The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-12-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

S4,o0O,OOO.
THE inventor of smokeless powder is
an American.
reached 100000.
CORN is cheaper in Kansas than it
ever has been efore.
JAY GOULD has subscribed $3.50 to
the Worlds Fair fund.
A SOUTH KFNs1NGToN (R. I) turkey
weighs forty-seven pounds.
AN official estimate of the population
of Greece places it at 9, 1s7, ,20s.
A PENDLEToN tOre.) man drank a
gallon of mineral water at one sitting on
q wager.
THE fast mail time between oceans is
now four days, twelve hours and three
quarters.
THE National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal, condemned the single
tax system.
AN Ottawa congregation froze out its
rector by reducing his salary to one dol
lar per year.
THE letter-carricr's monument to Sun
set Cox will probably be erected in
Washington.
Two hearts and two livers were taken
from chicken killed at Lock Haven,
Pa, recently.
By queer coincidence Governor
Biggs, of Delaware, employs secretary
named Smalls.
GENEVA is said to be the cheapest Of
all cities in Europe for place of per-
manent residence.
In some French laundries boiled pota
toes are preferred to soap for the cleans
ing of soiled linen.
THE centennial of the introduction of
the chrysanthemum into England has
just been celebrated.
A DEMOCRAT in Monana County, Ia,
was elected to the Legislature by a
majority of one vote.
THE Crown Princess Of Brazil was the
last royal parsonage to receive the
golden rose from the Pope.
HTRRD ushers are taking the place of
friends of the principals at New York
and Philadelphia weddings.
A FARMER fell asleep on a roadway in
Union County, South Carolina, the other
night, and was frozen to death.
WOMEN have been admitted to the bar
in all the New England States except
New Hampshire and Vermont
DAN RICE, after eight years retire
ment from the ring, will go on the road
again next summer with circus.
A SMITH COUNTY (Kas.) girl won $50,
the other day, by husking and cribbing
sixty bushels of corn in five hours.
MORE people visited the home of
haly hon
fore, the majority being Americans.
In Idaho, a floating paragraph states,
"a deer was recently shot by hunter
having horns with forty-two prongs."
Two inmates of the Milwaukee aims
house, the man aged 72 and the woman
aged 76, were married the other day.
IRWIN A. STETLER, merchant at Fred
erick, Pa, during the fall has shipped
LOCO barrels of shellbark hickory nuts.
SHIPBUILDING is so active on the Clyde
that in many of the yards work is car
ried on at night by means of electric
lights.
DURING the Paris Exposition 249 pick
pockets were arrested, of whom 1856 were
French, twenty-three English and seven
American.
ONLY thirteen of the 375 Senators and
Representatives who sat in Congress in
1876, the Centennial year, still retain
their seats.
THE garden next to the little cottage
in which Edgar Allan Poe lived at Ford
ham has been covered with ugly tene-
ment houses.
A CHICAGO electrician has invented
an electric fish line. The slightest nib
BILE at the bait causes shock to the fish
that either kills or stuns it.
THE Potter's field of New York City is
located at present on Harts Island
Since 1869 more than sixty thousand
bodies have been buried there.
ALL critics agree that in the review
before the German Emperor at Constan-
tinop1e, the Turkish troops challenged
comparison with any in Europe.
A STRANGE animal is roaming around
in Carter County, Mo-, which, from de-
scription, is supposed to be a kangaroo
Mat has escaped from some circus.
BARON DoUNEzAL, French officer,
proposes that France and Germany
should fight on a new principle, each
country to have 100000 men on it's side
only.
AT the recent election in Beverly,
Mass, one ballot was entirely blank,
but on the back of it was written: 81
want to vote the same as Maurice
Heaphy."
THERE is a good deal of wealth and
refinement among the colored people of
Philadelphia, who number about 35, 900.
One colored physician has a practice of
$50, 900 a year.
THE Cape Girardeau Democrat is
authority for the statement that figs can
he and are cultivated in Southeast Mis-
souri, equal to any fruit of the kind
found in the South.
BY vote A TO 5, the common council
of Boston has appropriated $4,000 to pro-
vide soup for 1.-The worthy poor" and
there is such racket against the five
who voted no." that they find them
selves in the soup, also.
GENERAL BoULANoER's personal ex-
penses are betrayed by his admirers in
France. Every week he receives GER
tain amount collected from working
people in the provinces.
A POCKET typewriter is shortly to be
offered to the British public. The re-
tail price will be $3.50, it measures
three and one-half inches by three