The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-15
CuRREN TOPICS.

r0rnia.
A sHrSoLr trust is being organized in
Oregon. -
THERE are 352 newspapers in the Terri.
tory Of Dakota.
MOBILE is to have an orphan asylum for
colored children.
UNCLE sam has 452, ,55T names on his PEN
sion roll OF honor.
KANSAS claims to have discovered valu-
able nickel deposits.
STEEL fishing rods that telescope to-
gether are novelty.
The London police now carry their clubs
N pocket instead Of belt.
ALL the chief shops in Milan are in a
glass rooted arcade four blocks long.
JOHN G.. WHITTIER will be eighty-one
on the 17th of December of the present
ear.
DOVES are so plentiful in and around
Los Angeles that they have become nui-
sance.
KING MILAN refuses to allow Queen Ma
talie to enter Servia to appear at q con-
sistory.
OATS grow to height of seven feet,
eight inches at Glenbrook, Douglass, Coun-
ty, New.
The French Government is about to issue
a decree ordering all the towns in France
to adopt Paris time.
RALPH KING, Of Kansas, aged ten, is in
Jail for stealing some fifty horses in the
course Of the past year.
1T Is said that the South Florida railroad
has paid out $1,000 in damages during the
past two years for cattle killed.
FEMALE "spotters" are now employed
on some Of the surface car lines, in New
York, to detect dishonest conductors.
QUEEN NATALIE has gone to Bucharest
She has been worried so much lately
that any kind of rest would be grateful to
her.
CORAL has felt the whim of fashion, and
its importation has fallen of in the last
three years as rapidly as that of amber
has risen.
The State School Fund in Kansas gives
forty -nine cents to every person in the
State between the ages of five and twenty
one years.
PEOPLE in Alaska at this time of the
year can see to read without artificial
light from 2 O'Clock in the morning until
II at night.
In the youngest grandparents" contest
Chapel Hill, N. c., leads with negro wo-
man who had a granddaughter at the age
of twenty-eight
The Boston Common dates back to 1910.
Six years before that time, nearly the
whole territory comprised in it was bought
by the town for EGO.
THE dressed beef interest Of Chicago de-
mands the exclusive use of at least 5000
cars built for that especial purpose and
used for nothing else.
NEBRASKA tornado blew cows tail
bald without injuring the animal. This
tale is entirely too bald for belief. 1t
should be slightly decorated.
The scheme to remove Libby Prison from
Richmond to Chicago has fallen through,
and the genius who conceived the plan is
six thousand dollars out of pocket.
GLASS eyes, false teeth and cork legs are
among the curious things sent to the New
York pawnshop by their wearers, who
seldom fail to redeem them on Saturday
night.
NEWS comes from the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park that there are still few hun
dred puffaloes and several thousand elk,
deer and mountain sheep left in the Rocky
Mountains.
WoNG CHEZ, a San Francisco Chinaman,
purchased a drawing room ticket to Chi
cago recently. He is the first one of his
nationality who ever committed such an
extravaganza.
FIVE brothers and three sisters met un-
expectedly at Deer Island, Me-, recently.
An impromptu reunion was held, it being
the first time the family had been together
for forty years.
Two citizens of Harris County, Ga,
have each become the others father in.
law. They lost their first wives by death,
and for a second wife each married the
others daughter.
CHAs. DILLON, Of Stony Brook, L. l., has
been sued for breach Of promise because
he fell asleep before the ceremony on the
night he was to have been married and
spoiled the wedding.
ACCORDING to the report Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, the present average
rate Of monthly wages for farm labor in
the United States is $18.A without board,
and $12.35 with board.
AFTER waiting ninety three years for
the grim messenger, John Fillhart, of
New York, got tired Of tarrying here and
went unbidden to the other shore. Nature
was evidently too slow for him.
For the convenience Of housekeepers
hatiron has been invented which makes
use Of the principle of expansion of metals
by heat to ring q small bell when the iron
is hot enough to iron clothes with.
Four years ago an Atlanta girl and a
female associate married into each others
family, the wedding taking place during
an elopement. A few days ago both
couples began divorce proceedings.
LATE Cairo advices ridicule the state.
ment that there is any white Pasha" in
the Bahr- Gael province, and attribute
the story to Mecca pilgrims, who are in.
delicately characterized as notorious
liars"
The mosquitoes have been so trouble
some in Hennipen County, Mimi, lately
that farmers have been compelled to wear
rubber coats while at work in the fields to
protect themselves against the ferocious
insects.
IT is said that not one-tenth the guam
tity OF snuff IL bought and sold in New
York that there was fifteen years ago. The
chewing habit is also dying out, but more
slowly.
some big peaches have been grown
In Oregon this season. The record was
beaten by an East Portland fruit grower,
who raised a peach that measured
eleven and one-fourth inches in circum-
ference.