The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

u1Jy-SeVentn year
Mrs. P. T. BARNUM is forty years old,
just half her husbands age
STATISTICS show that the birth-rate in
the United States is declining.
THE five-franc piece of France con.
tains 3s4 grains of standard silver
A PENNSYLVANIA judge has decided
That piano playing is manual labor.
SENATOR INGALLS, will take himself
and family to Europe after March next.
HENPECKED HUSBANDS are in favor Of
the closure rule. Closure means shut
up.
THERE will be seven natives of Yer
mont in the next United States SEN
ate.
NECKLACES and bracelets of the gen.
uine small gold coins of all nations are
nsen.
'DIsPRoPoRTIoNABLEN is given
as the longest word in the English Ian
guage.
PRESIDENT D1Az, of Mexico, is re-
ported to have arranged for a trip to
France.
WATER in which orange peel has been
soaked freshens and softens the COM
plexion.
The medical colleges of this country
alone turn out 5000 young physicians
every year.
GOLD veins rich enough to be worked
at a profit have been discovered in the
French Alps.
THE Molly Maguires are coming to
<he front again in the Pennsylvania
mining regions.
THE Prince of Wales must appear on
She witness stand in court, and in a
gambling case, too.
AmoNa the recent novelties in silver
goods is d match box with a compass
tmbedtled in one side.
A MAN now proposes to walk from
Panama to Alaska carrying the United
States flag all the way.
THERE are about IL, 900 nickel-in-the- |
slot machines in use in this country and |
they comprise fifty varieties.
The Pennsylvania Legislature is try
Ing to repeal the blue laws, which have
stood on the books since 1894.
THE death roll of the present Con-
gress is long one, eleven Representa-
tives and one Senator having died.
PRESIDENT CARNoT has an idea of sug.
gesting the demolition of all the fortifi.
cations in the neighborhood of Paris.
A RIvAL to the Maltese cat is the
Maltese dog, a bit of canine beauty re.
Gently imported from Paris by the fash.
tonable.
MASSACHUSETTS hasn't got navy,
but the constitution of that State makes
Admiral VIM. E. Russell commander-in.
chief of it.
A SWAN was killed in Trinity County,
Cal, recently, whose wings measured
seven feet when spread out. 1t weighed
sixteen pounds.
B. r. STEARNE, of Lynchburg, Va,
has in his possession curiously carved
violin, said to have once been the prop.
rty of Thomas jefferson.
REWARDS aggregating $50, 600 have
been offered for the capture of the two
men who attempted to assassinate three
members of the New Mexico Legisla-
ture.
MRS. MARY B. MATTHEWS, of Asburv
Station, n. j., succumbed a few days
ago, to the pain of cutting her third
set OF teeth, at the age of ninety-nine
years.
IBHA2A COUNTY, in California, paid
out S195 for scalps in December. The
lot included lions, los coyotes, 6S wild
cats, 1859 rabbits, SO crows, 10 bears
and eagles.
THE mamma" which fell from the
sky in Asia Minor last August and was
baked into bread has recently been ex-
amlned by men of science, end is iden-
titled as lichen.
GRoUNDHoG day, Valentines day,
Lincoln day, Washing toms birthday and
Easter follow each other this year in
rapid succession, all of them being in
cluded within two successive months.
THERE are two counties in Georgia
that have not lawyer. The two coun,
lies are Echols and Charlton. The re. |
turns for 1890 show further that Charl- ]
ton has neither doctor nor dentist.
WOMAN suffrage is symbolized in Wy
omings new seal of State, which shows
the figure of a woman from whose up ,
lifted arm is suspended broken chain,
while the States motto is Equal
Rights"
The twenty-five savings banks in
New York city did good business last :
year, handling in amounts deposited or
over S1ss, 900, 900, and hav-
ing in the aggregate over 77O, $50 open
accounts.
JUDGE GRINNELL, of Chicago, who
prosecuted the anarchists before his ,
elevation to the bench, is about to re-
tire to private life and has accepted
as counsel for the Chicago
,ity railroad company.
If machinery was only everlasting a l
Young man at GAINESVILLE, O., would {
nave solved the perpetual motion prob c
en- He has perfected an electric /
motor which, when started and the
circuit shut off, will go till it wears
,ut.
THE electrical underground railway
n London has proved that speed Of
miles an hour is practicable.
There are bills before the House of +
Commons from many other British !
ities for rapid transit railways on the t
anne plan. f
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS memoirs of
er departed husband will interest a
ood many people, particularly General n
fen Butler. The volume contains the t.
confederate proclamation proclaiminR Il
ieneral Butler an outlaw and a COM
ION enemy of mankind and ordering
is execution Immediately upon his APP r
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,JAY Corr 7, WAS inform ad 1,,, 4, =, o s4,,o1