The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-09-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

In New York
THE big Worlds fair building will be
mile around.
OF the 10 largest cities in the world
three are in Japan.
The royal standard of Persia is a
blacksmith's apron.
TWENTY-FIVE newspapers in Kansas
are edited by women.
DU. ING 1890 there were built in the
United States $500 churches
EDWARD BELLAMY is descendant of
six generations of clergymen.
AN Atlantic City policeman has been
arrested for highway robbery.
JOHN CULLERToN, Chicago porter,
has retired with 500, 900 in tips.
THE society editor of a Boston morn.
ing newspaper is young colored wom-
an.
The president of the Universal Peace
Union is Mr.. Love. This is most ap-
propriate.
ILLINOIS has just erected three monu-
ments at Gettysburg in honor of her
fallen heroes
SOME Philadelphia boys set fire to
nine warehouses "just to see the fire
engines going"
For terrible disasters on land and on
the water, the month of August pre-
sents dark record.
THE Italian government threatens to
occupy the Vatican and exclude the
new pope therefrom.
The Chicago Worlds fair people will
place $500, 900, 900 insurance on the
buildings and exhibits.
WE have again reached the months of
the rolling =, and an oyster wave will
sweep over the country.
LIZZIE ARNOLD, of Fenton, Mich,
weighs only eighteen pounds, and is
twenty seven years of age.
Mr. GLADSTONE has written a letter
denouncing gambling as a formidable
and growing national evil.
THE department of agriculture pro-
poses to introduce the calla-lily root as
substitute for the potato.
The Hawaiian race now numbers
only 40, 10 members, decrease of near
ly one-half within fifty years.
ACCORDING to Jewish estimates, the
number of Jews in New York city is
now between so, 900 and 100, 900.
THE memory of Wendell Phillips is
to be honored in Boston by the erection
of a public hall bearing his name
The aeronauts are dropping out
rapidly, but the next complete census
will probably show as many as ever.
The princess of Wales is one of the
most leautiful women in England, vet
she is grandmother, and 46 if she is a
day.
QUEEN VICTORIA has given orders
hat Great Britain's representation
at the Worlds fair be well looked
after.
IT has been estimated recently by a
shoe man that the people of the United
States spend S45O,OOO 900 annually for
shoes.
EDISON has notion that the average
dwelling of the future will be lighted
and heated at cost of less than a dol
lar year.
WILKEsBARRE man has sued a
minstrel company for $40, 900 damages
because the endman made him the butt |
of witticism.
The latest news from Emin Pasha in. |
3icates that he is rapidly acquiring emil
nent domain over the Equatorial prov. |
noes of Africa.
BY recent appliance to kitchen
ranges the refuse from the kitchen is
thoroughly dried, converted into char
coal and used for fuel
IT is reported that in the army of the
Chllian insurgents are many young
Americans and Englishmen who have
been given commissions
NoBoDY is especially enthusiastic
over the fact that oysters come back
with September, for the reason that
early ones are never the best.
REPORTS from many points in Ala
bama are to the effect that the cotton
crop there will be at least 25 per cent.
under that of last year. Rust has done
the damage.
SENATOR PROCTOR began his official
career as a selectman. He has passed
through about all the grades up to his
present position, and now he is going
to be a United States senator.
THERE are counties in North Dakota
where the wheat lands this year yield
thirty-eight bushels to tn acre. The
wheat crop just harvested in that state
exceeds it is said, so, 100000 bushels.
THERE is marble mine, recently To-
Gated, at Providence, Cache county,
Utah, that yields a marble so much like
nottled onyx that the difference can
only be discovered by the use of chemi-
Gals.
A PENNSYLVANIA mother spanked |
Aer thirteen-year- boy and accident
ally exploded a box of cartridges secret
ed in his hip pocket. Here is another
If those ''did not know it was loaded" |
mistakes
The census returns for Pennsylvania |
show that the unfortunate city of |
Johnstown has increased in popula. |
tioE since 1880 from 8, $50 TO 2l,SO5, a |
growth which makes it now the thir-
teenth city in the State.
MANY of the Pittsburgh glass COM
panies are placing plants in position to
make gas, the natural gas supply hav-
ing given out. The object is to avoid
going back to solid fuel.
A GEORGIA telegram says that col
ored man who was hanged to tree and
had 800 bullets fired into his body is
dead. The latter announcement will
likely be accepted by a majority of
readers as being correct.
SEC. PRooToR, who will succeed Ed
munds in the Senate, is a most abstemi-
ols man. He does not smoke and his
tastes are simple. He is old-fashioned
in his manner but shrewd and keen.