The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-03-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

ALIEN land owners in Kansas are In
danger of being dispossessed by legisla-
tive enactment.
ATCHIsoN sets up q claim to the small
est calf ever born in Kansas. Itweighs
only eight pounds.
ACCORDING to statistical reports 1870, 900
married women are engaged in business
pursuits in Germany.
CHARLES TEBo, of Barre, VT, is the
nappy father of twenty-seven girls, all
living and in jolly health
UNDER the new constitution of Mis-
sissippi payment of poll tax is neces-
sary if a nan wants to vote.
THERE are over ninety girls in the
Philadelphia training school for nurses
at the Philadelphia hospital.
The British museum acquired $50
Greek coins in 1903 of them gold
nd electrum and 65 of silver.
BoTH sections of the Irish party pro-
pose to send representatives to the
United States to collect money.
THE secretary Of the German admir-
atty says there is no use in Germany
having navy, if it can not have good
one.
THE telephone between London and
Paris was opened recently; charge for
three minutes conversation, two dol
lars.
SINCE the establishment in 1902 of
West Point military academy 1884 men
have received diplomas from that insti-
tuition.
BARON HRscH has already given
about S14, 900, 900 to the Hebrew poor, in
addition to his recent gift of So, $780, 900,
and is still worth S100, o00,o 900.
REMEDIES for consumption, cancer
among the doctors and professors of
Germany, Austria and France.
THE Canada militia hold what are
called smoking concerts, at which every
man must smoke from the time he en-
ters the room until he leaves it.
AT the New York bench show wero
Pievna, a six-year-old dog, held at the
price of $4,000; Sir Bedivere, S25, 900;
Carl, $50, 900, and several at $4,000 and
$40, 900 each.
A MAINE man went sleigh riding with
his daughter who wore bright red
wrap, and they were chased two miles
by bull that objected to the color of
the garment
ONE company asks congress for O
$4,000, 900 subsidy to lay a cable from
San Francisco to Honolulu. Another
one has proposed to build it and asks
for charter only.
THE latest statistics show that there
are earning their own living in Ger
many $500, 900 women, in England A.
100000 in France 3,750,OO0, and in
America 2,70O,O0O
BABIES and young children dressed in
white are thought by medical men to
be more susceptible to colds and in
fectious diseases than those clad in
dark, warm colors.
LUCY LONG, little sorrel mare rid
den in many battles by Gen. Robert E.
Lee, is still living in the south and in
good health, save for the infrmities
common to extreme old age.
The navy department is already con-
sidering plans fof making the survey
for the proposed cable line from San
Francisco to Honolulu, but nothing def
inite has yet been determined upon.
WHITE tar is one of the latest inven-
tions, or discoveries 1t will not be-
come soft under the suns rays in any
climate, and is expected to be used
largely in callling the deck seams of fine
yachts.
THE longest board fence in the coun-
try has just been completed in New Jer-
Bey. 1t is twelve miles long, ten feet
high, aud is made of hemlock boards
an inch and half thick. 1t cost
$4,000.
AT an examination of candidates for
positions on the Brooklyn police force
one of them was rejected because he said
that James G. Blaine was president of
the United States and Grover Hill gov
ernor of New York.
A STRANGER struggling with the dan
gers and difficulties of the English Ian
guage is reported to be completely
knocked out by running up against the
following sentence: "The first one won
one one-dollar prize"
IT seems that the French are never to
have chance to get fairly cooled down.
fairly out of Paris, Boulanger bobs up
in Brussels and tries to make capital
out of the late disturbance.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS speech is nearly
as rapid as Phillip Brooks. DIR. Engel,
one of the chief reporters in the reich
stag, who has stenographed the en-
peror's speeches frequently, says that
he rattles off about 800 syllables a
minute.
THE New Orleans Daily Item is TAX
ing it hard over the anti-lottery bill
Every edition of that paper has the
space formerly occupied by the lottery
advertisements surrounded by black
rules The following words are print
ed in the space: "In memoriam. A free
press killed by Congress, September 16,
ts9O"
Hon. H. S. SANFORD, minister to Bel
gium under Lincolns administration,
lives most of his time in that country.
He spends a portion of each year in
Florida, where he has an orange grove
Mr.. Sanford, who is 65 years old, Is
said to have crossed the Atlantic SO
times.
A NEwLY-MARRIED young farmer, liv-
ing at Greenbush, near Sheboygan, has
hit upon a novel and effective scheme
for getting his wife out of bed in the
morning. He fills the stove with damp
shavings lights them and then shuts the
damper in the pipe. BY the time he
reaches the barn she is effectually
smoked out.
ONE of the latest proposed applications
~ oil ie n oI,,I t1,o4