The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

Prince of Wales nose is red.
BOGUS $40 bills are circulated in Port
land, Ore, in large numbers.
Rev. DR.. SILENCE is a Chicago Socialist
who believes in agitation"
THE Empress of japan, when she trav-
cls, takes her dentist along with her.
THE only time a person does not care TO
break the ice is when he goes skating.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, has organized n COM
pany with $500, 900 capital to build cotton
mill.
TIE rice prospects of tho South are not
good. Bad storms and floods have done
great damage.
THREE hundred miles an hour is the pro-
posed speed for the electric postal railroad
of the future.
THE New York Times presents the story
of "a centenarian" whose life was 'cut
short by a cold"
ONE American manufacturer OF base
balls employs 800 hands and keeps 40, 600
dozen balls in stock.
STATISTICS show that in New England
seven out of ten widows under thirty-hv
marry within two years.
A GOOD share of the letters intended for
Horseheads N. Y, are addressed, "Mule-
heads, "Horsefeets etc.
The Philadelphia Press announces that
n great New York church is paying cash
dividends to its stockholders
Miss REDMOND, the sculptress, who has
Just been commissioned to make bust of
Mr.. Gladstone, is an Irish girl.
PROF. PRocToR's widow is to receive
pension of $500 from the British Govern
ment She remains in Florida.
BALTIMORE shpyards are full Of work,
and the prospects are for happy con-
tinuation of this state of affairs.
MISS HATTIE CARTER, of Kearney Coun-
ty, Kas., has won several prizes at lasso-
ing, in competition with cowboys.
The post flee at Eubanks, Ill., is to be
abolished for the singular reason that no
one can be found to take charge of it,
GEO. CoMAR resident of Virginia City,
claims to have been visited by Satan, and
to have had long talk with the old
boy.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD, Canadian Pre-
mer, is becoming alarmed at the growth
of the annexation sentiment among the
people.
THE president of the Philadelphia board
of education advocates the employment OF
men as teachers OF boys over twelve years
of age.
TRIRTY-sEvEN thousand barrels of caul-
iflower were shipped from the little town
of Mattituck, on Long Island, the past
season.
THE electric cars at San Jose, Cal are
declared to be a failure, and the peo-
pie call for horses so that regular trips can
be made
The railroads are largely increasing
their tracks at Washington for the accom-
mediation of special trains during inaugur-
Rtion week.
A MEMBER of the British royal family
Prince Albert Victor-will soon come over
TO Canada, presuma bly, to knock annexa-
tion endways.
Mr.. LIMBERGER, of Coffey County, Kas,
has asked the Legislature to amputate
.lim" for him. He wants his name made
plain Berger"
MARY BEAN, colored, of Guyton, Ga,
has found, in Florida, her mother, from
whom she was forcibly separated fifty
four years ago.
PUNISHMENT. though long delayed, comes
at last. A California servant girl has
married a millionaire, and will now have
servants herself
tional House of Representatives will be
II. p. Cheatham, from the Second North
Carolina district.
THERE are said to be about dozen
negro physicians in Brooklyn, some of
whom have been in active practice for
fully forty years.
THE King of Samoa is discontented, not
because his salary is only twenty dollars
a month, but because he has to take part
of it in cocoanuts.
LAST July Floquet wounded Boulanger
in n duel. The other day Floquet was de-
feated in the French Parliament That is
why Boulanger laughs.
THE act granting an increase of pensions
to soldiers who lost both hands in the SER
vice, only reaches eighteen persons. The
increase is 500 per month.
THE fortune of John Jacob Astor, the
richest man in the country, is now esti-
mated at 800, 100000. He is about seventy
years of age and widower.
MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is to erect
a monument over the grave of General
Francis Marion, the revolutionary hero
She is n descendant of the Marions.
In Utah the census of children Of school
nge, between six and eighteen years,
shows there are in the Territory 941 boys
and 3,G41 girls OF non Mormon parentage.
1T is noted that although the female
eel lays 1900 0O) eggs, she doesn't make
as much fuss over it as the hen that pre-
tends she has just laid AN old china nest
egg.
AN Arkansas man who bears the name
OF Jerusalem John Johnson wants it
changed to John the Baptist Smith in
order that he may inherit ten acres Of
land.
BEN BUTrERwoRTH Is offering reward
for the name of the newspaper that has
not at some time or other asked, in con-
nection with his name: "What is butter
worth"
Two conscience contributions were re-
ceived at the Treasury Department the
other day, one for 10, 25G from Washington
and another for thirty cents from Phila-
delphia.
ELABORATE arrangements are making
for holding beauty show" in Paris in
April, the entries to embrace types of
Philippians, ,Mongoian as well rs Caucasian
beauty. The first prize will represent a
value OF $1,000.
Rev. w. L. JOHNSON, Of Plainville, Ct,
breaches in his dry goods store Sunday
evenings to men, and the sign Smoking
allowed" hangs from the pulpit His idea
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