The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-12-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

Chesapeake bay this season,
THERE are $4,000 worilingmeu and
$4,000 workingwomen in Berlin.
BRooKLYN's mayor has had his salary
Saised he now gets $4,000 year.
PHILADELPHIA will have next year an
exhibition of American iron work.
A WOMAN in Missouri boasts that she
has been led to the altar ten times.
JAY GoULDs recent retirement from
business melted him several millions nf
dollars.
An average of G0,O00 boxes of oranges
day are being shipped from Gaines
vile, Ga.
A >SrRINGTIELD co., man requires a
No. shoe for his right foot and No. 6
for his left.
THE sign "Mealers Wanted" in Maine
signifies that table boarders can be ac-
commodated
THERE are five New Yorlss, nine Phil
adelphias and twelve Bostons in the
United States.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER has presented
to the Cumberland (Me.) bar fine poi
trait of himself.
IT is remarked that in pleasant wealth
-er ladies who come late to church often
have on new clothes.
SINCE 1850 the amount of conscience
money sent to the Treasury Department
foots up over 81, 100000.
THE American Bible Society, in it's
seventy-two years of existence, has is
sued $4,000, 900 of Bibles.
THE term "speak easy" applied to
drinking place without license, has
become popularized in Philadelphia
''TYPosCRBE" is suggested as the best
word to be applied to the person who
manipulates writing machine.
A LONDON journalist, realizing the
ovcrcrowding of the professions, is hav.
ing his oldest son trained to be a cook.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has sold his
Forthcoming book outright to the Samp-
son Low publishing firm of London for
$780, 900.
EX-PREsrDENT CLEVELAND declines to
sell his Brick Top" residence near
Washington, refusing an offer of $50, 900 |
therefor.
WE shall have to cease talking about |
American fire-proof buildings Recent |
fires have demonstrated that there is no |
such thing.
BRIc-A-BRAC was never SO cheap,
which is usually the case when the sup.
ply of any thing is much greater than
the demand.
PHILADELPHIA has day nursery where
the young children of working women
are cared for at the rate of six cents
each per day.
CnRYsANTHEMuM is Greek for gold
flower, and gold-hower would be good
enough English name if we could bring
ourselves to it.
BRooMcoRN is said to be the most
profitable crop in Kansas. The farmers
of Mcpherson County realize from this
years crops $4,000.
HICKORY nuts were never so abundant
In Missouri as this year. Five car loads
were recently shipped from Montgomery
County to New York.
An auctioneer at Bath, Me-, disguised
at the low price offered for his goods,
sarcastically put up S. bill, which was
promptly bid off at $3.50.
In her last lecture on ancient Egypt
Miss Amelia Edwards tells of king
who acquired immortal fame by the in
vention of hair restorative.
By the re-survey of the boundary line
between Nevada and California the lat
ter gains strip over 200 miles long and
three-quarters of a mile wide.
p. r. BARNUM is determined to return
from Europe with title. The fact that
Thomas A. Edison is an Italian count
has excited Mr.. Barnum's ambition.
THERE is advertised for sale in Wor-
ccstershire, Eng, piece Of property
on lease which has LII years yet to
run. 1t was made for 1000 years in
1900.
A MACHINE that cuts matchsticks
makes 100000 day. They are ar
ranged over q vat and have the heads
put on at the rate of 5000, 900 per day by
inc man.
A JAPANEsE nun is n novelty in a
Catholic convent. However, a young
Japanese lady belonging to high
family will soon take the vail to enter
Bavarian nunnery.
Az astonished navigator has arrived
in New York with the information that
he has found tho gulf stream flowing
west OF north instead of the time-hon-
ored course of east OF north.
A New JERSEY inventor has con-
structed an electric railway that demon
strates new principle in electric pro-
pulsion. 1t does away with overhead
wires and continuous currents as we'll
Mr.. LAMBERT, corn doctor from Bing
N. Y, recently forced his way
into the White House looking for the
President and his wife. He said he had
treated Mr.. Clcveland's corns success.
fully. He was summarily hustled out.
THE wires seem to have had double
for the Boston fire; for
they not only prolonged it by obstruct- '
ing the fire department but, If suspicion I
is well founded, actually originated 1t. 1
KLowATTs is the term which is to be G
used hereafter to express the power of .
electric machines. The word horse-pow- !
er will be no longer employed in refer
ring to the power of any electric motor.
A SCIENTIST says there is such thing
as a hoop-snafc, but that it doesn't roll
like hoop. 1t simply makes success Z
sion of loops, like the ch-worm, but SO G
rapidly that it seems to roll around like a
, hoop. .
A READING, Pa, girl postponed her
because she was unable to Sc
cure the white horses owned by livery !,
nan John II. Boyer, for the date she had
ixed The animals are in great demand I