The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-07
CURRENT TOPICS.


owns pet badger.
1T is intended to adopt the electric
hight in Strasburg cathedral.
SOME ladies' boots shown in Boston
shop window are 500 pair.
A NATIONAL chrysanthemum society
has been formed in this country.
The potato bug is making its appear
ance in various parts of the country
For five acres OF land on the summit
Of Mt Washington the owners want
$780, 900.
The Society of American Florists has
voted to petition Congress to establish a
floral school.
A CHATTANOOGA man tried the other
day to pawn his false teeth to get money
to buy drink.
SH1PBUILDINe is booming at Bath
Me. There are some twenty odd vessels
on the stocks.
A NUMBER Of Brooklyn capitalists
have decided to open hotel on the New
York plan in Paris.
Nearly every vessel clearing from San
Diego. Call, nowadays, carries from ten
TO fifteen tons of honey.
gone from North and South Carolina to
Arkansas to work as day laborers.
GOVERNOR LOWRY, the energetic and
anti-pugilistic executive of Mississippi,
has eleven children, nine of whom are
married.
THE Georgia Farmers Alliance has
called upon all the cotton producers to
demand 12M cents for the present crop
of cotton.
A JUDGE down in Tennessee has in
tructed his grand jury Ito indict all
persons who publicly express infidel
sentiments"
A STEUBENv1LLE, o., man suggests
that day like Arbor Day be set apart
annually for the destruction OF the En-
glish sparrow.
AN ancient acqueduct, unruined and
ft for present use, has been discovered
close to Athens. 1t is in the suburb to-
wards Hymettus.
A COMPANY is boring on Lookout
Mountain for water, and il a flowing
we'll is obtained it will be used in sup
plying Chattanooga.
JUDGE f. WELLHoUsE. of Fremont,
Kan, is said to be the proprietor of the
largest orchard in the world. He has
LOIS acres in fruit trees.
birch BARK" lawn parties are the
latest in Maine. The invitations are
written on birch bark and the refresh
ments served from plates of the same
material.
A REMNANT of the Seneca tribe of In
'ians still fingers in Warren County,
a., spearing fish, ETC., for living. The
sribe, all told, barely numbers 1000
members.
SARATOGA now has a beautiful Pom
peiian house. an exact reproduction of
the residence Of a wealthy Pompeiian at
the epoch of the eruption of Vesuvius in
the year 10.
! FRENCH farmers, it seems. are alarmed
at the increasing importation and con-
sumption of American corn. and are de.
manding that prohibitory duty be
placed upon it.
THE city council of Guthrie, Okla.
homa, has given the municipal career Of
that place a start by granting franchise
for twenty years to lottery company
similar to that OF Louisiana.
THE dcath-bed confession of Barry |
Trail, of Florida. Mo-, showed that he |
murdered two people in 1864, and then,
TO save his own neck, allowed an inno- |
cent man to bo hanged for it.
THE Congo district seems to be devel- |
oping as producer Of tobacco. Brussels
tobacconists say its leaves are remark
ably we'll adapted for cigars, being of ex-
ceedingly good flavor and very supple.
Mrs. THOMAS PELToN, of Washing
ton, Me-, is such an enthusiastic fisher
man that, although in her seventy-sixth
year, she landed l76 speckled trout
this season herself. Competition is in
vited.
THE first prize of $500, which was Of
fered for design for the Iowa soldiers
was awarded to Mrs. Harriet
A. Ketcham, of Mt. Pleasant, la. The
model is bronze equestrian statue of
heroic size.
THE valuable uses of electricity ara
extending very rapidly. 1t is useful in
transmitting messages, running rail-
roads, lighting cities, executing MUIR
derers, and it is now used to determine
the age of wines.
AhS 'ihSJ @iuo VI
Company, of Chester County, Pa, pre-
sent very unusual appearance at pres
ent The company has just placed 49,
900 paper bags on its vines, each bunch
being placed in bag. This is to pre-
vent the grapes from rotting.
THE Louisville Courier-J ournal says:
"Mr. Edison having been made an ltal-
Ian Count, no time should be lost in
making him q Colonel of the State Of
Too many honors can not
be showered upon our great electri.
cian."
A HOTEL guest at the Thousand
Islands asked the colored waiter what
game he liked best and received the re-
ply: almost any kind of game'll suit
me, but what likes best Is an American
eagle served on a silver dollar" And
be got it.
M. CARNoT. President of the French
when he drives out Is attended
by two or three mounted soldiers, whose
iuty seems to be to givo the Presiden-
tial horses a chance to trot occasionally.
JULES VERNE's celebrated traveller
who was supposed to 60 around the
world in so days few years ago. is nov
beaten out OF sight. A letter makes ths
rip, via Vancouvar. in 90 days, every
hing favorable.
JOHN III. INMAE, the cotton king OF