The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

DEGtTIME is arm1ng women anu
placing them in the ranks.
SToNE MOUNTAIN, Ga, people are en-
gagged IN killing mad dogs.
THIRTY years ago our people knew
nothing about cloud bursts.
JOHN CHRISTIE, Marion, Kas., man,
aas field of cats six feet tall.
THE possessionsof Trinity Church, in
New York, foot lIE $40, 100000.
The Eiffel tower is capable of holding,
In its different landings, 10000 persons
MISSOURI is the only State in the
Union in which a price is pvt on the
head of rat.
A BIG piece of ice in a tu'b of wafer
will lower the temperature ofgour reom
fifteen degrees.
THE wealth of Frederick Dougia ass,
United States Minister to uayti, is esti-
mated at $780, 000
A FBTRtFIED tree was recently un-
earthed, at Farmingdale, n. j., sixteen
feet below the surface
THE Worlds Fair in 1892 TO celebrate
Columbus lucky find 400 years ago,
promises to be big affair.
A PHILADELPHIA man hanged himself
the other day because he had been
dunned for his house rent.
Asa result of the Paris exposition
gold is flowing into the Bank of France
at the rate of S4, 600, 600 week.
WLKIE COLLINS, the novelist, is rap
idly improving in health. His friends
NOW consider him out OF danger.
CALIFORNIA will have the largest
grape crop this year ever grown, and
Spain reports the same prospects.
CAPTAIN MOUNT is well-ftting name
for tiie man who is to have charge of the
Washington monument at the National
Capital.
ONE steamer recently took twenty
eight Italians back to Italy, each carry
ing from So, 200 10 SIS, 900 earned in this
country.
EX-KING MILAN, of 'Servia, will take
up permanent residence in England
or Scotland under the name of Count
Takoyo.
SWITZERLAND talks real sassy to
Germany, because she knows the rest
of the world will not let her be interfer-
ed with.
The negroes of Texas are going to
hold State convention to discuss
measures for their advancement in vari-
Gus ways.
THERE is prospect that the projected
railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem will
soon be built The steam engine goes
marching on.
The late s l.. NJ. Barlow, the great
corporation lawyer of New York, had
received during his lifetime several fees
from S25. 900 to 500, 600.
The New York Evening World has
great charity on foot. 1t has raised
fund to provide doctors for the sick
babies of the poor of New York.
THREE boys of Jackson, Miss, recent
~ saved girl from drowning, and the
grateful father gave them five cents,
telling them to divide it among them.
ACCORDING to the reports of recent
visitors in Oklahoma there are more
people located in the towns than there
are settlers in all the rest of the coun-
try.
PRINCE EUGENE of Sweden. and the
Princess Kalakaui, of the Sandwich
Islands, are said 10 be engaged. The
Prince lives at Paris, where he studies
painting
In the Paris circEs a trained lion is as
present being exhibited who rides on
horseback, jumps through hoops and over
bars, fires off pistols and performs num-
Der of similar tricks.
SOUTH DAKOTA is starting in with
spirit of parsimony. Its constitution
provides that the pay of the new Gov
ernor shall be $1,000, and that of the
Supreme Judges 81, 800.
j. R. GRAHAM, of Wetumpka, Ala,
is in possession of a single-barrel mus
ket, found near WetumpSa, that is six
feet four inches in length. The stock
had almost rotted away.
SAN WAH KEE, the richest Chinaman
in New England, is worth about 500, 900.
He is an importer and wholesale dealer
of Chinese staples and has made q for
tune since he came to America.
THE fastest regular express trains in
the United States run between Philadel-
phia and Washington. They maintain
an average speed of forty-fve miles an
hour during the entire distance.
A WELL of so-called electrical water |
has been tapped at Ft- Scott, Kas. To |
place both hands in the wa ter at the same |
time is utterly impossible. The shock |
is SO IOFclDle tndb ~ InrOWS one ASIDE |
with vigor.
PRINCE MURAT, whom Miss Gwendo- |
line Caldwell is to marry in the autumn,
lisa well-preserved man of fifty-fve. He
is rich, and is also connected by mar
riage with some of the best and Oldest |
families of France.
THE clothing worn by the Prince of |
Wales is copied so minutely by his Eng |
lish admirers that Mr.. Labonchere as
serts that if the Prince were to appear
in petticoats the streets Of London would |
soon be filled with men in the same gar
ments.
THE largest body of fresh water on
the globe is Lake Superior. 1t is 400
miles long, 100 miles wide at its greatest
breadth, and has an area of 32, 900 square
miles. Its mean depth is said to be 200
feet, and its greatest about 900 fathoms
Its surface is 635 feet above the sea.
SEVEN milch cows went into field of
Mr.. Martin Ensor near Troy, Ala, re-
Gently, where the fence had been blown
down, and getting into the patch of am
Der sorghum cane, ate heartily of it
while the water from the rain was on it.
One of the COWS dropped dead in her
tracks and four others have since died.
Persons who raise this cane would do