The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

will remove tattooes.
SAN Francisco has population Of Chi
nese numbering 10000.
OVER one thousand canal boats are tied
up in New York harbor
THE railroads of all Asia are not equal in
mileage to those of Illinois.
A BABE was born recently in the peni-
tenti, y at Anamosa, Iowa.
A CHURCH was disposed of by raffie at
Kewanee, ILL.,, a few days ago.
BosToN is trying a noiseless pavement Of
granite blocks set on concrete.
Mr.. SHEBAYAMA FuNAKI YosnII of japan,
is coming over here for spell.
In a museum in an Arizona town are pre-
served the heads of seventeen Apaches.
Four new churches are building at
st. Paul, Mimi, at an expense of S250,0 600.
Miss STAUfFER, to whom Mr.. Tilden, in
admiration, left 100000, is summering at
Vichy.
NATHAN B. MOORE, Maine hunter, aged
sixty eight, has killed 275 moose since his
youth.
THE etiquette classes are an important
part of the instruction in girls schools in
Japan.
NINE. PATTI has given $500 to the Swan
sea Hospital. She made the money at two
concerts.
THE number of railroad passenger trains
now arriving and departing from Chicago
daily is 527.
A NARROW street in Nogaes, A. T., is the
dividing line between the United States
and Mexico.
THE courts of New York, Connecticut
and Wisconsin have all declared boycotting
a misdemeanor.
THE new one dollar silver certificate soon
to be issued will bear the portrait of Mar
tina Washington.
Now that the President has gone to the
Adirondacks office-seekers can take to the
woods for awhile.
The annual production of sewing-ma-
chimes allows one for every 300 civilized
people on the globe.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, is going to
hang out his law shingle in Detroit, shing-
uar as it may seem.
DOLLY PAGE HosMER, aged 100 years (the
usual Bible record to show for it), died in
Boston the other day.
A MOVEMENT is on foot for the erection of
monument to Blucher, the celebrated
Prusian general, at Caub.
A YOUNG lady who shook hands with the
President the other day proposes to have
the glove she wore stuffed
New York CITY will have twenty-seven
theaters Counting two opera-houses and
variety-show places) this season.
ENGLISH capitalists offer to invest $780,
100000 in railways in Peru the lines to run
to the rich mining districts of that country.
CoTToN was cultivated in India $50 years
before Christ, and was gathered from the
field by hand, exactly as it is being done
to-day.
THIS, from a Connecticut insurance
agents office door slate for brevity: "Gone
to bury my wife; will be back in thirty
minutes"
JEwELRY manufacture in Providence R.
l., which has been practically dead for five
years, is enjoying boom, the greatest
since 1881.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is said to write on an
average about twenty letters day, most
OF them in reply to communications from
entire strangers.
They arrested a gentleman in Newport
the other day for blowing the horn on his
tally-ho coach. You can't go on q toot any
more in Rhode Island.
THE deposits made by the people of New
York City during the past eight months in
the savings banks showed an increase of
&S,000000 over those of the preceding pc.
riod.
AT Allentown, Pa, a high school girl
did the sensationally handsome thing by
getting married before the assembled spec
tators at the close Of the graduating exer-
cises.
AN Albany speculator is said to be MAX
ing good deal of money by purchasing
Canadian silver in New York at 20 per
cent. discount and circulating it at home
at par
JANE WYCoFF, colored woman, of
Wilkesbarre Pa, is 105 years old, and un-
hesitatingly declares that she never was a
servant of George Wa hington and never
saw him.
Mr.. TILDEN once admitted that he never
once faced an audience or rose in court that
stage fright did not seize him. He tried
every device to cure himself, but it could
not be done.
BISHOP RILEY paid s35, 900 for the Prot
estant Episcopal Church property in the
City of Mexico, and now the same prop
erty has value of 81 ,00O, 900, SO great has
been the increase.
OUT in Denver they have been having q
serious time trying to devise means to con.
serve the flow of streams which come down
from among the foothills, and supply the
irrigation bitches.
In one of the executive departments a
Washington there is employed watch.
man at $50 per month, a man who held the
rank of general in the Union army during
the last campaign.
WITHIN the past five years houses de-
signed for two families, and permitting OF
complete isolation, have gone up in St.
Louis by the hundreds.
OPERATIVES of the Boston Wholesale
clothing manufacturing houses are prepar.
ing to fight against the introduction of q
new basting machine.
The most modest girl in the world resides
at Syracuse, N. Y. 1t is said of her that
when pupil at Vassar she refused to work
upon improper fractions.
TIE tricycle. has become so popular in
England that young ladies of the noblest
families lere use it as matter of course.
Even the daughters of the Prince of Wales
are expert tricyclers.
AMOS Nc IRIS, whose oxen helped tho first