The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

NEARLY $1,000, 900 babies are born In this
world every year
Iowa proposes to build 100000 SOL
diers' monument at Des Moines.
DEER are reported unusually numerous
In the upper part of Franklin County, Me-
WHEN the German Emperor visits Eng
land this year he will mostly live aboard
ship.
COPY of the first edition OF Charles
Levers works lately sold in England for
S18T5.
WHEN President Harrison drives out he
prefers light wagon and usually acts as
his own driver.
A DEED made in 177C by William Smith,
Of Philadelphia, has been found in Hunt
ington cockloft.
THE City of Rome consumes an average
of 300 tons of coal day in crossing the
ocean at top speed.
In recent Sunday issue of New York
newspaper seventy-seven tons of white
paper were consumed.
p 7. BARNUM has given $1,000 to the
Universalist Church of Bridgeport Conn.,,
thus freeing it from debt.
A BROOKLYN man dreamed he was in q
scrimmage, and drew his pistol from under
his pillow and shot himself.
A PROMINENT citizen, aged ninety two,
Of Dayton, Tenn, was married recently to
awoman thirty eight years old.
A STRANGE illness is reported from Hum
gary. A young girl had fit of sneezing
which lasted twenty -four hours.
A BRIDEGROOM at Monroe, Ca, being
without money, gave the Justice little
rabbit dog which he had with him.
To ENCOURAGE sorgum sugar making,
the Kansas Legislature has exempted all
sugar plants from taxation until 1895.
IT cost the English Government $1TO, 1873
to keep the royal palaces in order last
year and $445, ,065 for royal parks and gar
dens.
ACCORDING to the returns of the Judicial
Department the number of native law
yers in Japan on the 31st of December was
1920
D. STUMP, of Burnt Cabin, York County,
Pa, can put large goose egg in his mouth
and close his lips without crushing the
she'll
FREDERICK VILLIERs, the London Graph
ic artist, has come to this country to
obtain pictures of the centennial for his
paper.
UNDER the new license law of Massachu-
setts only 7s0 drinkin g-places can be lie
censed in Boston-one for every 800 inhab-
itants-
The Canadian Parliament wants En-
gland to send a war vessel to Behring's
Sea to teach the United States authorities
a lesson.
HALF dozen Cape Cod towns are quar-
reling over the question which Of them
shall celebrate the 250th anniversary Of
Cape Cod.
AT Chicago thirteen y year-old Charlie
Howard shot and captured a burglar,
drove another one away and recovered
their booty.
"Owners of dogs must register them be-
for the 10th of May, or they will be shot
by the police"
The once fighting Modoc Indians have
become industrious farmers in the past
twelve years, and half OF them have pro-
fessed Christianity.
AT a wedding in Saline County, Kan,
the groom charged the guests fifty cents
each for supper and sold them popcorn at
five cents package.
A CHICAGO negro put in an hour in q
cold storage room to see il it was what it
claimed to be. His frozen nose and ears
are proofs that it was.
The watermelon center OF the world is at
Quitmnn, Ga, a town of 9, 500 inhabitants.
Last year 100000 watermelons were
shipped from Quitman.
JAMES REDPATH says the continuation of
the rent agitation in Ireland has had the
effect of causing a reduction of the rents
in Ireland-at least SIS, ,000, 900.
THE regular income of John ID. Rookie
felier is $4,000, 900 a year. That makes
him tho richest man in the United States,
perhaps the very richest in the world.
THE effort Of the Fish Commission to
propagate shad in the Colorado river has
been successful, and the Indians of Ari-
zona are getting their frat taste of that
fish.
ABRAM s. HEWITT, who is now in
London, has a suite of rooms directly
ever those of General Boulanger. 1t is
said that the two have a ready dined to-
gether.
A LITTLE Episcopal chapel, built in mem-
ory Of Paul II. Hayne, has just been dedi-
Gated in Georgia. 1t stands within sight
Of the cottage wherein the poet spent his
last years.
'TF you want to see the best pig in the
county, call on me-" This is the way Cam
,ron County (Pa. man advertises the fact
that he has some likely young swine to
dispose of.
Levi JOHNSON, of Boston, Ga, is 81 years
old and has been blind for ten years. The
other day his sight suddenly returned to
him and he called for book and read wit h
perfect ease.
OUT OF 100, 600 people who cross the At
lantic from New York to Liverpool the
loss of life is not as great as among 100,-
600 who travel between New York and
Pittsburgh by rail.
A CURIOUS result of being hit with
base ball is reported from Philadelphia. A
suffering man was struck in the mouth,
and when he got we'll the impediment in
his speech had disappeared.
A PHILADELPHIAN who advertised that
he was ''lame, cross eyed, had the catarrh
and bad temper, and was glven to pro-
family and drink, but wanted wife," re-
ceived 200 letters in four days.
HENRY RIGG, of Delaware County, Pa,
caught trout that well ghed five pounds.
He was greatly delighted until he discov-
cred that the boys had filed the fish up
with shot before it was weighed.
The only retired Supreme Justice is
VIM. Strong, who lives quietly in WASH
ington, lecturing occasionally. He re-
signed in 1880. He is paid $40, 600 annually
from the United States treasury.
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