The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

A SMALL town in Michigan has seven
brass bands.
THE Philadelphia mint coined 100000
cents in July. z,n.r.
"SLIcED lemon" Is the newest millinery
tint in London.
THE Paris census records the names Of
6,9l5 Americans.
Mrs. SHERIDAN is still young, being but
thirty-fve and beautiful
The Prince of Wales continues to gain In
flesh, much to his chagrn.
A HORNED snake, five feet long, has been
killed in Emanuel County, Ga.
MIcHraANDER has patented concern
that catches pig in an open field.
TESTS at the Chicago stock-yards show
that Texas cattle fever is contagious.
RUssIA's new military law will increase
her army by four hundred thousand men.
THERE are about 10000 more men in Chi.
cago than women, according to q recert
,ensus.
IT took Chicago firm year to find olt
That their book-keeper had stolen $4,000
from them.
THERE is a probability Of strike which
will involve $4,000 woolen mill oper-
ntives in England.
WOMEN delegates are admitted to the
Baptist conventions in Tennessee, Missis-
sippi and Arkansas.
THE "bang" is going out Of fashion in
London, and high intellectual foreheads
are again the mode.
A LIBERTY COUNTY, Georgia, man is at
tending school with his two children. He
is at the head of the class.
A TORNADO which stripped the feathers
from chickens and blew away tombstones
is the latest product of Kansas.
THE scarcity Of young men at the aver
age summer resort is said to be more pain
fully apparent this year than ever before.
THE demand for ribbon is now so great
that one State alone, New Jersey, turns
out 36,675, 900 yards year, not quite %, 731
miles.
A WOMAN has just died in San Francisco
who imagined herself the north star, and
wore on her breast huge star cut from
red cloth. !
THE Belfast (Me.) woman who had her
steel hustle struck by lightning said it felt
as if some one had poured hot water down
her back.
The Navy Department is informed that
the cruiser Baltimore, building at Cramps
yard, Philadelphia, will probably be ready
for launching on the 2Sth.
GIVE the boys trades. Only eighty mine
of the $50 received last year into the East
ern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania had
trades when brought there.
A MAN in Juniata County, Pa, has been
confined to his room with rheumatism for
forty -four years, and has subsisted wholly
upon liquid food during that time.
A NEGRO farmer in Dougherty County,
Ca, has succeeded in making excellent
syrup from watermelons, and thus new
use is devised for the surplus crop.
The present outlook appears to be for q
crop of about 1850, 100000 bushels of corn,
on continuance of favorable conditions, in
the opinion Of the Cincinnati Price Cur
rent.
THE hottest place in the United States
during the recent heated period was the
Quitotojoa district, New Mexico. The
thermometer registered 150 degrees in the
shade.
THE only colored Catholic priest in this
country is Rev. A. Tolton, pastor of st.
Joseph's Church, in Quincy, Ill. He was
a slave before the war and is full blooded
African.
THERE is said to be nothing to mark the
spot where General Mcclellan lies in Riv-
erview Cemetery, Trenton, N. j., except
two or three small flags, which were placed
there on Memorial Day.
The English Courtof Appeal has decided
that relatives Of dead person have no
right to place flowers or other tokens ON
the grave except with the permission of
the cemetery authorities.
CHAs. A. AsHBURNER, chief Of the Penn
sylvania Geological Survey, has been ap-
pointed by the Shah of Persia to the same
position in that potentate's dominions at q
salary of $4,000 per annum.
A GEORGIA man has baptized his own
wife. This is said to be unprecedented.
The wife usually mandates the husband
when he tries, at an unusual hour, to open
the door with a button hook.
A SAFETY envelope has been invented
which is tinted in such manner as to turn
black, blue and red 4 an attempt is made
to open 1t by wetting or exposing to steam,
while it is not affected by moist air or fog.
MRS. GENERALS HANCOCK, Logan and
Blair now receive pensions of 5000 year
as the widows Of Major Generals. Mrs.
Tyler, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Grant and Mrs.
Garfield each receive a pension of 5000.
The mother Of the present German EN-
press is confined in a mad house. She
wanted to become the wife Of Louis Napo-
leon, when he was President, and would
have done SO but for the opposition of
Queen Victoria.
MARRIAGE may be a great risk, but q
Berlin merchant, who advertised for q
wife, soon received III answers. There is
no telling how many candidates would
have been developed il the lad" had beer
kept in till forbid.
The big dailies are becoming more per-
sonal than ever. The New York World is
showing up the mashers in Central park,
and publishing their names with q circum-
stantial account of their conduct The
Chicago Times is giving the names Of the
men who pay their girls starvation wages
and mistreat them.
The Peoria survivors of the Chatsworth
wreck, on the Toledo, Peoria & Western
railroad, have organized an association Of
Chatsworth survivors, and meetings will
be held annually.
A DESPERATE named Charles Perkins, Of
De Kalb, Tex, started out the other even-
ing to have some innocent amusement.
During the course OF the evening he killed
three men, seven mules and horse, and
then disappeared.
In Boston the tradesmen look askance at
tho American habit OF going to Europe for
. ''rest." The lurching OF vessel is not