The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-03-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

DIMINUTIvE mirror IN woman
glove is new idea.
A YOUNG New Yorker fell and broke
his leg in ballroom.
THE British mint coins twenty-five
tons of pennies every year.
A SAW in Philadelphia mill makes
Its way through steel bars four inches
thick
1T is said there has been but one
thunder storm in Arizona in fourteen
years.
THE man of an average of 154 pounds
has enough iron in his make up to mako
a plowshare.
Two Chicago thieves impersonated
detectives and ransacked the trunk OF
a dead man the other day.
The Is, 900 miles of railroads in oper.
alton in South America have been built
within the past thirty years.
MIR WINANs, the superintendent OF
public instruction in Kansas, was form
erly bricklayer in Atchison.
The electric street railway in Kear-
ney, Neb., sells monthly tickets for 81,
good for any number of rides
DURING the past four months more
than 81, 600, 900 in gold has been brought
to this country from Australia.
A TROPICAL moth, called the Atlas
moth, has Widespread of one foot 1t
is gray in color and flies by night
IT takes fraction less than three
seconds for message to go from one
end of the Atlantic cable to the other.
IT is reported that woman in the
South mountains, s. c., recently gave
birth to child on her seventieth birth
day.
IT Is to Italy that the world owes its
ice cream, though doubtless Italy got
the idea from the sherbet of the Per
slams
BELOW FALLS, in Vermont, has a
seventeen-year-old giant He is six
feet eight inches tall and weighs 1s4
pounds
A BRONZE statue of Abraham Lin
coin was unveiled in Rochester, N. Y,
recently. 1t surmounts the soldiers
monument
The ten lines of railroads centering
IN London send out 2,210 suburban
trains day, carrying 400, 600, 900 passen-
gers year.
CnAUNCEY NJ. DEpEw is to deliver
she address before the New York legiS
lature at the exercises in memory o.
Gen. Sherman.
THE curious information is given that
the crown of England, which is valued
at e1OO, 600, has been in pawn four times,
once for e. 000
BISMARCK will be seventy-seven years
old on the first of next month, and is
said to be as sturdy of mind and body
as he was at fifty.
THE emerald is the stone of the hour;
The demand for the lovely gem is going
up every day, and the price is increas-
ing in a like ratio.
THE oldest spoon in the world be-
laugs to George A. Warren OF Indian
apolis. 1t is 800 years old, and was
brought from England
WILLIAM HARMON, a resisent of Titus
VIE, Pa, committed suicide a few days
ago from melancholy conviction that
he was his own grandfather
THERE are 500 public baths in the
city of Toxic, Japan, where natives are
par-boiled at temperature of 11O de-
gfacs for a sum equivalent to one
cent.
GEORGE KEENAN,, the American lee.
turer and traveller, declares that he will
never cease agitating until the political
prisons of Siberia are things of the
past
'Rocled in the Cradle of the Deep"
was sung SO naturally at concert
In Boston, it is reported, that many
listeners had symptoms of sea sick
ness"
MISSOURI is the first zinc-producing
state of the country. The nations
total production was 234, 5O3 tons last
year, and 9S, l3l tons came from Mis-
souri,
IDAHO has one citizen for every
square mile of her territory Or, TO
speak accurately, there are S4, 200 square
miles of land in the state and 81, 3S5
people.
THE Hapsburgs are by far the richest
among the reigning families of Europe
The private fortune of the emperor OF
Austria may be reckoned at about $40, =
900, 0Oo.
IN the days when wigs and powder
were fashionable ladies are said to
have paid as much as e200 for having
their hair dressed for special or state
occasions.
PRoF. KOCH has written Swedish
physician that he will not sell nor de-
scribe his improved tuberculine until
he shall have tested it beyond all
chance of doubt in his clinics
THE six Shields brothers, of Collins
county, Tex, have an average height
of feet 8 inches, and Col. Henry
Thurston, of Titus county, Tex, towers
up to the height of feet inches
AS AN evidence of the fact that the
women are getting there, it may be
stated that the numb Der of postmistress-
es in the country is 8, 1886 There are
200 in Kentucky, l59 in Indiana, 256 in
Ohio, l31 in Tennessee, 100 in West Vir-
ginia, Pennsylvania has the largest
mum ber, 463.
ONE of the largest salaries received
by any man in this country is paid to
Mr. c. A. Griscom, chief of the Interna-
tional Navigation Co., with headquar-
ters at Philadelphia. He draws $50, OOC
year, and they say he earns it.
WHEN Herbert Sprague, of Bangor
went to bed the other night he carried
to his room a bull terrier pup. At mid
night Sprague sDored, and the dog
scratched his face to awaken him.
Sprague cuffed ths dog, whereupon the
animal, with true terrier instinct, seized
his master by the nose and shook him