The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

It's winter campaign.
THERE are said to be about so buffa.
loes left in Wyoming.
THE cost of running the United Statol
is over n million day.
DEER are very plentiful this winter
on Camas prairie, Idaho.
THE likeness of Fred Grant to his
father increases as he grows older.
DIR, HOLMES has decided to undertake
no more literary work for the present
SOME watches now made are guaran.
teed to keep time to within ten seconds
a month.
COLORADO has over 90, 900 square miles
of coal, and the product of 1890 was 8,
600, 900 tons.
In Canada four sons of one family
married four daughters in another on
the same day.
The longest railway bridge span in
America is that at Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
which is 54S feet
NEW herring bank, 100 miles long,
has been discovered off the west coast
of Newfoundland
SATURDAY, Sunday and Monday are
the lucky days for marriages in Eng.
land and Scotland.
The net amount of the debt of New
York city November 80 was little over
ninety nine millions.
A NEW York man made over all his
property to his wife. She eloped and
he is now in the poor house.
SUNDAY as a day of rest Is gaining
ground more rapidly in France than in
any other country in Europe
A GoURD with natural handle five
feet long is a curiosity which Samuel
Holt, of Turniptown, Ga, is proud OF
4 MILESTONE set by Benjamin Frank
lin is still standing in New London
county, Conn. 1t is old and mossgrown
A PHILADELPHIA jeweler displays in
his window Il clock having a skeleton
performing on trapeze for pendu.
lum.
A SMALLPOX patient who didn't want
to go to the hospital was chased through
the streets of Newark, N. j., and final
ly captured.
FRANCE has assumed rights this year
over third of Sahara. If France wants
the earth she is not picking out the
choice spots.
THE editor of the Ashland (Mo) Bu-
gle has an almanac printed in 1889, and
1t predicts the weather as accurately as
an almanac of to-day.
THE wish of Mrs. Grant that the re.
mains of Gen. Grant shall not be taken
from their present resting place will
doubtless be respected.
The most powerful electric light
house in Europe is the one at Haust-
holm on the Scow. 1t has strength
of two million candles.
CHINESE goldminers in California do
not talk at their work as they consider
it unlucly, and for the same reason
they do not like to be addressed by vis-
itors-
THE death of that promising young
New York novelist, Wolcott Balestier,
puts an end to the literary partnership
he had recently formed with Rudyari
Kipling.
A COMMUNITY of socialists is reported
in Jefferson county, Mo. They num-
Der twenty-five, own everything in
common and call themselves al
TRUSTS"
A YOUNG soldier at Ell Paso, Tex,
played baseball so well with local
club that his admirers bought his re-
lease from the army and engaged him
as star
In Wyoming they are talking of send.
ing to congress Frank Sartoris, brother.
in-law of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris,
who is one of the largest cattle-raisers
in the state.
New YORK real estate agents have
great difficulty in renting buildings said
to be haunted. 1t is estimated that
there are at least thirty of these houses
now vacant.
EUGENE, now sufferer from gout
and rheumatism, once had the foot of
Cinderella. In the days of the second
empire she wore shoes that would fit
mere children.
The prince of Wales has been grand
master of the English grand lodge of
Free Masons for II successive years,
and will be nominated for the office
again this month.
The population of the Cherokee Ma
ton which has just sold 6.OOO, 600 acres
of land to the government, is about 80, &.
600 The Cherollees are a highly civil.
ized tribe OF Indians.
THREE hundred and fifty-four emf.
grants left Stockholm for this country
in one day recently. 1t is reported that
many thousands of people are praeti-
cally without work in that city.
The people of Britt, Ia, are using
their new Jail for a primary school
room. A crowded public school and
the absence of criminals have led to
this unheard of use of house of cor
rection.
IT takes long time for the cocoanut
tree to attain its full condition of bear
ing-seven years-but when this time
has passed il is a mine of wealth, and
happy he who can call q plantation of
100 acres his own.
GEN. JoUBERT, commander-in-chief
on the Transvaal said the other dav, in
an address on education, that he was
eighteen years old before he had seen
a newspaper, and that his whole educa.
tion had cost less than that of two
weeks schooling for his yc INCEST
child.
A VIENNA jeweler while selling a
lady's watch of small size, took it in
his mouth. lie had q cold, sneezed VIC.
lently and swallowed the watch. The
purchaser, who had paid for the article,
was dunn bfounded. But the jeweler re.
assured him and secured the watch
again very soon with the help of ply