The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

visitors this season.
THERE are $50 lighthouses round the
coast of tho United States.
AUGUST MEYER is serving his seventh
term in the Missouri penitensiary.
THE advance in the price of cereals
caused an increased planting of wheat
Mrs ALICE SHAW is about TO start
apon whistling tour around tho world.
WM e. RUSSELL, Governor-elect OF
Massachusetts,, is but thirty-three years
old.
NuTMEes and mace, two OF the princi'
pal spices of commerce, grow in the same
pod.
In New South Wales tho railroads are
Obliged to carry school childron for
nothing.
A GoATEsvILLE (Pa.) farmer raised a
pumpkin that is so big he can not get IT
into his cellar.
Mr.. GLADSTONE dislikes tobacco in
svery form. He has profound dislike
for new clothes.
REPORTS come from Northern Michi-
gan that deer hunters are hocking in
there by the hundreds
The British census of April next
will be the largest and most elaborate
ever taken in England.
PRESIDENT CARNor of France is said
to be considering proposition to visit
st. Petersburg next May.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, celebrated the
opening of a newly paved street with
fireworks and grand ball.
A NUMBER Of horse-fesh restaurants
have Just been started in Berlin and
they are doing brisk trade.
IT is the latest theory that the elec-
tfioity Of thunderstorm is due to the
Iriotion Of water drops on ice.
CHIEF JUSTICE and Mrs. Fuller will
celebrate their silver wedding in jan
uary at their Washington homo.
The new Masonic temple in Chicago,
counting the last room in the gable-end,
is to be twenty-one stories high
THERE are about 1900, 00o, 900 inhab-
itants on the globe. and there are S,O64
languages and over 1000 religions.
QUEEN VICTORIA is only four feet
eight inches in height, yet she is said to
be regal sovereign in her bearing.
THE railroad investments in this
country in 1889 amounted to 81, 495, Ooo,-
600 and the total dividends to SS1, 200, 900.
OPEN canned fruit an hour or two be-
fore it is needed for use. 1t is far
richer when the oxygen is thus restored
to it.
Moscow, Russia, has beggar on tne
streets who once was worth s.. 900, 600.
He lost it by gambling and leading q
fast life.
QUEEN VICTORIA has invited the whole
royal family, down to the latest grand
child, to spend Christmas with her at
Windsor Castle.
E M. BLOND. of New York, has lived
in one hotel, the Fifth Avenue, for
thirty-one years. This is the longest
bOtel record known.
ATLANTA, Ca, is believed to be the
0cly city in the United States which has
o honse constructed wholly OF paper from
foundation to turret.
SQUIRE Bob ALLISON, of Fairplay, the
Gretna Green of Wisconsin, makes the
boast that he has married eight hun
dred runaway couples.
GENERAL GREELY, Chief of the Sig
pal Service, Is in receipt of at least
bvonty letters day from cranks who
yolemnly hold him responsible for the
weather.
BRoCA, the French anthropologist
declares that the broad-headed race
now represented by the people OF CEN
tral France are the true Gauls or Colts
OF Cesar.
IRON collars for heavy work horses are
coming into use. They may weigh less
than seven pounds, and the advantage |
Of their use is said to be immunity from |
sore necks.
REV. JAMES W. FORD, for more than
hah century a missionary in China,
says he has studied the Chinese Ian
guage for fifty years and has not yet
it.
Mr. SELTZER is elected member of |
the Iowa Legislature. He is Prohibi-
Zionist, and expresses his intention to |
uncork his wrath against all kinds of |
strong drink.
A SODA water fountain which works
on the nickel-in-the-slot plan has been
Invented. The customer helps himself
but can not get more than five cents
Worth at a time.
CONTRARY to the eternal fitness Of
things Mr.. Oyster, Republican candi-
date for Congress in Pennsylvania, was
not one of the many who tumbled into
She soup at the recent election.
JOHN ID. RocKEFELLER, of the Stan
lard OH Company, has lots of fun watch
ng his income grow. 1t is said to be
i6, 600. 900 year, or 1854 an hour, night
md day, every day throughout the
rear.
A HOTEL has been built in Hamburg
,rfHrely Of compressed wood as hard as
ron, and rendered absolutely proof
'gainst both fire and the attacks of in
ects by subsection to certain chemical
PROCESSES.
PROBABLY the Oldest timber in the
world which has been subjected to the
lse OF man is found in an ancient tom
lie Of Egypt, in connection with stone-
york, which is known TO be at least
. 600 years old.
BRAZIL is larger than the United
Yates, but in the whole twenty States
fhich make up the Republic there are
ot as many people as we have in New
.ork and Pennsylvania
COUNT TOLsToI has at last succeeded
n founding a colony. A number OF
adies and gentlemen OF the aristocracy
re going to leave their homes and live
Ike peasants at little place between |