The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-17
CURRENT TOPICS.


THE United States fish commission
can not I'LL the demand for rainbow
trout.
FoRTY-EIGHT languages are spoken
in Mexico and telephone girls are
scarce.
PURDY, TEX, has bride who is 6 feet
80 inches in height and only seventeen
years old.
ONE of the latest crazcs in st. Louis
is that of riding upon the electric cars
TO cure rheumatism.
THERE are 5000 Indians living on
reservations in New York State. The
Senecas number 9, 200.
LAMBERTvnLE, n. j., has midget
eighteen years old and scarcely two feet
high. She is Mary Kelly.
THE newest nickel-in-a-slot machine
gives you photograph of yourself in
three minutes by the watch.
On the 14th day of April next the peo-
ole of New York will vote on the ques-
;ion of prohibiting the liquor traffic.
SENATOR SQUIRE, of Washington, has
an income of $40, 900 month. He owns
great deal of real estate in Seattle.
GEORGE VANDERBILT has already ex-
pended S4OO, 900 on the foundation and
first story of his North Carolina castle.
BIRTHS and death in New York City
last year were almost equal in number,
the deaths slightly leading the births.
Mrs. SIDNEY ANN WHITE, who has
iived in Missouri 1OS years, died the
other day at Sedalia. She weighed $50
pounds
URANIUM was unknown q century
ago, but lode has Ieen found in a
mine in Cornwall, England. 1t sells
for S12, 900 ton.
OVER $50 species of fish abound along
the coast of Uruguay, and more than
1000 species of insects have been classi-
fed within its borders.
Miss DAVENPORT, the Irish governess
of Spains juvenile King, gets $500 a
year salary, and will soon be entitled to
life pension of 50, 500 year.
A DENVER statistician estimates that
Colorado produced last year silver worth
$50, 1853, 9O6, besides gold, lead, and cop
per to the value of over SO, 100000
A TELEPHONE line about five miles
long has been established in Ireland,
and is regarded as a great curiosity, be-
ing the first ever established on the
island.
j. j. WEsTLAKE, u Wheeling, has in
his possession a land grant made out
February 6, 1907, containing the sigma
lures of Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison.
THE fire department of London has
only fifty steam engines, seventy-eight
hand engines and eighty hose carts and
SOL firemen, who are mostly superan-
nuated sailors.
THE family cradle of the Hohenzol.
lerns was made in 1772, and has rocked
every Prince and Princess of the royal
house of Prussia since that time. 1t ia
of stout old oak.
THE physicians of Berlin assert that
their practice has fallen off % per cent.
since Kochs operations began, and con.
sequently they demand from the Gov.
ernment free lymph.
BLIND Tom is dying of consumption,
and the S5OO,0OO which he earned by his
skill as pianist has mysteriously dis
appeared, leaving him pauper inmate
of a lunatic asylum.
The tin-plate produced in the world
last year amounted to 562, 800 tons, OF
which the United States bought and
consumed 3G9, 900 tons, or nearly three
fourths of the whole.
ANIMALS are kept on the roofs of the
houses in Lima, Peru, and it frequently
happens that a COW passes her whole
life on a roof, being taken there as a
calf and brought down finally as fresh
beef.
THE Seventh Cavalry boys will have
some stirring army tales to tell when
they get back to friends and civilization.
The regiment has had the hardest time
of it of any in the service since the days
of Custer.
THE Gas Light and Coke Company,
operating in London, lHls been fined
e100 with costs for a deficit of one can
die power in the illuminating power of
the company's gas during a recent fog
gy period.
THERE is a beautiful little artificial
lake at the Soldiers Home at Leaven-
worth which covers about five acres. 1t
is full of black bass and croppie, which
are so tame that they will eat out of a
mans hand
CLARENCE V. GREATHoUsE, formerly
a San Francisco newspaper man, after
being appointed to Japanese consul
late, has succeeded in winning the favor
of the King of Corea and has been made
Deputy King.
ELEVEN battle-ships, with an aggre-
gate displacement of 10000 tons, are
now being built for the German Gov
ernment-three at Bremen, two at
Garden, near Kiel, one at Wilhelmshaf.
en-, three at Dantzigi and two at Bredow,
near Stettin.
New YORK CITY has 1857 electric
lights at an annual cost of 500 each;
New Orleans has 1,O1O, at $13O each
Philadelphia has 800, at $177 each; Tole'
do, o., has 400, at S10O each; Scranton,
Pa, has S92 at 800 each, and Spring.
field, Mass, has 800, at $3.50 each.
THE new house purchased in London
by Mrs. Mackay is one of the most
palatial in the kingdom. The marble
staircase alone cost 500, 900, and all the
rooms have been fitted up in the most
magnificent manner.
A MOST curious indication of the lin.
gering of superstition is an agency
which has been inaugurated in Paris
for the supply of the fourteenth guest.
Dinner parties of thirteen may be in,
creased at short notice.
THE practice of New Year calls hav.
ing been practically abandoned in the
chief cities, some one wants to know
what good reason remains for coDtinu-
y l