The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE Falls of Teverone will light
Rome by electricity.
KINesToN, N. Y, has highwayman
but twelve years old.
THE shah of Persia has tobacco pipe
which is worth 100000.
THE Austrian emperor receives a
yearly salary of SO. 75O, 900.
THRTY-HoUR pounds of raw sugar
make 81 pounds of refined
A NINE near Lunsford, Pa, has been
on fire for the last thirty years
ACCORDING to scientists the grass
hopper has ears on his forelegs
SIX eonvicts in the Kansas peniten-
tiary are under sentence of death.
A HORSE named Walk Along John"
lately won race at Springfield, Mo.
A CARPET tacking party is the latest
Missouri invention for evening festiyi"
ties
A TEST of gentility at table is to note
how n man or woman eats a bunch of
grapes.
THE Federation of Labor has con-
demned the indiscriminate launching
of boycotts.
THEY have five lions in New York
trained to fire pistols, jump over sticks
and the like.
BIeeEsT of anything is not always
the best This is particularly true OF
gigantic oysters.
"A JET BLACK" deer was recently
seen by hunters in the woods of Wash
ington county, Me.
CALIFORNIA; vino crop will equal q
quart for every man, woman and child
in the United States.
A CHICAGO violin maker and dealer
p says the demand for fine violins is
growing with great rapiditV.
SIXTEEN young women and men have
been arrested and fined at Hope, Ind,
for disturbing religious services.
In tie dead letter Office at Washing
ton are more than AZ, 100 photographs
which found their way there last year.
A BLAoKsMIrHs tools of the present
day are almost identical with those
used in the same trade over 800 years
ago.
SPEAKER CRISP is a devoted family
man. He exchanges daily letters with
his wife when they are separated, as
now.
The French institute has granted the
Cuvier prize of $500 for general excel
lence to the United States geological
survey.
THE population of China is now
estimated at $50, 900, 900, which is almost
equal to the entire population of
Europe.
ENGLISH locomotives have neither
bells, headlights nor cowcatchers-
Warming is given by the shrillest of
whistles
A YOUNG woman in Fairmount Mo,
is seven feet ten inches in stature,
weighs $50 pounds and wears a sixteen
inch shoe.
AT one crossing in Chicago 1885 loco
motives pass every twenty-four hours.
The danger to travel is consequently
very great
The will of the late VIM j. Florence,
the actor, is to be contested by certain
relatives who claim that he left o
codicil which in some manner has disap-
peared
The Misses Irving, sisters of Washing
ton Irving, still occupy the authors
rambling little cottage at Tarrytown.
on-the-Hudson. They are now old and
feeble
ONE hundred and thirty of the best
rooms in the leading hotel at Mime
apolis have been engaged for the use of
the New York delegation and their
friends at the republican national con-
vention.
A NEW substitute for glass has been
announced in Vienna. 1t is made out
of collodion wool and has the same
properties as glass, except that it is
flexible.
JOHN STRANGE WINTER has been
made president Of the Woman Writers
of London. When it is considered that
her real name is Mrs. Stannard, the
election does not seem SO strange an
affair after all
The last New York legislature neg
lected to appropriate $3.50, oo0 for it's
representation at the Worlds fair and
the new legislature will be asked to
rush through bill for S309, 900 to re.
pair the omission.
DR. KBEIBY, the physician whose
use of bichloride of gold 80 "a cure for
drunkenness, has attracted So much at
tention, has determined to establish
hospitals for the further application of
his idea in England.
PROF. BLATrNER, a German authori-
ty on entomology, says that some spe-
"ies of insects are so small that a num-
ber greater than the total human popu-
latiOn of the globe could be safely
slowed away in an ounce vial.
THREE thousand acres of wild land
were recently fenced in to height of
sixteen feet in Missouri A large num-
her of deer were inclosed without their
knowledge, and it is proposed TO keep
them there the rest of their lives.
MEETING of all the bank managers
In Canada has been held TO complete
arrangements for an associat on for
mutual protection, One subject which
engaged the attention of the associa-
tion was that of the circulation OF
American currency in Canada
a YOUNG woman in Connecticut was
deprived of the position of teacher of
gymnastics in the state normal school
solely ON the ground that she was not
good-lookn9. Nothing daunted she
went to Ohio and submitted her nose
60 a surgical operation with the re-
suit That she is not only very pretty,
but is soon to wed a wealthy manu-.
tacturer