The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04
CURRENT TOPICS.


THERE is herd of three hundred
buffalo in Yellowstone park.
TIE oldest inhabited town in the
world is said to be Damascus
Mrs. P. T. BARNUM has gone to
England Her people live in Lanca-
shire.
A woMAN's Ghimble will hold 100, 900
of the little screws used by watch
makers. .......
A WISCONSIN woman was recently
turned out of church because she snor-
ed in her pew n .r. s.
IT cost Pennsylvania over $50, 900 to
maintain and transport troops during
the coke regions riots r',.
A PLAN is alleged to have been dis
covered in Guatemala to annex that re-
public to ths United States.
KRErsAN CASTLE will be made into a
sort of museum of articles associated
with the late Count Won Moltke.
ONE day recently only one steamboat
lay at the Pittsburgh wharf, the first
incident of the kind in forty years, u
THE republic of Nicaragua has ac-
cepted the invitation of the United
States to participate in the Worlds fair.
RELIABLE statistics show that the
percentage of insanity among farmers
wives is greater than in any other class.
IT is said that the wine product Of
California this year will reach ls,0OO,-
600 or 20, 900, 900 gallons-the largest for
years.
AN immense deposit of yellow ochre
has been unearthed near Gainesville,
Fla, on the property of DR. T. f.
Thomas
A WOMAN at Ardmore, Kan, has sued
her husband for the recovery of her
false teeth. She bit him and he took
them away from her.
THE Baltimore man who worked the
godfather racket on the United States
senate has been sentenced to nine
years in the penitentiary.
CHARLES MEYER was sent to Black
wells island for six months, the other
day, for trying to shoot himself while
in Central park, New York.
A KENTUCKY doctor wishes to sell the
exposition management the ripsaw
which Abraham Lincoln used in saving
the timbers of his log cabin.
WAsHINGToN's exhibits at the world
fair are to include stick thirty feet
in diameter. 1t is now being hewn out
near the Johns river in Chehalis coun-
ty. ....
Mrs. O'SHEA's coming marriage to
Mr.. Parnell will bring her still another
sorrow, her daughters deserting her for
their father on the day she goes to the
altar.
THE most valuable dinner service in
the world belongs to Queen Victoria,
and occupies two rooms at Buckingham
palace, over which two men watch con-
tinually.
AN Atchison man told q secret to
three women and three men. In a
week he discovered that each man had
blabbed, but that not woman had
told thing
SwARMs of big flies swooped down on
Eastport, Me-, the other afternoon,
making life there miserable for the
time they remained. Where they came
from is mystery.
The advertisement of the ordinance
Office for one hundred modern high
power steel guns of the large calibers
for coast and lake defense begins to
look like business.
w. g. NJ. THOMAS, son of a prominent
lawyer at Sheffield, Ala, listened to an
amusing story told him by friend and
then laughed so hard that he actually
broke one of his ribs.
FIVE brothers from Cape Elizabeth,
Me, who went into the war and came
out unscratched, are all dead: and no
one of them died natural death nor
any two in the same state.
CHARLES EMORY SMITH says he did
not try to learn the Russian tongue
while he was at St. Petersburg; for all
educated people there speak, English,
French and German huently.
THE Kickapoo Indians refuse to dis
pose of their land, giving as reason
that they fear the wrath of the Great
Spirit. The Cherokee commission has
pleaded with them three times.
FROM New Haven, Conn, comes the
story that one hour after obtaining a
divorce woman had secured license
and was again married. She must have
been afraid he would get away .44-
Hon. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS be-
lieves that a railway from Winnipeg to
Alaska will be one of the needs of the
future, but does not think it will be un.
aertalIen within the next ten years.
UPON nobody's memory will the dis
comforts of the hot wave be more un-
pleasantly stamped than upon the man
who has been carrying around wad
of postage stamps in his vest pocket.
THE census office has in press and
will shortly publish for distribution an
elaborate report on lumber production
and allied industries for the states ot
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
ROBERT LINCOLN was one of the few
cabinet officers who have been opposed
to the employment of women as clerks
in the Washington departments. Dur
ing the time that he was secretary o1
war he was never once known to sign
the appointment of woman for any
position under his jurisdiction.
HEINRICH SCHNuLINsRI, one of the
millionaires of Hamburg, has decided
to leave his immense fortune to his ma
tive city The money is to be used u
build an asylum for unmarried women
A SPECIAL pouch conveying Mr.
Blaine's mail to Bar Harbor goes ou
daily from Washington well filled will
official and private correspondence. L
takes him two hours daily to glanc,
over the many letters he receives.
SINCE O German expedition armed