The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
CURRENT TOPICS.


Book agents are now excluded fror
Bucks County, Pa. f
BRICKS for artistic decoration are no,
made of old bagging.
A BALTIMORE tramp named Welch ha
fallen heir to $4,000
A WOMAN in New York furnishes low
letters at a dollar piece.
PRINCE BISMARCK keeps the wolf from
the door with Sl70,000 year.
TEXAS has an ex-Governor-Mr. Hub
bard-who weighs $50 pounds.
THERE are fully fifty thousand Rus
sian Hebrews in New York City.
MINISTER PHELPS spends so, 900 yea
moro than his salary in Germany.
A GENUINE portrait of Columbus paint
ed by Lotte in 1901, has been discover
ed.
THE Countess of Paris is crack shot
and never allows the attendants to loat
her gun.
IT was originally intended by his
father to make pianist OF Editor Henry
Watterson.
THE most expensive fur is the Russian
sable, for single skin as much as Sl5(
is sometimes paid.
A sUNFLowRR stock fourteen feet
nigh, with 151 flowers on it, is the pride
of Versailles Mo.
PAsTEUB is small and pale and limps
when no walks. With all his discoveries
he has not found health.
p. T. BARNUM always takes tea and
coffee mixed at regular hourly intervals
during the day and night.
pointed by the Gar to inquire into the
position of Jews in Russia.
IT appears from the New York dis
patches t at Castle Garden has become
regular matrimonial bureau.
A NUMBER of United States Senators
are agitatfng the question of increasing
a Senator's pay to S1O,O year.
EVERY night $4,000 houseless and
homeless people sleep by the Thames,
in what they call the Port of London.
Miss CoLENsO, of Natal, daughter of
the famous bishop of that name is lec-
turing in London on the Zulu question.
The handsomest residence in Hart
ford, Conn, is said to be that of Mrs.
Colt, the widow of the revolver inven-
tor.
The library of Napoleon III saved
from the Tuileries when it was
in flames, is shortly to be sold by auc-
ton.
GENERAL BENJAMIN BUTLER once sup
ported himself by making chairs at fifty
cents day. Now his income is $500, 600
annually.
ALMOST $4,000 Frenchmen belong to
the Legion of Honor, 32.O21 of them be-
ing connected with the army and the
rest civilians.
A NEAT unadorned marble cross has
been erected over the remains of Wilkie
Collins in the northern part of Keneal
Green cemetery.
A FARMER took load of potatoes to
Wichita, Kan, the other day, and sold
them for as much money as seven loads
brought last season.
AN instance of retribution is found in
the case of the man who invented the
rigs-in-clover puzzle. He has been sent
to an insane asylum.
THERE is never any telling where am.
bition and ability may end. Lord VOL
seley was once an errand boy in sta.
tionary store in Berlin.
THE average temperature OF Sitka,
Alaska, in winter, is 43 above zero. In
forty years the mercury has fallen be.
low zero but four times.
The engineer on locomotive near
Green Cove Spring, Fla, caught two
partridges in his hands out of covoy,
while flying through the cab.
TEXAS is the eighth State in point oil
population in the Union, the order be
ing New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan,
Texas.
DoYLEsTowN, Pa, ducks are addicted
to dissipation. They eat the tomato re-
fuse from seed establishment which
has undergone fermentation and got
beastly drunk.
THE President of Uruguay lives over
millinery store with his wife, but
having the entire resources of the coun.
try at his command the expense does
not worry him.
THE champion butter producing-c
Of the would is named Euratisamas,
owned in Massachusetts, and her record |
Is 945 pounds and nine ounces of but. |
Ter in one year.
THE measures against the introduc. |
tion of cholera to Europe by pilgrims |
from Mecca have been entirely success.
full. The sanitary condition of France |
and Spain is now fairly good.
COLONEL JOHN BENTON and n NJ.
Johnson, respectively Democratic and
Republican candidates for Congress in
North Dakota, will jointly discuss the
tariff throughout the campaign.
CAPTAIN JAMES BEND, who saved the
lives of 29s persons wrecked off Long
Beach on the ship State of Georgia, in De-
cember 1852, still lives, at the age of |
ninety, near Beach Haven, N. j.
AMONG the oldest officers in the Ger.
man army, in point of service, is Theo-
dor Won Fries, of Munich, General of In
fantry, Chief of the Bavarian Engineer
Corps and Inspector of Fortifcations
He recently began the fiftieth year Of
his military service.
Mrs. ANNIE HALL, who is suing for
divorce in a Brooklyn court, bases her
petition upon the alleged wreck of her
nervous system by her husbands habit
of grinding his teeth during his sleep.
THE famous Hindoo god, Lingham, is
now owned by an English gentleman
named Spencer, who paid $13, 600 for it
at an auction sale in London in 1885,
This curious relic stands but 1871 inches
high.
WHAT is probably the largest rose
bush in the world grows alongside the