The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

a WEST VIRGINIA tOWn Oh ooO lHnaD-
ftants has 1S9 dogs.
THERE is a post-ofice in Sharon Coun-
ty, Mo-, called Not.
GENERAL SHERMAN says he will attend
no more soldiers reunions.
KANSAS boasts a city where there was
cornfield three years ago
THE German Emperor has given his
portrait to Lord Salisbury.
In France the government runs the
tobacco and match business.
A BosToN hotel advertises that it is
near to Phillip Brooks church.
FISH have been caught in the Gulf Of
California at depth of 1,400 feet.
In the Belman (Mex) prison are fifty
four murderers condemned to death.
AMERICA has 200, 900 otelephones-more
than the rest of the world combined.
GERMANY is making steel fly wheels.
They do double the speed of cast iron.
AN Ohio man has written Jay Gould q
begging letter every day for the last 45O
days.
ENGLISH noblemen are beginning to
invest largely in real estate in Aus
tralia.
THERE is mule in Cambridge, o.,
said to be forty-seven years old and still
q good worker.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
Is planning to reduce the size of the
postage stamp.
LIFE is still worth living. There is
only one lawyer in the country to every
nine hundred persons.
THIRTY-FIvE thousand Spaniards last
year emigrated to South America, and
ten thousand to Algeria.
A DANDELIoN which has grown to the
top of ten-foot pole is the product Of
New Haven truck patch.
MASSACHUSETTS seems to have anoth-
er Jessie Pomeroy on hand. Its latest
murderer is eight years old.
A BALL of fire that exploded when
within few feet of the ground is said
to have fallen in Bridgeport, Conn.
HOUSE servants can not be had in
Pueblo, Col, for less than $50 or S35
a month, and they are scarce at that
figure.
A MAN of Norristown, Pa, was unable
to land a sixteen-pound carp that he
caught and called friend who shot il
on the wing.
THE widow of General Custer owns
small rustic cottage and a few acres of
land in beautiful region near the Della
ware Water Gap.
THE King and Queen of Greece have
seven children, the youngest year old
The Princess Alexandria is very pret-
ty girl of nineteen.
AN English plasterer has been stag
gered with a fortune of Ell, 400, 900, left
to him by a clergyman who emigrated
and prospered in Sydney.
BUFFALO BILL has become so fas-
cinated with Paris that he is inclined to
make that city his home when he aban-
dons his calling as Snowman.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has
subscribed 10000 francs to the fund for
che relief of the sufferers by the recent
explosion and fire at Antwerp.
THE house in which Oliver Wendell
Holmes was born is still standing on the
common at Cambridge, Mass, and is
now one of the college buildings.
Mr.. Koo, of the Chinese Legation at
Washington, is going home to marry
Chinese girl he has never seen. Koo is
nice, domestic, affectionate name.
Mr.. Edison has been granted 4OS pat
ents on his inventions, and has over
three hundred applications pending.
Most of these are electrical devices.
ADVERTISEMENT in London journals
indicate that the purchase of cast-of
court suits, artificial teeth ETC., ''for ex-
port" is quite a considerable business.
THE cotton manufacturers of Ian
cashire, England, propose to close all
their mills for fortnight, in hope that
such action will destroy the corner in
cotton.
JUSTICE FIELD has presented Nagle,
who he considers saved his life by shoot
ing Judge Terry, with magnificent
gold watch and chain appropriately en-
graved.
THE death of Wilkie Collins has been
long expected. The intense vitality of
the man protracted the struggle much
longer than his physicians had deemed
possible.
III. M. FLAGLER, the Standard Oil
magnate, who owns the finest private car
on wheels, has just given orders for the
most magnificent steam yacht that can
be built.
Two coal dealers at Port Huron bid
exactly the same figures for supplying
the city with 600 tons of coal, and then
they tossed cent to see which should
have the contract.
PETER DIEDoFF, of Brooklyn, put a
stone on the sidewalk and covered it
with an old hat. Mrs. Frankinmuth
came along and gave it kick, and her
broken toes cost Peter $3.50.
A New YORK police sergeant was re-
tired on a pension the other day who had
been on the force twenty-seven years,
and in that time had never lost day on
account of sickness or been fined for mis-
conduct
AN interesting discovery is said to
have been made in India. This is moth
ing else than the lost books of Euclid,
of which Sanskrit translation is said
to have been found at Jeypore.
M. EIFFEI., builder of the tall tower of
Paris is expected in Quebec shortly to
build $1,000, ,000-bridge across the st.
Lawrence. which would make continu-
GUS roadway from ocean to ocean on Can
adian soil.
THE next Lord Mayor Of London will
be Hebrew, Sir Henry Isaacs, and as
Lord Mayors Day November 81 falls on
a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath the fes-