The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


10000.
THE Pope is in receipt Of $4,000 pairs Of
slippers.
wHrrTrER can not abide the aroma of
cabbage.
A SINGLE Puritan rose costs dollar in
New York.
TUE retail price Of coal at Pasadena,
Cal, is $25 ton.
The Chinese alone hold the secret OF
making India ink.
The seventeen months -old King OF Spain
gets 81, ,0OO, 600 year.
FLORIDA markets are supplied with new
tomatoes of native growth.
NORTHERN New York farmers propose
to organize an Albany lobby.
a New YoRK life insurance agent has
opened an office in Jerusalem.
A LARD trust is the latest. 1t ought TO be
fat thing for those who are in it.
The fund for the New York Grant Mon
ument amounts now in all to Sl20,00O.
For the entire calendar year of 1887, the
Government debt was reduced $l17,016, 00O.
AS popular resort for suicides the
Brooklyn bridge is an unqualified sue
cess.
A MAN named ''Toogood" has been ar
rested in Baltimore for disorderly con-
duct.
TALMAGE dictates his sermons to his
secretary at the rate of $50 words a
minute.
1t has been decided by the postmaster
at st. Louis that mince pie is not mailable
matter.
Trrr ,hN1, fNxrt fNa,. 4,
do little else but make dolls for American
children.
ENGLAND has got another slice of Africa.
This time it is piece Of Zanzibar, near
Port Wanga.
SOMEBODY alphabetically" compares
Name sardines to pincushions soaked in
bad whale Oil
THE man who has the contract of clean
ing away the garbage in New York City
clears $4,000 a year.
GRAVE defects have been discovered in
the steel being used in the construction of
cruisers in California.
THERE isn't much doubt that Cape Cod
is getting eaten up by the greedy sea, and
in time will disappear.
BISHOP WHIPpLE says that "as long as
the Indian has an aims house to go to, so
long will he be a pauper."
THE President has determined that he
will not appoint delegate to the medical
congress to be held at Lima, Peru.
HANGING is not a popular mode of death
in the Empire State, and a change is rec.
commended in the Governors message.
The fastest locomotives in this country
are on the Pennsylvania railroad. 1t ia
claimed they can 60 o mile in ffty-two sec.
Onds.
A PETERSBURG Wa.) patriarch seventy.
five years of age, is married to his eighth
wife and is the happy father of thirty-six
children.
JOHN WILLARD, of New Garden, Pa, has
q fine sheep whose wool made nineteen
yards Of cloth yard wide. 1t makes
good yarn.
THE Daily Hot Blast of Admission, Ala,
has been sold. The man who got this paper
will have to handle it with tongs, Judging
from its name.
THERE is mountaan Of coal in Wild
Horse Valley, Wyoming, which has been
burning for thirty years. 1t sends up dense
volumes of smoke.
LITHoGRAPHIC stone is found in Dallas.
Tex, fully equal to the stone imported
from Europe. 1t costs from $40 to SIS for
. stone 3Ox40 inches.
A CONTEST over q seat in the MARYLAND
Legislature is going on between two men
who bear the striking names, res pectively,
OF Scaggs and Sasscer.
c. p. HUNTINGDON, the railway magnate,
whose wealth is computed at $50, 0,OoO, 600,
once peddled out butter by the pound to
the miners in California.
Iva
has just died in Rancagua, Chill, ,at the age
of 100 years. She lived to see her great
Observation-Disclosures.
OVER five thousand acres of timber land
near Hawkinsville, Ca, sold at anction re-
Gently for S5s. Some Of the land went for
less than half cent an acre.
THERE seems to be no limit to George W.
Child's benefactions. He has just SUBJ
scribed s2, 500 for the erection of IA memor-
ial window to Milton in Westminster Alb
hey.
For the first time since the construction
Of the old cathedral at St. Augustine, Fla,
200 years ago, the customary celebration
of midnight mass on Christmas Eve was
omitted this season.
ANDERSON BURRELL, = planter living
near Montgomery, Ala, is the father Of
thirty-one children and the grandfather of
sixty. He is seventy-one years old and has
been married four times.
The new paper shirts are very popular
among the newspaper men at Grand Rap
ids. One enthusiastic laborer ON the Daily
Edgle declares the shirts keep fellow so
warm he can soak his overcoat in the win
ter.
The young ladies of Hastings, Neb., met
In council one day last week and passed
resolutions declining to attend balls with
the young men unless the latter should con
sent to recognize them when there is an
opera.
PoPH LEo's appearance in the basilicn Of
6t Peters few days ago, was the first
appearance Of a Pope there since Victor
Emmanuel entered Rome in 1870 with
troops to overrule the temporal authorit :
OF the Pope
A CONNECTICUT farmer, who died not
long since left among other property
el,200 in silver. 1t was mostly in half dol
lars, all OF old dates, many being Of the
coinage OF 1928, and the early thirties.
RAIsINs are said to be very wholesome,
and ply sicians tell OF the cure OF obstin-
lsts chronic complaints by the persistent
ase OF them. They are pleasant medicine,
which children, especially, can easily be
persuaded TO take.
A CHRIsToPHER COLUMBUS celebration is
soon to occur In Spain, when statue OF
the deceased navigator will be unveiled.
Mr. COlumbuR haA been dead for Savara |