The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

aluminium trust.
THE death of Lady Holland, it is said,
closes the very last salon in London.
THE Edison Doll company expect to
make a million dolls for the holiday
season.
A LANDSCAPE by Rosa Bonheur, paint
ed in lS47, was sold recently in London
for S12,5OO.
NEARLY S2,OOO,0OO worth of diamonds
were taken from the Kimberley mine
in August.
DIAMOND rings for dogs tails are the
latest whim of New York women dog
worshipers.
A FLORIDA Judge eats his lunch on the
bench while the lawyers are making
their pleas.
DocToRs who recommend quinine say
that onions are the next best thing to
knock chill.
A LoGDE of Odd-fellows to work in the
italian language has been instituted in
San Francisco.
GIANTEss ELIZABETH LIScA, now in
Paris, is six feet six. She halls from
Che Cars country.
THE King of Bavaria receives an in
come of 81 ZOO, 900 year from the profits
of the Hofbraeuhaus brewery.
The all America delegates are to have
another month of travel in January.
Then they will go through the South.
Mrs. MACKAY wears at times flaw
less sapphire nearly an inch in diam
eter, which is said to have cost $1S5, 600.
A SCHOOLGIRL frolic was given in
honor of Mrs. Cleveland by her college
mates during her recent trip to Buffalo
THE revolts against the 1.-THE gather
Ing of the Church of England, are most
frequent and fierce in Wales at present
HENRY BRADLEY, the head porter of
the Lafayette Hotel, Philadelphia, is
said to have made $4,000 out of his po-
sition.
A CHICAGO husband and wife both
filed petitions for divorce on the same
day, each without the knowledge of the
other.
APRoPos of the season, it is well to
know that solution of salt and vinegar
will clean the blackened mica of the
stove.
OWING to a scarcity of labor it is re-
ported large portion of the cotton crop
in Southwest Georgia will likely go un-
harvested.
PEAT fiber is coming into considerable
use in the manufacture of brown paper,
being about fifty per cent. cheaper than
wood pulp.
THE town councilo of Morgantown, Pa,
has passed an ordinance prohibiting citi-
Eens from putting slingle roofs on their
residences.
CRAzED by religious enthusiasm, Miss
Harriet Bartlett, of Pittston, Pa, climb
ed the tallest trees in her efforts to get
nearer Heaven.
EX-QUEEN NATALIE, of Servia, intends
to build mansion in Belgrade and es-
tablish a court independent of the one
already existing.
A FAMILY has arrived at Weatherly,
Pa, after driving all the way from Paw
Paw, Ill. The journey was made in
thirty-eight days.
THE new dynamite cruiser, Vesuvius,
can pour about 800 pounds of the terri
rible explosive per minute into an ad-
versary mile off.
THE Empress of Japan has just taken
possession of her new palace, which has
cost S4,O00,0O0. She proposes to visit
America next spring.
SOLDIERS reunions have been more
numerous this year than ever before,
and the attendance has been larger in
proportion to number living.
THERE is at least one case on record
where the punishment fitted the crime.
A young man has been sent to Sing
Eipo, fo, ctaa1inr ch r,,ucin
MAYOR GRANT, of New York, says he
will cut down the electric wires if the
companies do not adopt better safe
guards against deadly accidents.
Miss PRocToR, of Lima, o., has pat
ented process by which, it IS claimed,
10000 cubic feet of Illuminating gas can
be extracted from one barrel of Lima oil.
A MAN who is in the Birmingham
(Ala.) Jail, charged with murder, weigh
ed only eighty pounds two months ago.
His weight is now one hundred and
sixty.
IRELAND in 1879 had 5,265, 1926 inhab-
itants, and the population just made up
for 1889 is but A, IN, ,534. A decrease like
this is true of no other civilized country
in the world
The famous horse AXtell, which has
just changed hands at S1O5,O00, was
named for the superintendent of public
schools at Independence, Ia, near which
place the horse was bred.
A WOMAN living near the line OF JEFF.
ferson and Walker Counties, Ca, is
seven feet two inches high, twenty-five
years old, weighs 180 pounds, and can
whip any man in the neighborhood.
NRs. HENRIETTA SMELL, of Chicago,
10 10 erect in Union Park, in that city,
q 6ne, memorial to her husband, the
millionaire whose death is supposed to
have been the work of Burglar Tascotts
pistol.
ONE of the visitors to the Eiffel tower
has expressed his sense of it's height.
81 would throw myself down from the
top" he writes, "but that am afraid of
dying from hunger before reach the
bottom"
A sUBTERRANEAN river has just been
discovered in the department Of Lot,
France. The discoverers worked their
way down stream for a couple of miles
through succession of wonderful grot-
toes sparkling with stalactites. They
found seven lakes on their way, and had
to shoot thirty-seven cascade or rapids.
A GERMAN scientist wishes to deter
mine by means of photography if the
moon was inhabited, and is IL said that