The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

TRAMPs were never SO numerous In Cali
forna as now.
PROF. RILEY says Jersey is the chief
State for insects.
FLORIDA is shipping large quantities OF
peaches to market.
LIQUOR license in Telfair County,
Georgia, costs 5000.
DAVE OBER, Of White Oak, Pa, has had
lead pencil forty years.
1T is estimated that the floods in Mexico
involve loss Of $S,000.OO0.
A GENEROUS New Yorker hns given away
about 5000 campaign buttons.
THE Prince of Naples, son of King Hum
bert, Is a superior photographer.
NELLIE GRANTS husband Is very rich
now through his brothers. death.
NEW YoRK's population is now estimated
at 1,676,000 from directory statistics.
SINCE the 1st of January nearly 10000
Italians have landed at Castle Garden.
The negroes of Georgia nre said to
own more than 81, 100000 worth of prop
erty.
Ex-Governor WIN. SPRAGUE, of Rhode
island, is chief of police at Naragansett
Pier.
THE Commissioner of Agriculture has
ordered $500 copies of his Annual Report
printed.
AN attempt has been made to have the
historic gallows tree on Hampstead Heath
cut down.
MANY of the interior towns of Oregon
are raising money to import song birds
from Germany.
THE pin factories of England, France,
Holland and Germany arc said to turn out
100000 pins daily.
A FLORIDA planter has contracted to fur
nish New York dealer with 1,OOo, 900 cab
bages during the season.
IT is predicted that cypress wood from
the South will be largely used in Northern
buildings in few years.
BURLINGTON, N. j., proudly claims more
widows to the square yard than any other
city in the United States.
j. r. BoLcH, aged twenty two years, has
just died at Fairfield, s. c., of hydropho-
bia, caused by cat scratch.
CHICAGO is the fifth Scandinavian city
in the world, and Minneapolis, with pop
nlation of 55, 900, the sixth.
FARMERS Of Oregon are moving to secure
legislation in State and national councils
to promote the interests of farmers.
The Dowager Empress Victoria, of Ger
many, will reside for some months in Eng
land with her mother, Queen Victoria.
A GLASGOW firm has just finished a brass
wire for the Glasgow exhibition sixty five
miles long and a copper wire Ill miles
long.
SYLvANIA, Ga, has a stalk of corn ten
Ieet high, and which contains seven well
developed shoots, six of which have put
out silks.
AN insect known as the wire worm is
playing sad havoc with the corn at Mexico,
Mo. One farmer has lost forty acres by
this pest.
THE widow of President Tyler is in
Washington. She has son, DIR. Lachlan
Tyler, who is one of the rising young doc.
tors of that city.
RAND.RAPIDs, Mich, is the great furni-
ture making center of the United States.
employ 1900 men.
DIR. GILL, French astronomer, has fur
nished names for {, 1000 stars. He has been
twenty years about it, but he was deter
mined not to let one escape.
SINCE the opening of the new artesian
wells in the Desert of Sahara, large in
crease in the number of palm and other
fruit trees has taken place.
AN official report On the cholera epidemic
which ragged in Japan two years ago states
that there were 155, ,574 cases of the disease,
of which 11O,0s6 were fatal.
A FEATURE of General Harrison's
countenance which does not appear in his
photograph is large mole on his right
right cheek, at the side, just under the eye.
SEVEN Presidential candidates this year
are not enough, it appears, to satisfy
every body. The American party is get
ting ready to hold National Convention.
The dead letter office received 4,s0S,-
600 letters last year, for about third of
which owners were discovered. Money to
the value of 81 ,795, ,746 was found in 17,5SS
letters.
THE increase of population in Australia
Last year was only 81 per cent, which is
by no means as large as England would
like to see it. The total population is
3,546, 725.
OFFICIAL reports Of Russian crops are
favorable, and indicate yield above the
average. Crop reports from India make
an unfavorable showing, owing to severe
droughts.
A CHECK fourteen years old was CASH
ed the other day at an Allentown, Pa,
bank. The holder said that it had been all
that time in the forgotten pocket of an un-
used vest.
ABOUT 100000 sponges per year are
taken from the sea around the Bahamas.
Their value is $25O,OOO. Twenty foot poles
with hooks on the end are used to pull the
sponges from the rocks.
SMALL amounts of the old postal cur
rency continue to be offered for redemp-
tion at the New York Sub Treasury. The
amount still unredeemed is $15, 900, 900, but
most of it is doubtless worn out or Destroy
ed.
SHIP building is in state of great ac-
tivity in England. It is said that 3O2
British steamers are now being built, with
total of $4,000 tons, and that last
year PAT boats Of 374, 900 tors were con-
structed-
MRS. T. j. EBY, of Mahantango, Juniata
County, Pa, the other day found a large
blacksnake in the baby coach, where it had
spent the night with Mrs. Eby's thirty
two. o.months- old child.
RETURNS now show a total of 2, ,Sl5, 900
hogs packed in the West since March 1,
against 2, ,S25, 900 year ago. The quality
of hogs handled by packers is we'll main
tained, and compares well with other
years.
A LADY living In Castine, Me-, has a cat
hat ctt nm 70, ho toh hl-u ..,;<I, A.