The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
CURRENT TOPICS.


IT is said unless the factions in Ire
land soon unite, physical force will be
resorted to-
RUSSIAN peasants besieged the car
On his railroad journey with petitions
for relief from starvation.
QUEEN VICTORIA pays her private
secretary. Sir Henry Ponsonby, $40, 900
and gives him a house rent free.
THE Berlin system for the swift de-
livery of light mail by pneumatic tubes
as to be adopted in Philadelphia.
NEW YORK is bound to head the pro-
cession. 1t now promises free life poll
icies to those who will read ita papers.
THERE were two tes in York county,
Neb., as the result of the late election,
and lots were drawn to decide the re-
suit
THE newspaper offices that supported
Fonseca during his brief reign as dicta-
tor of Brazil, have been sacked by
mobs.
Mr.. GLADSTONE manages to get along
without stenographers for secretaries
His clerical assistants are long-hand
writers.
TWENTY years ago George G. Ball of
Blairstown, N. j., started to save a
quarter daily. The fund now amounts
to S1.s25
A FoUR-AcRE bed of peat, with a
depth of sixty feet, has been discovered
on farm near Niles, Mich. 1t makes
splendid fuel.
MEXICO, Mo, has adopted Monday
instead of Saturday as a school holiday,
hak hn Of MI hnn1a
and help with the washing.
THE oldest capital in the United
Statesis Santa Fe, which was the seat of
government in New Mexico as far back
as 1910, and yet its population is only
g. 1856.
The Rothschilds brothers, of London
Baron Lionel. Alfred and Leopold
are noted for their unostentatious char
ity, great love of order and attention to
business
A PLATTE county mo man recently
handed in 740 pennies for railroad
ticket He has been saving his money
for long time to enjoy the pleasures
of travel.
A PARIS newspaper says that eK-
King Milan, of Servia, will shortly
leave for Teberan, the shah of Persia
having appointed him to command Per-
sia's cavalry.
THE largest dry dock on the great
lakes has just been completed at De-
troit It's length is 97s feet; beam, o1
feet; depth of water over the sill, 10
feet inches.
For choice mahogany, which is one
Of the chief articles of export from
Honduras, London pays Sl75 per thou
sand superficial feet. Rosewood brings
about $40 per thousand
THE marks E, S., d.. used in the desig-
nations for the principal denominations
of British money are an abbreviation
for the Latin libra solidi ct denarii," :"
pounds, shillings and pence"
FARMER GENEsEo BURKE, of Roscom-
farm which he vows won't get into a
peck measure. OF all the apple records
this seems the greatest to date.
THE agitation of better county roads
is steadily spreading. Georgia has
just held state mass meeting for dis
cussion of the subject, and Texas is to
follow with similar gathering soon.
THE first chair of labor ever insti-
tuted in Europe was decreed by the
Paris municipal council last July.
Henri Reville has been named as pro-
fessor He will lecture at the Hotel de
Vile.
The development of the cotton-seed
industry has been so great, and the
many articles now made from it are so
useful, that it has supplanted the IA
Nl; -,
of cases.
A YOUNG man who has never had the
sense of smell has been the subject of
some curious tests, which have shown
Prof. Jastrow that many things which
we eat with relish are not tasted, but
only smelled.
THE alcohol process of obtaining
sugar from cane sirup has revolution
ized sugar making from that source.
The process is very simple and it is
said that but one per cent. of the alco-
hol used is lost
Dom PEDRO. before his death, carried
out an idea he formed when he was an
emperor He presented medals to the
three physicians who attended him in
Brazil, when he was elk almost unto
death and was only saved by their skill
and attention.
ONE of the most curious condolences
of the makeup of Congress soon to as
semble is that it will have among it's
members three Taylors, and that they
will represent three adjoining dis
tricts-the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and
Twentieth, Ohio.
DIR. LESLIE KELLEY, whose idea of
curing the drinking habit by the BIZ
chloride of gold treatment has made al
most as much talk as the Pasteur cure
or the Koch remedy in other lines, is a
tsll white h.-iraa and benevolent-lools-
ing old gentleman.
j. A. HAZELTINE, of Mitchell county,
Kan, had 800 acres OF wheat this year
which yielded 49, 500 bushels. He has
just finished sowing roo acres of wheat
for next years crop
The poorest paid national law-mal-
ers, it appears, are those of Portugal,
where peers and commoners each re-
ceive about 1885 a year, and, just as
likely as not, some of them are not
even worth that
For the year 1923 the figures for the
German army are as follows; 90 524
officers, 4s6, 9s3 men, 1887 surgeons,
t93 paymasters and aeronauts. 559
veterinary surgeons, s55 gunsmiths, %
saddlers and 93, 75O horses
The superintendent of the national
observatory will ask congress for an