The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

TURKEY has prohibited the circulation
Of the works of Emile Zola.
AN Atchison street car has been paint
cd black for funeral purposes.
MRS. LELAND STANFORD gives $780,
200 year to charitable objects.
A WALK around the world is to be at
tempted by M. Droz, Frenchman.
TIPPoo T1B is said to be preparing to
abandon the wilds of Africa for a sea-
Jon in England.
A JUSTICE in st. Louis has ruled that
q girl is bound to return the gifts made
by rejected lover.
EMPERoR FRANCIS JOSEPH dwelt upon
Che desire for peace in his speech open
ing the Reichsrath.
TAPE measures are made at but two
places in the United States-Brooklyn
N. Y, and Cleveland, o.
CONSIDERING comfort and convent
ence, living is cheaper in London than
In any other city of Europe.
In the Michigan legislature COM
mittee was appointed to look into the
display of hashy Autographs.
CHILL has sent an agent to Europe to
negotiate loan for war ships to con-
tend with the insurgent navy.
CALIFORNIA is the only state in the
union which at present produces quick
silver in commercial quantities
ENGLISH society is Mortified because q
grandniece of the Duke of Wellington
earns her living by selling flowers.
THE Swedish parliament is consider
ing a proposed law forbidding women to
marry before they are 1s years old.
A ROYAL COMMISSION has been ap-
pointed in England to investigate the
relations between capital and labor.
AT Baptist sociable to be held in
Bristol, Pa, the attraction will be a
nail-driving contest between four girls.
OCTOBER 10 is fixed as the date of the
reciprocity conference between Secre-
tary Blaine and Canadian commission.
ers.
THE hereditary prince of Nassau,
with prospective income of S1,25O, 900
q year, is in England looking for a
wife.
MISSOURI received $4,000 as her
share of the direct tax and appropriated
1t to the state university as an endow-
ment.
WILD flax is indigenous in Montana,
and grows luxuriantly everywhere.
Farmers are finding it new source of
profit
EX-SENATOR EDMUNDs has purchased
a home in Aiken, S. c., and hereafter
will spend his winters there with his
family.
A SCHOOL teacher in Oakland, Cal, is
under investigation for having ducked
in basin of water the head of one of
his scholars.
AVERY SMITH, of Cedar Bluffs, Neb..
had the novel experience the other
morning of shooting wolf in his door
yard before breakfast.
AN Atchison woman recently refused
the present of a handsome set of books
because they did not match the color of
er front room furniture.
BARON DE FAvA said that he was per-
fectly Indifferent as to what the New
York papers said about him. He was
under no international obligations to
read them.
A WOMAN of Atchison, Kas, placed a
Nevolver at her husbands head and made
i'm sign a pledge of total abstinence.
Both revolver and husband were loaded
at the time.
THE late Gen. Albert Pike told citi-
zen of Alexandria that he removed from
that city to Washington because the
people whistled SO much they disturbed
his literary labors.
P. T. BARNUM, after making his will,
in 1852, summoned several prominent
physicians to examine his mental con.
aition and to make affidavits to his sani-
ty, which they did.
Mrs. KING, the "cattle queen" OF
Corpus Christi, Tex, recently sold 49,.
300 head of 2-year-old steers for SS2, 900,
probably the largest single order for
Eattle ever filled in Texas.
E. E. DICKERsoN, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, claims to be the champion lather
of America, and to have record OF
laying $500 laths, requiring II, 600 nails,
IN hours and 3S minutes.
THE war against the nude in art has
reached the New York assembly, where
bill has been introduced prohibiting
''the exhibition of any picture of G
woman wholly or partially nude"
A JERSEY CENTRAL railroad brakeman
fell from his car and was dragged five
miles over the stones and ties clinginl
TO the brake-chain, and, wonderful tC
relate, sustained no injuries beyond &
few bruises.
A MONUMENT to William Tell is to bt
erected at Altdorf, Switzerland. The
citizens of the town are earnest in tn,
project, and invite, in offers of prizes
propositions from sculptors in all part
Of the world.
ONE of the streets of Palermo, Italy
Is named after President Lincoln. Thi
was done by the order of Marquis d
Rudini, the new premier of Italy, wht
was mayor of Palermo at the time o
Lincoln's assassination.
AN ancient Greek coin valued at abou
$40 was found in a lot of 5O-cent piece
that arrived at the Philadelphia sub
treasury the other day. The handsom,
young lady who found the rarity wa
allowed to keep it by substituting a so
cent piece out of her own pocket.
THE advanced price of meat in Ger
many has increased the consumption o
horse-fesh. Some of the peasants il
western Germany have had to give III
meat-eating entirely, while others draw
blood for sausages every Saturday from
living swine. The blood is sprinkle,
with fat and allowed to CONCEAL an,
this preparation forms the main dish TO
the Sunday meal.
IT Is said that a potato contains
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