The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-09-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

CITING offers to settle with Mexico for
trining sSo00OO
A New YORKER offers Eve cents pound
for old magazines
LUTHERAN proselytizer has been ex.
PEELED from Russia.
A CUCUMBER four feet long is on exhibi
zion at Warterloo, Iowa.
THE latest Chautauqua discovery is fresh
water sponges in the lakes
Iowa is larger than Ireland by about
eight hundred square miles.
ENGLAND, according to latest reports has
15O,OOO more women than men.
AsTRoLoGERs are about to pick out
wife for the Emperor of China.
A PHILADELPHIA beauty lately dazzlcd
Saratoga with s2O0,0O0 in gems.
ABOUT 100 persons climb to the top Of
Washington Monument every day.
A sUNrLowER forty five inches in circum-
ference is blooming near Traver, Cal.
THERE are just 365 colleges in the United
States, one for every day in the year.
WHEN the period of deep mourning is
over English women wear gray gloves.
Two Klocks and five little ticks is the
description of Chicago family of seven.
THE starfish in Long Island Sound have
eaten over 10000 bushels of oysters in one
bed.
ALL the cannon foundries of Europe are
overrun with orders and working day and
night.
A CHINAMAN in Chico, Cal. has a big
black bear which he saddles and rides like
horse.
MINNIE WILSON, pretty maid of sixteen
drives the stage between Minor and Hame
line in Dakota
ABRAHAM LIScoLN's funeral car is now a
section hands boarding car ON the Central
Pacific railroad
A TAME bear at Ithaca, Mich, fatally bit
and clawed a little five-year-old daughter
of W. II. Beasly.
ABOUT $4,000 cattle will he driven into
the Canadian northwest from the United
States this season.
DURING wind storm at Rock Island a
valuable horse was choked to death by
heavy cloud of dust.
GOLD bricks are to be used as the founda-
tion of a throne to be built at San-hai for
the Chinese Emperor.
HUMoR does not pay in the Northwest.
Humorist Fred Carruth has found it neces
sary to sell the Estelline Bell.
A ST. Louis moustache is worth 5000.
That is the amount sued for by man who
lost his through practical joke.
A Mrs. WHITMoRE, of Bar Harbor,
dress-maker, is said to be heir to an estate
valued at $500, 100000, in England.
EIGHT of the original thirteen of the En-
erton family of Bucksport, Me-, are living,
and their combined ages are S07 years.
One of General Phil Sheridans old scouts
has just sent him from Utah a gift of par
ticularly lively wildcat in fighting order.
A BRooKLYN man worth s15, 600 has
just died from the effects of an afiiiction
similar to that visited upon the historical
Job.
CUTTING has his good points. He says he
does not intend to be SO ungrateful to the
American people as to go on a lecturing
tour.
THE meeting of the scientists at Buffalo
has decided that men who think live thirty
three years longer than those who do not
think.
THE Smiths had reunion at Peapack,
at the headwaters of the Raritan river, the
other day, and there was 5000 of them re
ported.
Mr.. G. B. FARMER, of Morrisburgh, Can,
has a covered trunk 2l2 years old. 1t was
made in the year 1914, in the reign of
Charles II.
THE Duke of Newcastle intends to make
a two years. tour around the world. He
will leave England late in September for
the United States.
The late Mrs. Ann s. Stephens the IA
nous novelist, was the first woman to send
n telegraphic dispatch under the ocean via
the Atlantic cable.
BUFFALO is to have the largest clock in the
world. The dial will be twenty-five feet in |
diameter, and the center of the dial will be |
361 feet above the street.
A MAILBAG lost in Lake Pepin, Minnesota,
four years ago has been recovered at
Maiden Rock. Several letters and money.
orders were recovered and delivered.
THE consumption of lead pencils in this
country is estimated at 25O,OOO day. This
is at the rate of one per day to every 100 of
population or about 7S,000,0Oe year.
One Meadville Pa.) editor refers pleas
antly to another as 1.-The spook eyed stool
PiScoH tudb iopS HIS ears III ULe CAD nleS IN
the alleged editorial rooms of the IriJ.
Ane'
A NAUGATUcK man saw something green
in a cake of ice and split the cake open
The thing was a frog. which, after an hour
or two in the sunlight, hoped about Wig
orously.
A CALIFORNIA COW swallowed a stick
twenty inches long and nearly an inch
thick, and in due course of time it worked |
its way out of her side without doing her
much damage.
JAMES GARNER, an English railway
porter, whose wages were but nineteen
shillings per week, has just died, leaving
S20, 600 as the 1result of accumulated tips
from passengers.
HUNDREDS of acres of ground at Big Flat
Cal, were covered with very small frogs
after a heavy shower the other day. The
little fellows We're not larger than crickets,
and just as lively.
New buildings in New York city are going
mp at a wonderful pace. During the first
six months of 1885 1900 plans were filed for
permits to build, and during the same