The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

amounts to SlS1, 900.
THE name of the present Earl Of
Portsmouth is Isaac Newton.
A MACHINE has been invented for max
ing shoestrings out of paper
GEORGIA was settled at Savannah.
by General Oglethorpe, February IL,
1888.
THE collection for the Bismarck mon.
ument in Berlin now amounts to 913, 1886
marks.
GEORGIA has come into Arbor Day,
and makes the first Friday in December
the time.
THE Yankee genius still fourishes.
The statistics of the patent Office grow
every year.
TIE late Duke of Bedford made the
twelfth peer to commit suicide during
this century.
MISSOURI annually expends over ST.
900 for tobacco for the convicts in the
penitentiary.
MARCH 10 will be the 2sth anniversary
of the wedding of the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales
BY the death of Admiral Porter Rear
Admiral Kim berly succeeds to the COM
mand of the navy.
ROBINSON CRUsoB is secretary and
treasurer of the Piedmont Land and I'm
provement Company.
Mr.. p. S. DUNN, a Galloway County
(Mo) man, has a gourd which was
brought from Wales to this country in
$685.
AN olive factory to cost $3.50, 900 in
cluding the acreage, is about to be built
at Los Guilcos, Sonoma County, Cali
fornia>
A CLERGYMAN at Lowell, Mass, has
Oad his salary reduced to one dollar a
year, but still he refuses to quit his
charge.
In Russia there are twenty-seven i'm
perial princes and eighteen imperial
princesses, in addition to the Czar and
GGarina.
The consumption of tea in the United
Kingdom during 1890 reached the un-
precedently high figure of 500 pounds
per head.
BETTING on the rainfall has been car
ried on to such an extent in India that
the Bombay Government has passed an
act forbidding it,
SENATOR CoGGEsHALL, of New York,
is authority for the statement that the
red-haired girls are always able to take
care of themselves.
AT the depth of $500 feet the tempera-
ture of the ocean is about the same,
varying only trife from the polar lat
itudes to the equator.
MRS. GARFIELD still wears mourning
as deep as that which she put on when
her husband, President Garfield, died,
nearly ten years ago.
ACCORDING to the statistics of the
Norwegian postal authorities, 75O
ing last years season.
The census of Arkansas shows pop
ulation of LIPS, 179, of which S16,51 are
whites, 311,227 colored and the remain
der Indians and Chinese.
A STOCK COMPANY with S125, 1000 capi-
tai has been organized in Stuttgart for
the purpose of erecting cheap model
houses for working men.
The iron cap has been placed on the
chimney of the Narragansett Electric
Company, at Providence, R. I. The
The bill to allow widower to marry
his deceased wife's sister has passed the
British House of Commons on second
reading by round majority.
SURGEONS in the veterinary depart
ment of the Pennsylvania University
are about to experiment with Koch's
lymph as cure for tuberculosis in cat
tie.
CEYLoN yellow tea has been sold il
London at wholesale at $22 and at retail
at $3.50 per ponnd. An expert esti-
mates that every cup of it costs forty
cents.
COLUMBUS will be honored, by the
Ohio city which bears his name, with a
bronze statue, designed by R. FL. Park.
1t will cost $40, 900, and, with pedestal
stand thirty feet high.
THE boot and shoe manufacturers of
Chicago and the West are moving to
have the Brazilian tariff concessions
extended so far as to include their pro-
ducts along with other products Of
leather.
THE Philadelphia Press is authority
for the statement that Henry Cabot
Lodge has a sweet tooth, and five or six
times a day he sends page out from
the House of Representatives to buy him
some caramels.
A New HAVEN judge decides that the
boy who has been dropping three-cent
pieces into the slot and taking out ten
cent cigars is guilty of stealing. 1t be-
gins to be apparent that slot-machine
law needs elucidation.
EDWARD LENNON, the Irishman who
has just died in New York at the age of
one hundred and five years, carried
pike in the great Irish rebellion of 1898.
He had papers in his possession prov
ing his birth in County Derry, ireland,
17S5.
MEIssoNIER had an abiding hatred for
Americans. Though they bought his
pictures with generous hand and paid
excessive prices for them, his detesta-
ton was bitter and outspoken.
THERE have been more changes in the
present popular branch of Congress-
since its election in 1888 than have ever
occurred in any other Congress. There
were six designations, ten deaths and
nine members unseated.
OF all the large European cites that have
had their population counted recently
Rome has shown the most rapid in
crease. In July, 1889, the population
was about 400 in September, 1890,
42l, 600; in December, 425,271.
A. !. CHADWICK, Of Salt Lake City,
says that Mormonism is rapidly dying