The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

THERE are 90 different banking COM
panies in London.
Raw. SAM JONES was once drayman
In Cartersville, Ga.
THE czar is collector of birds eggs
and postage stamps.
FIVE millions of people can not pay
their taxes in Russia.
EeYPT's cotton crop for this year is
the largest ever known
In mile of English railway there
are about ?, 112 sleepers.
THkRE is dearth of corn in the
southern states OF Mexico.
LoNDoNEBs write 81, 511 letters day,
requiring 80 gallons of ink.
BAvARIAs demented king spends
most of his time peeling potatoes.
MANY telegraph lines are now being
extended into the heart of Africa
The Bank of Germany holds $780,
100000 of bullion in gold and silver.
MBLBoURNE, who is running rain
cry IN the west, gets S5, 900 shower.
THE Olden fruit farm near West
Plains, Mo-, has 500 acres of various
fruits.
A SHIP capable of crossing the Allan
tic in four days must have 155, 900 horse
power.
A SYNDICATE has offered to buy
the Washington monument for shot
tower.
TIM actual length of the new st.
Clair tunnel is 6,026 feet. 1t cost ST.
100000.
Iy the year 1885 tulip bulb was sold
L. u.11a-l fa. Onn. h,1t
200 grains
THR first Indian tobacco sign erected
in America was put up in Baltimore,
and It still stands,
LEAD ore, assaying so per cent, has
been found near Badenweiler, on tho
right bank of the Rhine.
THB Grand Duchess Sergius of Russia
is SO strikingly beautiful that she is
known as a crowned Ophelia.
II. C. BURR, of Griffin, Ga, has apiece
of linen cloth taken from an Egyptian
mummy that is 2, 800 years old.
A TEMPERATURE of 22O degrees below
zero has been produced by bath Of
carbon bisulphide and liquid nitrous
acid
SOME vandal has broken off a piece
of the tombstone of Washingtons
mother and it is now on exhibition in
Boston.
THE United States holds in the treas
ury and in the various national banks
somewhere about S700, 900, 900 in gold
and silver
TIE Bank of England, which is the
great depository of bullion in the realm,
holds at ordinary times in its vaults
S125, 900, 600.
CLRAR summer sunlight is said to
penetrate the Mediterranean sea to a
depth of 1900 feet; winter sunlight to
only 800 feet
A WILD goose killed in California had
grain of wheat in its crop, which,
when planted, produced a variety hith-
erto unknown.
TWICE as many crimes are committed
in Paris by persons between the ages
of fifteen and twenty as by those be-
tween twenty and forty.
BosToN is certainly the hub of the
universe SO far as baseball is concerned,
for she has won both the league and
the association pennant.
TIE proposition to reduce the full
term of military service in Germany to
two years has been received with favor
by the emperor and the press.
IT is estimated that the western rall-
roads have earned $3.50, 900 the past year
from the transportation of Mormon mis-
sionaries and their proselytes.
SEVERAL hundred Pittsburgh people
stood in line for hours, jostling and
pushing, for the singular honor of buy
ing the first stamp sold in the new post
Office.
EEGHTY-sEv steamships, not to
mention vessels of other classes, sailed
from Baltimore in September and
took away more than Ss. 600, 900 of ex-
ports.
BHE newest change pocketbook for
women is fat square of leather that
pulls out like an accordion, and is tiny
enough to be hid within the palm of
the hand
A REVIVAL of the famous Tichborne
case is threatened. 1t is alleged that
the veritable Arthur Orton has turned
up in lunatic asylum at Paramatta,
Australia
Sra JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, the British
minister to the United States, although
thorough Englishman, was born il
Germany, and educated chiefly in Paris
and Geneva He is sixty-three years
old
THE most powerful telescopes now il
use magnify 1000 diameters. AS the
moon is 24O 900 miles from the earth, i
is thus, to all intents and purposes
brought to within 100 miles of the
earth.
CURIoUsLY enough the people of sgd
ney, New South Wales, fail to recog
nize any dramatic ability in John l.
Sullivan's performances, and the 'Bos
ION Boys" season there has proved I
lamentable failure.
The baya bird of India spends hi
nights catching fire-hies, with which HI
plasters his nest The baya does no
kill the fly, but simply attaches it t.
his nest by means of piece of mois
clay. On dark night a baya's mes
has the appearance of an electric stree
lamp
DR. jacob, the great specialist in dis
eases of women and children, says tina
the baby of to-day has a much bette
chance of life than the baby of fift
years ago Possibly this i8 due to tn
fact that infants are not doaed with S
much medicine now as they were il
former times and are dressed NOR
sensibly.