The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHE vatican contains 2OS stalrcaSeS
and 1, 100 different rooms.
LABRADOR has a waNsrtsi. with
sheer descent of 1000 feet
THERE are 90, 900 colorc6 men occu-
pying Christian pulpits in the United
States.
PRINCE BISMARCK pockets $1,000 a
week as profits OF his little poultry
business.
The European sugar beet crop has
been set back seriously by the wet and
cold weather.
AN alloy of rs per cent. of gold and
90 per cent. of aluminium is the most
brilliant known.
Gov. FRANCIS, of Missouri, is a mill
ionaire. He has made all his money in
the last ten years.
A NEW YORK man has attended a
swimming bath regularly every day for
twenty-eight years.
PATTI is little short of cash and she
is going to make another farewell tour
in the United States.
THERE are more than hundred news
papers in the United States owned and
edited by colored men.
THERE is a possibility that the crown
prince of Sweden, too, may visit the
Worlds fair at Chicago
A KANSAS CITY policeman's star stop
ped bullet that otherwise would GER
tainly have entered his heart.
ACCORDING to expert figures the
permanent tramp population of the
United States numbers $1,000.
A COW with seven legs is owned in
Athens, Ga The extra limbs grow
from the top of her shoulders.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR shows signs
of coming badness which will reach
down to his rear collar button.
HAY fever time is terribly trying on
the man who wears eyeglasses; he is
perpetually sneezing them off.
AN army of locusts that took five days
in passing and was ten miles wide re-
Gently swept over the Punjab in India
THE king of Sweden is a great swim
mer and wears giants de Suede in
swimming to keep his hands from tan
ming.
The objection is raised against the
reoccupation of Palestine by the Jews
that Russia is going to capture Pales-
tine"
GEN. DIX is to have a monument for
saying, "If any man attempts to haul
down the American flag shoot him on
the spot"
MRS. JAMES K. POLK survived her
husband, President James Knox Polk,
nearly half century, he having died
June Is, 1s49.
KING HUMBERT is cook of no mean
order, and can boil potato or broil a
steak in way that would make dys-
peptic feel hungry.
OYSTER shells fourteen inches in di-
ameter and others twenty two inches
In length have been found in the desert
west of Yuma, Cal.
FULLY $500, 900 has been spent on the
empress of Austria's new palace at
Corfu The wood carving alone in one
suite of rooms cost S15, 200.
FIVE marriages in ten minutes is
Judge McCarthy's record in New York
Such speed is hardly in proportion to
the gravity of the ceremony.
A GRANDSON of Eugene Aram is a
lawyer in Alameda, Cal. He probably
devotes himself to murder cases, if
there is anything in heredity.
You've King Alexander, of Servia, is
in love with the Cars daughter Xenia
None of the Austrian princesses seem
to be able to eface her beauty from his
mind.
A ''LADY boolmaker" has appeared
in England. She is not novelist but
a frequenter of race tracks, where she
caters to the fashionable betting ele-
ment.
PEACHES are so cheap that the east
ern shore growers can not afford to
send the white ones to market and are
drying some and distilling others into
brandy.
THE great "whalebac steamer
Charles w. Wetmore has crossed tho
ocean safely. A possible revolution ir
ocean carrying is suggested by this
successful experiment.
ACCORDING to the census bulletin on
the social statistics of cities, it costs
only cents per capita of the popula
tion to clean the streets of Chicago
while it costs II cents to clean those o.
New York.
WHEN few more foolish persons
shall have been killed by falling out o.
balloons it will probably dawn upor
the mind of the professional aeronaut
;hat the law of gravitation has moi
been repealed.
A BULLETIN issued by the census
bareau shows that Chicago has prac
tically twice as many miles of streets
as any other city in the United States
Chicago has 2,O4s miles, while New
York has only 575.
THE Car daughter the Crane
Duchess Xenia, will not come to he
husband, the Grand Duke Alexande
Michaelovitch, empty handed Whel
the wedding comes off she will have
dowry of $500, 600 besides little farm
Of some eighty square miles of corr
lands in the province of Kherson.
KING HUMBERT, upon the occasion o
the unveiling OF the statue of his ances
tor, Charles Emanuel l., next month
will decree amnesty to the t. 900 or NOR
who have cvaded conscription.
IT IS understood that Vermont i
ashamed of herself for having apprc
yriated the palby sum of S., 900 for tn
Columbian exhibition, and that the er
ror will be rectifisa during the coming
ezra session of the legislature.
A STRANGE story comes from Berlil
10 the effect that respectable mer
chant abscnt-mindedly walked ava
with an umbrella, and, being accuse
Of theft was so ovprporne NV the dis