The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

FURNISHED flats with pianos built in
TO the walls are the latest.
VERY hot water is better for bumps
and bruises than cold water.
Mr. GLADSTONE earns on an average
$4,000 year by his pen alone
THE town of Icicle, Washington, has
been rechristened Leavenworth.
CHAIRMAN CARTER will resume the
practice of law in Helena, Mont.
BATHING the abdomen with alcohol
is an excellent remedy for diarrhea.
GooD halibut fishing is reported off
the British Columbian coast this fall.
FLOWING water has been struck at
Helena, Mont, at depth of 1,O24 feet
AN Englishman has invented clock
that will run for ten years without
winding.
A NAP taken at II o'clock will prove
more refreshing than one taken later
In the day.
Mrs. BAYARD TAYLOR is visiting the
old home of her husband at Kennett
Square, Pa.
A WHITE quail is Missouri's latest
unique production. 1t will be exhibit
ed at Chicago.
ARTIFICIAL grass for the grounds of
seaside cottages is one of the industries
at Manchester, Eng.
THE curtain of the Greek theater was
raised through the floor instead of being
lowered from the ceiling
ATHRTEEN AND oNE-HALT pound carp
was caught in the Neuse river, North
Carolina, several days ago.
Mrs. Lucy STONE, one of the most
noted American champions of women's
rights, is now so years old.
THOMAS A. EDISON, who sleeps but
few hours himself, says that the man of
the future may do without sleep entire
ly.
T is easy to see, even with defective
vision, that the reign of suspenders on
the backs of women is drawing to
close.
AN extensive bed of deep-water oys-
ters has been found, it is said, in the
sound about twelve miles from Seattle,
Wash.
AN ingenious inventor in Norway
claims to have realized the much-felt
desideratum of a soldering metal for
aluminium.
Few men have legs of equal length,
and to every one thousand men in the
British army only eighteen are over six
feet in height.
Mrs. LANGTRY will send to the Chica-
go exposition doll three feet high
specially designed to look like her in
face and figure.
THE Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts,,
which is said to be the longest in this
country, is four and three-quarters
miles in length.
THE new $500 notes now being issued
is one of the handsomest ever turned
out, and bears a good portrait of Gen.
w. T. Sherman.
MIcHIGANs potato king lives at Man
celona. He raised 1000 bushels on his
farm and has purchased SO, 900 bushels
more. His name is Jesse Wisler.
MONACO, with its territory of eight |
square miles and it's standing army of
12G men, proposes to have a universal
exposition next year.
Lucy BOOTH, Gen. Booths youngest |
daughter, is about to go to India to be
at the head of the work among tho |
women of that dark land.
L. D. LOOMS, of Chelsea, Mich, raised |
225 bushels OF beans on piece of
ground covering one and quarter
acres this season and sold them for |
S1S5.
ONE Of the features of the Missouri |
exhibit at the Worlds fair will be a re-
production Of the Eads bridge on a large |
scale, composed entirely OF grains and |
grasses.
Ma JAMES PAYN, the noted novelist |
and editor, is probably the worst writer
in the British kingdom. A letter from
him is nothing more than an interesting |
study in hyeroglyphics.
THERE is brick famine in Chicago. |
Last May the price was $50 thou
sand. and now it is SO. One cause was
the wet weather last spring, which pre-
vented the manufacture of bricks.
AN Elmira woman has beaten New
York city player in long endurance
contest, in which the s2OO stakes went
to the performer that kept both hands
employed longest on the key board.
SISTER MARY ALBINL of St. Louis, a
beautiful girl twenty-five years of age,
who has become 4 member of the Fran
ciscan order is going TO nurse the lepers
of Molollai in the Sandwich islands.
A NEW drink is celery coffee. 1t is
supposed to give renewed strength to
the brain and nerve. 1t is very nice to
the palate and improves the general
health Of those who take it regularly.
In Madagascar a dissatisfied husband
has only to give his wife "a piece of
money and say: Madam, l thank
you" and, according to the laws of
Madagascar, he is divorced straight
way.
+. MARION CRAWFORD considers that
the United States contains more origin
al characters and in greater variety
than any country in the world and,
hence, offers the richest field for the
novelist.
A BROOKLYN man bet SO on the cleo
ton. He could raise but SO and for Sc
curity left his false teeth. He lost, and
has not yet been able to redeem his
teeth.
THERE is said to be distressing
amount of lunacy in Ireland, the num-
her Of cases per 100, coo of population
having increased from 249 in 1850 to 355
in 1891.
IN Japanese auction rooms both men
and women are required to write their
names and the prices they will pay upon
slips of paper The slips are dropped
into box. At a stated time the box is
opened and the goods are declared the