The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-02-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

dog with three tails.
CENTRAL American cities are being
lighted by electricity.
A PORTION of the Imperial Palace at Pc
kin has been burned.
THE seasons oyster crop of the Delaware
:iver and bay is failure.
CAMEos are in demand again and will be
worn by all who follow fashion.
OF the 10S members of the Illinois Legis-
lature 1913 were born outside the State.
EDITOR DANA is the master of five Ian
guages, all of which he speaks fluently.
THE new name, telephrase, is suggested
as being suitable for telephone message.
In Versailles there is a room entirely
furnished with articles made of malachite
E. o. WoLCoTT, the new U. S. Senator
from Colorado is but thirty -four years of
age.
CANADIAN sealing vessels are once
more trying their luck in the Alaska fish
cries.
QUEEN CHRISTINA has offered the Pope an
asylum in Madrid if he decides to leave
Rome.
LORD SAcKvrLLE WEST, it is reported
now, is to be assigned to diplomatic duty
In Turkey.
The chief potato producing States last
year were Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and
New York.
A wealthy farmer near Elkhart, Ind,
hanged himself because of the death of his
favorite dog.
EVEN in the Scotch courts the rapid in
crease in the number of divorces is attract
ing attention.
REV. DIR. JOSEPH PARKER proposes to
have preaching service at which smoking
will be allowed.
GEoRGIA's new capitol is about COM
pleted. The Legislature has just voted
$4,000 to furnish it.
THERE are now only three lightning rod
factories in this country against ninety
three few years ago.
A TELEGRAPH line has been completed
across the Andes connecting the Argen-
tine Republic with Chill.
Now we are to have asleeping- car trust,
all the plants and interests being virtually
merged in one company.
ACCORDING to evidences found by
geologist in Scotland, the earth lay in a
liquid state 100000 years.
PHILIP ARMOUR, the king of pork pack.
ers, is estimated to be worth $50, 900, 600, and
is growing richer every day.
AT Brattleboro, VT, recently, n far
mer was plowing, while ten miles back in
the country people were sleighing.
ANTHONY HIGGINS elected Senator from
Deleware the other day, is the first Re-
publican Senator the State ever had.
A MAN can hire house in Japan, keep
two servants and live on the fat of the
land, all for little over $50 a month.
THE Emperor of China has thirty physi-
clans and surgeons in his household, not
withstanding which he is freqontly i'll.
'LIEs" is the name of new society
paper Its publisher hopes to escape libel
suits by pleading the title of his paper.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is studying up the di-
vorce system of England with view to
the betterment of the law in that regard.
SOME of the railroads leading into Chi
cago charges less than a cent n mile,
local passenger rates, and make money
by it
WOMEN are entitled to vote at the county
elections in England, and ., 100000 women
availed themselves of the privilege re-
Gently.
THE gifts to the bride at the Morrell-
Drexel wedding in Philadelphia the other
day are said to have aggregated S250,0OO
in value.
M. CARNoT, the President of the French
Republic, is a first class carpenter, and
can handle the saw and plane as well as
any man.
GEORGE w. CHILDs, of the Public Led
ger, Philadelphia, walks daily to his office
from his home in Walnut street, a distance
of over a mile.
A New York Senator introduced bill to
establish a State navy. The Brooklyn
Eagle says the navy is to be used to kill
the mosquitoes.
A CONTEMPORARY thinks it would have
served good purpose If the cyclone had
got whack at the Keely motor. 1t might
have been relief to the inventor.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is reported to
have said that he would rather hear few
simple ballads, properly sung, than any
opera, grand or comic, ever written.
THEY keep snakes out of dwellings in
India by electricity. Wires are strung
around the house, and when a snake |
touches them he is either killed or fright
ened.
Mr.. ABRAHAM HUNsAKER, an ancient |
Mormon, died few days ago at Ogden,
u. T., leaving an interesting family of |
five widows, forty children and 1870 grand |
THERE has been an enormous develop |
ment in the native production of opium in |
China, and in only one of the ten large |
districts the production reaches annually |
a value of $50, 0O0,0O0
AN Indiana court has decided that un- |
less woman Is pleased with her photo
graphs she need not pay for them no mat |
ter II dozen of her friends declare that |
they 'look just like her."
FULLY 800 men are annually employed in
catching terapins in Chesapeake bay. 1t
is estimated that 100000 are caught each |
year, yielding on The average of $50 doz-
en-, the neat sum of 81, 5O00OU.
PLANTS hitherto unknown have been |
recently discovered in tho Philippine |
with flowers almost yard in di-
ameter, the petals, five in number being
oval and of a creamy VIII ite.color.
The late Edison Adams, a California
millionaire disposed of an ample fortune
by one of the shortest and planest wills
on record. He left S3,OOO,O 900, and in five
short paragraphs disposed OF the entire
sum.
JAS. FAIRFAX MCLAUGHLIN has sued the
estate Of the late John Kelly for 500. 900
which he claims to be his due for having
written all the speeches that were ever de-
ivered by the departed chieftain of Tam
many.
A NEW industry in Florida, which is
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