The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

A THRIVING mining camp IN SallIor-
aia is named Gimletville.
BEES stung four horses to death at
Nayfeld, Mich, few days ago.
OVER 1900 bills were introduced in
Congress during the past session.
A MAN at Buchanan, Mich. is coiniug
money out of a mushroom orchard.
FoUR Norwegian vessels have arrived
IN New York with 1000 tons of ice.
ABABy hippotamus has made its APP
pearance at Central Park, New York.
Mr. AND Mrs. WALTER DAMRoscH
will make their future home in New
York.
MRs. "SToNEwALL" JACKSON, now at
Staunton, Va, is great sufferer from
neuralgia.
PIpEs for gas, water and electric ca
bles made of paper have recently ap-
pearcd at Vienna.
THE Berlin fire department has lately
received an engine constructed entire
ly of papier mache."
THE newest things in pincushions is a
clever representation of a loaf of bread
made of painted satin.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN E. RUSSELL. OF
Massachusetts, is accompanied in all his
campaigns by his wife.
Miss SANGER, the Presidents stenog-
rapher, is the first woman to act in that
capacity at the White House.
A coLoRED woman has sued Texas
newspaper for S1O0 damages for having
spoken of her as white woman.
THE Observation-Disclosures Herzo-
iirh- -Bergischen Provincial Zeitung is
the name of German newspaper.
MONROE, Mich, has a cucumber 81
feet long, which weighs eight pounds,
and it is to be picked in paregoric.
1t is said there are only two red slate
uuarries in the United States-one in
Vermont and the other in Virginia.
AN Interstate hay palace, made OF
baled hay, with trimmings Of baled
straw, has been built at Momence, Ill.
BARON DE HIRscH has sent S20,0 to
Montreal, to be applied to the benefit
of the refugee Russian Hebrews in Can
ada.
OF the twenty-six barons who signed
Magma Charta. all but three had to
snake their mark" being unable to
write.
THE Comte de Paris eats a very simple
breakfast, consisting of eggs, maclleral,
beefsteak and potatoes, coffee, claret
and hook.
THERE are nearly two hundred thou
sand enrolled "King's Daughters" in the
United States and they are doing benefi-
cent work.
THE official count OF New Mexico
gives that Territory population OF
142, ,S62, which entities her to admission
to Statehood.
Down near Neosho, Mo-, the Splitlog
railroad runs across Cowskin creek, over
Buckram hill, through Sulphur springs
into Skunk hollow.
THE schools in the raisin districts OF
San Diego County have been closed for
six weeks so as to allow the children to
pick the grape crops.
Mr.. ANIME BUsTANG, Beirut, Syria,
has arrived in this country as the Inn
perial Commissio ner from the Sultan OF
Turkey to the Columbian Exposition, in
1898
WARDENs and keepers say that, as
rule, twenty-year prisoners don't sur
vive their terms, and that as a rule, also,
they are the best behaved men in their
charge.
The geologists and ichthyologists, and
all that class, are greatly puzzled over
the discovery of a lot Of whalebones on
the shore Of creek far inland in North
Carolina.
TRAVEL. in Russia, according to re-
to 1n1 htv
much showing of passports just now that
there's little opportunity for doing any
thing else.
ARCHBISHOP KENRIcK, of ST. Louis,
who is expected to receive a cardinals
hat next year, is in his eighty-fifth year
and is the Oldest of living American
lrchbishops.
HALE JENKINS, of North Wales, Pa,
has in his possession deed signed by
William Penn, conveying $50 acres OF
land in Montgomery Township to
Thomas Fairman.
KATE FIELD has been examing some
statistics furnished her by the Chicago
Board of Pharmacy, and finds to her hor-
ror that American women spend S62, 000,-
600 year for cosmetics.
BARON HRscH, who was recently
blacls-balled at we'll known club in
London, has quietly purchased the prop.
erty occupied by the club, it is stated,
and given the organization notice to get
out
A Missouri family left the cars at Sa-
lima to take in the town and the train
went on having the sleeping baby on
board. There was squally time until
the family got together at the next sta
tion.
THE servant girl crop in Ireland is not
suffering whatever may be said OF the
shortness of other crops. An Irish girl,
sixteen years of age and six feet
seven inches in height, arrived in Now
York recently.
SEVERAL Japanese editors have been
sentenced to four years imprisonment
with hard labor for speaking disrespect-
fully of the Emperor Jimmu, who, If he
ever existed. lived about 600 years ago.
DURING the six years comprised in
the period 1883 TO 1888 no less than 2s9
pupils OF the public schools in Prussia
have committed suicide, A large num-
ber of these suicides was inspired by the
fear OF not passing examinations.
CHAs. SKEHRIc, the night engineer at
the electric light works, Waltham,
Mass, received the whole current Of the
dynamo, 1900 volts, while making some
changes at the switchboard. His hands
were terribly burned, but he still lives.