The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-03-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

ABOUT $1,000 suicides were commit
ted in the United States during the past
year.
IT is denied that Abbotsford, once
the home of Sir Walter Scott, is sold, as
reported
ScoTcH journals resent the PROPOSE
ton for the abandonment of kits by
the soldiers.
The Southern league of baseball
clubs has teen organized, with six clubs
represented
WITHIN sixty.two years Mexico has
had fifty -four presidents, one regency
and one empire
Two or three American plays with
American players will be given in Lon
don next sumner
TnE annual cost of each public cleo
trio lamp in Boston is S237 25 and in
Sen Francisco Si406
PAUL Du CuAtILU has so far recov-
cred from his recent illness as to be
able to lecture once more.
A TENOR at the opera in Geneva who
was hisscd promptly went home, thus
stopping the performance.
A RUSSIAN can plead infancy for a
long time, as he does not come of age
until he is twcnty-siX years old.
A VERY wide belt and very big buckle
is the latest addition to feminine street
costume by the women of Paris,
MEXICo's presidential election occurs
in June, hut no candidate has been
named against Diaz, now serving a third
term.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is reported as say
ing that the state of European politics
will not let him attend the Worlds fair
at Chicago.
A MAN died in Jail at Lexington, Mo-,
the other day, serving out IL fine of 5000,
and suit will be brought against his
estate for the fine.
BY far the greater part of the acci-
dents that occur in mills, etc, happen
during the last two hours of work,
when worllpeople are tired and care
less
PENNSYLVANIA S new ballot law goes
into effect March |, and will first be
tested IN an election in Allegheny City
for mayor, to fill vacancy by resigna-
ton
The women of Poland will wear
black during the present year in order
to commemorate the centenary of the
loss of Poland's independence as a ma
tion.
THE deepest depth of the sea is re-
nnr.ed to be at point twenty-three
miles north of New Guinea, where
soundings showed % depth of &c, $50
feet
THE cost of lighting the Worlds fair
at Chicago will be about ten times the
cost for lighting of the exposition at
Paris. The figure is at present placed
atS1, 500, 900.
Mrs WARREN NEwCoMB, of New
York, who gave $500, 900 to endow the
Sophia Newcomb college at New
Orleans has made an additional endow-
ment of Sal 900.
A CONFERENCE of the postmasters of
forty-fve of the large cities will be
held March to discuss postal reforms
and proposed notifications of existing
laws and regulations.
By studying the spectrum of light
ming as it passes through the air, it has
been found that sodium, the element
from which common salt is formed,
exists IN the atmosphere.
THE remarkable likeness between the
latest accepted portrait of Columbus
and the ordinary portraits of George
Washington is appreciated at glance
1t is at least an interesting coincidence
IT is said that the bulk of the grain
recently purchased by the Russian gov.
ernmcnt oStensibly for the famine suf-
ferers, is really to be stored in the ma
tional granaries as a preparation for
war.
THE first notice of India rubber on
record was given by Herrera, who in
the second voyage of Colum bus observ.
ed that the natives of Haiti played a
game with balls made of the gum of o
tree"
TIE ocean cables of the world now
stretch over 12O,2 $50 miles. There are
1000 cables in all, nearly all of English
manufacture. Most of the cables are
owned and operated by private corpor-
ations.
A CRUsTY old Indiana bachelor not
liking the way his landladys daughter
had of appropriating his hair oil filled
his bottle with liquid glue the day be-
fore the ball to which the girl was in
vited. She stayed at home.
The hopes of many Bavarians that
death was about to relieve them of
mad king have proved vain. The lat
est reports say that King Otto is ply
sically comparatively well, although
his mental condition is as sad and
gloomy as ever
EDISON thinks he may be able to hear
the sun spot roar. His idea is that a
long stretch of copper wire to be set up
will be affected by the electrical dis
turbances on the sun. From the wire
these disturbances will be translated
into sound waves.
IT is stated that there are more
priests, monks and nuns in Jerusalem,
in proportion to the population, than in
any other city in the world. They be-
long to every nation of Europe an1
many of Asia and are of every creed
form of worship and dress.
IT is reported that Il mountain OF
onyx has been discovered in Mexico,
about thirty miles from FL Paso 1t is
said to be of Il superior quality, fine
grained and beautifully marked with
calico streaks of varigated colors
blended across the face of the edge
The mineral, it is claimed, scales off in
large states, making it possible to sell
it as cheap as common stone.
TEN years ago a Pittsburgh man,
while in Dakota, received intelligence
of the death of his wife, and paid all