The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


THERE are two hundred women |
preachers in the United States.
THE American saddle Is being used |
by the British mounted infantry.
IT is said that one-tenth of the arabic |
and of Vermont is still left uncultivat-
ed.
In France there is n government tax
of two per cent. levied ON all bets on
races.
VANpERBmT's body is still seduously
guarded in a stately tomb on Staten
island.
THE sun did not shine in London until
fourteen days of the new year had
passed.
II costs about 5000 minute to keep
yhe United States Government in rum
ming order
QUEEN VICTORIA has presented rich
ly caparisoned Indian elephant to the
Emperor of Morocco.
NINETY thousand cows, it is calculat-
ed, have to be millSed twice day to
supply London alone.
THE Illinois Legislature is consider
ng a bill to punish imposters who go
About posing as Christs.
Miss MARY GARRETT, of Baltimore,
has a bath in her home lined with Mex
lean onyx that cost 1000.
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN, of Pennsyl-
vania, has over three thousand apph-
cants for thirty-fve offices.
A FEW days ago John Bates picked
from one tree on his place in De Soto
County, Fla, s,4S7 oranges.
THE Massachusetts, Legislature hao
been petitioned to buy a sword of
George Washington for 100000.
Mrs. RIDER HAGGARD, like Mrs.
Stanley, complains that American wo-
men keep their houses too warm.
THE tailors of New York propose to
sell the bills which they hold against
delinquent customers at public auction.
A POLICEMAN named Butter, after
service of thirty-fve years has just
resigned from the New York police
force
The development of smokeless coal
mines in Tonquin shows much larger
deposits than were at first believed to
be possible.
The first German steamer intended
for use on the Victoria Nyanza, has
been shipped from Hamburg for the
east coast of Africa.
A PROPOSITION is before the Michigan
Legislature so to amend the State Con-
stitution as to permit the purchase of
RAILROADS by the State.
A NEGRO day-laborer of Philadelphia
has for some time been making earnest
efforts to become a Jew, but no syna-
gogue will admit him.
JUDGE PETER, who succeeds ingalls,
in the Senate from Kansas, is Mason,
q Knight of Labor and member Of
the Episcopal Church.
ONE of the employees of the postal tel
egraph Office in st. Petersburg has in
vented watch that will run forty-fve
days at single winding.
THE grounding did not return to his
hole any too soon for an escape from
being frost-bitten. AS a weather prophet
his shadow grows no less.
The chief curiosity in the Office OF
the Secretary of the State of South
Carolina is the original copy of the
ordinance of secession of the State.
EMPEROR WILLIAM II continues to
shake up the Prussian officers corps.
He has just retired three more Major
Generals and one Lieutenant-General
AN English company is working a sill.
yer mine in Bolivia which yields more
than 800 ounces to the ton, while speci'
mems of almost pure silver are met with.
A FARM at Pithole, which was bought
some years ago during the oil excite
nent by Chicago speculators for 81, ,500,'
600, was sold recently at a tax sale fol
S1OQ
PITCHER STAGG, who delivers lay ser
mons and curved balls with equal fer
vor, has taken charge of the physica,
department of the University of Chi
cago
A MEMORIAL to Lieutenant De Long
who perished in the Jeanette expedi
ton, will probably he erected in the
chapel of the Naval academy at An
napolis.
THE results of the recent expedition
70 Greenland prove that north of rs de
grees the land is covered with sheet
Of ice 5000 to 5000 feet thick over tbs
valleys.
A HUGE bronze statue of Vim. Penn
is to surmount the new city building il
Philadelphia. In height the figure will
exceed that of Liberty on the Capito
at Washington.
SENATOR CARLISLE is now fifty-fN.
years old. He is of medium height ant
rather spare in figure. His movement
are easy and graceful, and his genia
manner quickly puts his visitors at thei
ease.
THE latest imported slang word
"spoof." To spool a man is to hold hi
cherished opinions up to ridicule. TIL
new word comes just as the stock of oil
epithets was found to be painfully in
adequate.
THE last official act of the late Secre
tary Window was the recommendatio
to the President, which was acted upon
that James II. Young, a young colore
man, be appointed revenue collector a
Wilmington, n. G.
DURING the forty-nine years of hi
lie the Prince of Wales has draw
SIG, 900 from the public treasury c
Great Britain, and his debts, it is sale
now amount to about IS, 100000.
A STEAM phaeton has appeard in Pari
embling an ordinary phaeton.
carries under the body of the carriage
boiler which can not explode, with
funnel bent down and dischargin
smoke under the back seat.
A MAN who died in a London poe
house lately, at the age of ninety-hv
years, had been o pauper for eighth