The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

THERE are forty-five veterans of the
late war in the Iowa Legislature.
Mr.. STRAUSS, of Vienna, who is a mu-
sician of note, says the waltz is on the
decline.
New York city has received during
1889 fourteen inches more'th the aver
age rainfall.
A NEW railway in Wisconsin is called
''the Waukesha, Pewaukee, OconomowoC
and Eastern,
CHIcAGo's Auditorium hotel is on
leased ground, and cost to build and fur
nish 81, 800, ,OOO
HENRY WATTERsoN's father, at the
age of eighty-three, continues to write
newspaper letters.
AT Williamsport, Pa, five red-headed
girls have give white horse bazar'' in
the cause of charity.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has been offered
an engagement for fifty lectures in this
country at 81, 900 each.
A PENNSYLVANIA man wants a divorce
because his wife danced for JOY when he
chopped his finger off.
THREE pounds and half is the COM
bined weight of twins presented to a
happy couple at Topeka.
The Cape Cod cranberry crop for the
year 1889 has been in excess of any sea
son for the past eight years.
THE circuit court at st. Louis has de-
cided that legal advertisement insert
ed in Sunday paper is no good.
A CROWD of five hundred school chill
dren mobbed school teacher in Boston
for thrashing one of their mates.
A YOUNG lady, Miss ella Herman, has
been recently elected vice-president of
the Mobile Typographical Union.
THE only territorial delegate in Con-
gress who was born in his own territory
is Antonio Joseph, of New Mexico.
THERE were S1OO,OOO,OOO worth of
jewels worn at the New York New
Years ball. and not one was stolen.
THE Mississippi Senate has passed a
bill providing for the formation of a
new county to be called JEFF Davis
County.
GREAT FALLS. n. H., has Justice of
the Peace, j. b. Shapleigh, who has
been in Office continuously for fifty
three years.
A KID GLOVE with little outside
keep car fare, is one of the latest de-
vices for comfort.
An actress in Germany has actually
had the courage to celebrate the seven
ty-fifth anniversary of her first appear.
ance on the stage.
A scAvENGER of Los Angeles picked
up pair of trousers from a pile of drift
wood the other day. He found SIS in
the pockets and silver watch.
A MORTGAGE on Cuba of S124, 900, 600,
which has been running since 1866 at
six per cent. interest, has fallen into the
hands of German national banks.
OUR squadron of evolution now in
European waters is much admired for
the fine appearance of the ships and the
skill with which they are handled.
THE prices of camphor and gum prom
ise to rise The German government is
making gigantic purchases of these ar
ticles for the manufacture of smokeless
powder.
THE entire French cavalry is to be
armed with a new helmet. 1t is of nick
eled copper, with a coclade, worn for
the first time by the French soldier, up
on the top.
Boys of Gold Hill, New, enjoy first
class coasting nowadays. They go from
that town to Silver City, three miles, in
five minutes. 1t takes them an hour to
climb back.
KING HUMBERT has great predilec-
tion for going out in wet weather. AS
soon as the rain appears he orders his
horse and off he sets with one of his
aides-de-camp
A BILL has been introduced in the
New York Legislature providing that
every school building in that State shall
have the stars and stripes furnished at
State expense.
AMOS A. LINCOLN, a young inmate of
New York hospital, saved the life of
an asphyxiated girl by allowing the
physicians to transfuse two pounds of
his blood into her body.
THE loss by fire in Boston on Thanks
giving Day has been finally figured down
to So, ,7s4, 500, instead of from five to ten
millions as originally stated. The loss
to the insurance companies was So. 164,-
S0O
The whole wardrobe of the King of
the Belgians was burned up at Laelxen
Due Otner ulSHC, anu Guc shOpS DtlHP
closed. it was several hours before His
Majesty could get clean shirt to his
royQl back.
A TELEGRAPH message costing 81 81 a
word was recently sent from Portland to
Hong Kong, and an answer received in
12 hours. 1t was first sent to New York,
thence to London, across the continent
to Yokohama.
The Armours, in Chicago, did busi-
ness of 100000, 600 last year, So, 900, 900 in
excess of 1883. Six thousand men were
employed, and paid 330O0,000. The
firm killed 1,20o,0 600 hogs 100000 cattle
and $50, 900 sheep.
KRUPP, the maker of big guns, has
founded fund of 1926, 900 for the bene-
fit of those of his workmen who wish to
borrow money at low rates for the pur-
pose of building homes for themselves.
BILL pending in the Legislature of
North Dakota provides that both inter-
est and principal shall be forfeited
where a greater rate of interest than
ten per cent is charged, no matter in
what form the over-charge may be.
A BERLIN Professor, while dissecting
shark, few days ago, found in its
stomach dolphin weighing 120 pounds,
as fish, decomposed seal, human arm
and four human legs. This is a great be-
pinninp for the fish stories of the wear