
admitted to the Union OF States and will
send a committee to Washington to plead
for her.
I'VE have socialism in our midst, and
socialism is not ling but monarchy in dis
guise," said Henry Ward Bescher in q re-
cent sermon.
In Tolt precinct. King County, w. T.,
Mrs. Millie Templeton was electe consta
lble and her husband was defeated for jus
tice of the peace.
THE Thanksgiving turkey bone having
been picked, 'oughts of the youngsters
have been turned toward Christmas with a
tender yearning.
The Pope has invited the editors of Cath
otic papers throughout the world to send
their publications. regularly to the press
Office of the Vatican.
Mr.. BRANDENBERG, of Philadelphia, owns
the largest dog in America. Koloss is a
Danish hound Of noble ancestry, is nine
toet long and i've feet high.
THE mausoleum prepared by the Empress
Eugenia, at Peterborough, is now almost
rea y for the receipt on of the bodies Of the
late Emperor and Prince Imperial
JOHN SNYDER. the Hoosier whose only re-
lief from the effects of strange disease is
In almosD continual walking, shaves as he
walks, and takes bis meals ON the CO.
Four elephants belongn ng to Coles circus
were sold ut New Orleans ior 81, i5Q Three
lions brought s4la eacn. hippopotamus
went for 81 500 and two-horned rhinoc-
rous for S4,2OO.
A VERY amusing incident in connection
with the drama recently IN New York,
was the misplacoment of oue-h III OF Mr..
Booths moustache and its adherence to the
cheek OF Miss Vaders during the perform
lance OF katherine and Petruchion The
audience roared
"A few of the finer class retail shoe
stores are selling balmoral shoe ior
ladies' wear that is made precisely lik
a mans balmoral, except that it ID
hiUhar cut Tho hee sole ynmn