The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

tHdu TWO uOlldTS.
MAY will bc month of conventions,
dcdications and celebrations.
Mr.. CARNEGIE's hotel for worltingmen
near Pittsburgh is to cost 100000
| THE International Reform Congress
meets this year in st. Petersburg.
ILLINOIS has four watch factories
which produce two thousand watches n
day.
It's said that fewer daily papers
are published in Boston now than in
1916.
A HuLMAN (Mich,) man is accused of
selling his vote for two bushels of buck
wheat
DrsRAEI1 used to say the test of gen.
tility was to see women eat oranges and
grapes.
IT is reported that in the past fifteen
months $1,000 negroes have left North
Carolina.
THE English language was used in
framing recent treaty between Russia
and China.
In Sturgis (NIich.) burglars spent two
hours drilling hole in safe which
wasn't locked.
THE Empress of Germany speaks good
French with hardly any perceptble
German accent,
GENERAL EARLY has been the chief
contributor to the Lee monument fund
at Richmond, Va.
STATE TREASURER HOUSE says the rev.
enues of Tennessee will be increased
next year 100000.
THE Car of Russia says that he con-
siders duelling in the army not only al
lowable but necessary.
JUSTICE FIELD, of the Supreme Court,
will not go to California as usual this
year, but to Europe instead.
CHIEF-JusTIcE FULLER made his first
public speech at Pierce and Kingmeet-
ing in Augusta, Me-, in 1852.
THE first cargo of Kansas corn loaded
at Galveston for the European market,
left that port few days ago.
IT is said that the postage stamps of
half the nations of the world are en-
graved and printed in New York.
A PHILADELPHIA jury awarded five
cents damages to young woman whose
aflianced husband changed his mind.
SERGEANT DUNN, elated by his success
in predicting the Mississippi overflow,
is out with second prediction that this
is to be cold summer.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the English
journalist, has just been awarded YER
dict of Go in suit for libel. The libel
consisted of a caricature.
BIBLE has just becn rediscovered in
the Vatican library which is in Hebrew
1t is supposed to be the oldest in the
world. and iS nlupd or SIM nm
JEROME WooD, of Long Lake, n. Y,
found the name of Annie Hodgson, of
Sheffield, England, in an umbrella,
wrote to her and later married her.
AN Eiliel tower may rise in Germany.
The Bavarian Government proposes to
build one near Starenberg lake, as !
monument to bismarck, and secondary
as an observatory.
DIR. JOSEPH JONES, of New Orleans, is
collecting material for Confederate
medical and surgical history of tho war.
1t viii be a collection OF hospital rec
ords.
THREE men have been arrested in !
Wisconsin for the theft of 1000 chick
ems. There seems to have been an or. !
ganized trust for the unlawful acquire |
ment of fowls.
A sow in Potter County, Pa, is rails. |
ing two bear cubs. The owner believes !
that she stole them, as the mother OF tho |
cubs day or two previous had deyoured |
two of the pigs.
The average weight of the brain of
man is three and a half pounds, that of |
woman, two pounds eleven ounces. !
The brain of 2 man exceeds twice that |
of any other animal.
AN effort will again be made in the !
present Congress TO raise our Ministers |
10 important foreign courts to the rank |
OF Ambassadors. An increase of salary |
Will not go with the new title.
THE heliograph is used to flash signals |
between stations in Now Mexico and |
Arizona that are 75 miles apart. Expert
ments will soon be made to test the |
power OF the instrument to distance of |
100 miles.
THERE have been so many instances |
OF factory girls getting their hair en-
tangled in machinery that most of those |
in New England have returned to the |
old and safer style OF wearing it a la |
young man.
EX-GOVERNOR j. STERLING MORTON. of !
Nebraska, father of the Arbor day for |
economic tree planting out that way,
says that moro than 600 900, 900 trees. |
planted by human hands," arc growing
in that State
IL jackson County, Mich, q bolt Of
lightning shlvercd shade tree, uproot-
ed five currant bushes. melted thirty-
eight rods of wire fence, smashed n
smole-house, killed u dog and knocked !
down two horses.
MAN who was arrested in London
for intoxication gave his occupation as
that OF a worm-eater. On Geipg asked
for an explanation he said he was en-
ployed by a furniture manufacturer to
fire shot at furniture so as to give it a
worm-oaten appearance.
A ST.. LOUIS father is suing Young
lady to recover the presents which his
son gave her while they were engaged.
she engagement having been broken off.
The New York Assembly has passed
bill for commission to consider the
expediency of consolidating New York.
Brooklyn, Jersey City and other suburbs
into one municipality.
WHILE Prussia has taken the head in
the discussion OF labor reform. Russia
has taken the lead in setting an example
OF practical reform. Tho mineral
Council has passed bill prohibiting the
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