The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

on visit.
THE presidents train has barber
shop attachment.
DIR. KocHs remedy is rapidly disap.
pearing from public notice
ROME is said to be growing faster
than any other European city.
The tack concerns have combined.
The point is for the consumer.
IT is proposed to establish a mail ser
vice on the street cars in St. Louis.
A CARGO of over 500 half-bred horses
has been sent to England from the AR,
gentine Republic.
STANLEY left New York the othei
day with S1iO, 200 in his pocket, the pro
eeeds of his lecture tour.
TALMAeE has shaved off his side.
burns He says his face is fatter now,
and so he don't need them.
A Two-cENT diet kitchen is to be es
tablished in New York. Pies and
doughnuts will not be in it,
THERE are in New York between
10000 and $4,000 Italians, less than one
eighth of whom are women.
OF the twenty thousand bills intro.
duced during the recent session of con-
gress but 2, 1s6 became laws.
THE assurance is sent over from Italy
that Americans can travel anywhere in
that country in perfect safety.
THE gold deposit recently discovered
at Birmingham, Ct, turns out to have
been simply FOOLS gold, iron pyrites.
Gov. HoGG, of Texas, named one of his
ITf,o IIo,- n1N 20
her father must be you're another"
On dark nights a white light can be
seen farther than any other color; on
bright nights red takes the first place.
THE fire loss for the first three months
of this year aggregates SS5, 1917, ,O59, and
for the first two weeks of April IS, 435,-
s45.
The southern output of iron has in
creased from a little over a quarter of a
million tons in 1880 to over two million
in 1890.
AFTER a recent rain storm at Folsom,
Cal, gold nuggets were picked up in the
streets A lucky boy found one that he
sold for SO.
THERE is a pig tJunction City, Kan,
which weighs 1852 pounds. 1t is be-
ieved to be the largest hog in the world
on four feet
A PITTSBURGH justice has handed
down the important decision that man
can not kiss his female typewriter with
out her consent.
THE little republic of Uruguay is said
to have more newspapers in proportion
to the population than any other coun-
try in the world.
A WELLINGTON, Kan, couple, who
were married in two weeks after they
met, were separated in two weeks after
they were married.
The news that the last mail to Brazil
weighed nearly four tons furnishes a
measure of our increasing trade rela-
tions with that country.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD says the mikado
of Japan is always obliged to walk
alone in public, his arm being consid-
cred too sacred for even the empress to
take.
Mrs. MARY LOWELL, of New York, a
practical electrician, has invented a
contrivance by which she is enabled to
light her kitchen fire from her bed
room.
A BILL has been reported to the New
York legislature which has for its pur-
pose the annexation to New York of
all the outlying towns, Brooklyn in
cluded.
THE Galveston News says. "After
throwing that last brick at Rudini Mr..
Blaine stole off into the deep, UNI
brageous woods of Maryland and
smiled"
LOCOMOTIVE engineers in Panam2
earn S125 week. 1t is difficult to OBJ
tain them at that salary, for the Pana,
ma climate is worse in it's effects than
two collisions.
The cells of the human lungs are 75,.
100000 in number, covering surface
from two and a half to three times
greater than the whole body surfaca
of ten full-grown men.
LEvIERNz, a young Omaha Indian
attending the Carlisle Indian school,
has been examined by the Carlisle
Presbytery as a student for the minis
try and passed creditable examina-
tion.
NINETY-FISE per cent. of all the rum
made in the world is the product of
seven distilleries in and around Boston
They are all old establishments, some
of them running back to the old colo
nial days.
"HAMaER and needle parties" are the
latest fads in country towns in Indiana.
Gentlemen are put to work sewing on
buttons, and the ladies at driving nails,
and prizes are given to the most sue.
cessful workers.
THOSE Italian newspapers that have
been barred out of the mails because
they contain lottery advertisements,
the same as our own journals, have a
new ground of complaint against the
laws of this country.
DR.. CHAs. F. HEUsER, an eccentric
physician of Baltimore, who died re-
Gently, made provision in his will for a
number of silver walls which were to
be distributed among friends after they
had been filed with ashes from his Gre
mated body.
IT is estimated that there are fully
5000 families who live in shanty boats
along the Ohio river, floating along
from town to town, and feeling as hap
py as though they owned the earth.
ACCORDING to the calculation based on
She dust collected by small quantity
of snow in London in one month, it is
estimated that one hundred tons of SCOT
settle monthly on the 10 square miles
of the worlds metropolis.
BRAZIL seems, for the time, TO have