The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

ber he will be old enough to vote.
THE subscriptions to the Panama ca
nal scheme aggregated $3.50, 900, OOo
TALKING of stars, the American flag
is certainly getting up a corner in them.
THE debate on the navy estimates
shows that the British fleet lacks 90, 900
men.
A ROSE cultivated in Philadelphia
hot-house measured seventeen inches in
width
IT is estimated that more than 5000
Americans are now staying at the hotels
of Paris
OCTAVE THANET, the novelist, is AL
ice French in private life. She is an
Iowa girl.
THE season of ice-cream poisoning is
upon us, and some fatal cases are al
ready reported
NEARLY two hundred rabbits were
killed in a single drive in Fresno coun-
ty Cal, recently.
The big clock in the tower of Phila-
delphia's new city hall is 10 be wound
by steam engine
A ST. LOUIS grocery firm has planted
1000 acres of cucumbers which they
will convert into pickles.
EMPERoR WILLIAM is to go to Nor
way after his visit to England next
month to fish for whales.
DURING the past six months S11, ,5OO,-
600 has been invested in South Carolina
in factories and railroads.
AN amateur gardener at Belfast, Me-,
planted his bean poles all right, but
forgot to plant his beans.
The Emperor of Japan has made it a
felony punishable by severe imprison-
ment to accept a challenge or fight a
duel.
IT was John Bright who said that
England would remain monarchy un-
til she had a prince unworthy of he-
throne.
A LARGE number of farms in New
Jersey have recently been abandoned
because of high taxes and unproduc-
tiveness.
United States, representing a capital OF
S120, 900, 0OO with an output of 1870, 900
barrels per day.
THE signature of the worthless who
affixed their names to the Declaration
of Independence have just been sold in
England for 81, $50.
There is in Denver a Chinese high
binder and general terror named Wun
Man, and according to accounts one
like him is enough.
ALFRED TENNYsoN has been Eng
lands poet laureate since 1850, longer
period than the honor was held by any
of his predecessors.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD child at Eugene,
Ore, grows faster on one side than on
the other, and the doctors are puzzled
hy the circumstances.
, EMPRESS EUGENE has taken up the
children of the late Prince Napoleon as
part solace for the great grief and
loneliness which fills her life.
Col. Tom OCHILTREE is credited with
matrimonial designs upon the daughter
of Col. North, the nitrate king, who
has 81, 100000 in her own right.
GEN. SCoFIELD is to be asked to take
charge of the military part of the cere-
monies attending the Worlds fair dedi-
cation, if he can leave his regular duties
long enough.
ONE of the novelties of the Worlds
fair will be a miniature Venice. Houses
will be built out into the lake and con-
nected by canals similar to those in the
Venetian city.
BosToN's new prohibition law went
into effect July /. 1t allows a man two
drunks per year for which he can not
be sentenced, but upon the third Of
fense he goes up for one year.
FIVE Missouri murderers are con-
demned to die on the gallows on Fri.
day, August 81 Eight persons are at
present under sentence of death for the
crime of homicide in that state.
SOME well-meaning newspapers say
that Mr.. Blaine daily drives out in a
slouch hat. 1t would seem to be more
dignifed for the secretary of state to
drive out in a barouche or something of
that sort,
In the New Orleans district up to the
close of the fiscal year, June so, the
claims filed for sugar bounty call for
50, S77, 794, and indicate crop of 493,
$50, 700 pounds or almost twice as large
as that of last year.
JOHN PITTS, a cripple, his wife, and
their seven weeks old baby are
iiNlhB III IL Wy 7BOOAS boA III al OpcI
field near Worcester, Mass. There is 9
brick fireplace outside the box, where
the woman does the cooking
THE supply of human hair sent from
China to Europe amounted to ESQ, OOC
during 1890. 1t was exported from
Canton, and if Consul Alabaster may b'
credited, most of it came from the heads
of "beggars, criminals, and dead per
sons"
A ST. LOUIS man was recently ar
rested and sentenced to serve thre,
months in Jail for entering burning
building and saving asiX-year-old child
He was charged with obstructing tn,
firemen in the discharge of thei
duties.
MONTANA is larger than the Empir
of Turkey. Texas is larger than tn
whole Austrian Empire by 30, 900 squar
miles, and New Mexico is larger thai
Great Britain and Ireland together.
AN Indian woman of 300 pounds
weight visited Bath, Me-, recently, an,
broke through the sidewalk. The stree
commissioner thereupon gave her nc
tic. that in her future visits she mus
keep in .he middle of the road,
In the towns and cities of Chilli al
the shopping OF any consequence
done in the evening. In Santiago tn
stores are open till midnight, and dun
ing the hot afternoons, when eyerybod
galr e. afA fl.axr ma Ion ra1