The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-31
CURRENT TOPICS.


September 8.
A 165-year-old clock is owned by a resi-
dent of Muskegon.
CRAB meat is in the New York market
1t forty cents per pound
IT costs $500, ,000, 600 year to maintain
che standing armies Of Europe.
THE farmers of the United States have
75,0o0,00o acres of growingcorn.
"CARr," the famous Washington cores
pondent, takes a trip to Europe.
THE piles Of the old London Bridge, put
down in the year 900, are still sound.
A SOLITAIRE pearl, set in blue enamel, is
the very latest for an engagement ring.
THE fool-killer has evidently sub-let a
good deal of his summer work to the Mag
ara rapids.
A TEXAS paper answers correspondent
that the best way to serve good dinner is
to eat it.
WESTERN lumbermen are making exron-
sive purchases of pine lands in Louisiana
Mt $1.25 ON acre.
PRINCE ALBERT VIcTon of Wales, recent
ly made his debut as a Ay-fisherman He
caught one trout.
DAVID DAVIS was not among the Million
aires though reputed to be SO rich. His
fortune foots up ss5O,OOO
THE movement to have the telegraphic
wires in the large cities placed under
ground, progresses slowly.
IT is shown from reliable data that OF
700 young ladies who have graduated from
yasser only 200 are married.
may give us red sunsets such as followed
the volcanic disturbances in Java two years
ago.
THE sea-serpent seems to have been fool
ing around the coast of Mexico this season.
He was caught the other day near Vera
Cruz.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE gives an
intimate friend the positive assurance that
she will never do any further work in liter
lture.
Mrs. MARTHA WRIGHT, of Addison, VT,
is over 102 years of age, and has lived
In her present residence over ninety-nine
years.
IT is reported in New York that ex-Alder.
man Jaehne, now in Sing Sing, is to be
granted u new trial by the State Supreme
Court
THE return of the registrar general shows
that in London 2,617 births, and 1929
deaths, were registered during the last
week of June
SEVEN female physicians of Boston, who
had practice worth from $4,000 to $4,000
per annum, have broken down from ner-
vous prostration.
ONLY two centuries ago the white races
were estimated to be one-tenth of the
worlds population. Nowit is claimed they
are fully one-third.
A PARTY of United States Geological sur
veyors will explore Crater Lake in National
Park, where they have to be lowered 1000
feet to reach water.
MELoCIPEDE is the new name of q mu-
steal bicycle so fashioned that the rider
can kick out melodies, waltzes and reels as
he travels along the road
A Mr.. ROMAN, of Asbury Park, sprinkles
his lawn, according to the Journal with
milk. This is an insult to milkmen for
which water can never atone.
Com to the value of $4,000 or $1,000 was
found buried in cigar boxes under a hot
house on the premises of Squire Aaron
White, of Thompson, Conn.,, recently.
A FIRM at Bath, Me-, are about to build
what will be the largest schooner afloat.
She is to be 224 feet in length, and about
forty-six feet beam, to register 1900 tons
and have five p1asts.
A RAILROAD has been run right through
the site of the Burr Hamilton duel at Wee
hauken, and the landmarks SO thoroughly
obliterated that the oldest inhabitants no
longer agree as to location.
A YOUNG man in Plymouth, Mass, Of
fered to escort a Salvation Army lass home
the other evening, and was all broken up
when she replied, II have come to Plym.
Outh to catch souls, not beaus."
A UTICA genius has invented farm har-
ness that weighs less than fifteen pounds,
and does away with whifiietrees, traces
and many of the cumbersome straps and
buckles Moreover, it is cheap.
If persons will persist in being poisoned
by picnic ice-cream, it is about time that
M. Pasteur, or some other scientist dis.
covers system of innoculation to coun..
teract the baneful effects of the frozen
cream.
HARRY L. FALK, swimming in the Cones
toga river, near Lancaster, Pa, saw
black bass within arms length of him. He
grabbed for it, was lucky enough to catch
his fingers in the gills, and swan ashore
with fine fish.
Mrs. LOUIS LYONS, a Jewish lady of ST.
Louis, is the possessor of a very quaint
bracelet of East Indian comedians, which
has been in her family for nearly 800 years.
She also owns a silver pin, with date 1913
inscribed upon it,
RALEIGH, the Capital of North Carolina,
is now prohibition town; and what the
Governor of North Carolina said to the
Governor of South Carolina has sad sig
nificance at present. which it lacked when
first it was spoken.
CINCINNATI has woman who claims to
be personifcation of Jesus Christ. She
laid herself away in tomb for three days,
and then came out in white robes She now
claims to be immortal. She has some thir-
ty believers in her deification. In the way
OF sensations Cincinnati is not to be out
done by any of her envious, rival cities.
ACCORDING to statistics, Cincinnati de-
serves to be called the 'City of Churctes''
rather than Brooklyn, as it has one church
to every 1880 inhabitants, while Brooklyn
has one church to every 1,975 inhabitants.
A New York woman, arrested for shoot
ing at janitor, declared to the court that
she was ninety years old. The court i'm
mediately discharged her, no doubt upon
the ground that no sane woman would own
up to such an age.
In France they settle personal quarrels
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