The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-16
CURRENT TOPICS.


Of his i'll health.
COMPETITION has reduced the fare in Lon.
don busses to one penny.
RnNTs are lowering in London at re-
markable rate, 1t is said.
TRANSFORMING shows arc coming to
grief all over the country.
THE visit of the Galatea to this country
cost Lieutenant HEM $4,000.
THE newest shirts have got back to the
old plan of buttoning in front.
AT Newport mushroom hunting party,
gent fell and mashed a $3.50 watch.
II. CnEvREUL, the one-hundred-y -year-old
French chemist, can read in the dark.
j. l. CASE, the owner of Jay Eye See, is
worth $1,000, 600, and began life as black
smith.
OpD FELLOWS talk some of removing the
scat of the order from Baltimore to Colum-
bus, o.
THE St Paul ice-palace has been located
again and is to surpass in grandeur that of
last year.
GENERAL SHERMAN says he never voted in
his life and he never expects to vote or be
voted for
The visible globe of the sun, according
to Prof Proctor, is !, ,25O, 600 times as large
as the earth.
THERE are sixty million standard dollars
in circulation, with eighty. five million in
the Treasury.
THE Episcopal Church will celebrate the
centennial anniversary of its foi NAL Or
ganiaation in 1850.
M. GREvY has a gift from the King Of
Abysinia--two loving lions and four buffa-
loes with silken coats.
c. G. BuLLARp, Kalamazoo (Mich.) cell
cry grower, has shipped 531 tons of that
crisp article this season.
THERE are fifteen men under tho age of
thirty years in Portland Ore, who are
worth over a million dollars.
THE water in the artesian we'll at Bell
Plaine, H., is strong enough to throw out
. boy who fell into it recently.
GENERAL BoULANaER saves the French
Treasury 100000 annually by abolishing
compulsory shaving in the army.
THE fashion Of wearing no jewels is, of
course, English. There it is the fashion to
reserve the display of jewels for the oven
ing.
some Boston women get their hats
checked i'll the cloak rooms of the theaters,
and sit through the performance without
them.
In taking down chimney of the old
."House of Seven Gablesr on Turner street,
Salem, pine tree shilling of the date 1859
was found.
QUAILs have become so plenty in one
place in Petaluma valley that the owner
has been killing them off ON account of tho
damage done to grapes.
valuable find of gold is reported from
British Columbia, near the Alaska line,
aud 1T is said s24, 900 of the precious metal
has been already taken out.
WHEN John Adams was President he
bought q billard-table in France, had it set
up in the White House and sent the bill to
Congress, says the Washington Post.
AN Eldorado Qowa) man by mistake paid
out twenty-dollar gold piece for a theater
ticket. The ticket seller hunted him up in
the audience and restored the money.
PRINEvILLE is the only county seat in
Oregon, and in fact the only one in the
United States, that is wholly without any
school district organization Of any kind.
THE use of natural gas has led to the
manufacture of mirrors in Pittsburgh. Up
to this time all mirrors manufactured in
the United States have been from import
cd glass.
If you want to know whether man is
an actor wait until he says 'my WIFE," II
he speaks it as we have written it applaud
him; if he says ''me wy-e-u-ph" throw
things at him.
A DAKOTA widow sold her land claim TO
ahorse, and when the buyer plated town
and made $50, in a year she came for
ward with breach of promise suit, whic
Is still pending.
THE newest shopping-bag is the best Of
all; the porte monnaie is inside, the slit for
handkerchief outside; has strap to fasten
in front, with tiny pocket book for
change, car tickets, etc.
Mn- BEEcHER recently declared, in q
lecture at Gateshead, England, that he
never yet had spoken in hall where / 900
persons could breathe comfortably for an
hour and a half together.
A FLORIDA negro who was nipped bv a
shark says the sensation was ''sunthin' like
q feller gwine ter stick lot of red hot
spikes into yer foot to make ye own up to
whar dem chickens went to-"
The Emperor of Germany is subject to
frequent attacks of somnolence, which, his
physicians say, il allowed to last longer
than is absolutely necessary to allow him
to rest, might result in death.
THE Gear has been travelling and the Gus
tomary plot to blow up his train has been
discovered. What q large amount of
money and energy is wasted in unsuccess-
full attempts to blow up the Gear.
REPoRrs from Yellowstone Park say that
game of all kinds is increasing rapidly un.
der protection. The herd of elk when they
get beyond the limits of The park and are
shot at, at once break for the park, and
when they reach their shelter seem to know
that they are protected, and lie down or
60 to feeding.
ASARMER near Blue Springs, Neb., was
surprised the other morning on going over
his farm to see her etofore dry slough a
running stream. Upon investigation he
found that one of his horses had broken
through wet crust Of earth from which
wells Of pure and cold water enough came
to supply town.
Ii. l.. CLARK, of Higganum, Conn, brags
because one of his ducks has laid 100 eggs
this season, which is four times the yield OF
the average duck What is more, from
one OF those 160 eggs was hatched a four.
legged duckling that still lives and walks,
using all of its legs, as II that was the