The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-03
CURRENT TOPICS.


salt for eight cents barrel.
THE Irisb tenants defense fund now
amounts to the sum of R5S, 900.
SENATOR BLAIR's speech on mis- educa-
tional bill contained 273,00 words.
THE heel of mans shoe should be
Just seven-eighths of an inch high.
GENERAL MILES is considered the
handsomest officer in the United States
army.
GENERAL JUBAL EARLY lives at Lynch
ourg, Va, where he has comfortable
home.
BISMARCK was once offered 81 word
for all that he might contribute to an
American magazine.
TENDER sentiments are now painted
across the head-board of bedsteads to
promote happy dreams.
BETsEY Cox, a colored woman who
died near Greenville, S. c., was, it is
claimed, $50 years of age.
JAPANESE chickens with tails frIm
eleven to thirteen feet long are being
imported into this country.
HERBERr GLADSTONE announces his
Intention to pay the United States and
Canada visit this summer.
COLONEL FLAGLER, the st. Augustine
money king, has just paid the doctor for
attending his daughter, $3.50 900.
A BICKLEy ga man has handsaw
which was bought in 1771, which has
been in use constantly ever since.
RAIN-rN-ruE-FAcE, the great Sioux
chieftain, has applied for n position on
e l. nn1-
RIGHT on top of the failure of the ice
crop comes the report that the Vermont
maple sugar supply is short this year.
A MORMON with two wives and four
teen children was found in Provo, U. T.,
recently, living in hut with one room.
THE oldest college dormitory in the
United States is that known as South
Middle at Yale. 1t was erected in 1852.
THREE Angora goats owned by Mr..
Hlckathier, of Drain, Ore, were sheared
recently whose feeces weighed 1876
pounds.
Rio Proc, the last Mexican Governor
of California, is a pauper at the age of
ninety years. He was once very
wealthy.
MAYOR LEWIS GINTER, of Richmond,
Va, is said to be worth quite $1,000, 900,
all accumulated out of the cigarette
business.
A GOLD nugget, found in the Neal
placers on Block creek, Idaho, recently,
is said to perfectly resemble the figure
of woman.
THERE are 10 different varieties of
strawberries growing in the expert
mental gardens at the Kansas Agricul-
tural college.
ONLY year ago Johnstown, Pa, was
almost totally destroyed by the food,
but to-day the property of the town is
assessed at 81, 300, 900.
A GERMAN dealer in rare old violins,
who has gone out of business, says that
the man who pays over $40 for any sort
of violin gets stuck.
A NEW scheme among the lumbermen
is to cut down trees by means of wire
so charged with electricity as to be
maintained at 4 white heat.
WASHINGTON DODGE, a printer who
helped to get out the first issue of the
New York Tribune fifty years ago, is
still employed on that paper.
The Philadelphia Times very peril.
nently suggests that the question as to
free hides will be settled as soon as the
mosquito goes into commission.
Miss REBEccA HuHLE threw some ra,
poison in the fire in Greenbrier County,
w. Va, and accidentally inhaling thN
fumes from the flames, died m great
agony.
THE PUstmas ter-G General does not APP
prove OF the eight-hour proposition for
post-ofice clerks, because it will produce
confusion and cost the people SO, 800, 900
year.
Mrs. BORDEN, of Cawker City, Kan,
sold during the month of March 44O
dozen eggs. She gathers from 175 to o25
eggs a day, besides taking care of her
family.
The aphis or plant louise is attacking
the peach trees in Southern Maryland
orchards. 1t is new insect, and its APP
pearanre Is attributed to tho mild
winter.
A rouNG giraffe has been born at
travelling menagerie in Cambridgeshire.
1t is healthy little creature, and is
said to be the first of it's kind born in
England.
THE King of Ashantee has 1888
wives. They all live on one street in
Coomassie, and when they go out for
walk in body, preceded by the cum
uchs, everybody else has to walk in the
gutter.
JOSEPH WETzLER, in his paper on the
electric railway in Scribner's Magazine
expresses the belief that ten years
hence 'sthere will not be single horse
railway in operation, at least in our own
country"
ALTHOUGH sixty-six years have elapsed
since Lord Byron breathed his last at
Missofonghi, the poets favOrite boat
man has only just died in little cottage
within u few hundred yards distant OF
the house in which his master expired.
THE steam ferryboat Robert Garrett,
plying between Brooklyn and New York
City, carried 5000 passengers at a trip
and is said TO be the largest steam ferry
boat IN existence.
Two Russian climbers of Mount
Ararat found in perfect preservation a
minimum thermometer, which was left
there last year. 1t registered fifty de-
grees below zero.
The tone Of the new German prime
minister CapIivi, in his speech to tho
PrussiaD diet, was in marked contrast TO
that which Bismarck was accustomed to
a aeaurna II WAS conciliatorv while RIG.