The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-07
CURRENT TOPICS.


ArcuIsoN has the only female census
enumerator in Kansas.
IT costs the Nation $3.50, 900 year TO
print the Congressional Record.
WIN. RooKEFELLER is building 49,
300, 900 residence at Tarrytown, N. Y.
THE Miller estimates that there are
5000 flour mills in tho United States.
There is one pauper in every thirty
seven inhabitants in England and
Wales.
ENIN PAsHA is somewhat of lin
guist. He speaks twenty-seven lam
guages.
IT is reported from the ruby mines OF
Burmah that ruby weighing So4 carats
has been found.
New varieties of birds have appeared
down in Maine, among which are whlte
srow and a white swallow.
KATIE DESMOND, a sixteen-year-old
girl, has confessed to long list OF bur-
glaries in Boston and vicinity.
FORTUNATELY for the ladies, they do
not have to swear to their ages when
the census taker comes around.
GENERAL MIDDLETON has Indignantly
denied the report that he is to resign his
command of the Canadian militia.
EVERY nation in Europe is increasing
its armament, which is causing much
CONSERVATION among peace societies.
A NEW pest is destroying the clover
crop in Sussex County, N. j. The Great
ure resembles the common grub worm.
The fashionable pocket handkerchief
Is so small that such a thing as q cold IN
C AZ No nf
tion.
IT is stated that the introduction OF
steam yacts on the canals of Venice has
thrown many gondoliers out of employ
ment
INDUSTRIOUS and patient thieves lug
ged off 100 bushels of oats from store
in Marine City, Mich, the other
night
THE largest greenback extant is worth
$4,000, and there is only one such note
in existence. OF S5, 900 notes there are
seven.
DR.. TALMAGE estimates that 5000
men, every four years, have hope oi
being made President of the United
States.
A PHILADELPHIA father has recently
paid So, 500 for dolls house for his lit.
tie girl.
GENERAL E. KIRBY SMITH, the Con-
federate soldier, claims the distinction
Of being the oldest living man born in
Florida.
JUSTICE has been done at last A man
who stole thirty-fve umbrellas has been
arrested.
A CHICAGO girl procured two marriage
licenses the other day. She married
one of the young mon and will be SIS
ter to the other.
THE young monarch of Servia, King
Alexander, it is rumored is betrothed to
Grand Duchess Xenie, the eldest OF the
Cars two daughters.
A GENTLEMAN of unbounded leisure
has started from New York to the mouth
of the Columbia river, distance OF
1000 miles, in a canoe.
TIE geographical center of the United
States is marked by the grave of Major
Ogden, who is buried in the National
Cemetery at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
THE world over there have been OBJ
served about 100 species of mosquitoes,
but in our temperate regions there are
not apt to be found more than ten spe-
les.
Two enthusiastic English pedestrians
have just accomplished a journey around
Europe ON foot. The long tramp was
taken for pleasure and took about
year.
A FOURTEEN YEAR-oLD boy named
Jones, of Preston, CT, fell As feet into
y we'll the other day. After two unsuc-
oessful attempts he finally got out unas-
sisted
A aTIZEN of st. Augustine, Fla, was
attracted by a racket in his fireless
stove, and on removing the cover an owl
hoped out 1t had come down the
chimney.
The Blaine household, 1t is said, will
shortly be further depleted by the mar
riage OF Miss Hattie to q young gentle
man attached to foreign legation in
Washington.
The railroad car window is probably
responsible for as much profanity as the
, hammer and nail. Who is there wh'
has not tackled one OF these obduratt
institutions?
THE nutritiye value of salads is helt
by eminent French authority TO be du'
to the presence OF salts OF potash
which in ordinary vegetables are lost il
the cooking.
JAY GoULD's daily income has beer
estimated recently at STAG. Cornelius
Vanderbilts at Sl5,249, John ID. Rookie
feller's at sls.7l5 and VIM. Waldorf AS
tors at Sss3, 508
AERoNAyr KING is willing TO build ;
balloon and make an effort to cross tn
ATLANTIC Ocean, il the people OF tn
United States will contribute 1000
toward the project.
A PENNsYLvANIAN drove lot OF boy
who were teasing his mules out of hi
field. He then returned to condole will
the mule, when the animal kicked hin
once, killing him instantly.
A FOND mother in Baltimore afte
searching over nearly the entire tow
the other day for her missing four-yeaI
old child, went into the bedroom, an
there found the little one sound asleep
THE elections in Nova Scotia, tho 9th
er day, which resulted in an Overwhel
ming victory for the provincial govern
ment, are significant in that the tri
umphant party are strong annexation
lists.
A NEW dynamite cartridge was expert
mented with in Massachusetts,, fey
days ago. The gun in which it wa
fired exploded into thousand pieces
No one was hurt. The experiment wa