The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

FIVE young women acted as ushers at
= recent Plainfield IN. J.) wedding
A COLONY of about 1000 Japanese is
to be established in Sinsloa, Mexico.
THERE are six peppermint distilleries
In active operation at Decatur, Mich.
In st. Louis it has been decided not
to sprinkle streets paved with asphalt
um.
THERE is veil dotted with moles to
match those on the wearers face and
neck.
A MOUNTAIN of carbonate of zinc is
the latest discovery near Hillsboro,
N. M.
CHARLESTON will hold an earthquake
carnival from October so to Novem-
Der 8.
MARRIED couples in Norway are privi-
legged to ride on railroads at fare and
half
CHINA has vast undeveloped coal
mines-twenty times more than all of
Europe.
CRIPPLEs are rarely seen in China
Any child born deformed is at once put
to death.
The state of Washington lays claim
to 800 Indian voters, while Oregon
boasts of so.
IT is Allegheny" in Pennsylvania,
"Alleghany" in Virginia and "Allegany"
IN New York.
The oldest church in America is that
of San Migul in Santa Fe, N. M. 1t
ws built in 1545.
WM GLASS, of Norwall<, Ct, was
nearly killed short time ago by being
stung by hornets.
THERE is one Chinese, one Portuguese
and one Cherokee newspaper printed in
the United States.
ALL Greek girls are dressed in white,
colored goods being regarded as i'm
modest for maiden.
AN incorrodible metal which is like
wise very hard, is made by amalgamat-
ing nickel with steel.
THE Sioux Indians have opened their
ghost dance and intimate yearning
for some white blood
THE annual tobacco report for Vir-
ginia shows falling off from the trans
actions of the previous year
IRON ore from new mines on the south
side of Cuba is being landed at Phila-
delphia. This is new trade
The queen of Siam has the smallest
feet yet seen on titled woman. She
wears one and half in boots.
DEER are so plentiful around Michi-
CANINE, Mich, that they have to be
stoned out of the turnip fields
An Australian fnancier who has just
failed for s75O,0 offers his creditors
One-ffth of cent on the dollar.
THE next telephone feat will prob
ably be the connection of New York
and London by submarine hello"
wire
The professors of the Ann Arbor
(Mich.) university have had their
salaries all raised from $500 to $500 by
the regents
SOMEBODY claims that an electric
plant has been discovered in India, which
will influence magnetic needle twenty
feet distant.
THE cry of young seal when wound
ed or about to be attacked resembles
that of child in distress, and tears
flow from its eyes.
A CHUTE, measuring three-quarters Of
a mile in length, in the logging camp
at Clifton, Ore, is described as one Of
the longest in the world.
A WOMAN teacher at Topeka, Kan,
has taught school there for twenty-five
years, it is said without ever having
missed days attendance.
A Kingman county (Kan) farmer Hv-
ing in Hoosier township produced a
pumpkin this season which weighed
ninety-one and one-half pounds.
A JUDGE at the Holton (Kas) fair
awarded the first premium on Hubbard
squashes to COW pumpkin and was
promptly fired by the committee.
THERE is Hebrew Bible in the Ii.
brary of the vatican for which S1O3, 900
has been refused. 1t is probably the
most valuable book in the world.
A FooTPAD was lately arrested in a
Hungarian town, and with him a bear
that he had tanned and taught to grap-
pie with pedestrians whom he desired
to rob.
! THE wife of the treasurer of a we'll
known corporation in Philadelphia has
hair which is sixty-three inches in
length, an inch or two longer than she
Is tall
JERUSALEM has been enjoying boom
since the completion of the railroad that
connects it with Jaffa. Over 800 houses,
hotels, stores and residences have been
erected.
A WASHINGTON expert declares that
the Lotto portrait of Columbus selected
for the souvenir half dollar is IAN al
most grotesque effigy" of the great
Genoese sailor.
TALK has always been quoted az
cheap, but try it over the telephone
from New York to Chicago for five min
utes and nothing less than nine dollars
settles the bill.
To OBTAIN the pressure of water to
the square inch in any pipe multiply
the area of the tase by the height OF
the fluid in feet and the product by the
weight of a cubic foot of the fluid.
JAPAN Worlds fair commissioners,
just arrived, say that their exhibit
will weigh over 2, 900 tons and be worth
over q 1000, 900. They will show sam
Piles of arU never before seen in this
country.
A PEAR tree which was set by Gov.
John Endicott in 1880 is still standing
near Danversport, Mass. 1t blossoms
freely, although 262 years old, but the
fruit, like most of the pears of that date
is of poor quality.
In one of the Comstock mines a new