The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-09-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHE Maryland tomato crop is said to
be failure.
THERE are 1876 electric roads in the
United States
The Sultan of Bareda has a mat
worth $3.50, 900.
THERE are in Sweden 143, 600 more
women than men.
THERE is n hotel keeper in Maine
whose name is Gin.
AFRICA is now completely encircled
by submarine cables
BY the laws of Texas homestead
can not be touched for debt.
A PHILADELPHIA man wears pair of
shoes made from elephant hide.
GRAIN men in the west are beginning
to complain of the scarcity of cars
A TREMENDOUS sulphur spring has
been tapped near San Antonio, Tex.
A WOMAN is to drive the last nail
In the woman's building of the Worlds
fair.
MASSACHUSETTS is to spend $40, 900 on
her educational exhibit at the Worlds
fair.
THERE is only one sudden death
among women TO every eight among
men.
THERE are more ducks in the Chinese
empire than in all the world outside
of it.
A SQUAD of policemen in Philadel-
phia now rush over their beats on hi
cycles.
The latest advices from China show
that the floods are killing more people
than the riots.
The Western train-robbers seem to
hold up their end of the lines with un-
usual success this year.
CLARENCE II. FREEMAN, the champion
checker-player of the land, is mulat-
to, with slight tinge of Pequot Indian
blood.
LORD SALISBURY has made twenty
one new peers since he has been in
office, besides raising the rank of sew
eral more.
SURVEYS show that several lofty
mountain peaks in Idaho are from Is
to 90 feet lower than they were few
years ago.
The glut of potatoes in Southern Cal
ifornia continues. In one section they
are being offer at five cents sack in
the ground.
GOLD coin is shipped in fve-gallon
oaken kegs bound with iron hoops.
Each keg holds two bags, and each bag
contains $4,000.
SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, is
said to be the oldest living congress
man. He was first elected in 1S49, at
the age of 81 years.
WITH American hog and hominy, the
happy German may increase his avoir-
dupois and get higher look at life and
its substantial joys.
M. ADER, of Paris, after expending
more than 500, 900 on a flying machine,
has produced one in which he flew
about one hundred yards
The total appropriated by the differ
tnt states for exhibits at the Worlds
fair thus far is S2,695, OOO Many states
gre yet to make appropriations
ONE man at Evans, Col, threshed the
wheat of 100 acres of his farm and got
0 800 bushels for his trouble. Twenty
acres of barley yielded 671 bushels.
THE Notre Dame cathedral, Montreal,
has the largest bell in America. 1t
weighs 24,7SO pounds, is eight feet sew
en- inches in diameter, and six feet high.
A FREE bed has been established in
the Mary Fletcher hospital, at Burling-
ton, VT, by Secretary Proctor, who
sent in his check for So, 600 to foot the
bill.
GEORGE F. Roof, who wrote "The
Battle-cry of Freedom" Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp" and The Vacant
Chair" is living at an advanced age in
Chicago.
THE daughter of Queen Kapiolani and
heiress to the throne of Hawaii, is stay
ing at hotel in London, in the strict
est incognito, attended by suite OF
three persons.
AN old lady of Salina, Kan, began
her prayer by saying: 80, Lord, Thou
hast probably read in the morning
newspapers how Thy day was desecrat-
ed yesterday"
headed and bachelor. His forehead
is very prominent but his mouth is
small and feminine, and his chin weak.
His eyes are large and brilliant.
THE Pittsburgh plunger who has just
won 100000 on horse race should
now furnish a list of his losses. Some
how the sporting fraternity always
omit to show that side of the ledger.
ALL newspaper supporters of Chili's
late president, Balmaceda, are now
leaving the country as fast as they can,
and several of the more prominent ed
itors will be shot unless they escape.
ANOTHER crazy Indian has turned up
among the Cheyennes, and the indica-
tions are that all the Messiah and ghost
dance foolishness, which had such dis
astrous results last winter, will be set
going again.
TEN thousand Colorado people as
sembled at Rocky Ford recently to
celebrate a mysterious festival styled
watermelon day." Each person pres
ent was made the recipient of a water
melon, and strange and CORY repast
followed
A METAL ticket-punch, carried in his
vest pocket, just over the heart, saved
a Georgia railroad conductors life, the
other day. the bullet from a Negros
pistol fiattening on the punch.
JOHN FITZGERALD, the president of
the Irish National League in America,
is the richest man in Lincoln, Neb..
having fortune of 81, 500, 900. He be-
gan his career as a laborer with pick
and shovel on a western road.
JULIA MARLowE, the actress, is said
to have wonderful memory. Asa test,
not long ago, she committed to memory
and recited the entire letter of Raron