The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

bulk to preserve them.
Iowa has no less than ten women county
school superntendents.
THE cost Of public education in Prussia
Is fifteen cents per head.
To CURE and heal running sore, apply
alum water twice day.
GENERAL SHERIDAN left a paid-up life
insurance policy of $4,000.
THE wallpaper manufacturers are
thinking of forming trust.
CONTINUED wet weather in En- gland has
nearly ruined the hay crop.
You can now go from Paris to Constan.
tinople by rail in three days.
NINE. CARNor, wife of the French Presi.
dent, parts her hair on one side.
IT is proposed to hold mineral expose
iion in Nashville, Tenn, in 1890.
BEARS are unusually numerous in the
mountains about Lake Tahoe, New.
DR.. TALMAGE received $1,000 for two
alks at the Piedmont, Chautauqua.
THE total amount carried on the lives Of
Massachusetts policy -holders Is $lIG, SOP, :.
us.
BEE owners in Arizona report that this
is the best year for honey ever known
there
COMPANY has been organized to estab.
lish graphophone service in Western
cities.
GENERAL FISK, the Prohibition candidate
for President, is an epicure in sea food
dishes.
BY the aid of camera a saloon keeper
at Des Moines, Ia, was detected in selling
liquor.
NEW "fad' in Paris, the English pa
pers tell US, is the wearing of gloves that
do not match.
LIGHTNING struck strect.car in Aurora,
ILL.,, the other day. Two persons We're Sc
verely shocked.
THE population of Rome grows at the
rate of $4,000 to 10000 year. At the close
of 1887 it was 3s2,973.
Mrs. DELPHINE BAKER, an American
lady, is about to establish a Christian
newspaper in Jerusalem.
MEMPHIS is the greatest inland cotton
market in the world, receiving from 7O0-
600 to 100000 bales yearly.
ABUTTE, Cal, man who began farming
on rented land ten years ago has this year
SCI, 900 worth of wheat to SELL
THERE were 1893, ,42i males and 55, 723 fe.
males who bathed in the public baths OF
Boston during the month of July.
AT the election in 1884, the total number
of votes cast was little over 10, ,000, 900, OF
about sixth of the population.
TOPEKA, Kas., has more churches than
any city of its size in the country, and has
not single saloon or drinking place.
SHERIFF GREENEwALy, of Green Ridge,
York County, Pa, has n fruit bearing
pear tree which is one hundred years old.
AN Italian paper states than AN English
ameteur recently secured in Milan a
magnificent Stradivarius, dated 17lG, for
fS0O.
RAILWAY time tables are made of con-
venient size and shape to be inserted inside
the cover of a watch for convenient refer
ence.
INVESTIGATIONS into the cause of the
swine plague shows that, of all farm ami
mails, swine should have pure water to
drink.
SENATOR CHAcE of Rhode Island, has
never had his picture taken, although pho
tographers have often tried to entrap him
into sitting.
CHARLES CRocKER, the Pacific Coast rail-
road king, leaves q fortune estimated at
$GO,0O0,0O0 for the heirs and lawyers to
wrangle over.
The Canadian fish catch has fallen off
100000 during the past year, and the
total export to the United States is far less
than formerly.
The Oldest rose in the world is at Helder.
sheim, Germany. Its history can be
traced back to 1919, and it was good deal
of a bush then.
NANCY EDGERLY, Of Wolfboro, N. H., is
los years old and never had physician
but once in her life, and then threw the
medicine away.
A KANSAS ranchman predicts that the
cheap beef and mutton Of the future will
come from the immense grassy plains of
Brazil and the Argentine Republic.
A NEWSPAPER published in Florence,
Italy, says that during President Blnine's
European trip Congressman Cleveland has
been in charge of the White House.
THE officers of the new ocean steamer,
City Of New York, say that when the ma
chinery gets into good working order she
will cross the Atlantic in five days.
A NEwBURYPoRT woman has sent one
dollar to the restaurant at the Boston and
Albany station to pay for an orange she
stole in 1s45, when little girl with her
mother.
REEFS of coral, which probably marked
the boundaries of an ancient inland sea,
are visible on the sides of a deep canyon
leading from Wadsworth, New, to Pyra-
mid lake.
THE Oldest arm chair in the world is said
to be the throne Of Queen Hatafu, who
hourished in Egypt 1,6OO years before
Christ 1t is made Of ebony, and is beau
tifully carved,
THIS has been good season for bears
in Maine. A Lewiston furrier says that
he has already bought fifty-fve skins, and
thinks the crop will beat last years which
was 344 pelts.
The weather in tho Alps is so bad this sea-
son that the hotel keepers look in vain with
dismal faces for the usual stream of for
calamity to the region.
A SIMPLE remedy for neuralgia is to ap-
ply grated horseradish, prepared the same
as for table use, to the temple when the
face or head is affected, or to the wrist
when the pain is in the arm or shoulder.
THERE are now three journals in New
York City which have "the greatest cir
culation in America" and the publishers
find men to swear to 1t. fourth contents
itself with 'high water mark circula-
tion."
The King of the Belgians hates tobacco,
never wears gloves, and goes bareheaded
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