The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-07
OHIO.
CURRENT TOPICS.

(Ga.) school.
rHK cuirass is to be abolished in the
German army.
THE pipe liue from Lima, o., to Chicago
will cost 81, 100000
WICHITA, Kan, has turned its opera
house into q market house.
THp new Empress of Germany has q per.
sonal income Of $4,000 year.
QUEEN v1croRIA's home while in Italy
was once the home of Boccaccio.
THE highest recorded price for a Stradi-
varius violin is said to be $4,000.
CoNPEcrroNERs say the Easter trade
grows more considerable yearly.
Miss BAYARD, of Baltimore, niece of
Secretary Bayard, is six feet tall.
THERE is agitation in New England for
separate sleepng-cars for women.
THE late Judge Waite was made Chief
Justice by President Grant in 1874.
Mrs. GENERAL Tom THUMB is about to
start place of amusement ut st. Joseph,
Mo.
IT will be fifty years next Fourth Of
July since Iowa was organized as Terri
tory.
A YOUNG society lady of Boston dropped
Head in u ballroom Just after finishing u
waltz
A MAN and his daughter have been
united at Chicago after fifty years. sepa-
ration. ....,.
THAT big storm in the East cost the
railroads and telegraph lines fully SS,-
100000.
STATISTICS show striking decrease in
the number of marriages in Europe and
America.
The Australian savages are passing out
of existence faster than any other aborig-
ina] race
II FEEL easier. l think / will go to
Sleep" were the last words of Chief JUS
tice Waite.
MARCH has been the most disastrous
month the railroad companies have ever
experienced.
THERE are said to be several Gypsies in
New York City who are worth upward Of
$780, 600 apiece.
LOOK out for counterfeit IS silver certif-
Gates. They are said to be circulating
very extensively.
ONLY twelve Indians are left of the tribe
of 1000 who inhabited the Yosemite Val
ley few years ago.
THE English call an elevator "lift, land
the French call it a "help, "while the Scotch
EeleT u IL as d
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS will
cail for America early in April on a two.
months leave of absence
A sTEADILZ-GRowING opposition to the
study of German in the public schools is
manifesting itself in Chicago.
TEN cents an acre was all farm of 954
acres brought recently in Greene County,
Ala, when sold under mortgage.
SENATOR REAGAN, of Texas, is one of the
champion officeholders, having drawn a
salary from the public purse since 1888.
THREE boys at Portland, Me-, stole 721
pocket knives from the various hard
ware stores before they fell under sus-
picion.
A PETRIFIED snake ten feet long, with
horns, has been dug up at Granada, Col.
1t will be sent to the Smithsoni Institute
at Washington.
THE French and Englis military author
tiles have determined to prohibit all tele-
graphic correspondence from the field dur
ing the next campaigns.
E. RAsURE is the name Of the latest cow
boy evangelist, and Notwithstanding his
name, no one has yet been able to wipe him
out in a theological argument.
NEAR jamaica N. Y, o farmers wife
died from lack of n physicians services.
No one could be induced to make the trip
to her home on account of the storm.
SINCE the convention of the Irish Ma
tional League of America year and
half ago, Father O'Reilly, the National
Treasurer, has forwarded to Ireland over
$4,000.
PORTLAND, Ore, is to import choice
selection of European singing birds to en-
liven their streets and gardens with their
notes. The expense is to be borne by sub
scription.
Mr. WIN. MASSEY, of Philadelphia, has
donated to the trustees of the city house
of refuge 800, 900 to be used in purchasing
a farm near the city and erecting proper
buildings.
MADAME PATTI contributed $1,000 to the
hospital for children in Lisbon, and in re-
turn received from the Queen of Portugal
full-length portrait, accompanied by an
autograph note.
WHILE st. Louis family were at sup
per, two thieves entered the house by a
rear door and carried Off the stove, which
had fire in it, and weeks hunt failed to
recover the property.
IT is curious fact that while Queen
Victoria speaks German in her home cir
Gle, her daughter, the present German
Empress, disregards it in hers and uses
English as much as possible.
SENATOR STANFoRD's California ranch
contains $1,000 acres and is probably the
largest in the country Some $500 acres
are planted in grape vines and he has
wine cellar that holds 1000, 700 gallons.
A FEATURE Of the Working Girls Fair.
held in New York, was the sale of three
hundred Of Mrs. Cleveland's photographs.
sent by herself, each of which bore her
autograph, and which sold at large figures.
AMERICA has, during the past few years,
imported nearly 2, 900, 900 bushels of pota-
toes year, at tax of fifteen cents u
bushel. In 1883 Scotland did not export
any potatoes to America, nor Ireland In
1882
THE polar bear at Madison Square Gar
den, New York, had his claws cut the
other day. It took twenty-four men with
ropes to hold him while the operation was
performed.
THE figure hend taking the English
royal family together finds that the pres
ent sovereign. Queen Victoria, with her
numerous progeny has cost the Brit sh ma
tion 986 6000, 900, or in the neighborhood Of
sl76000,OO0. t.-
The London Times says that bare knuckle
prize fighting 10 thing OF disgust with
Englishmon, and that the last ring has
been pitched In that country. The French,
too, ,will take the strictest measures to pre-.
vent another mill