The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE cost of the Sioux City Ua.s corn pal
ace is given as $4,000.
THE Woman's Press Club Of Cincinnati
has thirteen members.
YOUNG alligators have become numerous
near Eatontown, N. j.
CoLoRED men are drivers and conductors
on Savannah (Ga. street cars.
THE Nun Of Kenmare denies tho rumor
that she has become Protestant.
THE man who first suggested Harrison
ior President is getting numerous.
DuNsMUIR, tho British Columbia coal
King, has an income of 80, 600 day.
THE Japanese army is now 100000
strong. 1t will be 600 900 before long.
THE entire front of one of the banks at
Riverside. Cal, is constructed OF onyx.
THE old State House at New Haven, CT,
IS to be converted into public library.
Sixty MILLIONS of people change tho
Chief Magistrate peacefully in one day.
1T is proposed in Toxic. Japan. to erect
large monument to the memory of Cen
eral Grant.
THE Persian name for Americans is
Yange Doon-yn, which means dweller OF
The new world.
Mrs. SARAH RoBINsoN, the Boston pois-
oner, had her sentence committed to ini-
~risonment for life.
No MATTER how much a candidate may
itch for Office, he doesn't like to be scratch-
ed on election day.
THE first woman to be elected to schooi
trusteeship in New Hampshire is the wite
of U. S. Senator Blair.
IT is said that n lad of twelve and man
six feet seven inches in height play in the
same band at Eastmanville, Mich.
A New HAVEN lad broke his leg, and
cousin, who was sent to notify the Boys
father met with the same accident.
JACK BROWN, a locomotive engineer on
the Michigan Central road, is the living
image of the late General Sheridan.
BETWEEN fire-trnp cremations and gas
eous mine explosions the business of using
up human lives is running on double turn.
Mr.. MUDD has been elected to Congress
from the First District of Maryland In
pite of his name ho had a clear majority.
The U. S. Marshal in New York says
that sixty per cent. of the counterfeiting
done in this country is the work of 1tal-
ians.
ROBERT j. BURDETTE declares that,
though he writes continually for the Sun
day papers, he has not read one for four
years.
ID. c. FRENCH is making marble statue
of Lewis Cass, to be given to the Nation
by Michigan, and placed in the Capitol in
Washington.
A PAIR of jars made originally for Queen
Victoria at cost of $4,000, were sold at
auction the other day in New York for
81 900 apiece.
THE wife of farmer named Dufort, at
Massanche, p. O., has given birth to her
thirtieth child. She has been married
twenty one years.
A MILWAUKEE woman earns a living
teaching the game of whist. 1t is claimed
that she is one of the most brilliant play
ers in the country.
ONLY seven Presidents of the United
States have been reelected. These are
Washington, jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, Lincoln and Grant
PETRIFIED wood has been found in large
quantities in the Hoosac mountains, near
Pinto Eureka County, New. The speci-
mems are oak and pitch pine.
THE Prince of Wales has become greatly
interested in California wines. He says
they have the piquancy and flavor of the
most original country on earth.
MRS. MARTHA STRICKLAND, the first
woman lawyer to appear before the Su-
preme Court of Michigan, did so recently
to argue a motion in divorce suit.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., has an interesting
relic of days gone by in the shape of a jury
box from which the names of jurors have
been drawn in that city since 175S
THE election passed of peacefully, and
sixty millions of peopelo go smoothly and
happily about their business. This is a
great country. God bless America.
THE only one of the defeated Presiden-
tial candidates who sends greeting to the
successful candidate is Belya Lockwood.
with the victor.
CROOKED and Straight are the names Of
a pair Of clergymen in charge of an Eng
lish church. Lock & Key were long famil-
lar names over the door of a hardware
store in Louisville, KY.
THE building fever continues in Jerusa-
lem, correspondent says, and many
stately churches and other buildings have
gone up on Mount Zion, ON the Mount OF
Olives and in Gethsemane.
DR.DAvID HosTETTER, Of Pittsburgh, who
died in New York City few days ago.
left fortune of from $4,000, 900 to S15,
600, 900. His life insurance alone amounts
to more than one-third of a million.
SECRETARY BXYARD according to re-
ports current in Wilmington, Del, will re-
sumo the practice Of law after the access
sion of the new administration, and will
ecome a resident of New York City.
HARDLY any Of the loans made by Chi
nese bank go above 800, while most ol
them are for less than $40. A native whC
borrows of bank must give security fol
fivetimes the loan, and also agrees to lose
has head if he can't pay up.
THERE is a mine near Leadville into
which women are never admitted. II Q
woman were permitted to enter this mine
every last man on the premises would quit
work. The mine has had an accident fol
every woman who has visited it.
THE Suashine Mission of Philadelphia
proposesrto form a stock company, with q
capital of $50, 900, in as many shares, and
with it bug or build house in which COM
petent teachers shall carefully train SER
wants into efficiency and out of the foolish
and un- Amer lean idea that housework il
degrading.
STEVE Bao1aE has beaten the record by
Jumping from the Poughkeepsio bridge
into the Hudson river. The distance from
the floor OF the bridge TO the water ID
.222 feet. Steve made $500 by taking
the leap in which he received no great
injury. He says. however, that he is
not dianaead fat rv bridDa iumnjn q