The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-12-04
CURRENT TOPICS.


A PirTEES-YEARoLD Kansas girl secured
divorce recently.
THE latest piece of slang in New York
City is "foddering up"
HAWAII, with only GO, 600 inhabitants, pays
her King 1000 year.
PHILADELPHIA sign reads. "Teeth
pulled while you wait"
ONE-TTrIRD of Jay Gould's daily mail 10
composed of begging letters.
PLATT COUNTY, ILL. has no money in the
treasury and is four cents in debt.
THERE is strong talk of organizing
league of colored base ball players.
COCAINE was $500 an ounce. Now any
body can go crazy on it at IS an ounce.
TES thousand cattle are killed in New
York City every week for food purposes
A BOY in Tennessee has q mouth which he
can open to the extent of nearly six inches.
IT is said that one-third Of the children
OF the Mormons in Utah are outspoken inf
dels.
ST. Louis man estimates that Pull
man sleeper nets the company $3.50 q
year.
LITTLE bedpost bells rung by electricity
are now used to awaken heavy sleepers in
Belgium.
As much as fifteen cents each 10 paid for
jack rabbit scalps by county authorities on
the Pacific Coast.
PRESENT indications point strongly to-
ward the nomination of a Labor Presidon.
tial candidate in 1885
The Car has decided against compelling
reduction of the sugar production in
order to improve trade.
A PETITION in favor of reviving the tax
upon bachelors in France has been present
ed to the Chamber OF Deputies
JAY GOULD believes, as the result of his
own experience, that "men appreciate their
own earnings more than gift"
Door KNOCKS of the old fashioned kind
are once more appearing on the doors of
fashionable New York residences.
PROGRESSIVE jack-straw parties are TAX
ing the place Of progressive euchre parties
in fashionable Louisville society.
BosToN has coined word for the women
who wear birds plumage upon their hats.
They are called "birdicidal women"
some ladies' boots shown in Boston
shop window are $l0O pair. The buttons
look like diamonds, but arn't, Of course.
COUNT MoLrKE invariably begins each
day with a visit to his wifes tomb, q
practice he has observed ever since her
death.
FIprY-oyp emigrants from South Caro-
lima to Arkansas recently gave the fear OF
the earthquakes as their reasons for de-
parture.
THE news comes from Paris that Mrs.
Mackay compels her dressmakers to pledge
their words that her dresses shall not be
duplicated.
New HAMPSHIRE ministers boycotted the
Governors Thanksgiving proclamation be-
cause it contained no reference to Su-
preme Being.
AT the end Of 1877, 730 telephones existed
In the United States and at the end of lSSt
there were 325,5T0 telephones and 1872 tele.
phonic exchanges.
A COURT in Athens, Ga, had its atten.
tion absorbed the other day by suit
brought by one colored girl against an.
other for ten cents.
AN ample volume OF compilations from
DIR. Talmage's sermons and writings will
shortly be issued under the title of ''Shots
at Sunday Targets
A HEN whose head and mouth are de.
scribed as being in striking resemblance of
. snakes is classed among the pos sessions
of a Pensacola (Fla.) man.
JOHN JACOB AsroR is rated at S150, cor, 600,
and is probably the richest man in Amer
lea. William Waldorf Astor, the ex-Min-
lister to Italy, is his only son.
THE stomach of several cattle which
died near Whitmore, H., We're found to be
lined with mud taken in with the filthy
water they were compelled to drink.
Mn. F. GOODMAN, aged seventy-six, and
Mrs. Mary Ireland, aged sixty-eight, of
Eay ,ipo ofn In haA fn fror
their children in order to get married
'THE father of tho forest" in Tulare
County, Cal, is the argest tree in the
STATE. 1t is 45o feet high and measures 13S
feet around the trunk 1t is q chestnut.
The Emperor William and the Empress
Augusta will hereafter confer medals of
distinction upon aged couples who
celebrate their golden or diamond we'd
dings.
The locomotive whistle now wakens the
goblins Of Mammoth Cave Tho railroad
has got there, and civilization takes formal
possession of the largest known hole in the
ground.
The Indian and Colonial Exhibition. just
closed in London, after having been open
for six months and half, was enormously
successful, its visitors having numbered
5,550.749.
TIE fact that paper devoted to tricy.
cling published in London has over q thous
and female subscribers indicates that the
sport is extremely popular among womer
in England.
A MAN Of Springfield, ID. T., went to sleey
by the roadside. When he awoke he wa
astonished to find that wagon had rur
over his leg and broken it. The leg was
wooden one.
1T is estimated that fully 80 per cent. o
the worlds ocean tonnage Is now in com
mission, against scarcely 10 per cent.
year ago The tonnage in dry-dock is al
lowed for in both cases.
A DEPOSIT Of pure asphaltum, from al
teen to twenty feet thick, has been discov
cred near Thistle Station, in Utah. 1t /
said to be worth $40 a ton, and the expens
OF mining is only forty cents.
NOAH g. HUNT, the rich and eccentric Nev
Yorker, who lived utterly alone in tn
midst of Gotham's millions, IL said to hav
loft u will locked up in a safe, the combina
tion Of which no living person knows.
AWBsTERN man advertised that he woul
for one dollar mail information that woul
make food entirely unnecessary. A citize
of Jordan, Canada, scat his dollar, and b.
return mail got the dirsctiAAs; "Taks
dose Of poison"
Roswell BEARDsLEy, who has bsen post
nsster at North Lansing, Tompkins Cour
Hv NJ v since June lSoS In tha oldss