The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

AT the next session of congress Ariz'
ona will ask for admission as a state.
THE fastest mile by man on tricy-
Gle was made in minutes 40 2-5 sec
onds.
THE output of gold and silver in Aus
tralia in 1890 amounted to about $780,
900, 900.
CHIEF BYRD has decided that no more
whites are wanted in the Chickasaw
Nation.
TIE fastest mile ever made by a rum
uing horse was run In 1 minute 351S
seconds.
WASHINGTON is the only city of any
size in this country that possesses no
factories.
PHILLIP d. ARMoURs transactions last
year reached the enormous aggregate of
sos, 900, 900.
CANADA only lacks 237, 900 square
miles to be as large as the whole cohti-
nent of Europe.
IF Europe is at peace at the time, the
German emperor will visit America and
the Worlds fair
In Russia stoves are built into the
walls between the rooms, thus heating
two rooms at once.
A MASSACHUSETTS man went crazy
because he could not meet note for
few hundred dollars
SENATOR CAMERON is reported to be
worth Sc, 1000, 900, a third of which is in
Washington real estate.
THE tie that binds Russia and France
together at this time is evidently not
that little German band
THE fastest mile ever made by man
swimming was done in twenty-six
minutes and fifty-two seconds.
BERLIN's suicide epidemic shows no
signs of abatement. No less than 25O
persons died there by their own hand in
July.
The widowed daughter of eX-Secre-
tary Bayard is to spend the summer in
Sweden, the home of her husbands rel
atives.
MONA CARDS Romance of the
Moors" is the first English novel to be
copyrighted in this country under the
new law.
This summer has had its full quota
Of horrible railway accidents, and every
one of them has shown the existence of
negligence.
CHINA has just coined silver dollar
which will be accepted in trade in place
of the Mexican and Japanese coins
heretofore used.
A TwENTY-ToN meteorolite has been
offered to the Worlds fair by Farmer
Rogers, OF Marengo, Ill, upon whose
land it recently dropped
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woman who has successfully passed the
examination and received a license as q
steam engineer at Chicago
Two pluclly boys, with empty guns,
bluffed pair of veteran burglars in
New York and kept them with hands
up" until the police arrived.
TEXAS has Fat Mans association,
she initiation fee of which is cent
pound. Men who weigh less than 225
are ineligible to membership.
Miss MABEL CAHML, the champion
woman lawn-tennis player of America,
is of Irish parentage, her father being q
country gentleman in Kilkenny.
THE greatest number of successive
victories in war in one day were those
in Mexico of Gen. Scott who had five,
and Gen. Taylor, who had three.
THE youngest member of the SD con-
gress will be Mr.. Bailey of Texas.
He has not yet turned his 30th year. but
has already acquired fame as an ol~
ator
DURING his last year in New York
Dr. VIM. A. Hammond is credited with
having made over $3.50, 900, probably
"a Low oI
in America.
AMERICAN petroleum has been shut
out of the Peruvian market owing to
the discovery of oil fields in that coun-
try covering an extent of about $500
square miles.
Two Frenchmen, the brothers Fore,
have invented new kind of harp
made entirely of wood Instead of
strings the inventors use strips of
American fir
ONE wheat field in Colusa county
Cal, covers 572 square miles. This
year it yielded an average of fifteen
bushels per acre or total of nearly s.
900, 900 bushels.
SOMEBODY has counted them up and
finds that there are 72O women lectur-
ers in this country. This doesn't in
Guide those who administer their leo
lures in private.
CAPT. LAwLER who sailed from Bos.
ton, some time ago, in the dory Mer-
maid, has arrived, in England. He
claims shark tried to devour his boat
en the way over.
MARQUIS PRosPERo MARsIGLI, the
wegithy Italian nobleman who recently
died in Bologna, bequeathed 1SO, 900 lire
TO the pope to say masses for .he re-
pose of his soul.
A New YORK steamship agent says
that so far 1000 people have sailed for
Europe svery week since the 1st OF
May. The total number would reach
100, 900, and 80, 900 more will go before
.he season ends.
The favorte page of the crowp
princess of Sweden is little Negro
10y who was imported from Egypt. He
Is pretty little fellow of 12 years, and
is dressed in picturesque costume
topped off with diminutive red fez.
The white wife of Red Eye, bibu.
lous Indian chief whom Buffalo Bill
brought topublic notice, is suing for q
divorce. Too much tanglefoot is what
seems to have afflicted old Red Eye.
The recent census has shown that
there are in England and Wales 900, 0OC
more women than men. This means
that six per cent. of English and Welsh