The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

IT is dull day that does not b. ing wa
rumor from Europe.
WM. AsToR recently ordered $3.50 baby
carriage for grsndchild.
Nova Scor1A's apple crop is larger this
season than for many years past.
JAMES c. FLOOD has Just finished . g..
100000 dwelling in San Francisco.
The Pasteur Institute fund, Paris, has
reached the sum of " A, 900 francs.
ArARMER near Albany, N. Y, has raised
potato weighing ffty-Ave ounces.
BY next spring the French army will
have new rifles. 1t will cost SIC, 100000.
A SECRET SOCIETY of servants for robbinA
employers has been unearthed in New
York.
Or eighty girls who landed at Castle Gar,
den the other day ffty.two were red
headed.
KATIE PUTNAM, the actress, has an in
come of $4,000 from her fruit farm in
Michigan.
A BARREL of cider exploded near Green
vile, Mich, the other day, and broke q
woman's jaw.
JOHN Roach is said to have cancerous
frouble in his throat, similar to that Of
General Grant.
The juice of half lemon in glass OF
water. without sugar, will frequently cure
. sick headache.
CHICAGO Anarchists are threatening all
kinds of vengeance on the prosecution in
the recent trial
A PHILADELPHIA burglar recently print.
ed an indignant denial that he was ever a
New York alderman.
SULLIVAN is going to England and thus
we are nearly even with England for send.
ing Lonsdale over here.
THERE has been discovered on lands near
Williamsport, Pa, large deposits of yellow
ochre-a four foot vein.
THE Barthold Statue Of Liberty is to keep
her 6,OO0-candle power electric light burn
ing all day and all night.
SIMON CAMERON is the only survivor of
the Senate of Folks administration now
that David L. Yulee is dead.
A PALINpRoME in actual existence is the
sign of abaker in Yreka, Sskiyou County,
Cal This is it: "Yreka Bakery"
SoFAR no II told you so" has risen to as
sert that he predicted, several months ago,
the storm which destroyed Sabine Pass.
y. THRIVING business is done in some
erican cities in letting out dress suits.
The charge for az evening is three dollars.
A WOMAN working in a cooper-shop at
kalemazoo, Mich, can make as many
Barrels day as any of the male employees.
HENRY GEORGE was once the private sec
retary Of Abram s. Hewitt. Now they
are rival candidates for Mayor of New
York.
IT is reported that q daughter of General
Buckner is about to go on the stage She
will conceal her identity under stage
name.
THE feeling in France against every thing
German is so intense that the sale of toys
manufactured in the fatherland has been
interdicted.
THERE are twenty-seven women in Eng
hsh prisons, undergoing penal servitude for
infanticide, all OF whom were originally
sentenced to die.
A DAKOTA man won the esteem of his
townspeople by walking seventy five miles
In order that be might pay a note exactly
when it was due.''
Two letters written by Benedict Arnold,
dated six months apart, and proposing
IL,
to be Identical in terms.
PHILADELPHIA has more daily papers
than New York and Boston combined,
while New York has more theaters than
Philadelphia and Bostsn combined.
THERE are now twelve Hindoo mission
aries in this country who have come all the
way to the United States to convert us poor
heathens to the right way of living.
THERE are now 5000 miles of overhead
wires in London. The local authorities
have control over the wires only where
there is an interference with the roadway.
AN effort is being made to have the pay
of the teachers of the Philadelphia public
schools increased twenty. Ave per cent. 1t
appears that they have been miserably un-
derpaid.
TIRE Bulgarian question in its present
state is getting to be chestnut. If the
Gar does not make move one of these
days he will lose his prestige as the Euro
pean bulldozer.
The old bridge of Ayr, in Scotland, made
memorable in Burns "The Two Brigs," is
TO be demolished. 1t is 65) years old, and
WAS built, like the pyramid of Rhodopis, at
the sole expense of ngle lady.
One of the peculiarities of 25O-pound
pumpkin grown at Newburg, N. Y, is that
1t was fed on milk. A root was sent out
from the vine to a basin full of milk and
1t consumed pint of fluid each day.
PRoF. JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, inter-
viewed at Pittsburgh the other day boast
ed that he had made 10000, spent Si5O, 900.
bought 81 900 worth of cloth recently and
has the prettiest clothes you ever saw"
A NORWEGIAN lawyer who died recently
was such an enthusiast that he wiiled all
his property for the purchase Of bicycles
for the school children of Christiana. His
children will contest the strange bequest.
The common nutmegs are poisonous in
large doses. In case which came under
medical treatment lady had eaten a
whole nutmeg and half, which caused
extreme drowsiness, then great nervous
excitement, followed by subsequent de-
preston and pain in the region of the
heart
The chestnut bell has been superseded by
the liar card. When the story teller be-
comes too enthusiastic in his exaggeration
the listener hands him o card on which ia
printed, u am somewhat Of a liar myself.n
A BACHELOR of East Grand Forks, d. T.,
gave dance. Among the guests were
twenty unmarried young women. Dur
ing the evening the host proposed marriage
TO fifteen Of them. They all declined with
thanks.
IT cost the last New York alderman who
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