The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

Miss HELEN GLADSTONE has become q
journalist.
PRESIDENT HARRISON seldom attends
the theater.
ALL Europe has over 10000 periodical
publications.
ENGLAND has 5000 periodicals, of
which 500 are dailies.
A THIRD of the deaths in the French
army are due to typhoid fever
GERMANY has $500 publications of
which 500 are daily newspapers.
AMERICAN wild turkeys have been
successfully acclimated in Austria.
THE average salary of the 54,s74
fourth-class postmasters is only S159.
SEVENTEEN thousand dollars night
are spent for amusements in New York
City.
SECRETARY PRooToR has earned the
title at Washington of the silent
man"
AN insurance company conducted by
women has been established in New
Orleans.
A sIXTY-poUND skate was caught with
hook and line at the Santa Cruz wharf
few days since.
PRINCE BISMARCK is troubled with
insomnia. He has tried an orris-root
pillow but is still wakeful.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is the first reign
ing monarch who has visited CONSTANT
nople since the fifteenth century.
HYDRoPHoBIA is again epidemic in
Clay County, West Virginia. Farmers
go armed and shoot dogs at sight.
DIR. LINDSEY, of New Haven, has de-
clared that the great number of trees in
that city, are constant source of
disease.
MIR. EDISON says he receives an aver
age of 1000 letters daily, many of which
contain offers of marriage with his
daughter.
LORD WoLsELEY has accepted an in
vitation to be present at the unveiling
of the statue of General Lee, at Rich |
mond, Va.
CURLY walnut log was sold by q |
Logan County wv Val man for SO, 1000.
Mr.. ID. Williamsburg, of indianapolis, |
being the purchaser.
A PIECE of Washington real estate was
recently sold at the rate of $50 square
foot-the highest price ever paid for
property in the capital.
A NINE-YEAR-oLD girl of Spring Lake
Township, Kingsbury County, S. D.,
plowed eighty acres of land this fall
with three-horse sulSy plow.
THE receipts of the Brooklyn Club in
the worlds championship were Sc, 22s.65.
The players, including Manager Nc
Gonigle, each received SS99.29.
EIGHTEEN years ago a Kansas City
man paid So, 200 for lot, and was laugh
ed at. The other day he sold it for
Sl39, 600 and now he is laughing.
BEAUTIFUL white marble bust of
Mrs. Cleveland, the work of G. Scanki,
of Genoa, in 1886, will shortly decorate
the Cleveland home in New York.
THE statue of Robert E. Lee for Rich
mond, modelled by Mercie in Paris, will
not be ready by December. The unvail-
ing has been postponed until May.
A FRESNO, Cal, woman threw cellu-
loid cuff in the stove. Her husband will
have to pay $50 to repair damage done
to the kitchen and to get new stove.
j. L. TRowBRIDGE, the well-known
writer of books for boys, is over seventy
years of age, and lives at Arlington,
Mass. He has made fortune with his
pen.
IN his report Secretary Proctor re-
news the recommendation of his prede-
cessor, that Congress provide for the ap-
pointment of an Assistant Secretary of
War.
THE President has been bothered with ;
hundreds of letters inquiring if he is a {
Mason, all of which he has answered in {
hn Ia ha1n to ,
society.
CHRISTIAN FEGLEN, of Shamokin, Pa,
S the oldest working miner in the Key
'tone State. He has worked in the coal
mines for fifty-five years and is still able
o do big days work.
JOE MULHATToN, the famous ro- c
nancer, whose wonderful stories startle I
he newspaper world, is said to be a
member of the Baptist U
,hurch at Louisville KY.
AN infant child of Abram Lorona, of
tombstone, Ariz., picked up live scor-
ZION and put it in his mouth. The
eptile stung the child's tongue and
he child was corpse in less than an ,
lour. /,
A TYPEWRITER will has been de- 1;
i"iNu '"'tN DJ Oho SouIlS VI DcrhS n
,ounty, Pa. This establishes the claim :,
f typewriter work to be called writ
ng," while the Patent Office has official
y classed it as printing.
GERONIMO and his renegade Apaches v
'ill remain at Mount Vernon Barracks. q
alabama, during the winter. Geronimo "
as become quite civilized. He has h
earned to twang the bango and his old
urly manner has left him.
The average cost of Pullman sleeper
J S17,S12. There are now in use 1,760 s
tandard and 239 tourist Pullmans. +
he assets OF the company are placed +
$40, 7S2, ,692 and the liabilities at $780, I
81, $40.
CHARLES BAKER has vegetable gar
en- near Anaheim, Cal. The other day @
3 brought in pumpkin that weighed :,
" pounds and two beets raised from y,
sed that weighed As pounds each. Tho '.
g pumpkin was bought by New York y
an, who shipped it to his own State
lir.
FIVE miles an hour is considered good -,
alking for man, but there is one in 4
organ County, Ga, who can beat this. -
9 walked all the way from Duluth, in II
winett County, to within few miles q,
Madison, distance of over fifty N,
lies, in less than ten hours. His name N,
w. Il. Young. =