The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

BALTIMORE has just completed new
belt limo railroad.
MEXICO has the prospect Of postal
phonograph system.
NEARLY every Governor Of the South
Is an ex-Confederate.
GOVERNOR NICHOLS, OF Louisiana, has
but one eye, one arm and one leg.
1T has been fifteen years since the
grasshoppers have visited Kansas.
THE general provisions Of the new sill
yer bill will go into effect August IS.
THERE are now seventy thousand Wild
ows in India under nine years of age.
New YoRK's post-offlce netted the
Government nearly S4,00o,0o0 last year.
CALIFORNIA is preparing to celebrate
the fortieth anniversary Of her admis-
sion.
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE says that when
she marries it will be to q newspaper
man.
PRESIDENT CARNoT is said to be the
most tastefully dressed public man in
France.
THE Italians are going to put up a
monument in San Francisco to Co.
lumbus.
THE lathes for turning the gun bores
Of our new and heavy ordnance will cost
e125,0
THERE are drifts Of snow in the Little
Smoky mountains OF Idaho that are fifty
feet deep
THE melon trust has been squashed
and tho soda water apparatus trust has
hzzled out.
GENERAL FREMONT never wore glasses.
His eyes were as sharp and clear as q
young mans.
GENERAL FREMoNT's last words before
the angel of death touched him were:
81 am going home"
FoUR pearls found in the river near
Galena, ILL.,, recently were sold to Chi
cago jeweler for S400.
A MILWAUKEE gentleman is about to
build soldiers monument in that city
70 cost S25, 900 or $50, 900.
THE publishers compliment Stanley's
manuscripts. He writes plainly and ac-
curately. No changes to make.
A WOMAN buried at New Madrid, Mo-,
few days ago. weighed 750 pounds.
There were IS active pall-bearers.
THE name of Wilson is greatly asso-
ciated with legislation. There are six
members of Congress by that name
The Compile de Paris will sail for
New York on September 90 with his
son, the Due d'Orleans, and two friends.
MOST of the few surviving members Of
Ellsworth's famous zouaves live in Chi.
cago, where there are fourteen of them.
THE new twenty-dollar silver certifi-
cate will contain portrait of the Presi-
dents grandfather, William l. nry Har-
rison.
THE combined harvesters used in Call
ifornia's large wheat fields require
usually team of twenty mules to pull
them.
SOME one calls for combination fan
that can be used one day to cool ones
fevered brow, and the next to shovel off
the snow.
A NEW steel steamship for the United
States Navy will soon be launched at the
Brooklyn navy yard. 1t is to be called
the Maine.
A New JERSEY woman has sued her
husband for divorce, alleging that he
gives her only liver TO eat, while he lives
on roast duck.
A PADDOCK garter is the latest fad
with the bellies of Chicago. They wear
st as an amulet, charm which brings
good luck forever.
BELGIUM is celebrating the sixtieth
anniversary of her National independ-
ence, and proposes to keep up the rejoic-
ing for fortnight.
The Car of Russia is said to devote
large part of his leisure to collecting
birds eggs and postage stamps Many
of the eggs he secured when little
boy.
WHENEVER Mr.. Potter Palmer, Of Chi.
cago, patronizes his own hotel and
restaurant he pays his way like any
other guest, but he never tips
waiter.
ONE of the pretty girls of California in
Miss Grace McDonough, and she is none
the less attrative to the young men be-
cause she inherits So, 900 from her
mother
FRANK TRACY, son of the Secretary Of
the Navy, has gone to South America
for the purpose of placing the phono-
graph as numerously as possible with
the natives.
IDA LEWIS, the heroine of Lime Rock
lighthouse, who has saved the lives of
so many persons, receives from the
government a salary of $3.50 year and
two tons of coal.
A WILD sweet orange has been discov-
cred growing in the northern part of
Florida. The fruit hangs on the trees
all the year round, often for six months
after it is fully ripe.
A TITUsvILLE, Pa, man treated his
potato vines to bath of petroleum to
clear away the bugs. 1t proved howl
ing success, so much so that now he is
not troubled with either bugs or potato
vines.
THERE is going to be lawsuit abouta
meteor which fell in Washington Coun-
ty, Kansas The finder of this aerolite
wasn't the owner of the land, but sold it
for 5000. The owner of the farm now
claims the money.
CHIEF SPLrrLoG, of the Wyandotte In
dians, may not be happy in family desig-
nation, but he shows he Is not bump
on his name. Mr.. Splitlog is now rated
among the American millionaires. He
is understood to have made most of his
money in land-grabbing and shrewd
dealing in titles.
A DUMB woman at Martha's Vineyard
a,.A cob