The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

The latest fad in watches is to have
the cases of old nugget gold.
A PHILADELPHIA clcgyman has mar
ried IA, 900 couples in his time.
A BAND of ribbon tied with bow
around the wrist is a new fashion.
LOUISVILLE exhibits genuine South
ern pluck in her fight with disaster.
PINE straw bagging and mating
are now being successfully manufact-
ured.
EAGLES in large ioclis are carrying off
poultry and young pigs in Texas Coun-
~, Mo.
SENATOR BLAIR is said to have lost
twenty-five pounds since the Congress
opened.
GENERAL BoULANGER is said to be
making preparations to como to this
country.
A BILL to exempt newspaper men from
jury duty has been favorably reported
at Albany.
THE waterworks plant of Fresno, Cal,
has been sold to syndicate of English
capitalists.
BIsMARcK's popularity was never so
great as now when he is stripped of Off
sial power.
Don CARLOS, the prctender to the
throne of Spain, lives in beautiful pal
ace in Venice.
A CHICAGO shoe dealer tells the Her
aid of that city that the average size for
his customers is 81.
THE French government has bad twen-
,y-six Cabinet crises during the twenty
years of its existence.
PRINCESS BEATRICE weighs 210
pounds, and this makes her one Of the
unhappy women of Europe.
DR.. WINsLow, the Psychologist, says
that cat in ancient Egyptian is spelled
lau and pronounced ma-ew.
COMMISSIONER RAUM says that applica
tions for pensions are pouring into his
office at the rate of $50 day.
In the large grain centers there is |
talk of damage to the growing wheat
crop, and prices are stiffening
PERCUSSION locks were introduced for
the first time upon the firearms of the |
United States infantry in 1912.
MAN sixty years old, living near
Chambersburg, Pa, died the other day |
from an overdose of peanuts, candy and !
cake.
Mrs. MARY WIGANs, the wife of Cole |
County eio) farmer, fell from chair |
while cleaning a ceiling and broke her
neck.
PUBLISHERS of cheap novels have
formed trust and advanced the price of
paper-backed books of light reading SO
per cent.
A JEWEL casket, which Ferdinand and
Isabella presented to Christopher Colum.
bus, was sold in New York the other day
for 81, 125.
The largest sheep ranch in the world
is in the counties of Webb and Dim.
net in Texas. 1t contains upward of
100000 acres and yearly pastures 500, 600
sheep.
NJ. GOBLET, the French statesman,
never allows himself to be Inter.
viewed He thinks the practice has
arisen through vanity and desire fol
publicity.
EDGERToN, Kas., elected a mayor po
lice judge, city council and other Off
GERS recently, and by singular coinci
dence, every last one of them is mar.
ried woman.
GENERAL GREELY, Chief of the Signal
Service, it is said, lis In receipt of at
least twenty letters day from cranks,
personally holding him responsible for
the weather"
The people of Independence Town
ship, Warren County, n. j., voted to pay
bounty of fifteen cents each for
grounding tails and now the township
treasury is bankrupt
A NEW meteorological and volcanic
observatory will be opened at Pompeii
in May next, at which time there will
be large gathering of scientists to
celebrate the occasion.
THE Italian faster Succi, who is said
to have abstained from food for over 100
days is the principal attraction to sci
entists and the general public in Lon
don at the present time.
Mrs. JOHN McWILLIAMs, a Nebraska
wife, prays the court to restrain her
lawful husband from patting her on
the head, poking her in the ribs and
talking baby talk to her.
TIE latest addition to the British
navy, the Victoria is said to be the
largest war vessel at present ready for
active service. She cost over s.. 900, 900.
and carries a crew of $50 officers and
men.
JACOB BUpP, of Pittsburgh, is certain.
y one of the most enterprising moose.
men of THE. day. He has made the ropes
with which eighty-eight murderers
we're hanged within the last thirty
years.
Nor many men can boast OF having ]
had three Emperors as godfathers OF
.bree of their sons. There is brawny
'aith in the little town of Brandenburp
who has had ten sons. Emperor VIII !
lam !. was godfather to the seventh
'oy, Emperor Frederick TO his eighth, !
and the present Emperor to his ninth
TBE production of gold in California
'egan in 1913, the yield that year being
1000, 600, the next year it jumped to
40, OO0 900 and $50, 900, 600 in 1850. The g
otal gold product of the State 10 the q
PRESENT time is estimated at 81 ,125, OOO,. n
100. 7
Ar a church riot in DaleVille, Ind, 4
yer the secret society question, a party p
I men sought admission by climbing TO l.
be roof and entering by the belfry.
hey wene met with clubs and sorely
ounded This is a remarkable case. O
heretofore it was not deemed necessary h
pesort to clubs to keep men out OF il
hnrch, but the difficulty was TO get te
lem into church. SO