The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

Bantam of Berlin"
PREsIDENT-ELEcr HARRIsoN's favorite
exercise is that Of walking. q.
BAnos HIRsH, of Vienna, has given
1900, 900 to Jewish schools.
PINK parties for infants are said TO %
the latest novelty in Chicago.
A MERRY -eo-RouND has been set mp in
an old church building in Louisiana.
TuE Italian Senate has just defeated
bill granting woman suffrage in Rome.
THERE is one thing that is seldom found
sin the SOUP" That is the church sociai
,yster.
POSTMASTER GENERAL DICKINSON, re-
commends the abolition of the ranking
privilege.
A WOMAN Of Huntington, CT, who Is
only thirty five y ears of age, has had nine
husbands.
THE late Emperor William is credited
with saving $1200000O out of his pnoiic
allowance.
For the first time in four years hich-
mond. Va, will have a Republican dai!y
newspaper.
RUSSIA is trying to effect large loan.
The coming war in Europe will be carried
on ION tick"
last wear, according to the OBictat Gdzeue,
was 39,0690 00I.
South CAROLINA cast one vote for GEN.
eral Fisk, and Kentucky two votes ror
Belva Lockwood.
IT is said that David Belasco VIII DE en-
gagged to initiate Mrs. Jas. u. Blame, or.,
into her stage career.
THE headquarters of Thomas b. Barry's
new Brotherhood of United Labor VIII DC
at East Saginaw, Mich.
A DOCTOR in Cincinnati charges next to
nothing for his services in cases where MS
patient does not recover.
FIFTEEN years ago Omaha was offered
fifteen acres of land for city park for ST.
O00 which is now worth S750OOO.
IT costs Maryland 100000 per year to
maintain her oyster navy and prevent 9TH
er States from owning her oysters.
A MOUNTAIN peak in Cassia County,
Idaho. has been named after General Har-
rison. 1t is $1,000, feet above the sea.
The days of Captain Kidd and his
wild freebooters are recalled by the depre-
da ions of the oyster pirates in Chesapeake
bay
A REPUBLICAN lady as the result of an
election bet extracted sound tooth from
a Democratic dentists mouth at Ell Paso,
Tex.
AN Australian paper seriously discusses
the mugwump, under the impression that
it is a Rocky mountain ass recently dis
covered.
A VIENNA man has left by will the sum
of so, 600 florins to n young woman who
babitually nodded to him whenever she
Get him.
THE time is rapidly approaching when
the question of gifts for relatives and
friends will be uppermost in the minds OF
the people.
IT is said that in Difference to the wishes
of Mrs. Cleveland the President and she
will make an extended European tour al
ter March 4.
BETWEEN June of last year and Nc5em-
ber of this year 80 100000 standard silver
dollars were added to the stock of unused
money IN the Treasury.
An old negro of Waco, Tex, has been
sent to an insane asylum because for years
he has occupied cabin in the outskirts of
the city with pet steer.
or the 5000 miles of railroad constructed
in the United Statos during the first half
of 1883 only five miles are set down to the
credit OIL tne DUuLe Ol IOWA.
A CALIFORNIA farmer, believing that
cats will exterminate squirrels and goph-
ers, purchased large number and set
them at liberty on his land.
1T is reported that many Of the cardinals
at Rome favor tn selection of Cardinal
Gibbons, of Baltimore, or Cardinal Tasche'
reau, of Montreal, as the next Pope.
COPPER is still on the boom. The French
syndicate that has cornered the product o
the world is carrying a stock Of 2GO, 600, ,00
pounds, and is grasping all it can get
The Government has discovered a short
age of eight cents in the accounts OF pay
master who died in 1863, and his bondsmei
must fork over If it sends them to the poor
house.i
ISAIAH V. WILLIAMSON, of Philadelphia
has given to seven trustees property to tn
value of Sc, ,00O, 900, to be used in giving tn
poor boys of that city free education in tn
mechanical trades
THE people of London, according to tn
statement recently made by Mr. Sampson
Morgan, spend between seven and eigh
millions of dollars every year in potte'
plants and cut flowers
A JOINT resolution has been offered II
Congress, proposing an amendment to th
Constitution, providing that the Presiden
and Vice President shall be chosen ever,
four tn year, by the direct votes of the peo
pie.
A NEWARK IN. J.) singing society visit
ed Edison's laboratory in West Orange
n. j., the other evening and sang seyera
choruses into the phonograph that is to b.
shipped to England and let Off before 10
Of scientists.
THREE 12-pound cannon balls and one
FOUNDER were found in Rutland, VT, by
workman engaged in excavating for tn
foundation of a new mill. They are sup
posed to be relics of the Burgoyne cam
paign in TIT.
PEOPLE are surprised to find that, nav
ing scarcely digested the Thanksgiving
turkey, they are rapidly jumping into tn
Christmas season. Thanksgiving came
little late this year, and Christmas will b
on time as usual
IT Is proposed to organize joint Memo
rial A ssociation of Union and Confederat
veterans to acquire and preserve tho bat
tle-held of Chickamauga, and mark
with suitable tablets and monuments.
A SUIT for libel is soon to bo brough
against Brooklyn newspaper by woll
known politician Of that city because tn
paper referred to the politician, who Is
stump orator as well as wire-puller, q
n "wind- jammer."
The schooner Governor Ames, the lar
Rest and only fve-masted center boar
schooner ever built, was launched at Wald
hnra Me m few dava apO. Tho vessel