The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-12-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

Stouchsburg (Pa.) church.
PENSION attorneys only got 81, 500, 00t
last year out of the soldiers.
1T is announced that General Boulan
ger will lecture in this country.
OVER 100000 people have moved tc
Kansas to stay, within the last eight
years.
No ATTEMPT will be made to build g
State house in Washington for five
years.
MR. GLADSTONE will celebrate his
eightieth birthday on the 29th of this
month.
THE entire sewage of Paris will soon
be used for the purpose Of market gar
dening.
LORD DERBY owns town land in I.iv-
erpool which brings him in an income OF
s75O,OO0.
PRINCESS CHRISTIAN the second and
most popular daughter of Queen Vic
toria, is on the eve of entirely losing her
sight.
DR.. BAUER, an Erfurt chemist, is said
to have just sold to a Paris perfumer for
S52,0 900 a patent for making artificial
musk.
THE Maritime Conference has plaus-
ible idea that n Permanent Internation-
al Maritime Commission may be estab-
lished.
A HOG that weighed 900 pounds, was
recently butchered near Laurel, Del.
1t was heavier that one of the farmers
horses.
REV. w. II. MILBURN, the blind chap
lain of the House of Representatives. is
native of Philadelphia and was born
in 1922.
A LARGE tract of tea land in the neigh
borhood of Canton this year yielded per
acre 81, 900 in tea leaves of the finest
quality.
IT is said that the juice of lemon
squeezed into cup Of coffee and drank
will afford immediate relief in neuralgia
headache.
A PLAGUE of rats is reported in the
vicinity of Galesburg, III. Some farms
are repo orted to be honey-combcd with
their holes.
SUPERSTITIoUs people are impressed
by the fact that the present Pope is
Leo XIII. and the King Of Spain is AL
fonso XIII.
THIS country is getting along with one
office holder to 157 adults. The civil
servants of Uncle Sam draw about $685.
900, 600 yearly.
THE latest musical prodigy is young
boy in Luzerne, who is said to be able to
play "Parsifal," on blade of grass bsld
between his thumbs.
ACCORDING to 4 weather record in pos
session of Martin Meloney, of Avon
1ale. Pa, this is the wettcst year we
have had in two centuries.
"FEET" socials are Newville, Pa,
fad. People stand behind a sc-cep
where only their feet can be seen, and |
you guess which is whose.
OF late years the number of women
entering the professions OF painting and
sculpture has enormously increased in
France, Germany and Russia.
THE benefits that would result from |
an extradition treaty with Canada have |
been forcibly brought to tho attention
of the House of Representatives.
AT Waterville, Me-, a 1,0O0-pound |
weight dropped from the clock in the
Unitarian church, crushing the costly
organ beyond the possibility of repair.
FASHIONABLE marriages in Chicago
are now conducted with two wedding
rings, the groom receiving from the
bride plain gold circlet to match her
own.
SOMEBODY has discovered that the
berry of the Florida palmetto shrub is
an excellent remedy for soreness of the
throat, cough, catarrh and colds in the
head.
III Tr hn |
youngest daughter, who is to make her
debut in Washington society this win-
ter, is described as tho beauty of the
family.
GEORGE BANCROFT, who is now eighty
nine years old, still remembers his
early literary days, when he received
two dollars for an article, and was glad
to get it.
THE Eiirel tower will remain unvisit-
ed on the Champ de Mars at Paris this
winter. In the spring it will be reopen
ed to visitors. M. EitTel has chamber
at the top.
THE first printed ballot was used in
Massachusetts in 1880, by David Hen
haw, and was refused. 1t took a de-
cision Of the Supreme Court to establish
its validity.
THE express charges on car load of
dressed turkeys shipped from Paris,
Mo-, to Boston, were 5000. The con-
signor thinks he will drive the next lot
across the country.
SAMUEL MORSE, of Essex, Mass, has
to eat twelve hearty meals and
drink three quarts of water day to
sustain life. He is sixty-one years old,
and weighs 1876 pounds.
ADVERTISEMENTS for proposals for the
erection Of quarantine station at San
francisco has been issued from the
Treasury Department. Tho last Con-
yress appropriated 100000 for this pur-
pose.
A BEAVER FALLS, (Pa.) paper tells a
story about an old man
who has been dried up by the natural
gas fires in his house, until his weight {
o hardly that OF seven-year-old child. {
Dom PEDRO is having good time in t
Lisbon, going to the opera and enjoying c
himself generally. He has not given up &
hope, apparently, of regaining his I
;rown, as he proposes to issue mani c
festo to the Brazilian people. L
A PHYsIoLoGIsT in France has been
observing the working of flies in flying,
md has arrived at the conclusion that .
he wings Of a fly make about $50 beats +,
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