The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
CURRENT TOPICS,

Ve begun on q very extensive scale,
ANN ARBoR, Mich, claims the honor of
originating the Hes all right yell.
THE first cotton mill in Iowa began oper-
stions at Des Moines, few days ago
THE Emperor of Germany sleeps, as did
his grandfather, on an iron camp-bed.
AN eight-year-old lad was convicted of
burglary in Jersey City the other day.
THIEVES stole the communion service
from the Old South Church, at Andover,
Mass. zas .ss,ss.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN will sell his house
in Birmingham and live in London here
after.
APoLIcE judge in New York has decided
that boys under sixteen can not black
boots.
ANEW YORK paper says that fashiona-
BILE gentlemen will be clean shaven this
winter.
BALTIMORE brides dress was designed
by the bridegroom. What dear man he
must be!
''TooToMETER" has been invented
which will make noise that can be heard
ten miles.
SPECULATION as to President Harrison's
cabinet are rife, but the President elect
says nothing.
SwARMs of gnats have made themselves
so pestiferous as to break up the schools at
St Albans, VT.
BARNUM, the Snowman and philranthro-
pist has given $4,000 to the Bridgeport
lCt) Scientific Society.
LEVI p. MORTON is the wealthiest man
ever called to the Vice Presidential chair.
He represents SO, 100000
The National Educational Association
will meet in Nashville next July, the first
meeting in the South since 1869.
GREAT things are expected from the
Lick telescope on the occasion of the total
eclipse of the sun on January l.
AvENTUREsoME girl climbed a lndder175
feet to the top of the standplpe, at Show
hogan, Ne. She undertook the task 'for
fun"
REV. NEWMAN HALL, the famous Eng
lish preacher, although ~, breaches four
times a week and walks ten miles without
fatigue.
ISAAC S. DEMENT,, of Chicago, is the
fastest stenographer in the country. He
recently took down 1887 words in five
minutes.
1T is predicted that King George of
Greece will abdicate his throne early next
summer. He has lately purchased a resi-
dence in Denmark.
PRoF. KING, the famous aeronaut of
Philadelphia, after making three thousand
balloon voyages, now proposes to cross the
Atlantic in an air-ship.
THE debt Of the United States in 1865 was
SS4 per capita-largely due to war. 1t is
now less than $23, and, including all State
debts, less than $27 per capita.
1t is a phenomenal event when the new
year opens up on its very first day with a
{ total eclipse Of the sun. That will happen
no's the first day of January, 1889.
scEss-1ps---TF2gtoH, to- eccentric
p-der of Austrian society, has become so
thoroughly addicted TO the cigarette habit
that fears are entertained for her life.
CAL BRIcE and General Harrison were |
students together at Oxford, o., and mem
bers of the same secret society. This fact |
has been developed since the election.
Boston has an Ananias Club 1t is an
organization of practical jokers, whose
end in life is TO see who can best fracture
and reduce to its lowest terms the frozen
truth.
IT is said that the gold fields OF Great
Parish, La, furnish ore that assays all the
way from $50 to $4,000 ton. Thus far no
systematic working has been made in
them
A MAN at Waynesborough, Ga, owns
cow which develops the most furious kick
ing propensties just on the full of the
moon. AT other times she is as gentle as
a lamb.
A WOMAN at Miles City, Mont, made an
assault upon lawyer the other day be-
cause he called her "a long-nosed little
snipe." She said it was a reflection on her
character.
The Black Hills country is making a
name for itself as a horse growing coun-
try, and it is predicted that within ten
years it will be as famous for its horses as
the Blue Grass region.
LAMP to charm the unsuspecting stu
dent is a coppery serpent with silvery
scales on its rough back and tail, which
coils its writhing length into a ring and
lifts its flat head to vomit out flames.
MAYOR ROCHE, of Chicago says there
nre only eight thousand Anarchists in that
city, and he does not anticipate serious
trouble with them. In case of an outbreak
the Anarchists would be shot down like
dogs.
A FEW days ago a spring burst volun-
tarily forth from the ground Immediately
in front of the Central Hotel IN Las Vegas,
while the artesian well borers in the same
'own are searching fruitlessly so far at a
depth of over !, 100 feet.
A WELL authenticated story is told of a
Waterbury (Mass.) cat which died of grief
,ver the death of mistress for whom it
lad remarkable affection. AS soon as
he animal saw the face of the dead girl it
ell dead with a groan.
ADMIRAL To- TER, who served on the
of Arrangements for the first
Harrison inaugural ball, in 1s41, still
ives in Washington in good health and it
S suggested that he serve in a similar !
apacity at the Inauguration of the grand
on. J.
ONE of the horses used on the stage line
ear Albany has heavy moustache. Peo-
le who have examined the horse and the
growth of hair on its upper lip !.
ay they never saw anything to equal it. ,
AND still another American girl is to =
larry foreigner and q title. This time .
ne lucky nobleman is Baron Won Schroe-
or, of tbs Prussian Imperial Guards, and
is prospective bride lovely young
oman Of Boston named Pritchard
MRS. NATHAN APPLETON, of Boston. who A
at the head of a movement TO raise b
inds for statue Of Washington, TO be b
resented to the French Government by "
10 women Gf America, has already re- b.
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