The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

pretty widow worth $500 0O0 Who wouldn't
be II Clamm2
COLONEL MosBr, of guerrilla fame, Is
now prncticing law in California.
LADIES' tricycies are rented for twenty.
Eve cents an hour in Washington.
SHIPMENTS of strawberries to the North
have already begun from Mandarian, Fla
THERE Is man in Audubon County, Ia.,
who bears the sulphuric title Of John He'll.
A cory Of Eliots Indian Bible was sold
at auction in Boston the other day for
s2iO.
BISMARCK again calls for big war ap-
preparation to maintain the peace of Eu-
rope.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT is the only unofficial
person who has at all times freedom to the
floor of the Senate.
J. c. WHITAKER, the colored cadet who
had his ear slit at West Point, is practic-
ing law at Sumter, s. c.
AINswoRTH r. SPorroRD, the librarian
of Congress, is said to carry the titles Of
50O, 600 volumes in his head
THE loss of life by the recent overflow of
the Yellow river Is now computed ut mil
lions. A whole generation has been swept
away.
Ing. The grain is cut with sickles, as it
was 1000 years ago, and is threshcd with
a fail.
A MINISTER at Kalamazoo, Mich, prea,h.
ed eight weeks and got eighty-three cents
over and above his expenses for That
period.
A NEW YoRK lady suggests that the V
corsage is SO called because it usually
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aext day.
THE production of pig iron in the South
srn States in 1887 was 929, 436 tons, an in
crease of something over 5000 tons over
the production of 1886.
LENT begins early, as Ash Wednesday
falls on February Is. The first day of
April will be Easter Sunday. Trinity
Sunday falls on May "a.
1T is estimated that the Chinese mer.
chants of New York pay the United States
Government over s2,5OO,OO0 per year for
duties on imported goods.
A LARGE body of Mexican troops, after
prolonged chase, have captured one train
robber near Chihuahua. Perseverance al
ways wins, even in Mexico.
NINE BouCIcAuLT, proprietress of the
Bon Marche, of Paris, who recently pre-
sented her employees with 81, ,0oO,C eco, was
laundress in her native village.
TRILoGY is the latest pronounoing diff
Guilty in New York, 1t is being put
through us many pathological asoassina-
tion as Credit Mobilier onco was.
IT may be remarked that the order of the
Prussian Diet banishing the language of
the Poles from the schools in Posen will
deprive the students of all their Polish
SNAIL dinners are becoming fashionable
in Washington as well as in New York
City. As n popular article of diet the
snail is advancing slowly, but is getting
there.
MR.. AND Mrs. HIRAM BATES, of Hanover,
Mass, were born on the same day and at
the same hour, and are nine-two years of
age. They have been married sixty-two
years.
FRENcHMAN was recently granted
divorce by Paris judge on the sole
ground that his wife would not allow him
to read all the letters she wrote and re-
ceived
THE latest statistics from Guayaquil Ec-
uador, place the annual death rate at 101.-
q, more than one out Of every ten This
ought to depopulate the city in about one
decade.
AN international council of women will
be held in Washington on March 25 to eel
ebrate the first woman's rights conven-
ton, which was held at Seneca Falls, NY,
in 1S48
THE New York Star claims to have in
formation that the Boil Telephone Com
pany is about to enter the field of long-di
tauce telephoning in opposition to the
Western Union telegraph.
MRS. MARIA BARTON will not write any
more books except for pleasure. Her
claim to Mexican property worth s., 900,
700 has just been decided in her favor after
eighteen years Of hard fighting.
A YOUNG girl ut Keokuk, Ia, fell on a
bridge and, being unable to rise immedi-
ately, her tongue froze to the iron rail.
way, and remained in that condition until
she was released by passer-by.
AT q leap year ball in New York, the
tlemen with hairpins for favors, and the
the ladies. That is clear case of tit for tat.
ALEX NDER ADAIR, of Collins, Wis,
picked up a meteoric stone the size of
football near his homo ecently His little
daughter saw it fall, and The melted snow
~ASSAo'SA suo PAoSo WhSfo ~ uau StTuCh
the earth.
Miss MINNIE FREEMAN, the heroic school i
teacher of Myra Valley, Neb., who saved
thirteen school children by her presence
OF mind in the recent "blizzard" has al
ready been overwhelmed with offers of ,
marriage.
NEAR Piscataquis, Me-, farmer cut
down tree and hauled it home the other
day. When he went to split it up for fire
wood he was greatly surprised to find
big bear enjoying his winter nap inside
tho hollow log.
AN Albany man died few days ago
while shoveling snow from the sidewalk
In trout OF his house. His next door neigh
Dor, who left the snow to itself, remained
in good health and was presented by his
wife with twins.
THE proposed revival of knee breeches Is
said TO come from athletic associations,
members Of which are proud Of their calves
and would be glad to show them. Oscar
Wilde Is at last vindicated.
People who have been sinking wells
near Madrid, Ia., have found ut depth of
about forty feet below the surface OF the
earth the remains Of largo primeval
forests. The trunks of some OF the trees
dug up are Of great size.
CIRCUMSTANCES alter great many cases.
A young lady when asked to do some shop
ping for the family can stand very little
cold, butif the right kind OF young man
asks her to take sleigh-ride, tho health