The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-31
CURRENT TOPICS.


Of California in fruit growing
NOVELS constitute nine-tenths Of all
the books read in this country.
The queen, IL is stated, has prohibit
ed the use of tobacco at Windsor Castle.
A SECOND crop of Strawberries is re-
ported on nursery farm at Newburg,
N. Y.
THE state debt of Missouri has been
reduced a million and half 80 Ear this
year
ABOUT one-third of the human race,
100000, 900 of people, speak the Chinese
language.
j. d. HOWELL. of Pittsburgh, married
Miss Carrie Rome-made Rome Howell,
as it were.
A sEvENTY-FooT fin-back whale was
washed ashore at Ocean City, N. j., n
few days ago.
AN Alton Qll) girl was hugged so
hard by her lover that one of her ribs
was fractured.
A COLUMN of masonry in Kansas
marks the exact geographical center OF
the United States
1T is estimated that the cereal crop OF
Canada has been damaged fully $685.
600, 900 by insects
The Michigan copper mines are said
to be yielding larger amount of silver
the deeper they go.
CORNELL also has this year the largest
freshman class in her history. 1t num-
bers more than 600.
1T is said that lin burger cheese cut
and laid in cupboards and rSfrigerators
will drive red ants away.
IT takes a million pounds Of ink
every year to print Uncle Sans paper
money and revenue stamps
ULYSSES S. GRANT and Robert Z. Lee
are room-mates at the Washington and
Lee university, Lexington, Va
The present editor of the Chicago
Times is said to have worked at the
case as compositor on that paper
JOHN j. TAYLOR, of Streator, Ill,
once wrote 4, 100 words on the blank
side of a postal card without artificial
aid.
OWING to the salmon industry the
Columbia river is said to give out moro
wealth than any other river in the
world.
THERE are in the British army 1850
generals-including officers holding
honorary rank-or one to every hun
dred soldiers.
STERN justice is costly sometimes
Stern county, Cal paid $780, the cost of
prosecuting man for stealing 60 cents,
and he was acquitted.
THE Duke of Portland has a necktie
for every hour of the day, and he never
wears his gloves twice. His hosier's
bill is about 81, 200 year.
MRS. GEO. ]. GOULD, who was Miss
Edith Kingdom. is careful and econom-
ical housekeeper. She is a good cook,
and frequently makes her children's
clothes
IT is claimed that the sun never sets
on American soil, and that when it is
p. m. at Attoo Island, Alaska, it is 9:36
g. m. the next day on the eastern coast
of Maine.
A POST OFFICE has been established
at label Katerin on top of Mount Sinai.
That historic old mountain is known
throughout the East as the Mountain
of Moses
IT is proposed to establish line of
phia and Mexico, and which will touch
at several important points, including
Havana, Cuba.
A FEMALE jewelry drummer is the
latest novelty on the road in Maine.
She is handsome, dresses stylishly,
wears mans soft telt hat, and halls
from New York.
A KIND of bituminous rock, which is
found in several places in California, is
being extensively used for street pave
ments in that state These pavements
are very like asphalt
The treasury department has decided
that marble lust of the prince of
Wales, imported for masonic society
in Iowa, is entitled 10 come into the
country free of duty.
PROBABLY the biggest apple Of the
season is one grown in Maryland. 1t
weighs twenty-six and one-half ounces,
and measures sixteen inches in circum-
ference. 1t is pippin.
MORE than four times the money re-
quired has been offered for the new
Russian loan despite all that has been
done by the Rothschilds and Other
large bankers to prevent it.
CURIOUS feature of this seasons
apple crop in York county, Me-, is that
1t is unusually light all over, except in
a belt about five miles wide, where the
yield is phenomenally large.
The fruit and potato crops of Cali
foruta are so great that large per-
centage of them will not be brought
to the market owing to the price being
so low that it will be Improbable.
IT is unusual to see grain standing in
the field ready ta cut while three inches
of snow covers the ground But this
could have been seen on the first day
of October, 1891, in Snake river valley,
Idaho.
THE cranberry crop of New Jersey
this year is valued at 5000, 900. The
cost of getting the berries to market
averages 81 bushel and the market
prices range from So. so to So. 35 busheL
WHAT was long supposed to be wax
figure on a cruci6x in the Burgos Cathe-
dral turns out to be mummified hui
man body. The church record shows
that 1t has been in its present position
since Hoo A. D.
THE greatest artesian well in the
world has been recently struck in South
Dakota. 1t is $50 feet deep The water
pressure is 225 pounds per square inch
and its fov Is from q 600 IN 10 600 0aI-