The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

over lai 500.
BANCROFT has 1000 rose bushes in his
Newport Garden.
ONIONS from Egypt are being sold in tho
streets of Boston.
The Fourth of July will not come on Sum
day again until 1897.
ALBANY, N. ", is the oldest town in the
old thirteen colonies
THERE is one horse to every six inhabi-
tants in this country.
THE new Prohibition law is closing up the
big hotels in Rhode Island
THOMAS DUANE, of Brighton, Mich,
snapped a rib by sneezng too robustly.
A DEPOSIT of genuine meerschaum has
been found on the beach near Yaquina,
Oregon.
The vein of iron ore discovered at Ne
gaunee, Mich, turns out to be 100 feet in
thickness.
CHOLERA seems to have found the condi-
tions favorable for a widespread harvest of
death in Italy.
LAST year 219,OOO,OO0 stamped envelops
were sold by the Government. They were
worth S5,n3,000.
A PEKIN, Qll) girl won chewing-gum
contest by wagging her jaws six thousand
times in sixty minutes.
p. YOUNG man at Nevada City undertook
TO eat two dozen eggs az one sitting, but
gave up after eating twenty-one.
THE opinion in Washington appears to
be that Congress will hardly reach an ad-
journment before the lst of August
KATIE COOP, eleven years old, carries
lodi ;pl,t Ia, I'm 4 sta
She says she does it TO help her pop"
THE late mad King of Bavaria made his
valet wear black mask for a year, as
punishment for some imaginary offense.
A BABE was seriously poisoned at Santa
Barbara, Cal, by sucking green veil that
was used for the purpose of screening the
cradle.
OUT of 500 convicts on Blackwell's Island,
only three-Herr Most, Braunschweig and
Schenck, the Anarchsts-refuse to go to
church.
Forty or fifty farmers in the vicinity OF
Centralia, ILL.,, discouraged by the failure
of their crops, will sell out and 80 in a
body to Oregon
Mrs. S. l.. BALDWIN, of East Boston,
returned missionary from China, has petit
toned Congress to allow her to import a
Chinese servant.
The young Emperor of China is reported
ill with consumption and the whole empire
will soon be beating gongs to frghten
away the dragon.
THERE were six births in the steerage of
the steamer Hammonia, which arrived at
New York the other day, during her voy-
age from Bremen.
Mr.. WILMoTT, an English expert says
that six and n half tons of diamonds have
been dug up In South Africa, and these cut
are valued at sG0O,OO0,0O0.
THE fiatness of Denmark is something re-
markable, a geographical survey hav-
ing shown that the loftiest mountain of the
country is only $50 feet high.
RECENT Investigations by DR.. james
Cameron and Prof. Barlow show that cows
have scerlatina, and communicate the dis
ease to those who drink their milk.
A cLAM-oPENER in a Westchester Pa, res
taurant found a live mouse among his
CLANS the other morning one clam holding
it securely by a foot and another by the
tail.
THERE were 246 earthquakes recorded
last year. Only six are put down for the
out Of earthquakes, but we have plenty of
cyclones
A BRONZE pot with about $1,000 English
silver coins in it has been found in digging
for the foundation of a building in Aber-
ieen, Scotland. The coins are of the reign
of Edward i.
APACHE women are so fiendishly barbar-
Gus as to compel little children to share in
the mutilation and torture of prisoners, in
order to cultivate in them q taste for bloody
acts of cruelty.
STONE plow which weighs upward Of
800 pounds, and bearing a resemblance to
the sort of agricultural implements used
lin ancient Egypt, was found in quarry at
Milford, N. j., few days ago.
THE Royal Academy Of Belgium offers a
prize of $1,000 for the abest paper on treat
tnent of nervous diseases, especially with
ia view for remedy for epilepsy. Here is
"a chance for fame and money.
j. c. BANKS, of Olney, ILL.,, caught a land
turtle in 1865 and cut his initials on the
shell. Recently he found the same turtle
lin his garden, within short distance of
the place where he saw it twenty-one years
ago.
NINE. GovULL aged ia years, and for
merly maid of honor at the Court of EN-
peror Paul l., was buried recently in the
cemetery of Smolensk, Russia. Behind
the hearse with firm step walked the
Younger sister of the deceased, aged liz
years.
AN English traveller at hotel in
Halifax has curiosity in the shape of a
South American bug, with small gold
band around it, to which it is attached by
a chain to pin. He says he has carried
the bug for six months and it is still alive
and living on rotten wood.
The colored-shirt mania is becoming
acute and is rapidly getting beyond con
troll in New York The proudest man il
town to-day is the one who parades Broad
way with liberally-exposed shirt bosom
formed of a background of seagreen
splashed with red roses and occasional ar
rows of light shade of pink, with higl
white collar and purple tie
BETSY MOODY, of Cape Elizabeth. Me.
known as woman "who never fretted,
died recently, aged l05. The moral at
tached to this incident is one that could b,
read at any distance by blind man.
THERE is little paper published at Val
ley Falls, Kan, which calls itself LuciGer
the Light Bearer, and which applaud
boom throwing and torch-applying as til,
chief remedies for the evils that affect SO
ciety.
WILLIAM GREEN, of Highgate, Eng, di,