The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-28
OHIO
CURRENT TOPICS

The Idaho pear, new fruit, is Of Chi.
nese origin.
PrNK-EyE is destroying valuable horses
In Cornish, Me.
THERE are penny bottles Of perfume for
impecunious dudes.
A BROOKLYN man got only 277 answers
when he advertised for q wife.
MRS. GARFIELD has given $40, 900 to Gar
field University, Wichita, Kas.
EMPEROR WILLIAM II. is the first Rus
sian-speaking King of Prussia.
THE Shah of Persia recently had a tooth
pulled in the presence Of all his court.
FLORIDA is exporting alligators to Ger
many. They are going as museum pets.
AN Italian peddler, arrested in New
York, paid his fine Of five dollars with PEN
MES.
EGG dealers throughout the county nre
again agtating the selling of eggs by
weight.
GENERAL GREELY says that II the signal
service is made civil organization he will
leave it.
CHEAP freights induce most of the Lewis
County, N. Y, dairymen to ship their
cheese to Montreal.
A CoLoRED gentleman in Tennessee has
been selling glass marbles to people as a
protection against lightning.
AN ocean cable, to be the longest in the
world, is to be laid from Canada to Aus
tralia, distance of 1900 miles.
A. j. STREETER, the Union Labor party's
candidate for President, has written a
letter accepting the nomination.
A PoUGHKEEPsIE woman has been sem
fenced to the penitentiary for five years
for stealing two-dollar canary.
THE prospects of the oat crop through
out the West have changed for the better.
The crop bids fair to be as good as the crop
of 1887.
AN enterprising physician in Australia
advertises: II will pay One-half the fu-
neral expenses in cases where / am not
successful"
SIX pairs of twins have been born in the
space of eight months to residents of the
small town of North Wales, Montgomery
County, Pa.
A GENERAL who gets worsted in a duel
by civilian can not be a hero in France.
General Boulanger is losing his grip on the
French people.
QUEEN MARGHERrTA, of Italy, is making
collection of pearls, with view to dec
Grating some day, she says, the wedding
dress of her sons bride.
Two brothers named Reedy made fun of
a sickly young man named Williams in
Lexington County, S. c., and Williams
shot and killed them both.
ITALY is the greatest ,olive-producing
country, 1880, 900 acres being developed to
that industry, yielding 10000, 900 to 81, ,000,-
oil 11xy
THERE has been heavy shrinkage in
the quantity of South American sugar for
warded to this country during the season,
as compared with last year.
A FRENCH doctor of note says that any
physician who will advise woman to ride
on horseback for her health should be
kick ed out of the profession.
The Postmaster General has received
notice that the German Postal Department
has forwarded to this country several
cases of exhibits for the Cincinnati Ex-
position.
Young men in Philadelphia who have
girls to supply, have started hestory that
Mrs. Cleveland does not eat ice cream, be-
believing that it encourages the growth of
pimples.
H. H. TUCKER, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga, has
started from his home in that city to walk
to New York. The trip is solely for pleas
ure, and he expects to reach his destina-
tion in four weeks.
A STRANGE new insect somewhat on the
lines of the lady bug has appeared by mil
lions in the oat fields Of Dutchess County,
N. Y, and threatens to make the harvest
light and chaffy one.
A LEARNED Hebrew called Rabbi Joseph
is stirring up the Jews of the east side of
New York City to closer observance of
the Mosaic law, and has quite revival un-
der way in Judaic circles.
The Smith family is numerous in Eng
land and Wales. The census places the
number of individual Smiths in those coun-
tries at 355,sl4, which is more than the
whole population Of Dublin.
QUoNG YUNG CHUNG, Chinaman, has
applied for naturalization papers in St.
Louis. The court has not yet decided
whether or not Chung is entitled to papers,
and the case will be a test one.
Mr.. PARNELL believes that eventually
the home rule movement will result in the
establishment Of an Imperial Parliament
in which England, Scotland and Ireland
and the colonies will be represented.
IT used to be said that there was corn
and oil in Egypt, but this is wrong as far
as the oil is concerned. Egypt has spent
nearly million dollars in trying to strike
oil, but there is evidently no petroleum
there.
The Augusta (Kan.) Journal boasts of q
.Tadish raised near that town which meas.
rures fifteen inches in length, eight inches
in circumference, with tap root fifteen
inches ,long-total length thirty five
nches.
The estimated cost Of the proposed sus-
pension bridge over the North river. at
New York, is $37, 600, 900. 1t will give en-
trance for ten railroads into the city of
New York. The central span will be 1850
feet long.
THERE are nine Of Massachusetts, Gov
Arnars living, viz: George 8. Boutwell,,
Henry j. Gardner, Nathaniel P. Banks,
William Clafin, William CASTOR, Alexan-
der H. Rice, John D. Long, Benjamin r.
Rutler and George D. Robinson.
APHYsIcIAN recommends that all the
wood used in the interior construction of
houses and all the plain surfaces OF plaster
should be thoroughly oiled or vanished,
so that the power Of absorption Of foul air
and gases should be destroyed.
TIE hotels along the Jersey coast are
doing wretched business Is rule. Many
OF them have few more patrons than em-
pl0yes. There il talk Of economy in the
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