The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-09-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

u0nS TO nTnt uuel.
WM. O'BRIEN and John Dillon will
start for America October I.
MCMILLAN, of Michigan is the best
dressed man in the Senate.
TWENTY million acres of land OF the
United States are heldtby foreigners.
THE mounted police in Central Park,
New York, are to have knee breeches.
The city churches closed all summer
we're fewer this yesr than ever before.
A sTATIsTIcAN has estimated that
eourtships average three tons Of coal
zach.
DIR. MENDLE, of Berlin, announces
Mat he has discovered that coffee intox-
toates.
A FELLOW named Coward is an appli.
,ant for place on the Philadelphia po-
hce force.
NAPOLEON, Wellington, Washington
and Walter Scott have no direct de-
scendants living.
The Marquis of Drogheda is six fees
dve inches in his stockings. He is the
biggest English peer.
MIss HATTIE BLAINE, the youngest
and prettiest daughter ot the Secretary,
Is an intrepid canoeist.
Miss ALICE LoNGFELpow, daughter Of
the poet, is said to be the best amateur
photographer in America
The latest sweet thing for the ladies'
Is confectioners' association, just Or
ganized at Harrisburg, Pa.
THE Danish kings crown is worth
6135, 600, the queens crown ST. 500, and
the sword of State $500
CONTRACTS have been given out for
Baltimore's IS, 900, 600 belt line, and the
work is to be begun at once.
THERE is wheat enough at Portland,
Ore, to load fifty-seven ships and to
give Sc, 900, 900 to the farmers.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS expects to see
the first volume of the life Of her hus-
band published about October /.
THE youngest member of the next
Congress, will be ]. NJ. Bailey, of Texas,
who is only twenty-five years Of age.
Mrs. ROBINSON, of Fort Gratiot,
Mich, recently married her adopted
son. She was IS years old and the young
man 30.
JANE DETTENRIDGE, Of Kingston, ia
maoia, is an orphan and has $1,000, 900.
She has refused thirty-seven offers of
marriage.
ANDREW CARNEGIE never wears
shirt with a stiff bosom. He thinks
the ordinary starched shirt is the acme
Of discomfort
THERE are about 10000 parts in a
single feather of an eagle, it is stated
2, 600 rami, $500, 900 adj and 81, 600, 600
ella and booklets.
THRoUGH the use of the electric light
the time in passing through the Sues
canal has been reduced to twenty-five |
and one-half hours.
DM.PHINs are now playing in the bay |
at Santa Cruz for the first time on rec
ord. They are following immense
schools Of mackerel.
PoRr HURON, Mich, has a man who |
has been arrested fifty-three times, and
who spends most of his time between |
the Jail and police court.
ONE of the most beautiful women in |
England is the Duchess of Leinster.
She is tall, slender and stately, and an
aristocrat from crown to toe.
THE Queen of Corea, who died last
June is still salted down, and, accord
ng to the custom of the country, will
'emain in her brine-bath until cool
Weather.
JOHN w. KEELY, the well-known
inventor, completed his
ffty-third year in this sinful world re-
,ently, and his motor has not begin to
note yet.
A PIECE of the photographic stone
from which the $40 bills of the Confed-
crate Government were printed was dis
covered in a cemetery near Anderson,
). c.. recently.
A COMPRESSED air plant is to be erect.
ID opposite the town of ElLwood. Pa,
IN the Connoq river, to supply
with compressed air in
tead of steam.
j. w. PATTERSON, the tallest man
lnown. except Chang, will settle down
n Oklahoma with his wife. He is sew.
N feet eight inches high, and his wife
S over six feet.
AT convention of street-railway
ompanies, to be held in Boston soon,
he matter Of abating the noise produced
y electric cars will be one of the prob
ems considered.
IN nearly every foreign country may
% fonnd colonies of old soldiers who are
N Uncle Sans pension list. Germany
lone has 500 of them, Great Britain ATS
nd Switzerland SO.
INTO peach tree on his place at
Iapa, CAL, Rev. Richard Wylie has
RATED different varieties of stone fruit
ntil he now gathers from 1t almonds,
lums and three kinds of peaches.
WOMEN employed in the post-office, and
elegraph and telephone offices in Ger
lany are about to be put into uniform
hieh consists of blue dress with orange
ollar and facings and bright buttons.
AT Lake Pearl, Mass, A. III. Heilborn
nd Thomas Richards made an attempt
} swim a mile, run mile, walk mile
nd ride bicycle a mile inside of one I
our. Heilborn accomplished the feat
! "a minutes 0 3-5 seconds, and Richards :
! "a minutes 15 seconds
REV. Dir. MEREDITH, the popular :
rooklya preacher, who has recently
sen travelling in the West had his
,cket picked of a valuable gold watch
.esensed to him by Boston Bible class !
DIR. NoRvIN GREEN, the head of the \
estern Union Telegraph Company, is t
Kentucliian of giant frame, nearly q
venty- three years of age. He was O t
physician in the early aays
his career.
A MME. CLERMoNT is dead at ST. Mar
q, near Montreal, at the age of 92 .