The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHE American oyster is Delng 1ntro-
duced in Sweden.
A SINGLE watermelon patch in Georgia
contains 500 acres.
ANACONDA has been selected as the
capital of Montana.
OKLAHOMA territory is to be divided
into twelve counties.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be very
anxious to make visit to India.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GLADSTONE have passed
9heir golden wedding anniversary.
ONE-FoURTH of the Virginia wheat
crop has been ruined by heavy rains.
DIR. NANsEN, the explorer, says that
she ice in Greenland is 5000 feet thick
JOHN AsToR of New Yorll-wor th
$4,000, 900 gets 50 week cigar-making.
The British Government has decided
to increase the military force in Egypt.
AND now comes the serious announce
ment that the Florida orange crop is a
failure.
New York is getting up tremendous
head of steam on the worlds fair
project.
A DISPUTE over the payment of twen-
ty-two cents has led to law suit in
Pittsburgh.
THE New York Custom House has an
efficient clerk, VIM. o. Fitzgerald, who
is deaf mute.
The King of Senegal, one of the nota-
bles now in Paris talks of making visit
to this country.
THERE are 342 900 miles of railroad in
operation in the world, of which 1S1, 600
are in America.
THE mol ,.i11 1,, ha
done in four years more. That is what
De Lesseps says
KANSAS CITY is talking of employing
no one on city work who has not six
months residence.
EARL DUDLEY, of England, is an in
veterate gambler. He recently lost S50,-
600 at cards in Paris.
THE wedding presents at the marriage
of Princess Louise and the Earl of Fife
are valued at 81, 900, 600.
THE indications now are that there
will be tremendous corn crop in the
United States this year.
WHOLESALE fruit dealers in New York
are preparing to form an orange trust to
control the Florida crop.
A CALIFORNIA letter tells of widow
in Southern California who has just sold
her orange crop for $4,000.
JAPAN covers an area of 1870
square miles; not quite as large as
California. 1t has population of 3s,-
600, 600.
BROOKLYN can boast of having the !
largest bread bakery in the world. 1t |
turns out 0,000 loaves of bread day on |
an average.
THE English monopoly that now con-
trolls the paper product of the world has
threatened, it is said, to raise the price
of that article.
JOHN CURTIS, alias John Thompson, |
convict in the Oregon penitentiary,
chopped his left hand off with hatchet |
to avoid work.
BUFFALO BILL has written to friend |
in Colorado that he has received pro-
Posals of marriage from twenty-seven
wealthy Parisiennes.
The hottest weather ever known in
the United States was felt at Phoenix,
Ariz., in June, 1883, when the thermom-
eter marked 119 degrees.
A DIME savings bank for colored peo-
pie is to be opened at Atchison, Kan.
This is looked upon as direct blow at
the crap shooting and watermelon in
dustry.
THE widow of John G. Little, drum
mer of Pittsburgh, who lost his life in
the flood at Johnstown, has sued the
South Fork Fishing Club for $50, 900
damages.
The widow OF John Morrissey, once
immensely wealthy, is now ''hemming
collars and cuffs for Troy manufac-
tory and running desperate race with
poverty"
INCLUDING the accession of the Bee
Line and Big Four's /, ,126 miles of road,
and the Chesapeake and Ohio's 1,O39
miles, the Vanderbilts now control 49,
4Ss miles of track.
CHICAGO is anxious to get the Column
ous Centennial thero in 1892. Thereare
ia square miles within Chicagos gem I
erous limits and only forty-three within
those of New York.
The Chattanooga City Railroad Com
pany has sold franchises and lines, in
cluding twenty-one miles of road, to the
new Electric Street Railroad Company;
consideration, $3.50, 900. ,
The line of perpetual snow on the An ,
des is 14,760 feet above sea level. In
Mexico the line is 13, $50 and on the Ten
eriffe II, 405 feet. Although snow is al
ways visible on some of the highest
peaks of the Sierras none of them are s
lofty enough to be rated as regions of :
perpetual snow.
The problem of the safety of passen-
gers in an electric Car during thunder
storm has been satisfactorily and very
igreeably solved by the experience of
the Lynn (Mass.) people the other day. =
practical test was then offered by the =
lightning, and not passenger was in
ured or even shocked.
ELECTRICITY from a broken wire killed
mother mule in the streets at st. Louis
he other day; and yet the New York
experts fear electricity won't 'remove' I
heir murderers to certainty. d
The largest ship in the British navy, n
he Trafalgar, launched two years ago, a
las at last tried her engines, with sue s
ess. She is S45 feet long, rs feet beam, a
md 12,s1s horse power drove her 1928 d
,nots. a
The heat in Russia and other parts of
Northern Europe has been intense of
ate. The Central observatory of ST. >,
'etersburg has not recorded such a ;,
Ugh temperature at the same time of A
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