The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-04
OHIO
CURRENT TOPICS.

SIX factories in this country now turn
out web printing presses.
WALLoP is the suggestive name OF
California school teacher.
SAM JONES received 81 900 for preaching
D week ut Chillicothe, Mo.
AN electric light tower 125 feet high is to
be erected in Allegheny City, Pa.
The Paris census shows 6,915 Americans,
u, 701 English and 35,70S Germans.
BROOKLYN woman supports a husband
and fifteen children by selling papers.
A New HAMPSHIRE Court has declared
specializing on margins to be gambling.
MRS. MAGGIE VAN Corr, the woman re
vivalist, is ut work at Old Orchard, Me.
THE estate of the late Hiram Sibley, o,
Rochester, is estimated to be $lO,OOO,0OO
Electric lights in cakes Of ice is a novelty
for the illumination Of bathrooms abroad.
The Pittsburgh Law and Order League
has suppressed the sale Of "milk shakes"
on Sunday.
THE oldest working journalist in Europe
is Sir Edward Baines, now in his eighty
ninth year.
SAN FRANCISCO declares she has been
shaken AT times by earthquakes in the
asst eighty years.
OSBORNE COUNTY (Kas.) has paid $610
bounty on wolf scalps captured during the
past three months.
A CANAL across Italy is being planned,
to connect the Adriatic and Mediterranean.
1t will begin at Fano.
1T is said that more than two hundred
theatrical trunks are held for charges in
Chicago express office.
IT is said that DR.. Gatling is at work on
anew gun which will cause great sensa-
tion in military circles.
A LOG Of solid redwood was struck 140
feet below gravel in sinking an artesian
we'll at Watsonville, New.
IT is the observation of Mrs. Grundy that
If there is any pig in mans nature it
will be developed when he Is travelling.
NoNoUIrT has developed into celebrated
seaside resort since General Sheridan
reached his quaint cottage on the sands.
GAMBETTA's recently dedicated monu-
ment was paid for wholly by popular SUBJ
scription, and the number of subscribers
was 2S0,000.
A FIRM of Fort Gaines, Ca, shipped re-
Gently car of melons which they claim
didn't contain a melon that would weigh
under fiftyffve pounds.
EMPEROR WILLIAM ii. has commissioned
4he sculptor Reinhold Begas to execute a
monument to the late Emperor for the
Friedenskirche in Potsdam.
The New Hampshire birthplace and
Parly home of Horace Greeley is to be
bought and presented to the State by Still
son Hutchins, of Washington.
MRS. WALLACE, living in Bagdad, near
Pensacola, Fla, was a mother at eighteen
years of age, grandmother at thirty
four and a at-grandmother at fifty.
LIGHTNING darted into house at Davis
City, Neb., a few days since, melted the
wire cord holding the motto, "God Bless
Our Home" and hurled it upon the floor.
Mrs. POLK Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Grant
are the fortunate three women who don't
have to buy postage stamps, the Govern
ment having given them the franking
privilege.
NEW ORLEANS has discovered that there
is money in the canning of shrimps, and is
developing the industry rapidly. 1t is said
that fully 100000 cans day are packed
during the season.
A NEW material called ''leatherine" is
an English manufacture. 1t can be sold
for five or six cents per pound, is said to
be as tough as leather, and is designed for
packing and baggng.
MRS. WILLIAM DRENAN, of Honey Grove,
Tex, prides herself on the fact that Abe
Lincoln courted her and asked her to be
his wife. She refused the splice, as he was
then the homeliest man n Illinois.
A TAMPA tFla.) orange grower experi-
mented in small way with packing Or
anges in dry sand, and finds that some
thus treated the first of last December
have kept as fresh as if just picked.
A BRITISH vessel is now surveying q
route between Australia and Canada, pre-
liminary to laying telegraph cable. The
cable will be 1890 miles long, and the
work of laying it will take three years.
THE Czar of Russia is great fisherman,
and he has just bought in Finland a tract
of river swarming with salmon. His i'm
perial wife is also fair fly caster, and can
manage wicked fish with ease and grace.
THR Gear and the Emperor have made
each other Honorary Admrals Of their
respective navies. 1t is to be pre-
sumed that il Russia and Germany should
go to war their commissions would be re-
voked.
SOMETHING very like . peach trust is
talked of in Delaware. 1t comes in the
guise of q central bureau, through which
the entire peach crop shall be placed upon
the various markets as the actual demand
dictates.
HYDRoPHoBIA may be at times little
tardy, but it scrupulously keeps it's ap-
pointments. Twelve years ago a mad dog
bit David Ashley, of Platsville, Neb., and
he died few days since from the effects Of
the wound.
In front Of a Chicago thester the other
evening young woman broke a parasol
over the head Of Adude" who had i'm
pertinently oggled her as she passed
with companion. The young woman
finished up by requiring him to pay for the
parasol.
THERE have been twenty-six suicides
from the Clifton Bridge, in England. in
the twenty -four years since it was built.
The jump is $50 feet, and death is presum-
ably easy, which accounts for the popu-
larity Of the route. The last person who
went over it was a young man who was to
be married in a'week.
ABE BUzzARD, the Welsh mountain out
law, Is serving a twelve-year term In the
Eastern Penitentiary, Pa. The other day
he fell sick and sent to his wife to como to
him. She had no money and lived sixty
miles away, but she walked the entire dis
tance in two days, bringing her two twin
daaehters with her. She made forty miles
NJ h ar iournav the first dav