The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-02-13
CURRENT TOPICS.
OHIO.

Mrs. RIDER HAGGARD has won three
orizes in a gol6ng match lately.
AT Tornea, Finland, Christmas day
Is less than three hours in length.
The cost of food per family in the
United States is S243. 65 per year.
THE Lindeli hotel in st. Louis has
been sold to Boston men for 5000, 900.
THE value of the crown of England,
exclusive of the cost of the metal, is
al, 600, 900.
CoLoRApo has over 5000 artesian
wells, there being $50 in and around
Denver alone.
FRENCH physician hu- a gold prepa.
ration which he claims is an antidote
for snake bites.
ENGLISH has been recognized - the
official language of the Imperial uni.
versity of Toxic.
IT is said that the late Justice Jo~eph
F. Bradley had the finest private Ii.
brary in Washington.
BETWEEN the years 1890 and 1850 no
iess than 3400 women were burned in
Scotland for witchcraft
A MAN fell dead in Manchester, Va,
u few days ago, in q grave which he
was digging for another.
THE estimated American capital rails
ed for Mexican undertakings in the
past year is over S1OO, 600. 600
OVER 1900 sparrows have been
killed 10y Chicago boys since December
for the bounty on their heads.
For bringing "a jug of wine in the
jury room in Columbus, n. c., n grand
juryman was fined $50 and costs.
IN Bangor, Maine, a judge has de-
cided that it is not unlawful for Jewish
children to play base ball on Sunday.
In future the observance of Sunday
is to be strictly enforced in Russia and
all shops and business houses closed
THERE are 466 sawmils running in
the state of Washington, with total
daily cutting capacity of s, 491, 600 feet
A CoNNECrIcUT judge fined man
$40 for disturbing the slumbers of
police officer by praeticing on the coro-
net
DoLLIE AGNEy pleaded guilty of
larceny, at Chicago, it is believed,
to save her lover from the peniten-
tiary.
THERE are II, 500, 900 voters in the
United States. of whom 5, 100, 600 are of
alien birth, and l,5OO O0O are OF African
descent.
SENATOR GIBSON. of Louisiana, esti-
mates the profits of the Louisiana lot
terry at from SIS, 900, 600 to SO 900, 600 .
year net.
CHoNG FUNG, New York Chinaman,
has just been convicted of forging the
name of another celestial to check
for. 500.
MORE than forty per cent. of all pris-
oners between the ages of twenty and
forty die of consumption and other
tubercular diseases
THE widow of "Stonewalr' Jackson
suffers severely from a neuralgia affec-
ton of the head and is under treatment
therefor in Richmond
THE fiat pieces of iron shaped like
the letter S, which are frequently seen
on the walls of old brick buildings, is
the ancient symbol of the snn.
MAIL matter can be sent from Paris to
Berlin, now, in pneumatic tubes 1t
takes thirty-fve minutes for package
to go from one city to another
THERE are fourteen great gates to the
Escurai, the palace of Spanish kings,
and the building is lighted by Lilo
outer and / 57S inner windows.
BARNES GREELEY, the only brother
of Horace Greeley, lives a quiet life on
the old Greeley farm in Chautauqua
county, near jamestown, n. Y.
THERE are but few hundred dollars
unpaid on the cottage in Los Angeles
which the women of California have
given to Jesse Benton Fremont
a JACKSON Mich man has certainly
run out OF luck. While convalescing
from the grip convulsive cough threw
him from the chair and broke three
ribs
QUEEN VIcToRIAs gold dinner service
is kept in burglar-proof cabinet fill
ing two rooms in the Buckingham pal.
ace, and two watchmen guard it con-
stantly.
AN effort is being made to build up a
big India rubber industry in Mexico,
and company has been organized to
plant 100 600 rubber trees in the state
of Sinaloa-
The Georgia dude can rival his North
ern brother N some particulars. One
at Macon, for instance, sports necl1tie
made from the skin of rattlesnake,
the rattles being utilized as the pin
AN unpaid tailors bill of the Emperor
!. of Germany, who reigned
some four hundred years ago, has been
but the tailor is not around
TO collect. IL was the monotonous
story of "call again" that killed him.
~ the city Of Buenos Ayres it is said
that there are sixteen men for every
woman, and that any decently good
looking woman that goes there can
have her pick out of fifty eager suitors.
PATRICK EGAN is low-voiced, quiet
loo,ling person, ot small stature, past |
f,ty, with plenty Of gray hairs in his |
close trimmed reddish brown beard and I.
hair, restless blue eyes and small hands !
and feet
TIE peaceful solution of the contro-
varsy with Chilli is a disappointment to |
Peru, whose enormously! valuable nj !
trnte beds werI seized few years ago .
by Chilli and are now Operated by Eng. j
Iish capital
a VERY extensive domestic industry |
In Russia consists of the manufacture i.
Of wooden spoons, which are made to
the amount of 10000 900 annually. |
Cncy are nearly all made of birch.
coEsUELo ANAsrAsTADEs, a young
Greek from Smyrna, Greece, has landed
In this country with a million eggs for