The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-02-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

MRS. CLEVELAND wants to travel around
the world.
BRAZIL last year acquired 10000 Euro
pean immigrants.
WHAT is to be the future of Canada 10
Just now an engross.ng theme
1T is proposed to attempt the dissipation
Of fog by electrical discharges.
SENATOR BECK, now in Florida, will not
return to Washington until April.
ANOTHER crank is to attempt to go
through the Niagara rapids May 3D.
b MAXIM is reported to have devised gun
that will fire 600 shots q minute in any
direction.
A YOUNG man died in La Grande, Ore,
recently from the effects of over-exertion
in dancing.
GENERAL BouLANGER, in an interview
expresses his preference for the American
Constitution.
WILLIAM of Germany has put an editor
in bastile for commenting editorially ON
Williams lame ear.
The full name of the biggest man in
France at present is George Ernest John
Maria Boulanger.
In the next Legislature Of Pennsylvania
there will be six Browns, one White and
Green, but not a single colored man.
THERE are at Troy N. Y, 10000 persons
working on collars and cuffs and their an
nual wages aggregate S4,5Oo.oO0.
THE population of Africa is about eight
cen to the square mile; in Europe there
are eighty EIGHT to the same space.
THE express companies have decided to
end their war. In other words, they are
going to parcel out the receipts equally.
THE Attorney General has decided that
Indians who have been allotted land in
-severalty can not sell standing timber
thereon.
THE Empress Of China has ordered
that Shakespeare shall be translated into
Chinese for the benefit of the "Son of
Heaven"
DIR ScHLIEMANN, the arch@ologist, Is
master of fourteen languages. In his youth
he was sailor before the mast on Ger
man vessel.
WITH Berry from Arkansas, Plum
from Kansas and Posey from Indiana,
what's the matter with Congress for i've
o'clock tea.
Mr.. MCDONALD, the Lieutenant Govern
or of Michigan, killed n few days ago in a
railroad accident, had an insurance on his
life of 500 900.
PoET RICHARD HENRY SToDDARD has had
a cataract removed from his eye, and it is
expected that his vision will soon be just
as clear as ever.
THE courts of California have decided
that a Chinaman's queue must not be cut OIL
when he is sent to prison. but they are cut
off just the same.
DURING the year 1888 fire destroyed
property worth S4S6, 1886. which was in
sured to the amount of S40O, 1860, leaving
a net loss of $50, ,557.56.
The superintendent of the Philadelphia
public schools urges the teachers to instruct
their pupils upon the evils Of cigarette
smoking and tight lacng.
ORDERS have been issued for fifteen new
locomotives and 800 freight cars for the
Mexican National railroad. The traffic on
the road is rapidly increasing.
LoNDoN's latest musical prodigy is
Russian pianist five years old, who plays
Chopin to perfection and is not in the least
handicapped by his awful name Of Raoul
Koczalski.
THE Senate of the Empire State has
bill before it which provides for the arrest
of any person under fifteen years of age
who is found smoking cigarette in any
public place.
THE costliest book owned in Chicago is
a copy of the first folio edition of Shake
speare, published in 1928. 1t is regarded
as the finest copy in America, and is val
ued at $4,000.
The public debt less cash in Treasury,
February 1, 1885, is 81 ,1a1, s45,9T2. Reduction
during January, $l2,21e 2S5. Total cash in
Treasury, as shown by the Treasurer's
general account, $617, $40, 4s2.
AcCoRDING to careful calculations made
by British clergyman of note and just
published Protestants have increased dur
ing the last 100 years from $1,000, 900 to
1874. .O00,0 00), or nearly fourfold.
R TURNER, the largest man in Washing
ton Territory. has just died. The coffin
and body weighed 800 pounds. The casket
was seven feet long and three feet wide,
and required ten men to lift it
The Kansas Senate has passed unani-
mously bill to restrict the ownership of
real estate in that State to American citi-
zens and those who have la wfully declared
their intention to become such.
COUNTESS MARTINEZ sells stamps at the
post Office window in Philadelphia. She
was Baltimore girl, and her hus band is
real German count, at present in reduced
circumstances and in Philadelphia hos
pitaL
Two hundred and thirteen clubs have
been formed among women for the study
of political economy. The relative value
Of a French and American bonnet will
probably be the chief topic under consid-
GRAFTON.
THERE are more wars in rates than rail-
road men are concerned in The New York
and Chicago dry goods jobbers are fight
ing for the control Of the trade in ging-
hams and the rival dealers are selling be-
low cost.
JOHN s. SCOTT successful cotton
planter of South Carolina, has been en-
gagged by the Russian government to act
as superintendent and instructor on a
large cotton plantation owned by the
government in one of the southern prov
inces.
The late Prince Rudolph, of Austria,
when in London was ad mired in the Marl-
borough House set as the only man who
could stand more, sit up later and keep go
ing longer than the Prince of Wales.
The mild weather of December and jan
uary had its effects on the naples of New
England. In Maine and Vermont and 9TH
er sections trees yielded good flow of
sap, and sugar was made in midwinter, a
very unusual occurrence.
VIcToRIA's will was made in 1875, en-