The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

The Emperor of Germany left Turkey
for Greece, the other day.
A CHINASiAN is about to enter the law
department of Michigan University.
SECRETARY BLAINE has moved into
She old Seward house in Washington.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS visit to Constan-
tinople cost the Sultan over 81, 100000.
SEVEN million persons are employed
IN the cultivation OF the vine in France.
IDAHO, Gem of the mountains" is
the accurate translation of the Indian
word.
A BRANCH of the knights of Labor has
been formed by the rope-workers of
Belfast.
THE United States is credited with
16,319 papers of all sorts, 1,494 of them
being dailies.
THE expenses of fashionable funeral
are almost equal to those of a fashion
able wedding.
CHICAGO is going into ecstasies over
the prospect of having natural gas in
the near future.
IT is claimed that cranberries can be
kept sound under water in jars the
winter through.
AS A rule the cattle-dealer makes a
fortune out of his pen great deal faster
than the author does.
PENNSYLVANIA autumn Arbor Day
resulted in the planting of "a, 160 trees
throughout the State.
A F1FTY-YEAR-oLD grapevine grows in
Germantown, Pa, on a trunk which
measures 21l feet round.
The manufacture of sugar by the diff
fusion process in Louisiana has resulted
In great increase of output.
THE London authorities will not al
low Barnum to parade his exhibition
through the streets of that city.
ABOUT two tons of frogs legs have
been shipped from the bay district
to New York during the past four
months.
THE most interesting exhibition in
Europe next year will be the Loan Ex-
hibition of Tapestry at the Austrian
museum.
The largest family in Wetzel County,
w. Va, consists of eighteen persons
father, mother, eight sons and eight
daughters.
AMONG the freshwomen entered this
term at Newman College, Cambridge,
is Miss Chamberlain, niece of Joseph
Chamberlain.
PLYMOUTH Church, Brooklyn, has con-
cluded to go back into Congregational
ism, from which it declared its inde-
pendence some years ago.
WHAT with the great undefeated Ell |
Rio Rey and the new wonder, Sunol,
California seems to have fairly earned |
the title Of ruler of the turf.
SAN FRANCISCO, with q population of
about 400, 900, has only 12O churches,
with seating capacity of 10000 and an |
average attendance of $4,000.
PRINCE HATzFELDT is a blonde of mer
dunn height, Of square and symmetrical
figure. His hair parts in the center and
rolls back IN the German way.
THE finest collection of postage stamps
in this country is said to be owned by
George Gould. His fathers collection
of stamps is also notable one.
A GERMAN professor has discovered
that Mr.. Gladstone is direct descend
ant of Edward III. Lord Tennyson is
said to belong to the same family.
II has been resolved to erect monu-
ment at his native place of Eisleben to
the memory of Friedrich Konig, the
inventor of the quick printing
ONE of the chief industries of Sicily
is the mining of sulphur. There are
567 mines in the country, and birthstone
is one of the most important exports.
Miss MARY CLYNER, recently welded
to Ex-Secretary Bayard, is thirty-nine
years old. Her distinguished husband
was sixty-one years of age last month.
GENERAL RosEcRANs, Register of
the Treasury, has decided to introduce
the use of electricity in his Office as a
motive power to run the punching ma
chimes for cancelling the redeemed
treasury notes.
The young Emperor of Germany, al
though he has done considerable travel
ing, is having an immense steam yacht
built and contemplates cruise around
the world before his crave for sight-see-
ing is satisfied.
OF Cuba's $4,000 acres, 1000 only are
cultivated 1t has no gold or silver cur
rercy of its own, depending upon S4O,-
100000 in notes issued by the Spanish
Bank. 1t is not prosperous and it's popu-
lation is diminishing.
Two studies of heads-one of an
American lady in pencil, the other of
Maltese girl in water-color-have been
contributed by the Princess Louise lot
Lorne) to the Royal Scottish water-col-
or exhibition at Glasgow.
In saving spruce log at the Bru-
nette mill, Victoria, B. c., the saw
struck an iron bullet one and three
quarter inches in diameter. 1t was shot
from a culverin used by the Spaniards
100 years ago, and it was fully eighteen
inches from the surface.
THERE are 1,400, 100000 people on
earth and all these, as some one COM
putes, could be gathered in a field ten
miles square or in 100 square miles of
territory.
SOME Of the eastern papers are urging
the advisability of holding Sabbath
evening services at $3.50 in order that
business men may spend at least one
evening week with their families.
A PROCESS has been invented by
means OF which photographs can be
printed almost as fast as newspaper,
and without dependence on sun or
light They are said to be of the first J
luahty.
MANY of the school-houses of Dakota
are being provided with barrels of