The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts have appear
sd in New York State.
THE collar and cuff people are the lat.
est in the ring with q trust
w. II. DoANE, the hymn writer, is
manager OF an iron foundry in Cincin'
natl.
The Congressional Record for the
present session has reached nearly Q, 500
pages.
CHOLERA, of the true Asiatic type,
seems to be gathering swift headway in
Spain.
GOVERNOR HILL will go to Indiana to
attend the unveiling of the Hendricks
statue July 1.
A CALIFORNIA paper tells of straw
berries so large that five berries made
square meal"
THE fund raised in Georgia for the
oenefit of Mrs. Jefferson Davis amounts
to nearly $4,000.
IT is estimated that 5,oOO,O 900 wage
workers in the United States belong to
labor organizations.
LIGHTNING struck barrel of whisky
in Kentucky distillery, bounded oil
and killed two men.
WHEN the small boy learned that the
cracker trust applied to eatables only he
stood on his head again.
THE sad news is waited under the
ocean that Empress Augusta Victoria is
suffering from nettle rash.
GENERAL LoNGsTREET thinks Jeb
Stuart was ''the greatest cavalry SOL
dier the world ever knew"
THE geographical center of the United
States is near Ft. Riley, Kan. In this
calculation Alaska is not included.
A WEALTHY New Yorker has offered
large house on Fifth avenue as per-
manent home for the Pasteur Institute.
For the first time in history the
House of Representatives, is ahead OF
the Senate in the transaction of busi-
uess.
A CONNECTICUT Judge, after making
will leaving $40, 900 to a library and S10,-
900 to Sunday-school, committed sui
eide.
Hon. Robert Adams, Jr., has resigned
the ministry to Brazil because the cli-
mate at Rio threatens to destroy his
health.
EZRA LEEcH, a farmer of Newton
County, Miss, discovered $4,000 in
gold while ditching in his field few
days ago.
IT is said that so, 900 strangers remain
over in New York every night, furnish
ing plenty of business for the 125 hotels
in the city.
CERTAIN English women of fashion
have adopted saddle which permits
them to ride on either side of the horse
which they may prefer.
In the town of Prescott, Ariz., a gold
nugget is on exhibition. 1t is worth, as
it stands, S700, and was taken from the
Big Bug mines recently.
THE Supreme Court of Illinois has
Just rendered decision in buclet-shop
case, holding that it is gambling to buy
or sell grain on a margin.
THE new observatory near Tananarivo,
Madagascar, w.ll be one of the highest
in the world, as the site chosen is about
400 feet above the sea level.
SIXTEEN Kansas counties bear Indian
names, thirty-seven counties were chris
tened after Kansas men, while only one,
Barton, was named for woman.
LADY SANDHURsT has been given the
freedom of tho city of Dublin, and is
the only woman upon whom the honor
has been conferred in three hundred
years.
II is said that from the summit of Mt.
Blanc, one can see the Tyrol, portions
of France, Germany and Austria, tn
Mediterranean and Italy as far as the
Apennines.
THE heirs of Mr.. Harrah, of Philadel-
phia, who left large portion of his
property to charity, have decided not
to contest the will, even though it is
admitted to be invalid.
GOVERNOR MILLER, of North Dakota,
will not be candidate for reelection.
1t pays him better to act as manager Of
the great Dwight farm at $1,000 year
than to play Governor at $4,000.
ELEVEN thousand bills have been in
troduced in the House thus far this sea-
son. On the corresponding date dur
ing the first session of the last Con-
gress, there had been introduced 1856
bills.
WHILE farmer was driving to Grand
Haven, Mich, on load of hay, his wag-
on wheel rubbed against the rack and
the friction generated fire. Tho hay
was consumed, but the farmer escaped
with his horses.
The United States, including Alaska,
has 5000, 900 square miles; Canada, 81
2O4, 3s1; Brazil, 3,21s, 166; Russia in Eu-
rope, 2,095, 504, the Russian Empire, s.
644, 100; the British Empire, 9,043,577;
China, 4,179,559.
A CASE is reported from Georgia Of a
woman who. when GROSSLY told by her
husband thirty years ago, to hold her
tongue, did 30 until she died this year,
no one having heard her speak during
the intervening years.
The Superintendent of the Census,
Mr.. Porter, has been requested to class
ify cooks of the United States as dis
tinct class Of artisans. The request
comes from the Meat and Pastry Cooks
Union, No. l, of Chicago
A GEORGIA youth who answered Gn-
closing quarter) an advertisement of
how to earn money without work. got
in reply piece of paper inscribed,
"Catch suckers, as we do"
THE Austrian and German press is
waging war against the introduction of
the Anglomaniac dude. In Berlin he is
called ''patent-falzke," and in Vienna
"gigeil." That ought to kill him.
No worm or insect is ever found upon