The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-02
CURRENT TOPICS.


2S,0O0 TO quart.
BIsuop Porter Is one OF the best dressed
men In New York.
A CHIcAaoAN owns q Siberian blood
hound OF 1873 pounds.
THERE is post-office In Virginia called
"Blacks and Whites"
THERE are twenty-eight salmon fisheries
at or near Astoria, Ore.
SPIDERS are considered delicacy roast
ed in the New Caledonias.
A ST. LOUIS firm has orders from Europe
for sawed hardwood timber.
Mr.. KELLOGG, of Battle Creek, aged sew
enty-four, is cutting third teeth.
TALLuLAH, Ga, is so healthy that the
nearest doctor is twelve miles off.
TOPEKA, according to a city directory
just out, has population OF 46O0o
JOHN .RusK1N is nearly restored to
health and has resumed his literary Ia
bors.
LULU STouGHToN BEEN, the widow OF
General BEEN, will engage in newspaper
work.
Miss LEILA FiNSEY, sixteen years old,
has made enough squares to make o5o
quilts.
A CERTAIN style of shoe. button is called
''Old Maids Wedding" because it never
comes off.
T1iERE are laws against using profane
Language by telephone in all States except
Connecticut.
THE number of saloons In Philadelphia
has been reduced by high license from
5,773 to 1859.
Much work will be done this year on the
Longfellow Memorial Gardens at Cam
bridge, Mass.
JOSIAH j. WHITE, of Los Angeles, has a
thirty dollar Continental currency bill Of
the issue of IT'S.
DoN'r forget it: The ST. Louis Conven-
ton meets June and the Chicago Con-
yention June 10.
In Pennsylvania's anthracite fields 10-
600 persons are employed and 5000 in the
bituminous beds.
SEALS are ravaging the salmon in Penob-
scot Bay, and fishermen, in turn, are
ravaging the seals.
PHILIP ARMOUR, of Chicago, surveys his
varied affairs by the aid of an account
book six feet wide when closed.
Dom PEDRO, Emperor Of Brazil, assembled
the throne in 1881, and has reigned longer
than any sovereign in the world.
AN Elko (Nev. landowner is seeding his
ranch to tea, and will employ Indian wo-
men and children to gather the crop.
THE abolition of slavery in Brazil ends
the patriarchal institution" so far as the
Continents of America are concerned.
The belle of Baton Rouge, La, lady Of
graceful and attractive manners, owns
and personally conducts job printing
office.
RIDER HAGGARD sent s5 the other day to
woman who wrote to him and pointed
out two very patent grammatical blunders
in "She."
AN English naval officer estimates that
there are $500, ,000, 600 in gold and silver un-
der the sea which could be reached by
good luck.
ADELAIDE RIsTORI says in her new book
that her first appearance on the stage was
screaming success" was three
months old.
The Indians at tho Genoa Indian School
in Nebraska are becoming bald-headed as
result of the change from feathers to
hats and caps.
A TREE that was cut down near What
conn., W. T., yielded $1,000 feet of lumber.
which at $3.50 per thousand, makes the
tree worth 1862.
ELABORATE, systematic jury bribing and
perjury has been discovered at Chicago in
quits brought against the Chicago City
Railway Company.
A GRABBED parson told the sisters of his
f1ock that 'Christ appeared first to women
after the resurrection, SO that the news
might spread faster"
The Methodist Episcopal ministers of
Baltimore decided that they are opposed
towopen being admitted as delegates to
the General Conference.
SINCE his interview with Mr.. Parnell,
Mr.. Gladstone has expressed himself with
much admiration for the Irish leaders 8
personal qualities and political sagacity.
BANDAGING the eyes of their offspring to
cause them to go to sleep, is plan resort
ed to by Michigan's youthful matrons.
The custom was learned from Indian
women.
SINCE the big fire in Buffalo the alder.
men of that city have decided natural gas
is dangerous, and will, at their next meet
ing, recommend that the supply be shut of
altogether.
The emigration from Ireland, via
Queenstown is very large this year. The
majority of the emigrants leaving are
young men and women, principally of the
farming class.
IsHMAEL WEAVER, q colored man who
died at Barnesvill., Ca, recently, was the
father of seventy-two children, of whom
ffty two sons We're able bodied farm hands
when he died.
LAURA JONES, the Georgia girl, who has
invented new plow and corn planter, is
said to be cousin Of Lulu Hurst, the fam
Gus electric girl. Georgia girls seem to be
determined to surprise the world.
MONSTER sturgeon, that measured
more than eleven feet in length and
weighed three hundred and sixty pounds
was caught in salmon net at Sauvie's
Island, Ore, recently. 1t was the larges
fish ever seen in that State.
THE northern provinces of France, al
though they export to England immense
quantities of farm products, are far from
prosperous. Land has decreased in value
twenty per cent in the last five years.
FASHION has decreed new wedding an
niversary-the "Nover wedding"-upor
the fourth year Of matrimony. The 1T.
are four-leaved tables, screens, glass
dishes, portfolios, frames and Other
articles with Quatrefoil designs.
WHILE workmen were engaged In dig
ging for sand at Vanmeter's Bend near
Kankakee, ILL.,, they unearthed the bodies
of six men that are supposed to be those OF
an extinct race OF giants. The bones were
much larger than those of the present day.
D1. HEWITT, secretary Of tho Minnesota
Health Association, has just completed
the death-rate tables for 1887 for that