The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHE rush TO Garls Is not as great as an-
ticipated.
BEER is now sold in New York City by
the pound.
QUEEN vIcroRIA has just passed her
seventieth birthday.
THE International Sails Trast has been
substantially completed
A GEORGIA man has red bat which he
captured few days ago
ALBANY, Ga, rejoiceD in the possession
Of a three'legged alligator.
THERE are 156 applicants for one Consul
lar place In South America.
COLONEL INGERsoLL's law practice is said
to bring him S1C0 900 a year.
MORE than $4,000 600 acres of American
soil belongs to nonresident aliens.
STOCKHOLDERS of the Suez Canal will
receive this year a dividend of 80 per
cont
HOME rule for India promises to give
england as much trouble as home rule for
Ireland.
ENORMOUS icebergs have been reported
to be floating around in the North Atlantic
this spring.
CHARLES WEBER, Cincinn att plumber,
Is the father of five pairs of twins. All are
alive and healthy.
JOHN 6. WHITTIER, the poet, says that
he expects to live to be hundred, though
he Is not anxious to.
Two friends met on the streets of Water.
bury, Conn, few days ago for the first
time in seventy years.
A SHADE of pink scarf very much af-
fected by Harvard boys is commercially
known as "raw veal"
THE Chinese Government refuses to
agree to the treaty restricting Chinese
immigration to Australia.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT paid Paris
doctor 5000 for three minutes work in
cutting a wart off his neck.
ABOUT one hundred and fifty colors are
obtained from coal tar, which has almost
entirely supplanted vegetable and animal
dyes.
AT the Troy polytechnic the students
have a craze. They paper their ceilings
with envelopes of letters from their best
girls.
THE Kansas State Historical Society is
negotiating for the purchase Of the rife
which John Brown used at Harper's
Ferry.
A LAW of the New York State Leg isla-
ture, forbidding the heating of railway
cars by stoves, has been declared constitu-
tional
In Roostoen, Holland, there is giant
rose tree belonging to Nine. Regnen which
few years ago I'D 5000 roses at the
same time.
PAPER clothing is being made by q
Minnesota inventor. 1t is as soft as cloth
and it is claimed that the cold can not
penetrate it.
AMERICANS are expected to spend this
year, for one purpose or another, aside
from purely business, the snug sum of
500, 0O0, 900 in Europe.
"A DYNAMITE cartridge one foot in
length takes only 1-2400ths Of a second to
explode, scientists say" We are will
ing to take their word for it.
The Countess Crosby, of the old nobility
of Austria, has gone on the road with her
circus troupe. She will take it to Paris
before the Exposition closes.
A SWARM Of bees, attracked by a comb
of honey in the window, took possession of
a grocery store in Plainfield N. j., and put
an end to business for the day.
WHITELAw REID minister to Paris, has
rented the house of Comtesse de Gram
mont, in that city, at an annual rental of
$4,000. His salary as Minister is SIT, 500.
OEO. ~ w SulcdBO young
man, fell in love with Lydia Thompson,
the burlesque actress, and growing des-
pondent after she left the city, killed him
self.
LEVI CLowDIs, Of Livingston, No.. used
to boast that he had not read a newspaper
for fifty years. The other day two stran-
gers played the bunko game on him for
$500.
The Navy Department has decided to
send the remains Of Captain John Erics-
son to Sweden, his native land, for burial
They will be taken on the new cruiser
Chicago.
BETWEEN fifteen and sixteen thousand |
children are lost in London every year,
almost all of whom are found and restored |
to their parents by the aid OF the Metro
politan police.
VIM. IL CAMPBELL, an old-fashioned
Democrat who has been postmaster In q
Vermont town for four years, has just
stepped out and his wife, "staunch Re-
publican" has been given the commits
sion.
OF ten Eng glish business men seven die un-
der the age of47. or ten French business
men eight die under that age In the
United States the ratio is less than six.
How about that old howl that we are living
too fast? .A.As
JOHN d. DAVIS, farmer, residing at
New Diggins, H., put his milk cans on the
wood pile to dry, and the reflection of the
SUMS rays from them set the wood on fire,
doing considerable damage to his house |
and barn.
Ten leading coal firms of Pittsburgh |
engaged in shipping coal South have
combined, it is said, to buy out all the
small operators and secure a monopoly, by
which they can dictate prices to consumers
from Wheeling to New Orleans.
In a theater at Ashton, England, during
the performance of a melodrama, an ex-
cited woman threw her bonnet and UNI
brella at the "villain" on the stage when
he was strangling one of the characters.
She drought down the house."
THE Japanese Government has engaged |
two German lawyers in Berlin to proceed
to Toxic and reframe the Japanese penal
code to conform to the German ins tead of
the French code, as now. asI 4..,
The Mormon Church has bought a large |
amount of land in Manitoba and many Of |
the saints, with their hocks, their herds,
their wives, children, man servants and |
maid servants, are leaving Utah and Idaho
and going to the new promised land.
yz 10 proposed to erect a monument to
the late d. p. Ros by placing a natural
boulder al some suitable spot near his |