The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-09-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

HENRY CLEws has a $4,000 bath.
room.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS is to be made
q saint.
NINE. DE LEssEPs is 40 years younger
than her husband.
THE Russian language is to be taught
VI Japanse schools
Two New York doctors caught diph-
iberia from patients
AUSTRALIA is getting up an expedi-
lion to the South Pole.
BRET HARTE's English publishers
asst year paid him SIS, 600.
THE highest altitude ever reached by
= balloon was seven miles
PEACHES are so plentiful in Delaware
that they are being fed to hogs.
IN forty years the run across the At
lantic has been reduced one-half
THE splendid crops at the far west
have awakened demand for farming
land.
THE crop prospects in India are grow
ing worse, though the long-continued
rain has ceased.
A CATTLE range in Washington is
over three hundred miles long and two
hundred miles wide.
THE prince of Wales is growing so
tout that his corpulency excites the
critical comment of his friends.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE, the kind-heart-
ed widow of Napoleon Ill, has failed
Sisibly during the last few months.
HAnsToNEs do not occur in well.
wooded districts, according to the OBJ.
servations of noted Swiss forester
THE total area of Chicago is 1915
square miles, or 116, 900 acres, being the
largest area of any city in the world.
PENNSYLVANIA oil men have leased
5000 acres of land around Allegan,
Mich, and will bore six wells for oil at
once.
IT is estimated that there are at the
present time in this country more than
16, 900, 900 cows, valued at about $780,
900, 900.
The recent revival of the scheme to
colonize our colored population in Lii
IBERIA is traceable to the transportation
companies
Mr.. BLAINE's wealth has been placed
at about $3.50, 900 by friend who has
been associated with him in business
enterprises.
ANY engineer can say, after an acci-
dent. "the air-b brakes failed to work, "
and the ir-bralSes can not always con-
tradict him
For the next ten years the bulk Of
spruce timber in Maine will be made
into pulp. Spruce makes tougher paper
than poplar.
AT the ripe old age of 81 Senator
Morrill,, of Vermont, plays skittles,
and, gun in hand, roams the hills for
small game.
The British government has notified
china that henceforth English officers
will not be allowed to serve in the
Chinese navy.
ARCTURUs is $50 900 times as large as
the sun and II, 500, 900 times as far away
from the sun as the earth. Its diameter
is 10000, 900 miles.
ELECTRIC pleasure boats are in use in
many places. Storage batteries are
used in them, although the novelty is
somewhat expensive.
AT the little meeting of a few New
York capitalists in Broadway Office,
the other afternoon, S24, 900, 900 was
raised ON the spot to help the Union
Pacific.
THE bureau of American republics is
informed that the shipments of coffee
from Rio Janeiro during the six months
ended June so, 1891, amounted to 1,O62,-
300 bags
THOUSANDS of mackeral are being
taken in the shallow coves of Penob-
H., 1,,,, 10 in+A ha
water and fairly shovel the struggling
fish ashore.
IT is now explained that the emperor
of Germany's long seclusion was due
not to his injuries, but to his desire to
grow beard without becoming an OBJ
ject of ridicule.
FREDERICK X. RINDGE, of Cam bridge,
Mass, has within the last three years
given to charitable, religious and mu.
nicipal institutions more than So, 900, 600.
lie inherited his money.
ONE person in every 262 in the United
States is insane. The proportion of in.
sane to sane persons is smallest in the
rural districts of England, where the
average is one in about 800.
The fact that Pittsburgh physician
aas declared that diseases are often
transmitted by kiss, is not likely to
have much of a prohibitory influence
On that old-fashioned, ali around sport.
THERE have been seven marriages
.mong the female clerks of New York
weekly paper in seven years, and they
each occupied the same desk, which ha:
become greatly priced cne among the
remaining clerks.
A LACYGNE Kan. woman has shee
ninety years old which was the proper
ty of her grandmother in Ohio, an,
was made from fax woven at the be
ginning of the century. She will SEN
it to the Worlds fair.
WALTER WINANs, the American mill
ionaire, has made a wonderful recor
with his favorite revolver. At dis
tance of twenty yards, with disar
pearing target, he scored forty point
out of possible forty-two,
DIR. WM. A. HAMMOND says that eve
well to do Americans require more res
than any other people in the world, an
get less. He thinks human bein
should have succession of lahors an
versions as n farm has rotation c
crops.
THE undertaken who furnished Mrs
Folks coffin performed the same SCI
vice for President Polk, forty-thre
years ago. The casket was wha
tn, undertalters call the monarch
yle, which is reserved for 'stat ot