The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE railroads pay-rolls for 1890 will
be nearly S700, 900, ,000
A PRESIDENTS expenses amount in
iour years to about $500
Mr.. JOHN w. MACKEY has just paid
$3.50, 900 for home in London.
THE steel bridge across the Columbia
Vancouver, Wash, will be 5000 feet
long.
ELEVEN battle ships are now being
constructed for the German Govern
ment.
Mr.. DRAKE took the premium for
ducks at the Wellington (Kan.) poultry
show.
A CHIMNEY 1876 feet in height is to be
erected at New Haven, Ct, at a cost of
$1,000.
A LOBSTER weighing sixteen pounds
was displayed in a New York store the
other day.
THE Ontario mine, located at Park
City, Utah, has paid to date 81, ,375,0 0OC
in dividends
The Anti-Poverty Society, of New
York, gave DR.. McGlynn a Christmas
purse of $1,000.
RocHEFoRT's list of duels up to date
number twenty-three, in seven of which
ne was wounded.
New HAVEN has decided not to fur
nish free text books to the Roman Cath
olic parochial schools.
RUBINsTEIN is literally dying of mel
nncholy. He processes most profound
disdain and disgust for life.
THE miners of Europe and America
are preparing for concerted action in
demand of the eight-hOur day.
THERE is Polish doctor prasticing in
Paris who bears the remarkable name
of NJ. Prinkevitchsvitncht
EX-CoNBEDERArE friends of General
Patrick Cleburne are raising funds for .
monument to him at Helena, Ark.
THE announcement that Kansas last
year raised SS3, 800 pounds of cotton
will be surprise to good many peo-
pie.
THE best thing with which TO polish
eyeglasses and spectaeles is a bit of
newspaper. Moisten the glasses and rub
dry.
GLADSTONE is perhaps the best paid
writer of the day. His contributions
are in constant demand, regardless Of
price.
TIE large landed proprietors of Pisen,
Germany, are seriously alarmed by the
wholesale migration of their laborers to
Brazil.
VIRGINIA will adopt system of leas-
ing its oyster beds. Maryland receives
an immense revenue from similar
source.
CALIFORNIA this year produced Is, ,O00,-
900 gallons of wine. OF this 1.75e, 900
came from the vineyard of Senator
Stanford.
A REVOLUTION in Peru, in the inter
pressed in its incipiency with sacrifice
of forty lives.
The Princess Alexandra, of Wales, is
the Queens favorite daughter-in-law,
and has always been most affectionate-
ly regarded by Her Majesty.
IT is reported that Edison is now at
work upon patent appliance which
will make the ''helio' girl in the tele-
phcne Office useless luxury.
To accommodate various shades Of
faith and opinion there are in the
United States, according to the census
returns, 14O distinct religions.
SIXTY thousand workmen of Switzer-
land do embroidery. They are paid
about S1O,O0O,00O annually, and their
machines are worth S. 900, 900.
SOME unfeeling person is said to have
expressed as Christmas gift to Colonel
Ingersoll, on the C. o. D. plan, a copy
Of Evidences of a Future State"
PERHAPS the Oldest living Indian in
the United States is Muddy Water, a
Seminole, residing in Indian Territory,
who has just entered his 100 year.
THE Sultan of Turkey has conferred
upon Mrs. Whitelaw Reid the order
of the Shefkat, the highest Turkish
decoration that can be given to wom-
an.
AMONG the funniest birds known are
the umbrella Bird" which has crest
like an umbrella, and the "bell Bird"
which has a voice like the tolling of q
bell.
AT the Ames-West wedding in Boston
the father of the happy groom, F. L.
Ames, settled the sum of 81, 900, 900 upon
his son as his share in the joyous occa-
sion.
ONE of the new appointees to a New
York police captaincy is Max It.
SGhmittberger, Bavarian, who is near
ly feet inches tall, and weighs 225
pounds.
WHEN the boys were out skating in
Eastport, Me-, the other day, Benjamin
Capen beat them all in skill, speed and
endurance. He is only sixty-seven
years old,
THE parrot has not the monopoly o1
talking among birds. The mynan, a
species of starting, is very initiative and
says Good morning" very plainly in
response to salutation.
PosT-oFFIoE officials have agreed in
formally upon the establishment Of a
sea post-office service upon all vessels
of the German lines plying between
New York, Bremen and Hamburg.
AT the War Department card cata,
iogue is being prepared that will give
the military history of every man who
served the Union, from General Grant
down to the last man who enlisted.
DIR. E. III. LANDEs, of the veterinary
department of the University of Penn
sylvania, and DIR. Roswell Park, of Buf
falo, think they have discovered the
bacillus which causes tetanus or lock
jaw.
IN the front of each street car in Ber
lin is the number of people it will com
fortably contain. When that is reached
the conductor calls out complete Il
the waiting people, and no more will b'
admitted.