The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

delay of the seasonal rains.
HENRY M. STANLEY is announced tx
come to America in October.
AT the nearest point Asia and Ask;
are about forty-fve miles apart.
JAMES L. MURDOCH, tho actor ant
reader, has left Boston for his homo il
Ohio.
HOP vines in Puyallup, Wash, recent
ly grew thirteen inches in fourteen
hours.
WILSON'S are so numerous in the low
or House of Congress as to cause con-
fusion.
MISS TENNANT, who is presently to
become Mrs. Stanley, is descendant OF
Cromwell.
A CHICAGO Judge has discovered law
which forbids firemen to enter burn.
ing building.
A KANSAS man recently sold his last
sow to pay the costs of law suit over
some chickens.
The King of Siam has a private for.
tune of $50, 900, 900, with an annual in.
come of $4,000.
The exEmperor of Brazil has made
up his mind to settle in the neighbor.
hood of Vienna.
IT is now announced that Prince Murat
is engaged to wealthy woman with q
fortune of S5,OOO,0OO.
THE German Emperor models his
handwriting as closely as possible after
that of his grandfather.
L'RGE strawberries and thinly-sliced
bananas, served together with cream
and sugar, is a recent tea-table delicacy.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has had an electric
railway built for bringing dishes from
che kitchen into the state dining room.
A MAN, his wife and ten children are
living in Atlanta, Ca, on SOS a month.
Out of this they have to pay house rent
A CITIZEN of Grand Rapids named d.
j. Doornink wears on his watchchain
seal which has a record of over 800
years.
THE grave of little son of Jefferson
Davis, in Richmond, is decked with
flowers every day by an old gentleman
OF that city.
STuMsI is the Iron king of Germany.
He owns enormous founderies at Neun-
kirchen, where over nine thousand men
are employed.
THE Original Package is the name
chosen for a paper to be published at
Old Orchard, Me-, during the coming
summer season.
THE city council of the City of Mexico
has passed an ordinance making it com
pulsory upon the male population to
wear pantaloons.
THE King of the Belgians recently
travelled 1000 miles to present person.
ally to Queen Victoria bouquet measur.
ing three feet across.
BRAZIL is the first to ratify the recon.
of the Pan-American Con-
gress that all international disputes be
settled by arbitration.
INFORMATION gathered in London 10
said to show that cats catch diphtheria
ON human patients and carry the dis
ease to healthy persons.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, who immor.
talized her name by her heroic work in |
The hospitals during the Crimean War,
Is nearing her roth year.
THRE are about thousand elk killed |
n Oregon and Washington every year,
ihe antlers from most of which are sent |
10 England for ornaments.
The Merry Thought brooch is an En-.
yljsh novelty, the design consisting of a |
birds wish-bone in gold, with tiny
love worked in diamonds perched on one
arm.
Two boys were arrested in Allegheny
City, Pa, for standing on the street COR
,er on Sunday whistling annie Roo
ley." The charge was disorderly con-
iuct.
THERE has just been unveiled at Chat
lam, England, statue to General Cor
Ion, the hero of the Soudan. The sub
ect is represented on the back of a
.amel.
A PITTsBURGHER, being asked by tho
census enumerator for the profession"
rade or occupation of his wife, as pro-
'ided in Question 16, replied: "Home-
uler."
SOMETHING like poetic justice over
ook the two smart Texans who rocked
he sliiff they were in to scare a COM
ade. They were drowned and he
escaped.
A CRAWFORD County, Pa, Jersey cow
ook fancy to the fresh paint on the
ence in which the bovine was pastured
nd licked off sufficient quantity to
ill her.
A $500 MONUMENT is to be erected
t once over the graves of thirteen
Unknown Union soldiers who were
,uried together in the cemetery at So
lalia, Mo.
DIR. LANCASTER, the eminent London
urgeon, has carefully analyzed the
'ody of a man weighing 154 pounds, and
Inds 121 pounds of the total weight was
omposed of water.
THE two steamers which towed the
rippled City of Paris into Queenstown
Iarbor have been awarded $40, 900 by the
English Admiralty Court The basis of
is property saved; no ac-
cunt is taken of the lives.
AN ear of corn on exhibition at San
,uis Obispo, Cal, is described as being
D the exact form of human hand; the
rrist palm, thumb and fingers being all
erfect. 1t is covered with small grains
D near the tips of the fingers, which are
are prongs of cobs, giving the hand the
ppearace of being clad in NIT.
HERE is cheerful response to the
snsus enumerator, given in Flushing.
!. l.: "Christian name, Rachel; sur
anne, Stillwagon; head Of the family,
NJ widow; the mother of seven chill
reD: have been 104 years in the United
tates." She declined to answer whether 1
40 had anv chronic disease or whathar | ,