The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE New York dude now considers
IL quite the thing to wear red rose in
his hat.
KANSAS is to have an alliance bank,
70 loan money to stockholders at / per
cent. a year
AUSTRALIA has begun to ship eggs to
the British market. They are six
weeks on the way.
SINCE the first OF the year over 600, ,00o
timber trees have been set out in San
Diego county, Cal.
The Jail at Somerville, N. j., was
entered by thieves the other night and
pocketbook stolen.
The coast line of Alaska exceeds in
length by 5000 miles that of all the rest
OF the United States.
In is said that Senator Edmunds de-
elined seat on the supreme court
bench at least thrice.
FRED DOUGLASS mourns that he can
not celebrate his birthday. He does
not know when he was born.
REPORTS from Missouri, so far, are
favorable to fruit and wheat, but no
corn and little oats were planted.
THE Republic of Guatemala sends
word that she will take full hand at
the Worlds Columb bian exposition.
THE new United States treasurer the
ether day received $40 from some con-
science-stricken person in Missouri
The late Gen. Albert Pike owned
nearly $50 pet birds, which he kept in
cages hung in all parts of his house.
A GEORGIA boy with an extraordinary
nose is advertised by dime museum
manager as '"The Human Elephant"
Ex-Gov. EVANS, of Colorado, has
presented the university of Denver
with 500, 600 for its further endowment
MINNEAPOLIS millers estimate the
wheat crop this year at $50, OOO 900 bush
els, as against S97, 1000, 900 bushels last
year
A SWARM of bees attempted to settle
on man at Jennings, La, but he stuck
his head in haystack and got rid Of
them.
NATURAL gas has been discovered
in the Argentine Republic, and proves
to be equal to that of the United
States.
A HoUsE-To-HoUsE canvass is to be
made in Jersey City, N. j., for the pur-
pose of inducing residents to go to
ehurch.
IT is reported that wild animal re-
sembling bear in shape, but striped
like leopard, has been seen near EN-
pire, Ga.
WHEN Herschel studied astronomy
only four double stars were known.
Now nearly 1000 of them are distin-
guishable.
THE Michigan agricultural college
has ordered 1,5O0 kinds of weeds and
grasses from Berlin for the use of the
class in botany.
5. ID. MILLER, son of Atty. Gen. Mil
Ter, has been appointed chief of the di-
vision of registration and accounts of
the war department.
To THE last Won Moltke slept on a
simple camp bed with a mattress that
was scarcely more than name and
with rough army blankets for cover
ing.
DURING the past few years crime has
decreased to such an extent in England
that over 100000 a year less is spent
upon prisons than was the case ten
years ago.
The English census is displaying its
superiority to our system by the fact
that within two weeks OF the day of
enumeration, the total population is
announced at SO, 0oO,O 600.
A LETTER of George Washington, dat
sd May 2, 177G, and addressed to Col
George Clinton, sold for $50 recently,
and another, written from Valley Forge
May %, 1878, brought $SS.
A TwELVE-YEAR-oLD boy carries tho
mail from Tucson to La Pas, Ariz. The
distance is seVenty-fve miles, and
the trail is through one of the widest
portions of the territory.
The number of inhabitants of British
India, by the late census is 22O. $50, 900,
an increase of nearly %, 900, 900 since
1851. The population of all InGia
amounts to abont 2S5, 900, 900.
JUDGE GRESHAM not infrequentl,
rides on the front platform of Chicago
street-car; and at least one driver has
admitted that the justice knows vastly
more about horses than he does.
A WOMAN of Dawson is the champion
rat exterminator of southwest Georgia.
Some time ago she killed eighty rats
at one time in her barn, and few DAYS
ago she killed 1l0 of the rodents in the
same place.
THE election Judges in one of the
wards at Wichita, Kan, had to wait
ive minutes on a woman voter until
she had fshed her ticket out of her
pocketboOk, and then she handed in a
receipt for making sweet pickles.
THE work of putting choir stalls in
Lincoln cathedral, England, which was
interrupted in or about the year 14OO, is
abont to be completed. This should be
encouraging to those who have on hand
monumental projects that are also
stalled.
A sUBTERRANEAN Roman temple has
just been uuearthed at the foot of the
Calvarienberg at Baden, near Vienna.
In niche of this cave or Mithras grotto
are the remains of an altar hewn out
of the rock. Fragments of Roman YES
sells AID utensils, as well as knives, ar
rows, lamps and coins were also found.
A WEST VmGINIAN, while hunting
near Parkersburg, shot bird of beauti-
full blue gray color which measured
feet inches in height and feet 4
inches from tip to tip of it's wings It's
bill was eight inches long and its legs
and the tips of its wings We're of dull
salmon color. No bird like it was ever
seen in that section before.
FIVE thousand dollars for removing
wen from Mrs. Stanford's head, and