The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-13
CURRENT TOPICS.


MICHIGAN has adopted ballot re-
form law, based ON the Australian sys-
tenn.
HANNIBAL, (Mo. girl has discovered
that chewing gum makes a good hsh
bait.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, is
now the oldest living graduate of Har'
ward.
A CHICAGO oourt DEGREES divorces
granted by Jewish churches intellectual
In law.
TwENTv-sIx years have passed away
since the battle of Gettysburg was
fought.
A Chicago enthusiast talks of erect
ing tower in that city 1000 feet in
height.
Los ANGELES CAL, has decided to
build sewer to the sea, at a cost of
Sc, ,000,0 900.
Miss ALA NJ. LoNGFELLow, daughter
of the poet, is an enthusiastic amateur
photographer.
THE tide of immigration is weaker
than 1T was a year ago by some 1000
persons month.
BEN BUTLER's best eye is now in poor
condition, and it is feared that he may
become totally blind.
IT is reported that w. K Vanderbilt
has offered S1,6OO,OOO for the Secretan
collection of pictures.
THE bridal dress in which Miss Eliza
beth DreXel was married the other day,
cost five thousand dollars.
CROP prospects throughout the United
States are unusually good. The year
1889 promises to be bountiful.
AN oak tree is growing out of the
branches of China tree on Mr.. HiG'
mans place in Greene County, Ga.
THE hot, dry spell that has so seriously
damaged the crops in Dakota and Min
nesota has been broken by good rains.
A LONDON physician of eminence
maintains that the most potent cause of
the dissemination of disease is kissing.
CHARGES have been made against
leading members of the Detroit city coun-
Gil for demanding money from contrac-
tors.
Two negro emigration commissioners
are in Mexico, trying to get hold OF
land on which to start colony of their
race.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, is sew
enty-rine years old, and has represented
his State at Washington for thirty-five |
years.
THE bride was one of our oldest citi- |
zeps," says Missouri exchange, and the |
editor wonders why he didn't receive
any wedding cake.
THE best dressed woman, the woman
with baby, and the old woman are ten
dered a seat in the crowded street-car in |
the order mentioned.
THE output of lump coal from the
Illinois mines in the year ending July /,
1888, was IL, s55. 1ss tons, the greatest in
the history of the State.
1T is a significant fact that of those
who have committed suicide in this
country during the last eight years two
thirds were of foreign birth.
The late Simon Cameron began his
career without dollar, and he always
proudly referred to this fact as furnish
ing the key to his success in life.
The Scientific American recommends
carbolic acid sprinkled on the bed to
keep off mosquitoes. Itwould also have
tendency to keep off the sleeper.
SIR JULIAN PAUMcEFoTE, the British
Minister, will sail for England shortly,
and upon his return in the autu mn will
be accompanied by his wife and two
daughters
Prof. S. p. PITTMAN, prominent Ar
kansas educator, answered the adver-
tisement of Sarah jackson, of Chicago,
and married her after an acquaintance
of six hours.
The playful act of a man in picking
up another and dropping him over the
sideof an excursion steamer, resulting in
his death, is looked upon in New
York court as murder.
PRINCE BISMARCK is said to take more
pleasure in recounting the dueling and
drinking feats of his student days than
inrelating any of his later triumphs in
the field of craftsmanship.
TULARE lake. in California, which
was formerly 90 by 80 miles in extent, is
now only 15 by 20. Although the water
is strongly impregnated with borax and
alkali, the lake is full of fish.
The steamships that leave American
ports are carrying an unusually large
number of steerage passengers to
Europe. Most of them are foreigners
who have been disappointed in America.
AN eel suicided in Forsythe County,
Ga, the other day. 1t hooked itself,
and failing to effect it's release, deliber-
ately tied itself around the rope in a |
hard knot, thereby choking itself to
death.
FREEDOM SHELMAN, of Garrett County,
w. Va, expects to make his fortune
some day by extracting gold from
the teeth of dead bodies. He says
there is millions of dollars thus going to |
waste.
A MIssoURIAN named Curtain proposes |
to expend $4,000 in taking vote for
preferences in the presidential election
of 1892, and then sell the result of his
labor to the newspapers. The vote will |
require years time.
A QUARRY of paving stone in which |
the slabs are streaked with red, white
and blue has been discovered near
Meshoppin, Wyoming County, Pa.
THE largest ferryboat in the world is
the Solano, used in carrying trains
across the Straits of Carquinez, between
Benieia and Porta Costa. 1t is 4eO feet
long and has capacity of forty-eight /
freight cars and two locomotives
A RECENT discussion about the height
Of trees in the forests of Victoria brings