The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-11
CURRENT TOPICS.


IT has been discovered that almanacs
date back to the year 100 A. D.
LAND values in Berlin have increased
e5 per cent. in the last ten years.
DURING the month of December the
sun did not shine once in London.
REV. r. L. KIDD, of Canada, can re-
cite the entire Bible from memory.
THE Rothschilds are believed to have
$50, 900, 900 invested in American secur-
ities.
a WEALTHY San Franciscan, aged
81 years, has just cut his third set Of
teeth.
A NEW business has been started in
Florida of Matching alligators' eggs in
an incubator.
The Chinese government has negotia-
ted loan of $5O,ooO,OOO with France
and England.
CELLULoID in solution is said to make
fine lacquer for metal and a good
wood varnish.
A DEATH by tight lacing is reported
from near London. She was single,
aged %, laundress.
THE treasury department has paid
Kansas share of the direct tax fund,
amounting to $50, ,9S2.
A New JERSEY man devoured fifty
fried eggs on a wager, the other day, in
uine minutes and half
AN order has been issued by the war
department to recruit Indians in Idaho,
Washington and California.
TEXAS fever is raging among stock in
the country south of the Missouri river
and is alarming in Missouri.
A BOY baby born in Atchison, Kas., a
week or two ago has been christened
Hard Times" by his parents.
IT is said there are only two red slate
quarries in the United States, one in
Vermont and the other in Virginia.
AN autograph of Nathan Hale, the
American martyr spy, brought S1,275
at an auction sale in Boston recently.
MORE note paper in proportion to the
population is sold in the United States
than in any other country in the world.
mo light has been found that will
penetrate fog better than the old oil
lamp" says Mr.. Hammer, the electrical
expert.
A SILVER certificate counterfeit has
been discovered, so perfect that an issue
of $40, 900, 900 of twos will probably be
recalled.
VANDALs have girdled the Grant elm
at Lexington, Mass, which was planted
by the general April 10, 1875, the Tooth
anniversary of the battle.
MICHIGAN proposes to use the money
due her under the direct-ta refund in
equalizing the bounties among her
volunteers during the war.
THE future queen of the Sandwich
Islands, Princess Kaiulani, is being ed
heated in London, but she is not on the
Palace visiting list.
REV DR.. MENDENHALL, of Cleveland,
has set at rest the mooted question of
the authorship of ''The Bread-winners" !
by announcing himself as that man.
The Maine house has passed a bill |
providing for an educational qualifica-
ton for voters. 1t requires that voter
shall be able to read and to write his
name.
ARTIFICIAL eyes are supplied to all
the world from Thurings, Germany.
Nearly all the grown inhabitants of
some of the villages are engaged in
their manufacture.
FOREIGN exchanges report that a
sweet-scented rose of steel-green col
Or has been produced after many wears
Of experiment, in Turin. 1t has been
named the "Edison."
THE Nevada Legislature having re-
fused to appropriate money for the
travelling expenses of the district Judges
one OF them has bought bicycle on
which to make his magisterial circuit.
MORE land is owned by railroad COM
panies (211, 100000 acres) than would
make six states as large as Iowa. Since
1861 no less than 1s1, 100000 acres of
land have been given to railroad COM
panies.
LATE telephone invention has a
glass diaphragm resting on glass rods
and communicating with the ordinary
wire. whispered conversation has
been carried on audibly over a distance
of three miles.
THE only onyx polishing works in
this country, located at Rutland, VT,
will be removed to Missouri and engage
n preparing for market the best quail
ties of onyx mined in Crawford and Pu-
la6ki counties
THE New York World gives this cure
Tor toothache: Zone teaspoonful of BIZ
carbonate of soda in half glass of water:
mix thoroughly, and hold as much as
possible in the mouth; repeat if the first
does not effect cure"
THE late Lawrence Barrett served
with McClellan's force on the peninsu-
La and was stationed at Fortress Mon
roe and took part in the battle of Fred
sricks5urg, after which he resigned his
commission as captain.
A COLONY of two or three hundred
monkeys is reported to exist in the
everglades Of Florida. They are sup
posed to owe their origin to the wreck
OF vessel upon the coast having ON
board monkeys, which escaped to the
forest
JAPAN had plethora of epidemics
during 1890. Influenza reached her
shSres in February. Cholera followed
with over $1,000 deaths. Dysentery af-
fected 8s,S7s persons with 1869 deaths,
ratio of 1894 per cent Typhoid fever
occurred 22,6S4 times with s, 1863 deaths.
1886 per cent.
The boarding of ten-cent pieces in
Boston in the patent "bank" adapted
only to the reception of dimes
has produced a famine of that
particular coin and the dealers in
ten-cent goods are in despair.
The temperance people are jubilant
and talk of distributing the "bapI-s" as
a reform movement.
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