The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

CROCODILE silk, as it is called, Is a
modification of the polka dot.
THE British Medical association now
admits women doctors as members.
LIEUT.. PEARY claims to have estab-
hshed Greenland's northern boundary.
A MAN of Macon, Ca, has a $40 note
of the state of North Carolina printed
In 17ss.
THE Esquimaux at the Worlds fair
are to live in huts built on the cold stor-
age plan.
DALLAS, Tex, didn't have any mos
quitoes until the railroad was built
through it.
ST. LOUIS is to have fifty miles of Tel
ford pavement which costs four dollars
per front foot.
ONLY eight per cent. of the $4,000
paupers in American almshouses last
year were Negroes.
FLoRrDA's state building at the
Worlds fair will be reproduction of
old Fort Marion.
THERE is a colored couple in Camden,
N. j., who have thirty-two children, all
of whom are alive and we'll
RUSSIA has herself contributed s175,-
900, 900 to alleviate the sufferingg Of her
4amine-stricken peasantry.
AMONG the relics to be exhibited at
the Worlds fair is a necklace which
once belonged to Pocahontas
THE Amazon Indians use a blow pipe
with which they blow an arrow 200
yards with wonderful precision.
THE school children of Pennsylvania
will observe Columbus day, October 81,
by the planting of Columbus trees"
An eel with skin of beautiful gold
en- color" has been added to the collec-
ton in the London Geological garden.
JOHN HAMMOND, a Negro of Hamil-
ton, ILL.,, has just located his mother,
from whom he was sold in slavery days.
THE lower part of the Hudson river
is Swallowing because of brick dust and
broken bricks thrown from canal boats.
The Kaiser's baby girl will be chris
tened in Berlin on October 22. 1t is said
that she will be named Princess Marga-
ret.
THE "cabin boat" once common
craft on the Upper Mississippi, is dis
appearing with the wild duck and the
muskrat.
THERE is project on foot in England
to buy Tennyson's birthplace, Somers-
by rectory, and turn it into charitable
institution.
A AFoURTEEN-YEAR-oLD Buckley (Wash.)
girl committed suicide a few days ago
because her parents compelled her to
attend school.
ONE ocean steamship agent says his
company is losing $4,000 and another
$751; a week by the suspension Of i'm
migrant traffic.
PROF. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL says
that before the Worlds fair is opened
Chicago and New York will be con-
nected by telephone.
ANOTHER land war is threatening in
yreland, owing to a popular missappre-
hension as to the liberal policy of re-
storing evicted tenants
ONE Topeka woman took premium
for suspenders at the Kansas state fair
and another carried off the prize for
the most ancient bonnet.
A BLACK pearl necklace worn by Lady
Leicester at recent entertainment is
a single row of the gems.
A RIVERSIDE Call man has succeed
ed in extracting from ten pounds of
orange peel oil in the proportion of fifty
pounds to one ton of peel
FLORENCE BLYTHE, worth S4, 900, 900,
the daughter of an old gypsy of San
Francisco, has just come of age and
married poor insurance man.
BLoNDIN, the celebrated tight rope
walker, who is sixty-eight years old, is
still in the business. He has lately been
making great success in Europe.
SIR JULIAN PAUSCEFoTE, the English
minister at Washington, is versatile
musician as well as litterateur. His
favorite composition is the ''Sybilla
Waltz"
MAY WHITE the young school-teacher
at Stockbridge, Mich, who has been
asleep for q year, is waking up. She is
very weak and has wasted away from
14s to SO pounds. Her mind is almost a
blank.
THE elevation of Denver, Col, being
6,370 feet-over one mile-above sea
level, makes the atmosphere rare, dry
and clear, there being on an average
less than six days each year without
sunshine.
THE Dismal swamp in Virginia, one
of the largest of the swampy tracts in
America, is one of the most promising
areas for reclamation. 1t contains fully
1900 square miles and is at present of
little value, except for supply of tim
Der.
The amount of coloring matter in a
pound of coal is enormous. II will
yield enough magenta to color 500 yards
of flannel, vermillion for 1850 yards,
aurine for 100 yards, and alizarine
sufficient for 155 yards of Turkey red
cloth
CHINAMEN have been addressed by the
Six Companies and urged not to submit
to the provisions of the Geary law. An
appeal to the emperor of China to inter
fere has also been made.
The salt mines of Nevada throw into
the shade all others known in the
United States. One bed alone covers
1880 acres, and no bottom to this salt
has ever been discovered.
A SOUTH GEORGIA schoolmarm has
introduced a new feature in her school
When one of the girls misses word
the boy who spells it gets permission tc
kiss her AS result, the girls are be.
coming very poor spoilers, while the
boys are improving.
In st. Louis all granite, wood and as.
phaltum streets have been cleaned.