The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE Royal Baking Powder is adver,
tised in over 6,000 papers.
New carpets are being laid in the
House wing of the Capitol.
THE Florida orange crop this season is
estimated at 1000, 900 boxes.
A TREE was cut down at Orting, w. T.,
that measured $40 feet long.
POTATOES are selling in some parts of
Kansas for ten cents n bushel.
PRESIDENT CARNoT and Minister Reid
have become warm friends in Paris.
THERE are about six hundred women
In Chicago who own and ride bicycles.
GENERAL RAUM, Pension Commissions
er. will be sixty years old in December.
WASHINGTON is making an effort to
have the great Worlds Fair held in that
city.
II is estimated that American tourists
have spent $4,000, 900 in Europe this
year
Ii. III. WARNER of Rochester, is one OF
the most enterprising American adver-
tisers.
Ex-Governor HoADLY's income from
his legal practice is said to be 500, ,000
year.
MARRIAGE is mentioned by the Mime
apolis Tribune as "a temporary embar.
rassment.'
THE widow of the late King Luis. of
Portugal, will receive a yearly allow
ance of $4,000
PRINCE OF WALES has become extreme
ly studious of late. He is reading up
American history.
AT last person has been caught writ.
ing his name on the Eiffel Tower. He
was fined twenty francs.
c. /. Hoop, the sarsaparilla man,
spends hundreds of thousands of dollars
annually in advertising.
GENERAL MALONE does not weigh
more than 1O5 pounds. Mrs. Malone
tips the beam at full 225.
A MIsPRINTED rattle ticket from Scran.
ton announces that the drawing will
take place on January II, S109.
CHICAGO claims to be first choice for
the worlds fair of 162 Congressman, and
the second choice of forty more.
Louis KossUTH, the Hungarian pa
triot, will become naturalized Italian
citiz and will be nominated for sena-
tor.
BETWEEN the various Worlds Fair
committees, the poor Congressman will
have a hard time of it the coming ses-
sion.
SAN SALVADOR is the first of the Cen
trail American republics to establish
telephone service throughout it's terri
tory.
A CURIOUS wedding was celebrated the
nj, do ntn W -
groom is four feet high and the bride six
feet.
REV. 7. Dewitt Talmage will be ac-
companied on his tour to and through
the Holy Land by his wife and daughter
Mary.
A SALINE County (Mo) man is ready
to make affidavit that he raised a sweet
potato that measured two feet from tip
to tip.
A NEBRASKA justice has discharged a
man accused of stealing an umbrella on
a rainy day on the ground that he acted
in self-defense.
IT is estimated that in the iron and
copper mines of the Lake Superior re-
gion, over sixty men month are acci-
dentally killed.
The heaviest advertiser in Southern
newspapers is the Louisiana State Lot
terry. They spend between $500, 900 and
$500, 900 annually.
GENERAL BENZ. +. BUTLER is to write
his own memoirs, in which he promises
to tell the truth about himself, his
friends and his enemies.
EMPEROR WILLIAM recently showed
his dislike of every thing French by
discharging an attendant whom he
caught reading a French novel.
A FAMILY from Terra del Fuego, q
man, his three wives and three children,
said to be the lowest type of humanity,
are now on exhibition in London.
DIR. r. b. PIERCE, of Buffalo, spends
$900,000 annually for advertising in the
United States. Taking altogether his
advertising bill is over 81, ZOO, 900 a
year.
ALUMINIUM is getting cheaper. Not
long ago it was So a pound, now it can
be bought for So. 1t is the coming
metal, and all that delays its advent is
its high price.
she largest advertising firm in the
'oouJu. MT. hduhlu leJS MS advertising
direct and people go 5000 miles to talk
to him about ''ads."
wEALTY citizen of Nevada, recently
deceased, left in his will single penny
to his divorced wife "as token of es-
teen greatly in excess of the considera-
tion which she deserves"
THE statement is made upon good au-
thority that a rich firm of English
traders are heavily interested in the
Zanzibar slave trade. The Arabs con-
duct the business, but the firm receives
most of the profits.
YORK COUNTY (Pa.) agriculturists have
been astonished by radish in the DOS |
session of Mrs. Samuel Clay, of Penn |
vile, which she raised in her lot. 1t |
measured thirty-fve inches one way and |
twenty-one the other, and weighed six |
and half pounds. The radish resem-
lles the appearance of a child very much. |
COUNT VoN MoLTKE is the latest pat
ron of the phonograph. The instrument
was shown him short time ago, and
the venerable General repeated to it the
strange and appropriate sentence from
Goethes "Faust: "Ye instruments
mock me with wheel and combs, with
cylinder and handle"
MRS. HAGGIN, wife of the California