The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-09
CURRENT TOPICS.


nese theater in New York
THE colored vote in this country nun
bers about 100000 ballots.
GLADSTONE has but three fingers on the
left hand, the forefnger being gone.
BARTLEY CAMPBELL. the insane play
wright, imagines that he is Shakespeare.
PIECE of land was sold the other day in
London at the rate of slO,OOO,OOO per acre.
JonN HATToN, author of Good-by, Sweet
heart, Good-by, died in England few days
ago.
THE Goth has come and gone, yet this
staid old earth of ours revolves on its axis
as usual.
PHILADELPHIA as we'll as Boston is vigor~
ously agitating the question of elevated
railroads.
EACH policeman in Fargo, d. T., carries
a gold-headed cane Three of them wear
tall silk hats.
THE new one dollar silver certificates are
said to be the ''prettiest" money ever issued
by the government.
Mr.. GLADsToNEs bit of book on the
Irish question added 5000 to the jingling
guineas in his purse.
THE town of "Uncompahgre Park" Col.
has been named Helena" in honor OF
Helen Hunt Jackson.
A CENSUS of the Indians is to be taken by
which to determine the issue of rations to
the Nations wards"
A STRONG sentiment for repea of thel
Canadian confederation is rapidly gaining
adherents in New Brunswick
THE stranger in Pekin is Mt first most
struck with the river life. 1t is calculated
that $50, 600 people live in boats.
Mr.. WrGGINs-Dedr Sir: We are still
on this mundane sphere. Your terrible
earthquake failed to materialize.
The New York papers are prodigiously
amused over the attempt of man to bribs
u judge of that city with dollar.
In single day an Indian family OF
Pierre, d. T., spent the entire proceeds OF
the sale of their farm for trinkets.
SECRETARY LAMAR has told a repoi ter
that there is no truth whatever in the ru
mors of his approaching marriage.
PHILADELPHIA might reasonably sympa
thize with Chailesto suggests contem
porary. Both are Quaker cities"
IT is reported that club has been formeo
in Boston with the purpose of starting q
crusade against the tipping of walters.
A FEMALE beggar recently shipped $40 In
nickels, dimes and quarters from Sioux
Falls ID. T., to her husband in Mime
apolis.
The world would have moved on just thu
If Wi00ipS hoI 1lpua1 orth
quake long ago, says the Philadelphia
Times
The ordinary building material in Can
ton is a bue brick. This blue color is Gre
ated by dampening the bricks while being
burned.
A CAPITAL profile portrait of Mr. Glad
stone, of colossal size, exists at Athens
carved by nature i'll the solid rock of the
Acripolis.
The Chicago, the last and largest Of the
four steel cruisers authorized by Congress
in 1888, will probably be finished by the 1st
of February.
AN engine specially constructed to use
petroleum as fuel is successfully drawing
railway trains between Alexandria and
Cairo, in Egypt.
Mrs. SELLERS, living near Fort Mead. d.
T., bas given birth to seven children dur
ing the last four years-triplets and two
Pairs of twins.
THE Baroness Burdett Coutts says that
elf young man wants to be economical
he must marry" and the photographers are
saying she ought to know.
N. W. DENNIsoN,the inventor of the
shipping tag, died the other day in Boston,
leaving his heirs an enormous estate, all
the profits of his invention.
A CHARLESTON merchant named McElree
is keeping squarely up with the times. He
heads his advertisement: "Earthouake
prices! Shake 'em down!!n
THE pension list had dropped from it last
year, on account of DEATHS remarriages,
ETC., 22,O9S names, but 40,S57 new names
were added during that period.
THE ususually large attendance of young
men and women at our colleges and lead
ing seminaries this season indicates the
general prosperity of the country.
AN exchange, speaking of an accident,
says: 'One man was killed, and the other
had his head severed from his body" 1t is
a wonder they were not both killed.
A SHOWER of small black flies lasting
twenty minutes, was witnessed near Cats
kill village, N. Y. The air was dense with
them, like snow-storm save for color.
PRoF. WIGGINs, if your predicted earth
quake has made hole large enough, please
come down AMI hide yourself until the
''tidal wave" Of laughter has passed by.
A BIRD's-EYE view from Trinity spire,
New York, would disclose, it is saio, 10. 900
saloons in sight-12O0O in New York, and
1000 in Jersey City, Newark and Paterson
CALIFORNIA has the youngest telegraph
operator, it is believed, in this country.
She is Nellie Welch, eleven years old, and
she has full charge of the office at Point
Arena.
FROGS with ruby eyes, bird claws holding
sapphires, anchors and swallows, all closely
set with diamonds, are among the odd de-
vices for brooches or hair ornaments. They
are all Of large size
A LOT Of youngsters in Peterboro, Can,
ranging in age from four to twelve, have
formed themselves into Salvation Army,
Aod the noise they make is fair Imitation
Of the real thing.
GENERAL RosEcxLNs has discovered that
. Washington canal and bridge company
owes the government large sum OF money
since 1880, which. through loose book-keep
ing, had been lost sight of.
HONORABLE HENRY WENTWORTH MONK,
n r., Of Ottawa, Caneda, wants to build
capital of the earth In Palestine, and he
thinks that the job could be done for about
4i0,000'0o0. An irrevereat contemporary