The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-21
Captain
CURRENT TOPICS.


gees in," is the cry in Texas.
THE new Senator from California, like
mis- predecessor, is millionaire.
PHILADELPHIA is successfully trying e>ec-
tricity in the running of street cars
THE Tilden funeral was quiet and such rs
oefits distinguished private citizen.
CHIHUAHUA is pronounced Chewawuh,
and it sighs for wah, does Chihuahua.
VAssAR COLLEGE endowment is s430. .O00.
This is the largest of any female college.
A DOZEN defaulters have stolen $4,000, 600
from Philadelphians during the past five
years.
LORD RoTuscHILD has sent Patti a knife.
It is studded with diamonds and made of
ivory.
THE wheat crop of France is estimated
at 1O6,0O0,OO0 hectolitres, against 1l0,0OO,OOO
In 1885.
THE best swimmer on the North Shore,
Che Boston Transcript says, is man who
has but one leg.
THE North pole is such hoary chestnut
that the Australians are preparing South
pole expedition.
B. F. IAMs, of Oil City, Pa, has a crab
apple tree which is at the present time in
fruit and in blossom.
THE Government of the Netherlands is
about to propose a general international
treaty against anarchists.
GENERAL FREMONT is the only remaining
representative of the Presidential candi-
dates of ante-bellum days.
Owing to rainy weather in Russia re-
G in IN fall
farmers are greatly depressed.
THERE is living at Coldwater, Mich, a
man aged seventy years, who says he never
ate piece of meat in his life.
THE name of the President of Mexico is
pronounced Death But Diaz has no ter
sors for the American volunteer.
THE common potato is full of most dan
gerous narcotic properties, that are only
fendered harmless by the cooking.
1T is said that of the 657 members elected
10 the new English Parliament, 337 are
openly in favor of woman suffrage.
A FASHIONABLE young lady at Cape May
pas let her little finger nail grow to great
length, and has had it tipped with gold.
THE New York Times notes as peculiar
ty of Mr.. Tildens political career that it
I'D not begin till he was sixty years old.
THE term 'mugwump" has been taken
up in England. Henry Labouchere ap-
Piled it recently to the Unionist Liberals.
LARGE quantities of cotton-seed oil are
senS from the South to Chicago, where, it is
said, the oil is converted into prime leaf
card.
A wHITE-HAIRED man of seventy has been
arrested in Baltimore for embezzlement.
he was loo old to move rapidly enough to
Cau.,da.
TBx Prince of Wales gets $500, 900 from
she Eaglish Government, per annum, for
doing nothing, and his wife $50, ,OOo for help
Ing him.
THE production of gold in the UnNed
States for 1885 was S3l, 500, 600, and of sill
ger SOL, 600 00O-an increase in both cases
over 1884.
WORKMAN digging post holes scar
Uniontown, Pa, found watch which had
been dropped by one of Braddock's officers
IN a battle l3O years ago.
THE Oldest and one of the best newspaper
reporters in California is Miss Genevieve
Green, who is by no means as verdant as
her name would indicate.
A CHICAGO firm dealing in architectural
Iron work, has an order for fence large
enough to inclose the grave of a young man
about twenty-five years old"
A LETTER written by General Meade has
been published, in which he holds General
Bickles responsible for crippling the Army
Of the Potomac at Gettysburg.
ELEcTRo-PLATING with silver upon wood
Is now successfully performed, the process
being adapted to handles of all kinds, in
rluding umbrellas, canes, carving knives.
etc
A PENNSYLVANIA man has u collection of
two hundred live rattlesnakes. He caught
them in the spring, as they were leaving
their dens. Some of them are of enormous
size.
Mrs. MARY O'BRIEN, who was adjudged
Insane in Chicago lately, is now believed
to be heiress to IL fortune of 81 ,O0O 600, left
her by her uncle, John Dalton, in Aus
tralia.
CHIEF BUsHYHEAD of the Cherokee In
,dians, is a candidate for reelection, and
lis opposed by a gentleman also of the
Cherokee persuasion, named Rabbit
Bunch.
A FINE obelisk has been erected at Lip,
Lieutenant (now Prince Bismarck, in saw
ing the life of fellow-soldier at the risk OF
his own.
A CHICAGO woman who went to the An,
archist trials, said: II think it would be O
pity to hang such handsome man as
Spies but they ought to hang Schwab and
Fielden they are SO ugly"
A. Il. LAMPHERE, of Coldwater, Mich,
found in his Office doorway suspicious.
looking box, bearing his address. He set il
on fire in his door-yard, and it provd to be
an Internal machine of considerable force.
A DAUGHTER of Mrs. Sarah Meyer ac
companied her demented mother to the asy.
aum at jamestown, ID. T., but on reaching
there the daughter WAS found to be even
more insane than the mother, and both
were held.
EVEN in Massachusetts,, where there are
10000 more women than men, great diff.
Guilty is experienced in securing maid serv-
ants and washerwomen. II is claimed that
the girls are spoiled for housework by dab
bling in literature.
A RAPID CITY (Dak.) tobacconist import
I'd wooden cigar sign from the East, and
since he placed 1t upon the street Rapid
City has been deserted by the genuine red
man, who has taken offense at his proto-
type being displayed as q sign for pale face
cigars.
The drowning season opened early this
Wear md from present appearances IL