The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

Miss Jennie Flood.
EXCELLENT brown paper can now be
made out of peat fiber.
THE national silver convention will
meet at st. Louis November 20.
SAN Francisco has home for girls
out of work, started by Mrs. Crocker.
DIR. NANsEN, the Norwegian explorer,
is about 10 set out for the North Pole.
THE King of Italy recently visited the
tomb of Garibaldi and placed upon it
wreath.
AN Alabama man is beating the liq-
uor law by running ''nickel-in-the-
SLOT bar
A TEN foot rattlesnake was killed by
Captain Frank Myatt, of Charleston, y.
c., the other day.
BECAUSE of the busy season the ex-
Confederate reunion at Meridian, Miss,
will be postponed.
FIFTEEN thousand bushels of cranber-
ries will be picked from one New Jersey
plantation this year.
A FoRTY-THREE-AcRE vineyard within
q mile of Fresno, Cal, sold few days
ago for $1,000 an acre.
GOVERNOR FITzHUGH LEE is growing
so stout that he is barely able to mount
n horse without assistance.
BETWEEN Vienna and Prague, a dis
tace of $50 kilometers, telephone
service has been established.
DURING the last twelve months the
number of cigarettes manufactured in
this country was 2,151, 512,360.
Miss LINCOLN, daughter of Minister
to England Robert Lincoln, has become
the acknowledged belle in London.
A BUNCH of celery containing twelve
stalks has just been gathered at Kala-
mazoo. 1t weighed thirty-ive pounds.
A HANDKERCHIEF in the possession of
the Empress of Russia is said to have
cost $4,000. 1t took seven years to make
IL.
REV. JOHN FARNHANf, of Charlotte, N
c., wears number 35H shoe, which re-
quires q sole 20 inches long and inches
broad.
CAPTAIN KNUDsEN, of the ill-fated
steamer Danmark, is now in command
of the new Thingvalla line steamer
Norge.
ACCORDING to the latest official state
ment, the contributions for the relief
of the Johnstown sufferers aggregate
So, 100000
r. NJ. VAN AUKEN, of Leadville. Col,
has invented a device which, he claims,
will do away wholly with buttons and
buttonholes.
HERR BoTEL, wonderful tenor, is
fascinating the audiences at the Krall
Gardens, Berlin. He was a coachman
not long ago.
BALFoUR, who is called ''the best
hated man in England" is still young.
He was born in 1s4S and went to Parlia-
ment in 1874.
A SILVER dollar of 1895, almost as
bright as the day it was coined, was
found buried in boat-yard at Yardly,
Pa, few days ago.
AT recent fair in San Luis Obispo
County, Cal, an onion was shown that
had girth of twenty-six inches and
weighed seven pounds.
A CALIFORNIA newspaper speaks of |
Kansas City as IAN Eastern city" 1t is
little things like this that help US to |
appreciate our vastness.
The blowing of any kind of a steam
whistle in Washington City is a punish !
able offense and in the future the law
will be strictly enforced.
A WRITER who has made the search |
asserts that our language contains no
less than s27 different terms expressive |
of the state of being in love.
AN army of black, gray and red squir-
rels has been passing southwark over |
the mountains and valleys of Clinton |
County, Pa, for some time.
THE Evangelical Alliance for the
United States will hold national meet
ing in fremont Temple, Boston, the 4th,
5th and 9th of December next.
RoBT. III. TERRELL, the negro appoint
ed Chief of Division in the Fourth Aud
itor's Office of the Treasury Department, |
is graduate of Harvard University.
The Georgia Legislature has passed
bill doubling the length of the school
term and increasing the appropriation
accordingly. This will give six months
school.
1T is understood that Mr.. and Mrs.
Morton have concluded to make Wash
ington their permanent home, and do
not expect to occupy their New York
house again.
THE tide of Chinese immigration to-
ward the East is growing to an alarm
ing extent, and scarcely day passes
without a crowd of Chinaman en- route
to the large cities this side the Missis-
sippi.
THE increase of value in real estate
and personal properties in Tennessee
during the past three years is figured at
one hundred million dollars, unprece-
dented in the history of any State in the
Union.
JOHN JACOB AsToR died worth S4O,-
100000, after beginning on salary of
So week for beating furs in a damp
cellar. The 4O,OOO,OOO left by him in
1S49 has grown in forty years to $780,
0o0, 900.
REPoBr comes by way of the Utah
commission that polygamy is solemnized
clandestinely in many parts of the ter
ritory in spite of all the efforts of the
Government.
LITTLE King Alexander, of Servia, is
much impressed with sense of his own
dignity. He can scarcely write three
lines on any topic without using the ex-
pression, II, the King"
CAPTAIN MURRELL, of the Missouri,
rescuer of the ill-fated Danmark's pas
sengers, has just received another dis
in the form of magnificent
gold medal, awarded to him by the