The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

cess. Breakage will be less frequent
AN over-production of window glass Is
causing gut in the Western market
IF Utah comes into the Union she will
proba ly be called tho Matrimonial State
THERE are six or more candidates for
the Speokership in the Fifty first Congress
OPERA glasses with long handles, after
the style of lorgnettes, are something
now.
THE Queen of Portugal is known among
her subjects by the title of Angel OF
Pity"
The Duchess of Cambridge pays a we'll
known vocalist $4,000 u year to sing to her
daily.
ALABAMA Is the farmers paradise. They
control the coming Legislature in that
State.
KALAKAuA, King of the Sandwich
Islands. will visit this country in the
spring.
SIDNEY, Australia, will soon have the
largest organ in the world. 1t will cost
$4,000.
THE double breasted vest, out of the
Geld of fashion for long time, has come
back to it.
A MAN named Hicks has invented a
wheel that will throw dynamite projec-
tile five miles.
EDITOR WILLIAM O'BRIEN manages to
get into trouble about as often as any pat
riot of the aN.
THE Sultan of Turkey has become inter-
ested in typewritlng, and is practicing the
art sedu ously.
THlarY-FIvE divorce cases-six Of which
were tried-were disposed of in one hour
by Chicago judge.
The famous Havana cigar factory, the
Henry Clay, has been sold to an English
syndicate for 81 $4,000.
An effort is being made, with every in
dication of success, to re-estabiish
Southern Base Ball League
THE man who shot his wife because she
was in good health is more ambitious to
incur doctors bills than most
APPLICANTS for the consulship at Hayti
will not be numerous if Legitime shows
the bellicose spirit attribut to him.
A DRY goods clerk in Pittsburgh, who
ate three mince pies on wager the other
night was found dead in bed the next
morning.
THE heaviest man in Virginia is thought
W bS SuBtdlu Sdp 2flubuuAr VI
County. He weighs 4iO pounds and is
hotel-keeper.
OLD boots and shoes, steamed to pulp,
are now converted into the soft, stamped
Ornam mental leather SO popular for artistic
okbinding.
TINTED gray is something new in note
paper The note sheet is small, folds once
and fits the envelope, which has rounded,
not square, flap.
ARBoR day, which riginated in Nebras-
ka, has been The means of causing the
planting of nearly 10000 acres of forest
land in that State alone.
The Federation OF Labor has decided to
make on the 1st of May, 1890, a concerted
demand throughout the United States for
the adoption of the eight-hou system.
SMOKY LONDON will, probably be less
gloomy in the fu ,ure. The entire city is to
be illuminated by electricity. The plant re-
auired for this will lie the largest in the
world.
JonN JACOB AsToR has given $3.50, )OJ
to erect an additional building for the
New York Cancer Hospital. Mr.. Astor's
gifts to the institution thus far exceed
$3.50,
Last year Oui lluPOi 70 ~ oIi oupoiS
cluuing raw silk, teas, fans, handkerchiefs,
bamboo and the like, amounted to nearly
SIG, ,O.U-more than was bought by any
other nation.
A BROOKLYN fireman who was buried
under a falling wall says that his only
thought was Of his land,ady. He owed
her Tor two weeks board, and he was
afraid she'd lose it.
The Swiss toy makers let Edison get
ahead Of them in the phondsraph dolls,
but they are making toy children that imi-
itate perfectly the human voice and The
shrill whistle of birds.
A BILL passed the South Carolina Sem
ate, a few days ago, making it a misde-
meanor, punishable by dismissal, for any
member of the Legislature to accept free
pass from any railroad.
ONE hundred of Denver's leading busi-
ness men will go to Washington to attend
tho inauguration, dressed as cowboys.
They have secured the Cowboy Band, OF
Dodge City, to accompany them.
NEAR Winnipeg, Manitoba, lives far
mer named Nj Rae who tried to hang him
self because has wife gave $40 to her
church. The wife saved his life by cutting
him down, and the church gave the money
back.
SENATOR REAGAN, Of Texas, appointed
his " ife as his private secretary. Every
Senator not the chairman of u committee
is allowed a private secretary, who re-
ceives salary of S6 day during the ses-
sion.
The savory nutmeg is placed on the list
of active pOisons by the Hospital OF Lon
don, because u boy of eight years, after
eating two whole nutmegs, fell into a
co atose state and died within twelve
hours.
A SHORT time since manufactory of
artificial hair charged its ruin on the fash
ion OF wearing ones own hair, set by Mad.
Langtry. And now tne hustle manufac-
turers are charging their ruin upon Mrs.
Cleveland.
THE fates favored him and he is now o
very wealthy man. The inventor Vest
inghouse, who has made half n dozen mill
lions out of his air brakes. once offered to
sell il outright for $4,000.
EIGHT gigantic pears from Stanislaus
County. Cal, that were recently exhibited
in San Francisco, weighed thirty three
and one-third pounds, or four and one
sixth pounds each, and they completely
filled five-gallon glass jar.
CLOTHES wringer was the rather odd
present that a Jersey City young man
snade his best girl. The pair afterward
sguabbled, and he demanded the return OF
the wringer and two other presents, but