The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-29
CURRENT TOPICS.


CYRUS FIELD began life as a clerk in
New England store.
MISSOURI has set apart 900 for wolf
scalps for 1889 and 1890.
THE late Sir Thomas Dakin's body
was buried ina paper coffin.
TORONTO has raised more than $4,000
for the Johnstown sufferers.
The sub-cellar OF the Tombs in New
York is infested by water snakes.
THERE is company organized in Eng
land which insures against burglary.
A ST. LOUIS paper notes the depart
ure of a society belle to visit a 'kins'
lady"
Mr.. DEPEw has invitations to speak
on July 4 in nearly every State in the
Union.
New ORLEANS capitalists are organiz-
ing homestead company at the City of
Mexico.
In the circuit court at Kansas City,
the other day, twelve divorces were
granted.
THE sale and use of frecrackers is to
be prohibited on Manhattan Island after
this year.
A SPRING near Bagtown, Col, throws
o stream of scalding water to height
Of thirty feet.
The International Typographical
Union adjourned to meet at Atlanta,
Ga, next year.
Two lady delegates took part in the
aeliberation of the International Typo
graphical Union.
THE New Jersey Martin Parole" or
fiplyn -pf- 1n ho1 hnnfo
unconstitutional.
ADAM FoREPAUGH was a butcher in
Philadelphia when he decided to go into
the show business.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Neb., in which
Omaha is located, will pay taxes this
year on $50, 900. OO0
ANovEL use of electricity is about to
be tested in sharpening the shoes of car
horses in icy weather,
THE majority of the pickpocllets now
in Paris are foreigners; the most num-
erous are English and Italian.
ALONzo B. CORNELL says that New
York has $3.50, 900 for the Grant memo
rial and aims to get $1,000, 600.
Los ANGELES, Cal, has just put in
operation cable road with twenty
THE English newspapers are gener-
ally agreed that America has come off
with flying colors at the Samoan Con-
ference.
WHILE playing in Baltimore gutter
an eight-year-old boy was swept into the
sewer and drowned by stream caused
by the rain.
A FARMER living near Emporia, Kas..
owns a horse eighteen hands and one
inch high. 1t is five years old and well
THE international Typographical
Union has decided to locate the home for |
invalids and INDECENT printers at Col
orado Springs
THERE is a larger proportion of the
boys and girls of New Jersey than of
any other State in the Union who go to
Sunday-school.
THERE is a three-year-old pianist in
Baltimore that is astonishing large aud
fences by playing Days of Absence"
with great skill.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has been advised |
by his physicians to make trip to Nor
way for the benefit of his health before
visiting England.
AT concert in Wilkesbarre, Pa, while |
every one was applauding, little child
exclaimed: 'Oh, mamma, see all the big |
men pattycal1ing."
WIGGINs says the ocean is drying up,
and an unappreciative paragrapher adj
vises the Canadian weather prophet to
go and do likewise.
THE chief cook of the Hollywood Ho-
tel, Long Branch, followed to Montreal
a man who had robbed him of 81, 600 and
recovered his money.
ONE hundred and twelve years age the
first American flag was made in little
house which is still standing at No. 239
Arch street, Philadelphia.
AN Episcopal bishop in North Caro-
lima has discovered that peanuts and
glass of milk taken just before going to
bed are cure for insomnia.
A. X. CUTTING, the Texas editor who
tried to get this country into row with
is working for fourteen dollars
a week in a Texas printing office.
THE gossips of Europe tell great yarns
about the Shah of Persias grandeur.
1t is stated that the precious stones
in his throne are worth $780,
900. 900.
ERNEST ScHILLING, the coachman
who once achieved notoriety by his
with Victoria Morosini, is
earning his living as painter at Stein
way, l., /.
AN amateur ventriloquist in Wheel
ing, West Virginia, threw cries of dis
tress into a load of hay. At once the
farmer owning it began dumping it in
the street.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, British
minister to this country, is prominent
He spends a good deal of
time in Washington cropping around in
secondhand book stores in search of
rare volumes.
A TYRONE (Pa.) tailor, who advertises,
asserts that on the night the water was
four feet deep in his store man foated
all the way down from Bellwood on a
door, and came padding into his store
to get measured for wedding suit
THE encroachment of British capital
upon our domains and industries is be-
ginning to excite alarm. The Briton
could not subjugate this country by
arms; he is now attempting to do it with
money, and unless our people are alert
he will succeed. Millions of acres in
Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri,
Kansas and other States are owned by
a very large extent of this