The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

Briar's Buzz Saw.
LOUISIANA, Mo-, has Chaos club The
members all talk at once.
THE highest peak in New Guinea is to be
named after VIM. E. Gladstone.
THE examining surgeons in the pension
service are paid 81, ,000,OO year.
FANNIE EDGAR THOMAS, the latest poet
of the West, is young and pretty.
AMONG salaried actresses Ellen Terry
draws the biggest pay $500 : week.
THIRTY SIX young ladies recently grad
uated as physicians in Philadelphia.
OVER 1ls,OOO Iowans were born and
reared in Illinois, and 112, 900 are natives
of Ohio
A son of Admiral Farragut is modestly
working as clerk in New York count
ing room.
A SYSTEM of propelling street-cars by
compressed air is in operation in San
Francisco
A PHILADELPHIA connoisseur in eating
says that muskrat meat tastes better than
any sirloin.
THE Delaware peach growers still insist
that they are going to have tremendous
crop this year
A NEGRO colony is to be established in
Oklahoma, some fifty families being al
'eady EN- route.
j. HARMAN, of Madison, Perry County,
Pa, drove so hard to catch q train that he
broke thirty dozen eggs.
ONE of the latest inventions is a three
cornered steel nail that will drive easily
and will not split the wood
Ex- KING MILAN, of Servia. lives in such
fear of assassins that he wears regularly
an adaptable steel undershirt
THE wreck of our war vessels in the Sa-
moan harbor of Apia entailed a loss to the
United States of over g, 500, 000
FENCING has become so popular among
ladies upon the Continent that many con-
vents include il in their curriculum.
"DoUGHNUT Hotel and Sausage Empo-
rum" is the name of the latest down town
cheap restaurant in New York City.
SECRETARY HALFoRD says that more
than one thousand letters are received on
an average at the w hite House each day.
ARKANSAS is all puffed up with pride be-
cause one of her courts sent a White-Cap
to the penitentiary for twenty zone years
EDISON believes that the time is COM
ing when transportation through the air
will be as common as terre strial car
riage.
not Mr.. Gladstone have his life insured"
Because no man living can make out his
policy.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER is going to in
troduce a bill at the next session of Con-
gress for the election of postmasters by
the people.
LORD LoNsDALE after looking for the
North Pole in the vicinity of Alaska, has
got disgusted with the job and given up
the search.
A COMMON danger makes the whole
world kin. English, Americans Germans
and Samoans were all friends during the
great storm.
The Chicago Tribune claims that the
villages and country produce the ablest
lawyers; and, it might have added, the
greatest number.
The wealthiest colored man in the South
is a New Orleans sugar planter named
Marie. He has an income of $40, 900, and is
a cultivated gentleman.
THE proudest mother in Maine is n down
East pig with sixteen piglets. She is blue
while eight of her children are red and
eight of them are white
AN Indiana judge has decided that q
traveller can have his rules and regulations
as well as a hotel, and that where they
conf let his rights are equal.
The house in which General Winfield
Scott resided in Washington, known as
the chain building, is to be torn down to
make way for a more modern structure.
ALEXANDER KEEL, n Canadian, was car
ried out into LAKE Ontario on a cake of
ice, but fisherman pulled twelve miles to
rescue him and was rewarded with half q
dollar. ..-a,a
The world will rejoice when the veil of
my stery has been lifted from the Keely
motor, and the thing appears in its true
light Of a glorious success or an inglorious
humbug.
A MILWAUKEE man made a cannon, filed
1t with powder and double shot, got in
front of it and touched the thing off. His
purpose was to commit suicide, aud he
succeeded.
WHILE the Chinese Government treats
the sufferers in the famine districts with
supreme Indifference, the American mis-
sionaries are doing their best to relieve
the distress.
A coLoRED man, on trial for robbery in
Washington, instructed his attorney to
challenge every negro on the jury. He
Picieitou w oHtiusb HiS W
white men.
SERVICES for the deaf are held in the
church institute at Sheffield. The preacher
speaks into bell-shaped receptacle, from
which tubes convey the sound of his voice
to the ear of each person present.
A PHILADELPHIA clothing store is adver-
tising a novel bat tc catch customers.
Each person buying suit is photographed
in his new clothes Tree Of charge, and the
scheme is proving paying one.
A WOMAN in Arkansas has been licensed
to preach in the Methodist Church South
there is but one licensed woman preacher
in the Nj. Il. Church North This is
Miss T. III. Delavan, Middletown Springs
Vermont.
SsNAToR DIXON, of Rhode Island, will
be one of the youngest members of the
Senate. His age is forty one, the two
senators from West Virginia being the
only two Senators who are his juniors.
TIE sale of old masters in New York
was a disastrous failure, many of the
paintings bringing little more than the
cost of the frames. They looked too much
like second hand goods to please New
Workers.
The Sultan of Turkey is a bankrupt of
the first class He has Teinstated the
cooks he recently discharged because they
wanted their wages. He has paid them
one per cent on account and agreed to