The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

BERLIN is the only city in Germany
that has an excess of 1000, 900 popula-
ton.
RAUM reports 929, 496 pending claims,
half for pension and half for more PEN
sion.
ENGLAND is said to be looking with
rovetous eyes upon the Sandwich ISL
ands
LAURA ALBERT, of Ironton, Mo-. has
Just been married to full blooded In
dian.
THE Oregon hop crop will be short
about 10, 600 bales. The hop louise is to
blame.
OUR copper output this year fell short
of the usual amount by more than 1OO,-
900 tons
THE fruit output of California in
creased fully thirty fold during the past
ten years
A GIANT hog is being exhibited in
Grand Rapids, that is said to weigh
1,5Os pounds.
LADY TENNYsoN is collector of old
pipes, but they were all smoked by her
husband, the poet
A FIELD of wheat near Huron, S. D.,
yielded ffty-three bushels and twenty
pounds to the acre.
Tue greatest long distance bicycle
riding record is 745 miles in tifty-four
and one-half hours.
ANTIMoNY is found extensively in
Portugal the largest beds being situ-
ated near BraganZa
c. H. BULLOCK, of Northfeld, Mimi,
IL
from one acre of land.
IN Bali, an island in the Indian
Archipelago east of Java, the burning
of widows still goes on.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL blunder in west
ern paper recently referred to the kaiser
as the German Kisser."
Mr.. c. G. WooD has contributed
1925, 900 to the Young Woman's Chris
tian Association Of Brooklyn.
Mrs. WIN. c. WHITNEY's diamonds are
valued at S1OO, 900, and one of her soli-
taires is as large as a hazelnut.
AN albino catfish nine inches long
and weighing over pound has been
on exhibition at Lancaster, Pa.
AN electric flying machine was re-
Gently made to rise to a height of sew
enty feet and fly about 400 yards.
THE near future promises to witness
an unprecedented amount of railroad
building into the heart of Africa.
DWARF trees in Japan only two feet
high are exact reproductions in minia-
ture of sycamore oak, cedar and apple
trees.
A LADIES regatta at Stockholm the
ether day comprised nine boats, all
rowed by young women in pretty
dresses.
BY the use of the camera, with pow
erful telescopes, new and very large
crater has been shown upon the moons
surface.
THERE are still fourteen different
places on the globe where cannibalism
is practiced, but the custom is grad
ually dying out
The new insect which has attacked
the beets grown for the sugar industry
has seriously affected that industry on
The Pacific coast
MILWAUKEE maintains as part of it's
public school system cooking school
at an expense of 81, 400 a year. Miss
Torrey is it's head.
w. A. KEITH, of Buchanan, Ga, has
found hard flint stone in the heart of
a solid pine tree. How the stone got
there is a mystery
The value of the farm products of
the United States this year is several
hundred millions of dollars more than
was ever before reached.
''OLD HUTCH" the eccentric wheat
plunger, has brought his bed to New
York from Chicago. 1t is sofa about
six feet long, upholstered with carpet
ing
ISAAC CODY, the father of Buffalo
Bill was the first man to shed his
blood in Kansas for the cause of hui
man liberty in the troublous days OF
1854.
IT is said that there are five citizens
of Kawanda Falls, Pa, each bearing
che same name, John A. Libson. They
are not related in the remostest way, as
far as they know.
LILIUoKALANI, the name of the Ha
waiian queen, who is said to be grow
ing unpopular, means lily of the sky
and is pronounced as though writer
Lil-lie-woIe a-lanny.
n UNIQUE neChlle was worn Dy Il re-
cent visitor to Macon, Ga. 1t was made OF
rattlesnake's skin, the rattles serving
as pin. The wearer killed the reptile
nine years ago in Florida
FOXES, coons, rabbits and wood
chucks, breeding on abandoned farms
nave become so numerous in the towns
within a radius of ten miles of Birming
ham, Ct, that they are eating up al
"he farmers profits.
The French law makes a usband re
sponsible for the support of his wife
parents. For information concerning
the enforcement of the law inquire o
the parents of any Yankee girl who ha
recently become French countess.
Paris, with population of nearl,
100000 souls, has less than 100 Ne
gros within It's limits. Statisticans sa,
that the whole of France can not music
aNegro population exceeding 500
A New YORK hotel-keeper is exhibit
ing box of twenty-five cigars whicl
have been sent to him by a Havan
maker as sample of what the prime
of Wales smokes They are seve
inches long, and cost 81, 800 thousand
ALACHUA lake, sheet of water il
Georgia, almost fifteen miles in length
has run completely dry, leaving thou
ands of fish and inert alligators on tn
banks. This is the second time sine
1928 that this phenomenon has occurred