The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-06-13
CLRRENT TOPICS.

\ balloon was seven miles.
Los ANGELES is to have $40, 600
fruitdrying establishment.
A PORTRAIT of Mr. Cleveland has been
hung up in the white house.
A HOME for broken down bachelors
has been founded in st. Louis.
THERE is an average of 1904 ties to q
mile of railroad in this country.
Mr.. PoMA, the new Italian consul at
New Orleans, has arrived at his post
ONE person in every ten who died in
New York in 1889 was buried in potters
field
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, proudly claims
q clock that has been running for 100
years.
GOLDEN ROD has been selected by the
school children of New York as state
flower.
The name of one of the blackest col
ored men in Mexico, Mo-, is Green
Brown.
OLIVE oil is being shipped from
Southern California to fill orders in
England.
IT is estimated that Russia will with.
draw from London this month SIS, ,000,-
900 gold.
A LONDON restaurant serves Amer
lean oysters on the half-shell at half
dollar dozen.
ACCORDING to reports from Delaware,
the peach crop will be the largest
known for years.
The longest single line of railroad in
the world is the new Trans Caucasian,
built by Russia.
A CITIZEN of st. Louis makes living
by renting turtles to restaurants for ad-
vertising purposes.
A LONDON fnancier writes that Eu-
ropean losses in Argentine securities
amount to $780, 900, 900.
AFTER a Beaver county (Pa- man had
burned log he found in the ashes q
lump of silver worth $3.50.
A MAN at Athens, Ga, owns an an
tiquity in the form of a water bucket,
hewn out of the solid rock.
AN attorney in Buffalo has been ar
rested for charging $50 more than the
legal fee for securing pension.
THE Chicago exposition people have
decided that no fakirs shall be allowed
to come upon the show-grounds
AT Queretaro, near Mexico, cakes of
soap are used as currency and are legal
tender for the payment of debts.
THE citizens of the Pine Tree state
are to purchase an elegant silver SER
vice for the armored cruiser Maine.
A PHnoLoeIsT estimates that the
coinage of new words goes on at the
rate of 100 annually in the English
language.
TALL crystal lamps are the newest
seen. They are gotten up as columns
and pillars Iridescent glass is used oc-
casionally.
IT is estimated that at least $50, 900, 900
of the governments paper money sup
posed to be in circulation has been lost
or destroyed.
The late Congressman Leonidas
Caesar Houk was one of just six repub-
1ican representatives from the South in
the next congress.
The Shah of Persia has recently been
grossly swindled by persons who sold
him yellow diamonds that had been
artifcially whitened.
No sooner does the czarewitch recover
from the wounds inflicted upon him by
a japanese police officer than his folks
pick out a wife for him.
SOME one wants to arrange a regatta
to be participated in by all of the lead
ing professional oarsmen of the globN
as feature of the Worlds fair.
BUTToNHoLE-MAKERs in London wins
operate machine are expected to work
$500 holes in day of nine hours and
receive penny hundred or thirty five
cents day.
WHILE Mrs. Tinkham, of Eagle Point
Mich, was fondling pet dog, her cal
became so overcome by jealousy that il
sprang upon the lady and severely BIZ
her in the arm.
THE caterpillar plague is making
eastern Connecticut look as though
swept by fire. Where, oh where is the
English sparrow, ard what is the mat
ter with his appetite?
RECENT German tests have showr
that the loss in weight of steel rail-
from wear and rusting is in about al
inverse proportion to the tensile
strength of the metal.
A BENEVOLENT Atchison, Kan, WON
an keeps bar of soap on a board neal
cree k that runs through the town fol
the use of tramps, and number O.
them may be seen at that place every
day washing themselves
A LITTLE boy was seen during th'
late Muskegon fire trundling a wheel
barrow almost as high as himself, il
which were two setting hens, away
from the neighborhood as fast as his lit
tie legs could carry him.
KITING with dynamite is fearful de
velopment of the aerial art. 1t is pro
posed to simplify work by flying higl
explosive kites so contrived and man
aged rs to drop their destructive load
into hostile camps or cities.
AN odd coin purse is made of mole
skin. 1t is the natural size of the ami
NAL, the head and forefect being fin
ished to simulate life, and a silver clasI
being affixed to the hind quarters.
THE Indian is about to be tried as
regular army soldier The worst thini
to be said of this is that while his ca
pacity to fire powder and ball is prob
lematical he has too little objection u
fire water.
THE Central park menagerie of New
York city now contains 900 living speci
mems, having been enriched durinl
the year by thirty-six births. The bab,
hippopotamus weighed 15O pounds whei
it was five months old,
PRESIDENT HPPoLYTE, of Hayti
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