The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-09-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

HUNDREDS of baby alligators are sold as
ladies' pets in New York yearly.
KING HUMBERr has erected monument
to Victor Emanuel at Turin; cost, 500, ,OOO
IT is claimed that the Washington Monu.
ment has settled four inches within year.
The Princess Of Wales has been accused
OF enameling to preserve her beauty OF
face.
A SINGLE oyster opened the other day by
Fair Haven Comm man contained 1853
pearls.
HoNEY-MAKINa has become a profitable
branch Of industry among the women OF
Canada.
A THIEF entered James Mccarthy S room
at Marinette, Wis, and stole his wedding
clothes.
The police patrol wagons, in use some
years in Cincinnati, are about to be tried
in New York.
BROTHER of Lydia Pinkham is the Pro-
hibtion candidate for Lieutenant Governor
in Minnesota.
A PHILADELPHIA oyster dealer has q horse
that eats oysters on tho half shell with re-
markable relish.
AT Fargo, in Dakota, good wives bewaii
because housemaids are not to be had at
one dollar day.
A DISPATCH from Charleston says that the
brick-layers of that city have advanced
their wages to So day.
THE prompt response to Charleston's ap.
peal for assistance, from all sections of the
country, is extremely creditable.
WurN ba pripoa ~ UaIo, o+%o,Jod a.
theater at Hamburg during his recent visit,
the price of seats near his was doubled.
THE passage of the Suez canal is now
made in sixteen hours by the aid Of electric
lights, which make night travel possible.
AN Anarchist named Saam predicts that
If the Chicago murderers are hanged
100000 avengers will arise from their blood
Mrs. YsEULT DUDLEY, who tried to ''re-
move" O'Donovan Rosa, is still confined,
although said to be cured Of her insanity.
AN Irshman at Sheffield has placed above
Lord Frederick Cavendish's grave silver
tablet inscribed Born to Albion, sacrificed
10 Erin"
SOME remarkable rock paintings and an
unknown temple have been discovered in
San Luis Obispo County, Cal. They are
prehistoric.
A MILL at Harlan, Mich, was shut down
because fifty-pound catfish got into the
race and closed the gates, thus stopping
the water supply.
QUEEN VIcToRIA has become more cheer.
ful, it is said, since the defeat of the home
rule bill, and has bought new carriage to
celebrate the event.
The European Powers will now probably
iterate and re-iterate their love for each
other until they are quite ready to occupy
all the territory they mean to gobble up.
THE last warrant for the payment of AL.
ALBANIA claims has been signed BY Acting
Secretary Fairchild, who has affixed his
signature to 1,062 documents of this class
1T is said there has been found CONNER
cial use for the sparrow-that it is an in
distinguishable substitute for the reed bird
as table delicacy in second-class restaur-
ants.
The Agricultural Department has been
testing new pea, to be eaten pod and all,
like snap beans. 1t tastes like combna-
tion of bean and pea, and is enormously
productive.
ANARCHIST PARSONS attributes his con-
viction to the newspapers The attorney
who advised him to surrender himself for
trial is cretainly entitled to some credit in
the matter.
A HARTFORD baby that died the other
day weighed less than three pounds, but
its little body was placed in a burial cas-
ket and carried to the grave in q little
white hearse.
An English physician says that men
du,f fhair hot oh uo;, 1o
says, is a conductor of electricity to the
brain, and if the brain fails to get electric
ity it Will soon soften.
An ingenious Maplewood (Mass.) boy
sent up some lanterns on the tail of his kite
recently, and many Of the inhabitants
turned out to view what they supposed WAS
tine meteoric display.
FIVE Chinese stowaways We're found on a
Pacific steamer at San Francisco the other
day. They were all young men, and had
given members of the crew from $16O to
500 to smuggle them ashore.
SARATOGA has a woman biIl-poster, who
handles the broad sheets and the broad
paste brush with the skill of an expert
Bhe is the widow of former bill-poster,
and continues his business with energy.
SoME weeks ago the town of Lorie, Ari-
sona, contained 200 people and much valu-
able property. A cyclone visited it, and
now there is not the slightest sign left that
indicates the presence of a once thriving
town.
A EUCALYPTUS tree fifty feet from a we'll
In Alameda County, California, sent two
roots through the brick wall of the well
fifteen feet below the surface and com.
pletely covered the bottom with a mat OF
6bers.
THE blue fox furs presented by the Gar
TO the Sultan are described as two masnif.
cent pieces, made up of the finest skins
and measuring each three metres square.
There value is reckoned at $4,000 roubles.
PAPER bed clothes are made at factory
in New Jersey. They are doubled sheets of
MANILA paper, strengthened with twine
They have warmth preserving power far
out of proportion to their thickness and
weight.
Tine present cost of operating tho rail
roadslof the country with steam power Is In
round numbers $500, 100000 per annum but
20 carry on the same amount of work with
men aud horses would cost the country
e1l, ,30s, 100000
King GEORGE, . negro fifty years old, is
proving puzzle to some Of the most ce,e-
brated physicians in Boston. He has two
sets of ribs and two hearts, and, appar-
emily, has the power to suspend animation.
A APEcULIAR sand known as "squeaking
sand' is found at the boiling spring on the
Ira Hill farm in Dayton, Me-. When rubbed
or pressed in the hand 1t emjts a succession