The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-03
CURRENT TOPICS.


FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the famous
nurse, is seventy-two years old
AN electric cigar lighter and electric
refrigerator are two late inventions.
THE water of about twenty-five diff
ferent springs is peddled in Chicago
streets.
The patronage of the vice president is
limited to private secretaryship and q
clerkship.
The experiments in raising tobacco
in Georgia this year have proved very
successful.
THE three-hundredth anniversary of
Isaac Walton's birth occurs on August
0, next year.
REPORTS from different cotton centers
report very short crop, due to floods
and early frosts.
The tunnel at Niagara falls is COM
rleted, and the falls are to be harnessed
by next March.
The man who is perfectly proper
toned weighs 20% pounds for every
foot of his height.
The scaffold on which John Brown
was hanged at Harper's Ferry has been
sent to the Worlds fair.
THREE of the four Dutch universities
are open to women, namely: Leyden,
Utrecht and Amsterdam.
A KANSAS CITY farming implement
house intends sending out a young wom-
an as drummer next year.
SIX children from one family were
lately admitted to the Soldiers Or
phans' home at Atchison, Kas.
MORE than one-ffth of the work done
in agriculture and in small industries
in France is performed by women.
A JETFERsoNvILLE (Ind.) young wom-
an won a fine berry farm, valued at
$1,000, as the result of the recent cleo
ton.
KNUTE NELSON, the governor-elect of
Minnesota, was born in Norway, and
was six years old when he cams to this
country.
CHARLES CoNNELLY, of Bradford, Pa,
is to eat six pieces of billiard cue
chalk, the effect of u bet on Harrisons S
election.
BUTCHERS who slaughtered hog in
Lower Saucon, Pa, found, snugly i'm
bedded in the left lung, silver ten
cent piece.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, who is the
father of seven children, calls his home
at Sag Harbor "The House of Seven
Gabblers."
PARIS laundryman uses plenty of
water and boiled potatoes, instead Of
soaps, sodas and boiling powders, in
cleaning clothes.
THERE are seven Hebrew member
who have seats in the British house of
commons, and they are all related to
the Rothschild family.
A PHILADELPHIA candidate complains
that so many lies were told about him
during the campaign that he can not
get credit from his tailor.
THE Arkansas supreme court decides
that express messengers are entitled,
equally with passengers, to the protec-
ton of railroad companies.
A PHILADELPHIA paid an election
wager by pushing a peanut along the
sidewalk on Chestnut street from Broad
to Seventh with a toothpick.
CHARLES DICKENS cid house at No. 20
Wellington street, Strand, in London,
will soon be a thing of the past, as it is
to be remodeled for business purposes.
THE French minister of public in
struction has decided to preserve the
home of Joan of Arc in Domremi as a
museum in which to illustrate her story.
A GOLD throne, of the value of go, 5OO,-
900, is to be presented to the pope by
the united subscriptions of all the
Roman Catholic cathedrals in the
world. 1t is to be given to his holi.
f11a ~f l.,
jubilee
FOLLOWING is the verdict of a Penn
sylvania jury of inquest in case OF
supposed arson: I'VE, the jury, find
that the thing was done. Who did it
or how it was done of course we don't
know, but we do, of course know that
it was done"
In Jacksonville. Fla, factory has
been started for the purpose of making
brushes and brooms of the palmetto
fiber, and elsewhere sink brushes are
being made of blocks of the wood, half
Of whose thickness is converted into
bristling points.
The fisheries of Jamaica are to be
transferred to an English syndicate.
The waters about this island are said to
swarm with the finest kinds of food
fishes, but natives have not the energy
and enterprise to capture and turn
them to profitable account
TUE representative of an English
syndicate is quoted in the dispatches
as saying that he has just bought co.
900 acres of land in West Virginia, and
that his syndicate is to establish there
on big iron and steel works similar to
those owned by Mr.. Carnegie.
FL. X. b. BROWN, of Newburgh, n. Y,
is at present engaged on statue for
the finest type of the native Indian for
the Worlds fair Lone Wolf, from the
Indian territory, is the model.
REDFIELD PROCTOR feels as If he was
sitting upon velXet. Vermont has elected
him to fill out the unexpired term of
Senator Edmunds and the next regular
term, which viii carry him over until
1899.
A STORY is told in Germany of let
ter which came back to the general
post Office with these words written by
the postman on the envelope: "The
addresse has hanged himself; present
address unknown"
NATHANIEL S. BARRY, of Bristol, N
H., is the oldest living ex-governor of
etate in the United States II he sur
wives until September l, 1896, he will be
a centenarian.
WITHIN less than year Mr.. Glad
stone has been run down by two cabs,