The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

TURKISH women eat rose leaves VIII
butter to secure plumpness.
SOUTH AMERICA is getting ahead @
Europe in war cloud displays.
The washerwomen Of a Massachu
setts town are going to strike.
A BIG herd of camels has been seen o.
the plains near Harrisburg, Cal.
A BoATLoAD of 400 tons of ice ha
gone to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
THE tickets for Mr.. Stanleys frs
lecture in New York will cost SIS each.
GREAT swarms of grasshoppers ar,
playing havoc with the crops in Geor
gia.
MRS. CLEvELAND's collection of dia
nonds is estimated to be worth at leas
ESQ., 600.
THE Empress Eugenie is on tout
through Norway. She travels as :
countess.
VARIOUS American summer hotel.
have added dark rooms for amateur pho
tographers.
A pIscoNsoLATE Ohio swain set fire tt
his house because the girl he wanted
would not marry him.
JOHN DILLON tells of an Irish peasant
who was fined five shillings for calling
his donkey "Balfour."
The cultivation Of tobacco has been
forbidden in Egypt and the duty upon
tho imported article raised.
IT is reported that the scheme to col.
onize Swedish immigrants on the vacant
farms in Vermont has failed.
A DOLL is being exhibited at Leipsic
which possesses the faculty of writing
legible letters and sentences.
A MACHINE has been invented for
drilling square, oblong or hexigonal
holes, heretofore found impossible.
THE Car of Russia INDUCES his
youthful pleasures. He is still collec-
tor of postage stamps and birds eggs
ELEVEN thousand dollars worth Of
revenue stamps have been stolen from
the revenue Office in the City of Mexico.
A YOUNG woman Of Hutchinson, Kan,
is learning the work of an undertaken
with view of adopting it as profess
sion.
II is said that bet of $500, 900 lost by
the Marquis of Hastings is the heaviest
wager ever lost on the result of horse
race.
THE census-talSers have learned that
the population of Rhode Island has in
creased about 81, 7S4 during the past de-
cade.
THERE are now three female dentists
in New York, all of whom are
thoroughly qualified to practice the pro-
fession.
QUIET reigns occasionally in Oklaho-
ma, and that seems. to be about all the
rain they have had there for four
months.
THE next birthday of Count Won
Moltke will be kept as national holi-
day in Germany. He was born October
20, 1900.
A SOUTH CAROLINA paper contains an
advertisement for bids from undertakers
who will agree to conduct funerals rev
erently."
GENERAL MALONE is dropping out of
politics into speculation. He is invest
ing heavily in mining lands in Tazewell
County, Va.
A CHARLOTTE IN. C.) clergyman wears
undoubtedly the largest shoes in this
country. The size is SO and each shoe is
2oxs inches.
WALLA WALLA, Wash, has three ma
tive born Cinnamon who will vote at tho
next election. Wash. is great State
for Cinnamon.
URANIUM is now classed among the
rare metals; on account of its electrical
resistance it is likely to be used in elec-
trical insulation.
MISS LAURA EGAN, of Jersey City,
was bitten by "thousand-legged
worm," and died few days later from
the effects of the bite.
THE expense of the cruiser Philadel-
phia in the recent trial trip was nearly
three thousand dollars day. A navy is
an expensive necessity.
The tolling of bells at funerals is
relic of the earliest ages, and originated
in the Pagan idea that the sound of bells
frightened away evil spirits.
MR. ]. j. CRAvENs is the wheat king
OF California. His possessions are in
Tulare County, and this year he will
harvest 1900 bushels of wheat.
A PARROT, owned by Kansas City
barber, hangs in cage in front of the
establishment and occasionally advises
passers-by to get their hair cut.
STATISTICS compiled by the factory
inspector of Baden show that the rate
of mortality among the children of ci-
gar-makers is as high as 4S per cent.
CoLoREp CADET WHITAKER has turn.
ed his opportunities at West Point to
full advantage. He is teaching at col.
ored military college at Sumter, S. c.
LATE crop reports from Europe con-
firm the previous predictions of gen.
eral short wheat crop in England and
France and bad potato crop in Ireland.
A GENTLEMAN who drew out his pipe
for an after-dinner smoke in the Grand
Hotel, Paris, was Immediately told that
the rules OF the house did not allow
pipes.
SENATOR PLUMB, Of Kansas, sub.
scribes to 200 newspapers, and is said to
read them as carefully as he does his
letters. In this way he keeps thorough
ly posted on the politics of his State.
WHILE waiting for the train at Mount
Gretna, Pa, recently, President Harri-
son took off his coat and stepped on the
scales. He tipped the beam at 1893
pounds, being the heaviest man in the
party.
A MASS of pure, compact rock salt
said to contain 90, 900, 900 tons of tho
is located on an island 1876 feet
high which rises from a sea marsh ON