The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-09-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

A NRy form of iron street paving has
been tried in Chicago on Madison street.
PHILADELPHIA claims that ons-ffth Of its
population is enrolled in its Sunday schools.
A BABY was seized as security for rent
in little Pennsylvania town the other
day.
SHORTHAND has been introduced in the
Reading Pa) high-schools as an optional
study.
FoRTY-Two new chemical elements are
reported as discovered in the past ten
years.
The unveiling of the Statue of Liberty
Enlightening the World is fixed for Octo-
Der %.
THE present popularity Of the chestnus
belle ought to give the red-headed girl q
chance.
THE house in which General Hancock was
born, near Lonsdale, Pa, was burned few
days ago.
THE production of quicksilver in Cali,
fornia has dropped to the lowest point for
many years.
A PHILADELPHIA child, on seeing negro
baby for the first time, asked, "Is that .
spoiled childp
JERRY RUsK, who has just been renomi
mated for Governor of Wisconsin, used to
be a stage driver.
IT is said that watercress destroys the
toxic principle of tobacco without injuring
its other properties.
A MONTAGUE, Mich, boy fell head fore
most in a barrel containing eight inches of
water and was drowned.
In Charleston, S. c., the scene of the re-
cent earthquake, there live 81, $50 colored
persons and 27,6O5 whites.
THE conscience fund in the Treasury at
Washington is approaching the round sum
of quarter of a million of dollars.
Ell COYOTE appears to have been the
Jesse James of Mexico, and met very much
the same fate as his Missouri prototype.
AN Egyptian mummy on exhibition at
the Iowa State Fair was seized by land
iord in payment of the owners board bill
A New YORK policeman has been robbed
of s40O diamond pin. Preserving the
peace mnst be paying business in Gotham.
THREE Fall River Mass, policemen have
been suspended for blowing beans across
the street into the Salvation Army bar
racks
THE new issue of two-dollar silver certifi-
Gates bears a portrait of the late Major
General W. S. Hancock in full dress uni
form.
SENATOR DAWES says there are to-day
900 Indians who, to all intents and pur-
poses, are as uncivilized as they were $50
years ago.
tn Cunr 0f de ohpo
fear of hydrophobia to all the dangers,
real and imaginary, which surround his
royal path.
The Chinese notion of England is said to
be that of "a tribute-bearing nation of men
without pigtails, governed by lady with
large feet"
A FORCE of ditchers in Council Bluffs,
Ia, recently exhumed well-preserved
wagon that had been buried since the old
Mormon days.
PREACHERS have much to be thankful for.
No man will be allowed to ring q chestnut
gong in a church, no mattor how old the
sermon may be.
1T cost q fashionable lady who was So
journing at Saratoga this summer $500 for
DOCTORS bills for attendance on pet dog
which was taken sick.
The Boston Advertiser thinks that voices
In Boston are running too much to tenor,
and ascribes the fact to the use of the
telephone and high collars.
SINGLE block in the vicinity of Castle
Garden, and which is about 1876 by 800 feet,
contains no less than thirty-fiv saloons, or
houses where liquors can be obtained.
SPEAKING Of thirteen as an unlucky num-
her, how about the original thirteen colo
mics and the Nation that has grown from
them-any thing unlucky about thems
Thirteenly not.
GERMANY, notwithstanding its weakness
for wind and string Instruments, which
makes that instrument nero side issue,
leads the world by turning out 1900
pianos per annum.
The greatest balloon in the world has
been constructed at San Francisco by Mr..
Van Tassel. 1t will hold 10000 cubic feet
of gas, and has been made for the purpose
of traversing the American continent from
ocean to ocean.
SIR JOHN SLOAN, of England, died in 1887.
In accordance with his will, TWENTY-FIVE
rooms in Lincoln Inn Fields have been
sealed and unopened since death. They
will be examined on November ", as the
will provides. Their contents are a mys.
&ery.
The King Of Portugal's marriage has
finally been settled with the Princess Hen
rietta, younger daughter of the Comte de
Flandres. Princess Henrietta will receive
an immense dowry. She is the favorite of
her father,::wh is among the richest princes
in Europe.
TAKING four heads of hair of equal
weight, a patient German Psychologist
found the red one to contain about 9O.OOC
hairs, the black 1903 900, the brown lO9, 900
and the blonde 10000.
INDIAN BELLIES of Alaska wear a thick
coating of oil and SCOT on their faces when
not in full toilet This is said to preserve
the complexion, which, after thorough
scrubbing, looks as fair and smooth as =
good article of soft-soap.
A MOST astonishing phenomenon of the
Japanese earthquake was the splitting of
the Papundayang Mountain. In flash of
time it was split into seven parts. Where
the lone mountain had stood loomed I'D
seven peaks, each some 1000 feet high.
EVERY street in the City of Mexico is as
straight as streets can be made, yet 1t ia
law that on every corner there shall be
directory containing names and numbers
OF business houses on that square.
Miss STANLEY, a Dakota girl, spent the
summer entirely alone, without even cat
for company. on her claim four miles from
Waterbury. She had ten acres Of grain, q
dne garden, and watermelon patch.