The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-22
CURRENT 1-OPICS.

upon public vehicles in New York.
THE House Committee on Invalid PEN
sions already has 2, 500 bills before it.
II will cost about So, 900, 900 to obtain
the information for the eleventh census.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER has decided
that women may be census enumerators.
ABOUT $4,000, 600 are sent from this
country to Europe every year for dolls
WALLACE WATT, Reading (Pa.) five
year-old, has been left entirely deaf by
the grip.
RUTH WOODS died at Lancaster, Pa,
the other day at the we'll authenticated
age of 107.
ENGLISH capitalists are now said to be
trying to buy up the American boot and
shoe factories.
ADARINe thief entered yard in New
Brunswick, n. j., the other night and
stole hive of bees.
THE Los Angeles river has caused
great ruin of orange and other crops by
change in its course.
BRAZIL has law for the medical ex
animation of persons about to marry to
determine their fitness.
THE latest estimate gives New York
a population of 1,50O,0O Chicago
claims population of 100000
A VEGETABLE cartridge case has been
invented in France. 1t weighs only
half as much as metal case, and costs
less.
The son Of the late Senator Ben. Hill,
Of Georgia, is going to publish his ia.
theirs speeches in a volume of 500 to.
1000 pages.
THERE are now 700 female physicians
in Russia, and the mortality reports
show decrease in the death rate
throughout tho Empire.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has again refused an
offer made by a firm of American pub
fishers of 10000 yearly for everything
he writes for the public.
The grip is now raging in the Wiscon-
sin lumber camps, where its severity is
increased by the limited facilities for
nursing and medicine to be had there.
HYDRAULIC power at pressure of 750
pounds to the square inch is now con-
veyed about beneath the streets of Lon
don as steam is conveyed in this coun-
try.
GENERAL BUTLER's right arm is re-
markably developed owing to the
amount of handshaking he has done,
while his left arm is shrunken and
weak.
BISMARCK may keep up his old fence
if he chooses. The great American hog
will have plenty of room to forage
Mexico has ordered down her bars and
will give it entry.
GEORGE DARLING, brother of Grace
Darling, and only surviving member of
the family, is living at Sea Houses,
North Sunderland, England. He is over
seventy years of age.
A LONDON paper tells Of dog which,
having run away from its new master,
travelled fifty miles over an unknown
country to it's old home, arrived there
the day after starting.
A BAR of Welsh gold has been for
warded to the British Geographical So
ciety with the request that it be used in
the making of the medal that the So
ciety is to give to Stanley.
MISS WINDoM daughter of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, had arranged to
spend the night at Mr.. Tracy's house
the night of the fire, and changed her
plans at the last moment.
IT is said that almost all of the postal
clerks and carriers who become thieves
begin by stealing letters addressed to
lottery agents, which they know are al
most sure to contain money.
THREE of the best-dressed men in
Congress, according to a correspondents
report, are Representative Gibson, of
Maryland, Stahlnecker, of New York,
and Bingham, OF Pennsylvania.
An English scientist propounds the
theory that the grip epidemic arose from
the contamination of the air by the de-
caying bodies of the million Chinese
drowned in the great foods of 1888.
LONDON was first lighted in 1414 with
pri ivate lanterns. In 1886 the lanterns
were increased to 1,OOO,OOO in number.
In 1744 the first lighting act was passed.
In 1920 gas was generally substituted
for Oil.
THE Henry w Grady monument COM
mittee, of Atlanta, Ca, has issued a call
to architects and sculptors asking them
to prepare designs for the proposed mon
ument. The amount to be expended is
$4,000.
TIE total property of the negroes in
the ex-slave States is estimated to be
not far from $50, ,0oO, 600. This is not in
Guiding the propertyof the wealthy Gre
oles Of Louisiana which is not far from
SIS, 900, 900.
Iris said that John Jacob Astor works
as hard as the driver ola leased hack with
a large family on his hands. He stays in
New York winter and summer. His
fortune, estimated at hundred millions,
keepshim chained down to business.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, of South
Carolina, while on recent hunt in his
native State, killed two deer, the ant
lers of which he sent to Senators Gray
and MCPHERSON. They now ornament
the walls of the room of the Senate Com
mittee on Naval Affairs.
LYMAN TRUMBULL, Ex-Governor, ex-
Secretary Of State, ex-Supreme Judge,
ex-member of Congress and ex-United
States Senator, is still practicing law in
Chicago at the age of seventy-seven.
w. M. BROOKS, of Roxbury, Mass,
who is 90 years old, is the champion "old
He has taken the Boston
journal thirty consecutive years, the
Christian Register siXty-fiye, and the
Eastport Sentinel seventy-one years.
The largest tea and coffee importer in
the United States is j. w. Doan, of Chi.
cage. He keeps one man buying teas in
China at salary Of $4,000 year. An
othar 0ets the same salarv in (ihicnpo