The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-03-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

rom tomatoes.
THERE arc l7s known species of creatures
trat are blind.
1.tpERoR FREDERICK was born in 1881,
ana Ia in his 57th year.
,'HE old "Slave Mart'' building in Nash
vilie is being torn down.
TIE estate of the late Samuel j. Tilden
now amounts to $5,0OO,0OO
LOUISA NJ. ALcoTr directs in her will that
all her man uscripts be burned.
SIMON CAMERON celebrated his eighty
ninth birthday few days ago
FRANCE put s2l2, ,0OO, 600 into the Panama
canal before she got discouraged.
MAINE has fourteen cities, and Water
willie will soon be added to the list.
A New YoRK company has refused to in
sure the life of President Cleveland
The disciples of the faith euro in Jersey
City have built themselves church.
Iowa lies as near as may be at the geo.
graphical center of the United States.
ONCE more Manitoba expresses desire
to secede from the Dominion of Canada.
Bishop SpALpING thinks that celibacy
threatens this country more than polyg-
amy
The first State election of the Prcsiden-
April H.
DURING the last sixteen years 25, 600 sail
ors on British ships are said to have been
lost at sea.
HAIL stones as large as billiard balls arc
reported to have fallen at Red Lick, Miss,
the other day.
The average Mexican laborer supports
his family on ten cents per diem, invested
in corn and beans.
ANOTHER large raft is being built in Nova
Scotia greater in bulk than that which was
recently lost at sea.
MRs. GARRETT ANDERSON, the leading
woman physician of England, makes an
income of $4,000 year.
ARTHUR SCHLEMAN, of Sanford, Fla,
killed rattlesnake the other day and
found in it a large rabbit.
IT is said that there are more crimes
committed in New York State alone than
in the entire Empire Of China.
BABY KING ALFONSO XIII is suffering
from epilepsy, an hereditary disease in his
mothers family, the Hapsburgs.
THE entire police force of Kansas City
are church members. Two are elders, and
any number of them are deacons.
A MAN in Maryland lately eclipsed the
one who stole and carried away hot
stove. He actually stole a saw-mill.
THE Danish Government has forbidden
the importation of American bacon, steam
lard or other undressed pork products.
MARION HARLANp says the coming wom-
an will have her own bank account.
This will bo good news for the coming
man.
CARDINAL GIBBONS is so constantly
travelling that some prominent Catholics
talk of making him present of travel
ing car.
DEFINITIONS handed in at a Boston high
school: Turmoil-a kind of oil. Bandit
lawyer. Barrister-a man who sings in
the choir.
BuENos AYREs, in the Argentine Repub-
lie, is now the largest city in South Amer
lea, the census of 1887 giving it popula-
ton of Asa, 900.
PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM, heir to the
throne of Germany, is in the 30th year of
his age His wife, Princess Augusta, is
one year younger.
AvIGoRoUs young lady in Georgia is in
the blacksmithing business, and is able to
shoe horse with the skill and dispatch of
amasculine workman.
The sea serpent that appears periodic
ally off the Maine coast is apparently no
spring chicken. He was seen there in 1877
and by a minister too.
Mr.. BJoRNsTJERNE BJoRNsoN has been
organizing in Norway popular crusade
against the Mormon emisaries who are
seeking their prey there.
A GOLDEN Cupid, amid pearl and dia-
mond leaves, holding circlet Of brilliants
above his wicked little head, is very new
and costly hair ornament
AT eighty years old Hon. Hugh McCul-
Tough retains his brown hair and whsk.
ers, only slightly touched with gray, and
does not use glasses more than half the
time.
A CHECK for s2,OOO,OOO drawn on Ma
tional bank at Sheffield, Ala, recently
passed between two merchants of that
place. 1t was probably the largest check
ever drawn in the State.
NEWSPAPER advertising comes high in
Paris. The Peat Jouraa, of that city
charges two dollars line for the ordinary
kind, and twenty dollars line for ''read.
ing matter" advertisements.
ALABAMA is seriously aroused to the i'm
portance Of securing immigration from
the North and West. Especially is this
true as to the land owners of the great
central and agricultural region.
WHEN Paris shop-keeper advertses
"goods at cost" Government official in
spects6is prices and sees that he is carry
ing out what he advertises. Any fraud in
this respect is vigorously punished
The deepest we'll drilled in the United
States is that Of George Westinghouse, at
Homcwood, near the city of Pittsburgh,
which, on December l, 1887, had reached
the depth OF 4,6lS feet, when the tools were
lost and the drilling ceased.
Mr.. E. HENDRICKS, Of Applegate, Ore,
cut down large pine tree and within the
wood found small cavity which was en-
circled by forty five rings of yearly
growth. In this cavity was foreign cop
per coin bearing the date 1890
The superintendent of public instruction
In North Carolina reports that $685., 900 was
expended on public instruction in that
State last year. Thirty-six per cent. was
used In the instruction of the colored race.
A HEN that is twelve years Of age and
gray-headed, is a feature of the Detroit
poultry show. She laid ffty-four eggs
last year and raised seventeen chickens.
Authorities on such matters state that
hens rarely live more than four years.
A PEKIN QLr~) man recently discovered
In his family Bible silk Lafayette badge
that was placed there fifty years ago by
his wife's grandmother. The old lady eyi.
IDENTIFY wanted to hide the badge where it
would not easiiy be found And she did