The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-16
CURRENT TOPICS.


THE Georgia cornfolds are ripping their
tassels.
THIRTEEN Boston Churches are without
pulpits.
EDISON, the inventor, is for the first time
q father.
THE Snah Of Persia wants to borrow
S25, 100000.
A sEAGULL was shot recently in Tioga
County, Pa.
The income of Oxford University for
1887 was 1926 900.
THE Orange Belt railroad is just finished
to Tampa Bay, Fla
1T will take four years longer to finish
the Panama Canal.
CARDINAL GIBBONS resembles Henry
Clay in appearance.
DRAMATIC writing is to be taught in the
University of Michigan.
The American ambulance system has
been introduced in Paris.
THE Queen of Denmark is very deaf but
passionatey fond of music.
SHOE soles of wire net, outlasting lcath-
or, are new idea in Germany.
O'DoNovAN Rosa has laid aside dyna.
mite and is now writing poetry.
GENERAL SHERIDAN fought sevcnty-ive
DatueS anu was never defeated.
GRAVE q GAY have made failure in the
retail grocery business in Chicago
THERE are said to bo several churches in
Illinois without q single male member.
The harp, which is the Oldest musical
instrument, is becoming the latest fad.
A MAN in St. Louis was fined IS for
trying to kiss young lady the other day.
AN Australian writer says that any kind
q hnY ic ,nlo al 81, ,o1
TALMAGE says the routine prayers of o
clergyman in church shouldn't be an.
swered.
A GEORGIA paper advertises for thirty or
forty good billy-goats to butt the common
council
In hail storm in India recently ono
hundred aud fifty persons were killed by
the hail.
The official report on Russia for 1885
shows that the population of the empire is
09OOO,OOO.
A PAPER devoted to equine subjects, pub
lished in Boston, is conducted by u man
named Trotter.
THE bloom stalk of century plant at a
Florida exposition grows at the rate of
six inches IL day.
NoLA TwIGG, servant girl of Portland,
5000 in England.
'LINGUA" is a new language which
threatens to drive out Volapuk. 1t is
based on Latin roots.
PHILADELPHIA will have twenty-seven
theaters when the two now in process of
erection are completed.
EX-QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain has grown
so fieshy Of late years that she is now the
in hot
MILLIONS of caterpillars are eating The
blossoms Of fruit trees and shrubs in Vic.
toria, B. C., and neighborhood.
A PEASANT has just died inlAustria-Hun-
gary who was 142 years of age. He left
son aged 115 years and o grandson eighty
five.
THE log jam in the Menominee river,
Michigan, still exists. 1t is intimated
that the jam contains 4OO,OOOOOO feet of
lumber.
CoMANcuE County, Kas., will have to
pay S72 600 of bonds issued a number of
years ago by ring of rascally county
officials.
A South CAROLINA newspaper says that
there is an old negro in Jonesboro who has
been m arried nine times and has had lit
children.
LIE IrOulUlulOnlSUS are the nrSJ since
the war to go South of Mason and
Dixon's line for candidate for Vice
President.
CARL SEIZURE has planned to spend the
summer in Germany at the Villa Forsteck
with his two daughters, where he intends
to revise his memoirs.
AN Alaska Indian sentenced to prison
Tor ninety-nine years for murder, wants to
know if the Government is going to keep
him alive long enough to serve the whole
term.
A PHILADELpHIAN has collected over
one million Cancelled postage stamps,
each of which was carefully taken from a
castaway envelope. All this was done
within six years.
PROBABLY the youngest bank president
in the world is j. NJ. Bailey, Jr, who at
the age OF twenty-three, has been placed
ct the head of the Minnehaha National
Bank at Sioux City.
IT has just been discovered in Austria
that one of the four State executioners is
awoman. She is large and muscular, has
heavy voice, and has adjusted the nooses
for twenty six victims.
CHINESE pheasants are so thick in the
Waldo Hills, Colorado, that they have to
be shooed out Of the burrows by the plow.
men, so greedy are they in gobbling up
the angleworms. They are becoming a
nuisance.
GLASGOW will soon be the second city
Of the United Kingdom. It's boundaries
are to be extended SO as to include a num-
ber OF populous towns; and it is estimated
that it will then have population of
nearly 100000.
"SECuRITE'' is the name given to a new
explosive which is said to be flameless
when exploded, and will, it is expected, be
OF especial value as a substitute for ordin-
ary blasting powder and other explosives
In fiery coal mines.
A TENNESSEE mule reached into a barrel
after oats and got his head fast His
owner was mad about it and made him
wear the barrel three days, when he him
self was barreled up on warrant for
cruelty to animals.
MISS MINNIE FREEMAN, the brave young
Nebraska school teacher whom the bliz.
Esrd made famous, has decided to make
California her home for the future. She
has received 81, 700 In cash from the sub
scription raised for her benefit, besides
two costly gold watches, three diamond
pins and many pieces of ieweiry.
The highestpriced piano in America ia
owned by Mr.. II. g. Marquand, of st.
Louis. The case, which was built in Lon,
don, was designed and painted by Alma
Tadema. 1t cost $4,000.
RUSSELL SAGE is the director of three