The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-11-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
ArrLss are only thirty five cents barrel
In Oregon.
TRousERs are larger than they have been.
It's English
TnE mouth of Miss Bartholdi Liberty il
Just yard wide.
THERE are 794 artesian wells In the San
Bernardino (Cal.) valley.
BARONESS BuRDETT. Courts has given
away in charity $4,000 900.
EVERY girl in free America is alGoddess
OF Liberty in her own right.
PAPER shoes are now manufactured In
Paris, and are quite fashionable.
BIcYcLIsT STEVENS, now in China, ex.
poets to reach home by Christmas.
BARON MEYER RoTnscHILp, of Frankfort
VINO has just died, left only $75,OoOOCO
A MOVEMENT is on foot at st. Louis to
establish large stockyard in that city.
JOSEPH PULIrzER's profits this year as
proprietor OF the New York World will be
$G0O,O0O.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, it Is said, is worth
tsOO,OOO, aud will retire fr, IN the stage after
this season.
The late Mrs. A. T. Stewart had some
diamonds that were SO large that she never
wore them.
A LADY recently described ballet girl
as IAN open muslin umbrella with two
pink handles"
An old bell cast by Paul Revere has just
hnn To-, 81 l,.,lT
(Mass.) church.
THERE is abundant proof that human
life is lengthening with the development Of
the arts OF civilization.
KAISER ILnELM is economical. He uses
second time nearly all the envelops of the
documents addressed to him.
The Chinese population Of New York is
about four thousand. They are mostly en-
gagged in washing dirty linen.
SHREwD Count de Lesseps got a big
''boom" for his Panama Canal out of the
dedication of the Liberty statue.
BABY has been born in st. Joseph, Mo-,
the father Of whom il seventy one years
Of age and the mother sixty-fve.
r. d. ARMouR is New Yorker by birth,
Is portly man with face adorned by side
whiskers, and is worth $40, 100000.
A New York bridesmaid at a wedding
few days ago was herself engaged to
marry the bridegroom year ago.
A RECENT investigation Of some of the
larger libraries shows that Dickens writ
ings lead all others in popularity.
PHILADELPHIA girls are taking to dumb
bell exercise. One dealer sold thirty pairs
<.P t1,,.a., hx,ll
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND (Gath) die.
tates almost every line Of his work to
stenographer. SO does Joseph Howard.
WOMEN are said to excel m n in manipu.
lating the typewriter and this important
invention has opened an excellent field for
their employment.
TON AcREFooT is the appropriate name
of q man IN Key Yves whose feet are six
to n inches long and six and half inches
wide.
A New York clergyman in q recent SER
mon exhorted his congregation to ''vote as !
you pray" and Later on he advised them to
''pray often"
The son of ex-President Arthur and the
two sons of the late President Garfield are
studying at the Columbia College Law
School this year.
A NEW JERSEY woman said she eloped
with the hired man to keep HIM from kill
ing her husband. What model of self /
sacrifice she must be |
THE Treasury has given it as its opinion |
in the case of alleged smuggling in the /
navy that only such goods AS are intended
to be landed aredutiable.
A PRoMIssoRY note as we'll indorsed as
Keely's motor could easily be discounted
But it is impossib Q to discount the motors
work in the world, if eminent experts are
right
In new dictionary of biography, con,
tanning 10000 names, all the R0thschilds
and Astors put together receive only as
many lines as are accorded to Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
THE French Prince who is visiting us is
now followed by q Japanese Prince Of high
degree and his suite who are visiting this
country for the purpose Of observing our
army and navy.
The queen Of her sex lives in Newaygo
County, Wis She made some money re-
Gently out OF blackberries, and instead of
treating herself to a new hat she bought
her husband fiddle.
JOHN DURYEA, of Jamaica, L. l., accused
Eugene Trinally Of assault and Trinally
was sentenced to pay Dpryea $40. Trinally
paid the fine in one cent pieces, and
Duryea took the money home in wheel.
harrow.
Roll ER-sKkrINa is . thing OF the ever
lasting past; progressive euchre has de-
parted into the dim vista OF crazes that
90 to speak, have lost their grip, and there
Is Rothing as yet take their places How
would the Oldfashioned spelling match
enswerl
TEE only girl ON record as having elored
wi b a circus clown is Miss Della Grubbs,
Of Cincinnati, says the Philadelphia Ne,os.
Instead Of painting her own, she will have
TO paint her husbands face, and may ex-
pect to have a perfect treasure in him
when it comes to amusing the baby.
CLARA BELLE, tho fashion writer, criti-
cizes the clothes of Bartholdis great
statue, and says that he must have drap-
cd her skirts at the time of the aesthetic
craze, when clinging medieval garments
we're in vogue; but We have now come into
m era OF hnsties, and she really WON'T do"
WAsuINeEoN has become the resort of
the newly welded. RaGe tly at q single
hotel twenty bridal parties were registered,
and at another ten. The White House. .ex-
ample was contagious.
THE electric light in the tall tower at He'll