The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-03-22
CURRENT TOPICS.


A WINTER Chautauqua is to be estab'
lished at Crescent City, Fla.
THE Archbishop of Paris has issued a
decree forbidding cremation.
THE income of Rockefeller, the Stand
srd oil man, is $1,000 per hour.
THE statue of the late Mr.. Grady, ol
Atlanta, will be modelled by Alexander
Doyle.
A HUNGARIAN lawsuit has just been
settled after having been in the courts
for 470 years.
THERE are five New Yorks nine Phil
adelphias and twelve Bostons in the
United States.
THE town of Addison, in Maine, has
twelve couples who have been married
ifty years or over.
THE New York Legislature will pass
upon bill prohibiting the placing OF
pictures in cigarette boxes.
c. b. EvARTs, the Senator's Oldest
son, devotes his attention to managing
the big farm at Windsor, Vt.
FRANCE has half as many people as
the United States, but her national
debt is twice as great as ours.
MAINE folks are frugal. They in
creased their deposits in the savings
banks last year by over 81, 100000.
SOME of the orange trees at Riverside,
Cal, are so heavily laden with fruit that
the branches have to be propped up.
A NEW YORK firm sued a sewing-girl
to prevent her from working with an
other firm. She is an expert sewer.
REPRESENTATIVE Charles III. Gibson,
of Maryland, is considered the hand
somest member of the Lower House of
Congress.
PHEMILLER BRoUssARD, of Louisiana,
aged ninety-one years, has just married
lady somewhat over fifty. 1t is his
second marriage.
PRINCE GEORGE of Wales will soon be
promoted to the rank of commander,
thereby leaping over the heads of 600
senior lieutenants.
KING Menelik, of Abyssinia, has re-
ceived from the King of Italy a magnifi-
cent crown of gold, set with emeralds
and pearls of great value.
THERE are reported to be over 100,0 900
Sunday-schools in this country, with
1,1OO, 900 teachers, and eight and one
third million of scholars.
MARYLAND producers expect to grow
100000 quarts of strawberries this
year, but all the same they are ordering
10000, 600 quart" boxes.
SOUTH GEORGIA BARRIERS have rule
that is universal. A stranger is re-
quired to pay fifteen cents for shave,
while a resident pays ten.
THOUGH the Chinese are for peace,
they are having built in England a
powerful ironclad, two swift cruisers
and two torpedo gunboats.
ELI CIRCLES, of Carroll County, NO.,
won S35 sewing machine by producing
twelve ears of corn that weighed eight
teen pounds eleven ounces.
THE coat shirt is said to be the latest.
1t is open in front all the way down, is
made to fit the figure, and does not have
to be pulled on over the head
THE other day barrel containing a
dive baby in good shape was caught
foating down Tennessee river. 1t had
'.navigated" thus for sixty miles.
THE meanest one yet is the man in
Vermont who wants the Government to
pay him interest on the money invested
in two cent stamp on delayed letter
A LARGE assignment of cotton seed
has been received in Oklahoma, which
will be distributed among the settlers
Immediately, and planting will begin at
once.
AN old man lives in tower in the
Austrian Alps, the highest meteorolog-
ical station in Europe. He gets 5000
year, and hardly ever sees n human
being.
DIR. BRowN-SEQuARD is still engaged
on his youthful elixir at Paris, and
persists in believing that his expert
ment will at last be successfully estab-
lished.
JOHN MILLS, of Sparta, Ga, is fatten-
4ng jay birds for the market He feeds
them well and they grow large. He
thinks of going into the business very
extensively.
A MATCH is already being arranged
for the young King Alexander of Servia,
who is not yet fourteen years old. The
proposed alliance is with Grand Ouch
ess of Russia.
BRIGHAM Young had fifty-six chill
dren, of whom thirty-one were girls and
twenty-five boys. Some of them died
in infancy or childhood, but the most of |
them reached mature age.
THERE is a colored woman living in |
Dallas, Tex, who claims to be 145 years
old, and people say she looks it. She is
honest enough to admit that she never
saw General Washington.
COPPER wire conductors that have
been in use for twenty years for carry
ing strong electric currents have been |
lately examined and the copper has |
been found ex extremely brittle.
WHISTLER, the artist, who Is soon to |
visit this country, has black hair, but
has on the top of his head perfectly |
white tuft, of which he is quite proud,
rs he regards it as an indication of an
ancient and aristocratic lineage.
The Gar, according to recent statis-
tictan's calculation, is the largest "pri-
vate" owner of land in the world. The
total Is about fifty million acres, about
the size of the whole of France.
AN English travelling harpist has been
discovered cheating the railroad by
his little girl done up in the
green bag with his harp. He had travel
cd so all about England and paid no fare
for the child.
The canal across the Isthmus Of Cor
nth appears destined to share the fate
Of that OF Panama, for the Cecil tribun-
Il at Paris has just issued Judgment
ordering the winding up Of the Corinth ,