The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-10-20
OHIO.
CURRENT TOPICS

Adjacent.
New YoRx has population Of Chinese
something over 10000.
A New YoRK manufacturing firm has
115 Williams in its employ.
A REAL, live princess keeps mill llinery
store on Fifth avenue, New York.
Sixty THOUSAND barrels of sour krout
are made at Reading, Pa, every fall.
The present session Of Congress is the
longest in the history Of the Republic.
F. SrREoKpR, of Reading, Pa, has coll
1ected over eight hunderd boxes of butter
fies. .-
FORESTS are springing up on the aban-
doned mines and mining towns in Cali
fornia.
AN "eight-footed horse" was billed as
IN attraction at the Custer County, Dako-
"a, fair.
ITALIANS in Iowa are rebelling against
the payment of tax levied on them by
the State.
OVER one-third the entire population of
New Hampshire have deposits in the saw
ings banks.
THE first directory of the City Of New
York was published in 17s6 and contained
but $40 names.
CANADA will experiment with Holsters
transplanted to the Pacific from the At
-antic next season.
ISAIAH v. WILLIAMS, of Philadelphia,
at $50, ,000, 900, is accounted the wealthiest
bachelor in America.
THE Etruria came across the Atlantic on
her last trip in six days, one hour and fifty
minutes, the quickest time yet made.
The annual value Of the dairy product
OF the State of Illinois equals the value of
the gold production Of the United States.
NOT all American society girls marry
foreign counts. There are countless thou
sands who marry plain American citizens.
GENERAL SHERMAN's son and Stonewall
Jackson's nephew occupy desk to-
gether in the law Office Of Senator Evarts.
GLOUCESTER, MASS, schooner has
just brought in the largest fare of hall
but ever landed there. It is valued at
$13,52O.
IT is estimated that one-half of all the
drugs imported into the United States are
consumed in the manufacture of patent
medicine.
THE Weather Bureau says that the
month Of September just gone was the
coolest September that has been known in
ten years.
cruising in the North sea, each combina-
tion of church. chapel, temperance hall
and dispensary.
The Duke of Westminster has an income
Of fifty dollars a minute. That is to say,
it costs the country about one dollar every
time he breathes.
AN Italian chemist has discovered that
the blood Of cells elected under the skin is
1nn1 lev sAn r,L Ii
that of viper poison.
ACCORDING to the st. Louis Post Dis
patch, there are seventy two millionaires
i'll Pittsburgh, Pa, any one Of whom can
sign a check for S25, 100000.
MRS. CAPTAIN Tom is the name of the
richest Indian woman in Alaska. She
is worth about $20, 900, and lives royalty at
Sitka, surrounded by slaves.
The grave of Wendell Phillips, at Mil
ton, Mass, is still unmarked. But mon
ument is soon to be erected by Mrs. Green,
the sister of the dead orator.
One Of the latest advances in electrical
illumination is the lighting of the London
omnibuses with electricity, the battery to
be under the seat of the driver.
The tree from the milk of which the in
dia rubber of commerce is made grows
we'll in Southern California, and extensive
preparations are being made for plant
ing it
LATE reports from Sagua and Cardenas,
Cuba, say that there is no exaggeration in
estimating the losses caused by the recent
cyclone at over $6, 200, 900 in those districts
alone.
THE bright boy in Burlington (Vt)
Sunday school who said that Free Will
Baptist was one who went into the tank of
his own accord was sent down to the foot
of the class.
CAPTAIN WARREN TAYLOR, of Saco, Me-,
abstracted from the stomach of a whale he
captured off Bryant's Rock few days
ago, five pounds of ambergris, which is
worth IS on ounce.
A JAW BONE weighing 100 pounds and
measuring u inches around and IA inches
across, with two 9-inch molars still in their
places, was recently dug up in bed Of
brick clay at Arkansas Pass, Tex.
A PHYSICIAN who has studied the num-
ber Of yellow fever visits to this country
has found that it has been here in eighty
eight different years. The first known
case of the fever in America was in 1893.
THE justice of the peace at Cossville,
NO., is Samuel Gilmore, who is 40 years of
age and only feet inches tall. He
weighs only 46 pounds. Mr.. Gilmore is a
successful farmer and prominent man in
the county.
THE diamond tiara, which the Duke of
Aosta presented to his bride, cost $1,000.
1t contains 1,16o stones, and it is so ar
ranged that it can be taken to pieces and
converted into necklace, bracelets, ear
rings and a small diadem.
MRS. JARRETT (colored), of Cedartown,
Ga, thought the water from new well on
her lot had a queer taste, and asked the
white folks about it. 1t is mineral water,
and Mrs. Jarrett has under consideration
an offer OFFS, 500 cash for half interest.
B. p HUTCHINSON, the Chicago wheat
manipulation, is aversed to having his
photograph taken and has never allowed
photographer to point camera at him.
His son said few days ago that he would
give $1,000 to get photograph Of his
father.
THEY are having good deal of trouble
In California and Colorado over the alb.
breviations Of the names Of those States.
Cal. and COL look so much alike when writ
ten hastily, that mail matter intended for
one Is continually going to the other.
A New YoRK correspondent writes that
II is the exception and not the rule for the
sons OF rich msn in that city to squander
their patrimony, and says: 1.-THE Wander.
bilts are rapidly increasing their wealth,
the Astors have never known prodiRal In
their family, the Goelets OF TODAY are A.