The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-11-07
CURRENT TOPICS.


NEW YORK girls chew $4,000, ooC
worth of gum each year.
PETRIFIED elephant has been un-
sarthed near Jasper, Fla
The prince of Wales will be fifty
years old on November 0.
ELECTRICITY is now used in heating
hatirons used in tailor shops
CALIFORNIA will put 1000, 600 boxes
OF raisins on the market this year.
THERE are 1s1, 900 foreigners in Paris,
or one-tenth of the entire population.
IT is said that eighteen British earls
have died within the last twelve
months.
A New YORK doctor thinks he has
discovered that music is a cure for nerv-
BUSINESS
The richest woman in Maine, Mrs. 7.
N. Egery, of Bangor, is rated as worth
$4,000, 900.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has perfected new
Irish home rule bill more liberal than
the first one.
AN industrial school for Indians will
be established at Mount Pleasant, Isa-
bella county, Mich.
STANILAs ZALEwsKI noble Pofe,
died lately at Bordeaux, III years old
He was great smoker.
THE sailors riot in Chilli gives occas-
ion for energetic remonstrauce on the
part of the United States.
On April %, 1864, the first United
States coin was stamped with the
legend, "In God We Trust.
NINE. ANNE MARIE MAZzINI, Milan,
Italy has been announced as candidate
Sor parliament by her party.
BIRDS are disappearing from France
Their nests have been destroyed and
they are migrating elsewhere.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL's grand.
father committed suicide, and so did
two other members of his family
THE crown prince of Japan is said to
be good and industrious boy, who did
not miss one day at school during last
year.
DR.. NJ. W. SALMON, of Cam bridge,
Eng, was born in 1890, and is the oldest
surgeon and general practitioner in the
world.
CHARLES GoMBELL, employed in
factory at Ballardvale, Mass, has fallen
heir to an estate in Australia valued at
$1,000, 900.
A BROOKLYN IN. W girl only eleven
years of age has found $50 ineligible
words of the letters found in the word
'Incomprehensibility."
CHARLES E. MARITIME, well-known
young man of Nyack, N. Y, had a
spell of coughing, during which he
ruptured blood vessel, dying almost
Instantly.
LAUGHING JACKAss has been added
to the attractions of Central park, New
York-not the sort commonly found in
such resort, but the bird known by
hat name.
EDIsoN's new electric motor to take
the place of steam locomotives is re-
garded as coming fact by the railway
men who have definite knowledge of
the invention.
CANON HARTFORD, who is at the head
of the London Cecilia society for heal
ing the sick by means of music, has
won the appreciation of the British
Medical Journal
THE duchess of Portland has $50
women pledged to her society for the
protection of birds. None of them will
wear or encourage the wearing of any
song-birds plumage.
Gov. STEELE, late of Oklahoma, has
explained why he resigned the gov
ernorship of that territory. He says he
resigned because he wanted to. That
is lucid and satisfactory.
THE government of Brazil will ap-
propriate about $500, 900 in American
gold, in addition to the individual APP
propriations,of the various states, for
display at the Worlds fair.
SENATOR JOE Brown is called the
"Richelieu of Georgia politics." 1t has
been one of his cardinal principles to
acquire wealth, and he is now one of
the richest men in Georgia.
RUBINsTEIN long ago put on record
the fact that, even after he had become
famous, his mother was his severest
critic. He always said that he owed |
much Of his early education to her
IT was Parnell who gave the eldest
son of the Prince of Wales the nick
name of collars and Cuffs" 1t was
an apt name, for the young mans royal |
Irish linen is expansive and immacu-
late.
A RECENT eruption on the SUMS face
was photographed and lasted for fully
fifteen minutes Its angular height
showed it to be disturbance causing
the vapors to ascend fully 80 OOQ
miles.
Mrs. MARY WASHINGTON FINCH,
granddaughter of Gen. Washington,
has the nearest thing to the historic
little hatchet-a silver one made from
a spoon once owned by the father OF
his country
VRGINIA's pippin crop is said to be
"simply immense" and the fruit is of
quality never surpassed. One fruit
grower in Albemarle county sold 600
barrels of pippins in one week at So rs !
barrel and has about 1900 barrels yet
to ship.
SINCE the Blaine cottage at Bar Har-
Dor was closed a few weeks ago the
flowers and shrubbery around it have
suffered at the hands of relic hunters
to such an extent that there will be
big job for the gardener next spring.
LIEUT. SCHwATKA only confirms
what recent explorers have said about
Alaska. The country is a broken one
and the rivers are practically unnaviga-
BILE. Alaska can only be opened up by
railroads. 1t contains some magnifi
cent forests and the soil appears to be
r.