The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

SPAIN can DoaSt OF -FOUR living queens
and five Kings.
INDIA has greater acreage of wheat than
khe United States.
TuIRTY-Two congressman out Of the 32E
decline reelection.
DIR. TALMAGE and family are in Asheville
N. C., for the summer
SAM JONES has back-slidden on tobacco,
and now uses the weed
BANANAS, kept cool are being expert
mentally shipped to England.
A FATAL horse epizooty prevails in the
towns of Warsaw and Perry, N. Y.
A New York phianthropist has .stab-
aished a cooperative farm for tramps.
In Des Moines five teams, hitched to
wagons, ran away, all at the same time.
JAPAN is to have national assembly
hall, modelled after the German Reichstag
A RICH Newport spinster pays New
York doctor sl0,0 900 for his summer attend
ance.
On seizure of $4,000 worth of opium
the award to the seizing officer is about
5000.
THE number of idiots in the United
States increased from 34527 in 1870 to 76, ,s95
in 1850.
THE best female lace makers of Saxony
are not able to earn more than sixty cents
. week.
HONEY making has become profitable
branch of industry among the women of
Canada.
THE ice-cream disaster is becoming a con-
ventional catastrophe among the summer
picknickers.
The Russian authorities admit that there
are ss4 penitentiaries in the country, with
A,9l5 occupants.
A LETTER addressed "g'big,' safely
reached Little Chebeague, Me-, for whi h
place it was intended.
THE advance of Canadian population will
be seriously checked if the new extradition
treaty goes into effect.
1T is said that Secretary Lamar intends
TO make tour of inspection among the In
dian agencies of the West
Mrs. FREMONT is still the fascinating
talker she ever was. She is the Blessing
ton of Washington society
LITTLE boy in Maine borough school
named cayenne pepper and Jamaica ginger
EIGHTEEN bumblebees, twenty-five wasps
or thirty-eight ordinary honey bees con-
tain enough poison to kill an adult.
AN essay, bya Tennessee lad, contained
this brilliant passage: Honesty is, like
angels visits. few and mighty scarce"
MORE than 300 out of the ZOO convicts in
the Massachusetts State prison are idle,
and the warden is advertising their labor
to let.
Four new crematories will be opened in
Paris by the end of August, and thereafter
the cost of cremating corpse will be only
about SO.
THE arid region is one-half the area of
the United States, and less than one-third
Of it is susceptible of being reclaimed for
husbandry.
CAPTAIN BLACK, the lawyer who is de-
Tending the Anarchists now on trial in
Chicago, is a brother to the Commissioner
Of Pensions.
THE Oldest and largest tree in the world
is said to stand near the foot of Mount
.Etna. 1t is 2l2 feet in circumference, and
Is chestnut, of course.
1T is authoritatively announced that the
President and his wife will take their only
summer outing at an obscure point in the
Adirondack wilderness.
SOUTHERN countries - Italy, Spain,
Greece-have the largest number of revo-
p lutions; northern countries-Russia, Swe-
den, Norway-have the least.
THERE are fresh developments daily re-
gardlng the devilish plotting of Anarch.
lists in Chicago; and it is cheerful to note
aprobable demand for hemp.
THE sufferings of the fishermen of New
foundland and Labrador are such as to
move the most callous heart There is no
three-mile limit to human sympathy.
A PIoUs old lady of Bangor, Me-, re-
Gently sent as wedding presents pair of
datirons, rolling-pn, and motto
worked on cardboard, reading, Eight
On"
SEBAsToPoL and other Russian ports In
the Black sea are now protected by an
electric apparatus placed in the sea by
American engineers to destroy hostile tor
pedo boats,
some Detroit BARRIERS have been cutting
rates on baths until free baths have been
advertised by one, and the public is await.
ing the announcement of special induce.
ments to bathe free.
FRENCH women are dressing their hair in
what they call the Chinese fashion, combed
perfectly smooth up to the top of the head
then twisted into Il coil on one side, with q
large comb, specially made, ON the other.
MANY names of Maine towns and village.
are puzzles to the uninitiated. A posta
clerk in Penobscot County had puzzle Of
the kind the other day. He found two let
tiers in his mail, one going to Whitoo Bed
lock and the other to White o pedlock. II,
sent them to Wytopitlock and they hav,
not yet been returned.
ELIZABETH Trout, aged ninety-two
Maria Updegrove, aged eighty-two, ant
Maria Trout, aged seventy-six, helped t,
bind sheaves on the farm of Reuben Upde
grove, at Shanesville, Berks County, Pa.
during harvesting. Each of them bount
all day and in the evening had completed
almost as much as any of the men.
A NEGRO who attacked the Italian Minis
ter at Taugers was stripped tied to don
keys tail and led through the town, whil
two soldiers gave him 1000 lashes will
knotted ropes.
FRANK JAMES, the once famous outlaw
denies the story that he is to go on the stag
this coming season with a play based on hi
courtship and marriage with Miss Anni
Ralston. He is in perfect health, and prefer
quiet life.
"What a little thing q word is ~ ex