The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-02-27
CURRENT TOPICS.


ILLINOIS pays her leutenant-governor
81. n a day.
town in Maine
HEz Booze is the name of Pawneo
Rock (Kan.) man.
CEYLoN will spend $40, 900 on an ex-
hibit at the Worlds fair.
FRANCES last torpedo boat made
twenty-three knots and half in a bad
yea.
CRIMSON and the old magenta red
will be the fashionable shades next
season.
THERE is weed in Northern Or
sgon which renders horses that eat it
insane.
THERE are only 20, 900 people in Ice
land, but they print eight newspapers
on the island
1t is said that the best Welsh scholar
living is an English woman, Mrs Ann
Walter Thomas
GEN ANNENKoFF is at work on the
plan for canal between the Black sea
and the Caspian.
AN Augusta (Me.) dentist is credited
with having taken gas and extracted
one of his own teeth.
The average duration to human life
is said to be increasing at the rate of
ten years each century
MAIL matter is sent between Paris
and Berlin, distance of 700 miles,
through pneumatic tubes.
A BILL before the Illinois senate pro-
vides for only women jurors in coro-
ner's inquests on women.
L. w. WEBSTER, of Beckwith, New,
attempted to kick horse and while
doing so broke his own leg.
A YELLOW dog with two toy balloons
keeping his tail taut stampeded Phila-
1elphia shoppers the other day
ARTIFICIAL teeth are SO much in use
nowadays that it took 40, 900, 600 of them
to supply the demand last year.
RossINfs centenary occurs on Febru.
ary 20 and the day will &c extensively
observed in the large Italian cities.
THE Scotch parliament passed law
permitting women to propose to men
during the reign of Queen Margaret
THOMAS A. EDISON was boru forty
five years ago, in Alva, O.. the town
from which he gets his middle name
ALONG the coast of the United States
during the past fourteen years there
have been 16, 12S casualties to vessels.
IN cases where nature intends that
insects shall feed on flowers at night,
the flowers they select are all of a white
color. Al
PORTUGAL, which has the population
tNf Stylvr av,t IL
has nearly as large debt as the United
States.
JOSEPH FRANCIS, founder of the
United States Life Saving service is.
at the age of ninety, writing his auto
biography.
Mrs. MILLER, twenty years of age, is
a courageous deputy marshal in the
Indian territory. She shrinkS from no
fatigue or danger
The energy of a stroke of lightning
is estimated by Carl Henry to be equal
to that of a 100 horsepower engine
working ten hours.
BLESSED are the merciful' is the
text that is engraved upon the cross of
st. George, which was presented by
queen Victoria to Florence Nightin-
gale.
BosToN is considering three plans for
new city hall. One would cost 81, OOO,-
000 another 81, 400, 600, while the pres
ent structure could be enlarged for ST..
400 600
NURsERYMEN now sell trees on the
fifteen-year plan-that is the nursery
man is to receive choice of any two
crops grown on the trees inside of fif-
teen years in payment of the trees,
Miss MATHILDA PHILLIPS, the only
sister of Adelaide Phillips, and herself
a noted opera singer lives in the fam.
ily's old homestead at Marshfield,
Mass, the old home of Daniel Webster
sTERNLY just English magistrate
fined grocer at Wolverhamptou,
pound and cost for weighing the paper
in with some sugar and charging the
buyer for a full pound of sweetness
WHITE tar is one of the latest inven-
tions or discoveries. 1t will not become
soft under the suns rays in any eli
mate and is expected to be used large
iy in calking the deck seams of fine
yachts
1T is figured out that if the entire
poPudL'h VI Iic "OTlu, com npTlSlnR
1, 400, 600, 900 people, were divided into
families of five, Texas could furnish
each family with half acre lot and
have plenty of land to spare.
So MANY spurious works by old mas
ters and celebrated modern artists have
been palmed off lately in Europe tha.
the Belgian police are doing their ut
most TO discovery the factory, which
has been located in that city.
THE watchmalcers of Switzerland, at
recent convention in Berne, decided
to make an exhibit at Chicago of their
finest and costliest watches, but not to
attempt any competition with Ameri-
can manuf acturers in cheaper grades.
AN English method nf keeping the
dainty embroidered cover of the toilet
table fresh and clean, is to have piece
of plate-glass cut to fit the top of the
table exactly. This is laid over the
cover, and while all its beauty is Just
as apparent no dust can come near it
BENZ. Poor was born in Raymond,
N. H., September "a, 1875, enlisted
June, 1912, and was in service as n fifer
until mustered out November follow
ing. lie is still living in Raymond, and
drawing pension as veteran of the
war of 'l2, and is in remarkable vigor-
Gus health.
THE sword and bloody dagger taken
from the body OF James ". of Scotland,
on Floden field, are, with Queen Vic