The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


vrcE PRESIDENT WHEELERs will is being
contested.
JOE JEFFERSON is reported to have a for
tuno Of $75J,0OO
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, is going to build q
$50, 200 city hall.
MAN in New York is paid 10000 yea,
for rsampling tea.
STUART RoBsoS has been on the stage fol
thirty-ive years.
IT is so easy to make failure of life that
any fool can do 1t.
IT is now penal offcnse in Alabama tc
participate In rattle.
The National Republican Convention
Will consist of $40 delegates.
MIR. PowDERLY has become fully con-
vinced that strikes don't pay.
STEVENSON, author Of 'Dr Jekyl," has
not entered theater in ten years.
A GENTLEMAN of Orlando, Fla, has a
parrot that speaks three languages.
The new directory of Nashville places
the population of that city at 100000
LORD AND LADY LANsDowNE will leave
Canada for England in the last week of
May
TEXAS has over 25, 600, 900 acres of public
land that can be had for four dollars an
acre.
THERE are seventy-one .'cham pions of
England" in games and sports of all
sorts.
1T is said that the foundation for Senator
Bowen's fortune was laid with 500 won at
poker.
THE prospects in California point to the
largest grain and fruit crop this year ever
known.
The chaplains of the Union army now
living in New York have formed them.
selves into society.
MARCH violated its usual and old-reputed
custom this year by both coming in and
going out like lamb
OF the 3,267 policemen in New York g, 1913
are 1rishmen. This is larger proportion
than in any other city.
MINIATURE Indian arrow head of flint,
bound to gold shank by a silver cord, is
an oddity in scarf-pins.
MANY socialists were arrested for circu-
lating pamphlet in response to Emperor
Frederick's proclamation.
A BRASS clock 40 years old is owned at
York, Pa. 1t has not stopped for fifty
years, and it keeps good time
The centennial buildings at Cincinnati
cover nearly seventy acres and machinery
hall is over a quarter of mile long.
UNTIL few years ago Kaiser William
exchanged photographs with every pretty
woman whose acquaintance ho made.
HE French crisis 10 over, and France is
safe. She still lives, thrives and moves
along as II nothing unusual had happened.
AN Illinois woman attempted suicide be-
cause her husband sold calf for SO less |
than what she thought the animal worth. |
KING KALAKAuA is going to settle down |
to hard work and become coffee planter. |
he finds there is more in it than being a |
king.
The curious phenomenon of rainstorm |
with sunshine and clear sky was wit.
messed at Richmond, Va, the other after
noon.
The New York papers tell of man
in that city who attempted suicide "be-
cause his wife refused longer to support
him."
Miss OLIVE GREEN and Mr.. Ivory White
were welded in an Iowa town recently
the Rev. Mr.. Black performing the cere.
mony.
DIR. j. BEssEL, the Arctic explorer, who
acted as physician on the American ship
Polaris in 1871, is dead at Stuttgart of apo
plexy.
PRoF. BRowN-SEQUARD has been making
experiments which prove that the human
breath is capable of producing poisonous
effects.
THE Kansas Methodist Conference
passed resolution that progressive Gu.
chre is but guided passage to the realms
Of wo."
A New York policeman's wife presented
him with triplets the other day-a boy and
two girls. The trio weighed thirty-six
pounds.
A DAKOTA hog has been buried in a hay.
stack, covered with snow, for ninety.
three days, and comes out as clipper as q
jay-bird.
SOMEBODY recently decorated in the
night the great door of Sing Sing, IN. w
prison with the legend, "Hair cut while
you wait"
A PARTY of six gentlemen; who propose
TO make tour of Europe on bicvcles,
sailed from New York for the Old World
The other day.
VILE photographs given away with
cigarettes as premiums tend to undo all
that mothers and fathers teach their bows
of personal purity.
The Tichborne claimant has gone back
10 England to try his luck again. He still
insists that he is the man, and he wants
The titles and estates.
The facetious paragrapher OF the Clarks.
'ille (Tenn.) Democrat says: 'Speaking of
rusts, what is most needed is a place
where they trust poor editors
WITH the opening of the base ball sea-
ION Congress can reasonably expect to |
occupy place Of secondary Importance I
in the mind of the average American citi. ]
,en.
HIS friends say Of VIM. Shirley, of On
ario, that he fought under Wellington al
Waterloo, that he walks two miles to
'hurch each Sunday, and that he is 1Os
ears old.
JUSTICE WArE's judgments" say the :
london Times, "were always marked by ..
,ood sense, and he worthily succeeded !.
Inc of judges Of whom America may well
10 proud"
OTTO HEGNER, anew boy wonder in piano.
laying, is t'aining for the American mar.
:et. He is eleven years old, and is describ. d
as "bright-looking and Of nervous I
!
AN order was recently issued by the
'ostmaster General which will expedite ]
,ail from New York to the City of Mexico i
rom "a to 80 hours. The time will now be '
rom New York to the City OF Mexico 6J< 8
ays.
Ex-MAYoR HENRY g. LEWIS, of New Ha-
en-, Conn.,, has taken an insurance OF
5000 on the life Of Wilson Wadding. 1