The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-06-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

Now the prune crop of California is
pronounced failure.
THE Boston people are raising fund
for Gen. N. p. Banks.
ARIsToCRAIIC card sharps are no bet
ter than the plebian kind
WILL the Itata sell for enough to pay
the Charleston's coal bill? ...
A NEW YORK girl of fourteen has just
been married for the third time.
ABouT two-thirds of the people Of
New York live in tenement houses
FIFTY cents will be the price of nd
mission to the Worlds Columbian expo
sition.
Now THAT the Itata has been found
the search for Tascott can be re-
sumed.
THREE of the five highest in the grad
Mating class at West Point this year are
aoutherners.
EVEN the Prince Of Wales has his
uses. He is helping TO overthrow
monarchy in England.
PALLADIUM is replacing platinum for
electroplating the balance and other
movements of watches
THE czar of Russia will celebrate his
silver wedding next November, in q
modest fashion, near Copenhagen.
KING CHARLES, of Portugal though
under thirty years of age, has grown SO
heavy that he can hardly move about.
THE product of gold in the United
States the last sixteen years has aggre-
gated the enormous amount of $572, 900,-
900.
THERE are more divorces granted an.
nually in the United States than in all
the rest of the Christian world put to-
gether.
Miss ETHEL MACKENZIE, daughter OF
Sir Morell Mackenzie, is the London
correspondent of several American
newspapers.
THE poet Whittier begins to feel that
the labors of life are virtually over.
His fast failing sight is shutting him
off from literary work.
THE number of changes which can
be played upon chime of bells is won.
derfuL Twelve bells will allow no less
than 479, O91, 600 changes.
The trouble seems to be that Sir vii.
liam Gordon-Cumming attempted to in
troduce slight-of-hand into baccarat
EUROPEAN papers confirm the report
that the czarevitche of Russia will be
engaged to Princess Helene of Monte
negro upon his return from his travels.
IT now appears that the Georgia
watermelon crop, at an average yield,
will be about 10000 cars, with the pos
sibility that a good season may swell it
70 $4,000.
THE model husband was seen on a
Detroit street car recently. He had q
letter written by his wife stuck in his
hat-band so as to have sure thing on
mailingit.
A LONDON tradesman recently re.
ceived an order for siXty-four pairs of
shoes for the daughter of the Grand
Duke Paul, of Russia, child less than
year old.
w. X. K.VAYDERBLT will go ahead with
his SIS, 600 hen-house to find in the end
that hen will lay no larger or better
eggs in $4,000 coop than she will in
soap-boX.
THE Massachusetts Legislature has
adopted bill relating to the punish
ment of drunkards which practically
reposes in police captains the powers of
magistrates.
IT has been found that the juice OF
the fig when filtered and evaporated,
and then treated with alcohol, yields a
white precipitate which is an excellent
aid to digestion.
IDLERs and criminals are, it is said
sent to Canada from England, and from
there they come across the border into
the United States, in violation of the
immigration laws.
Mrs. PRISCILLA SCRoGGINs, of Gaines.
vile, Ga, is ia years old, and has in
all 1,153 descendants, IL children, 103
grandchildren, 636 great-grandchildren
and 402 Observation-Disclosures.
A FREIGHT-TRAIN on the Pennsylva-
mia railway was stopped for several
hours the other day by swarm of bees
that settled in the cab of the engine
and drove the engineer and fireman out
PROF. CLEVELAND ABBE has beon
appointed to make up the forecasts
for the weather bureau, and Prof
Marvin will have the verifcation of
them. Prof. Marvin has a corpulent
sinecure.
LINCOLN univ ersity, in Nebraska, has
.he youngest college president in the
country. This is Prof. Z. A. Turner,
who, though only twenty-nine years
old, has honorably filled the position
for two years.
THE Quakers have $50 women preach
ers in the United States the UNIVERSAL
lists thirty-fve, the Unitarians sixteen,
the Congregationalists six, the Method
lists one, and the Lutheran and Free
Baptists several
A KENTUCKY jury refuses to award
damages to husband whose wife has
been enticed from his home by machin.
ations of a gay deceiver. The jury
holds that the abandoned husband
ought to rejoice that the unfaithful
wife is out of the way and be grateful
TO the man who persuaded her to leave
instead of suing him for damages.
THE New York courts are again sen.
fencing the men whose electrocutions
have been delayed by legal bubbles
and three murderers will be shocked tc
death on July if they can be kept out
of the reach Of the lawyers.
A PARTY OF newspaper men and 9TH
ers, sent by the Chicago Herald, has
started for Nassau, at which pert sail
ing vessel will be chartered to follow
as closely as may be the route taken by
Columbus, the object being to discover