The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

JAPANESE immigration is stated to be
increasing.
THE influenza bacillus is the smallest
yet discovered.
AN inch of rain means 100 tons of wa
ter on every acre.
ONE church in Chicago is furnished
with regular opera chairs.
A FULL grown elephant is capable Of
carrying load of two tons.
THE new gymnasium at Yale is said
TO be the finest in the world.
THERE are more than 800 silk factor
ies in operation in this country.
PALESTINE is about one-fourth as
large as the state of New York.
OLD gold is to be the color of the Chi
cage university million dollar building.
IT is calculated that signal passes
through the Atlantic cable in 31-1O0 of
o second.
The smallest church in New York is
the Peoples in Harlem, a room over
drug store.
Tue emperor of Germany has over
1000 different suits of clothes and 800
pairs of trousers.
Tue brass ball on the courthouse
spire at Independence, Mo-, is the habi-
tation of swarm of bees.
THE credit for the first Worlds fair is
generally awarded to Albert, the prince
consort of Queen Victoria.
A VERNON county (Mo.l man has q
sack of black sand mixed with gold
washed in California in 1S49.
A PATENT Office man says that forty
ot1tS in tY,1a aH m
that Office on one day last week.
THE marmot is a civil engineer; he
not only builds houses, but constructs
aqueducts and drains to keep them dry.
The courts have decided that Thomas
A. Edison has the only patent on an
incandescent electric light in this coun-
try.
SINGLE women live longer than single
men, while married women on an aver
age live two years longer than single
ones.
THE shucks on the corn this year are
unusually thick and heavy, which the
farmers say indicates a hard and cold
winter.
TEN thousand dollars has been offered
for the first coin of the Worlds fair
half dollar series. The fair officials ex-
pect still higher bids.
SIX peppermint distilleries are rum
ming day and night at Decatur, Mich,
and it is estimated the yield will be, at
low estimate, 5000 pounds.
THE new Cunard steamship Campa-
mia, recently launched, is $50 feet long.
This is sixty feet less than the length
of the famous Great Eastern.
a NEW variety of wheat, the grains
of which are almost twice as large as
the ordinary kernels, has been grown
this season near Moscow, Wash.
THE total presidential vote in 1884
was 10, 04S, 461, and in 1883 was II 1885,
O3S. 1t is estimated that this year the
vote will go as high as $4,000, 900.
IT requires about double the power to
propel steamship twenty-one miles an
hour as it does to move along the same
vessel at the rate of sixteen miles an
hour.
A FAMILY in Walla Walla county,
Washington, consists of ten members,
the average weight being 244 pounds,
and the average height six feet six
inches
lie SOlIliCO lOI lllO uGW ISNShuC
cutter William Window has been
awarded by Secretary Foster to the
Iowa Iron works, of Dubuque for
sos, 1000.
TwENTY-NINE acres of glass are to be
used in the roofs of the exhibition
buildings at Chicago. The thickness of
the glass is to be uniform, viz: 3-16 OF
m inch.
A PORTLAND (Ore.) Chinaman soaked
his queue in coal oil. A match did the
rest. His countrymen in the neighbor-
hood attended the funeral in large
numbers.
Hon. WILLIAM DICKEY was sent to
the Maine legislature in 1912, and they
are sending him there yet He was re-
elected at the recent election. He is 81
years old.
MARSHALL FIELD has subscribed for
$500, 900 of Worlds fair bonds The
Chicago banks have taken $1,000, 600
worth, and the entire 81, OOO,O0O has
been taken.
CHILDREN's clothes can be made unin-
flammable by adding to the last rinse
of water two ounces of pulverized alum.
A prominent English chemist says that
all children's dresses should be thus
treated.
LORD TENNYsoN gave to Sister Emma
Durham, who nursed him through an
illness preceding the one that proved
fatal, a check for 81, 900, and she gave
the money to the National Pension Fund
for nurses.
j. II. CROUCH, of Dawson, Ga, proba.
bly, has the largest hog in the state. II
is three years old and tips the beam al
700 pounds. Competent judges say il
will weigh 1000 pounds when fatteneG
this winter.
II. A. BROWN, of Reading, Mich, ha,
dug twenty-five pounds of bullets ou
of trees on his farm. 1t is though
they were relics of conflict with In
dams, though there is no record of any
battle at that place.
A NEwsBoY at st. Louis jumped from
third-story window to escape beat
ing. When picked up his ankle wa
found to be broken and his head seri
ously injured.
A LADY having written letter, con
cluded it as follows: "Give verybody'
love to everybody, so that nobody ma.
be aggrieved by anybody being forgot
ten by somebody"
THE October number of Astronom!
and Astro-Physics has several photo
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