The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

DEATH g. CLUTCH is the name of q
Franklin, o., finn.
The unexplored area of Canada is
1000, 900 square miles.
TENNYsoN makes the list of burials in
Westminster Abbey LIB
A MAN was fined $40 in Chicago
the other day for registering seven times.
A WOMAN is on exhibition in New
York who is eight feet six inches high
THE census shows that st. Louis con-
tains nearly 5000 more males than fe-
males.
"MoLAssEs and StoclSins" is displayed
on a sign over a miscellaneous store in
Boston.
THE sheet of paper and envelope all in
one is affected by some fashionable
women.
ALL ancient actors wore masks with
metal mouthpieces to act as speaking
trumpets
A PROCESS for making artificial mica
sheets for electrical insulation is late
invention.
A WATCH carried by the Emperor
Charles V. in 1880 weighed twenty-sev-
en- pounds.
CURIOUS slabs of stone have been un-
valley, Cal.
A HORSE ghost has made its ap-
pearance at Weberville, a small village
near Atchison, Kan.
GAINESVILLE, Fla, lays claim to the
largest and finest Japan persimmon
grove in this country.
EMANUEL county, Ga, claims to have
seventeen preachers by the name of
Flanders within its borders
ONE of Penpsylvania's contributions
to the exhibit Mt the Worlds fair will
be $50, 600 mounted butterflies
GEORGE d. JOHNSON, of Griffin, Ga,
has pocket knife which he has carried
with him for the past sixty years.
A PROJECT is on foot to erect mo
mortal statue to Mrs. Felicia Hemans
in Liverpool, where she was born in
1908.
A LOCOMOTIVE engine for exhibition
at the Worlds fair that will fit into a
nutshell has been made at Chemnitz,
Germany.
THE smallest coal-burning locomotive,
five feet long, was built by Charles d.
Young, Denver boy of Is. 1t weighs
295 pounds.
WHITELAw REID is an Episcopalian
and Mrs. Reid Presbyterian, and they
go together alternately to their respect
i've churches.
TIGERS are worth from $1,000 to
81, 500. Jack, with the Barnum show,
the largest tiger in captivity, is said to
have cost 50, 500.
A PICKEREL was caught near Romeo,
Mich, Il few days ago, that weighed
eighteen pounds and measured forty
one inches in length.
PRISCILLA SCRoGGINs, of Gainesville,
Ga, who is reputed to be lis years of
age, is generally believed to be the old
est person in Georgia.
a KENTUCKY cattle dealer has shipped
700 fine Durham cattle to England for
Christmas beef, part of which, he says,
is for Queen Victoria
THE highest viaduct in the world has
just been erected in Bolivia, over the
River Lea, 9,S33 feet above the sea level
and zoos feet above the river.
Ii. p. ALBERT, of Philadelphia, be-
longs to more secret societies than any
other man in the United States, being
enrolled in seventy-eight of them.
Mr.. JERE CAMPBELL, of Reading, Pa, &,
has offered a prize of 800 to any per-
son who will show him Scriptural au-
thority for baptism by sprinkling.
EAsTPoRr Me. sardine factories con-
sumo 5000 barrels of cottonseed oil in a
season in the process of turning small
herriDgs into imported French sar-
dimes.
ERA sTUs T. BEADLE, who made for
tune by the dime novel to which he
gave his name, has been nominated for
congress in the Twenty-frst New York
district.
ARCHBISHOP VAUGHAN, of London,
was soldier in the Crimean war, and
could handle the sword as brave Off
Ger before he took to the canons of the
church.
M. GRANDIN, the French pedestrian
who recently walked from Paris to st.
Petersburg, set out soon after he reach
ed the Russian capital for tramp to
Moscow.
THE kaiser has decided that picture
of the Geman empress shall be put up
in every army barracks, so that soldiers
shall be able to recognize her when
they see her
GREENBACKs or other United States
notes are not taxable. 1t has been de-
cided by the United States supreme
court that the government can not tax
it's own securities.
BosToN is talking of disposing of its
garbage by chemical treatment instead
of by cremation The plan proposed
would require the investment of about
s175, 900 in plant
SPECIAL railroad carriage has beer
started at Malines for the use of the
king and queen of Portugal. Itis made
of rare wood and has newly invented
mechanism by means of which all oscil
lation is avoided
The United States revenue steamer
Bear is engaged in a novel occupation
introducing the reindeer into Alaska
A station has been established at Port
Clarence with III deer.
The unsuitable steam launch recent
ly launched at the New York navy yarc
made its second trial trip through Hell
Gate recently 1t has been named the
Turnabout, as it can turn CT mpletely
around within its own length.
WITHOUT opening single additiona
seam, there is enough coal in view il
New South Wales to enable 10000, 00I
tons to be put out annually for some
years TO come. This amount is more
than don h1a tho tNrasant r,roduotion