The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

The four great ocean routes employ
100 steamships
HABR1sBURa complains about adul.
terated buclSwheat.
ERNEST REMAINS name is to be given
70 a street in Paris.
The princess of Wales wears gloves
which are nearly three feet long.
The Maharajah, of Baroda, and his
whole court are strict teetotalers.
THERE is said to be a material increase
shis season in the export of oranges and
oysters.
AN Indian girl student at Haskell,
Kan. institute is named Jenny One
Feather.
THE new union. station at ST. Louis
will cover thirty-two trains and cost
$500 OOO
Mrs. RUSSELL, aged IA, has secured a
divorce from her husband aged 80, at
Victoria, Il. c.
FALSE teeth are now made from
paper and are said to wear well and
last lifetime.
A RAILROAD with ga ge of but
twenty-four inches is now building in
North Carolina.
AMONG thelate inventions is a sewing
needle provided with a bevel-shaped
eye for easy threading
THERE are now 1000 loan associa-
tions in this country, with member
ship of 1000, 600 persons
THREE Of the Dutch universities are
open to women, namely; Leyden,
Utrecht and Amsterdam.
THEY opened a new theater in Seat
tie, Wash, the oth9r day, box No
Yelling at auction for $775.
THREE fresh recruits in the garrison
at Strassburg committed suicide rather
than serve in the German army.
NO CAKE, no cards, nobody's busi.
ness" is the novel climax OF marriage
announcement in Maine paper.
A WOMAN who is an active worker in
a Brooklyn church has been regularly
appointed assistant to the pastor
A PHILADELPHIA dentist gives every
patron a pound Of gum drops while
their false teeth are being repaired.
The British soldiers are now provided
with black silk handkerchiefs on which
army rules and regulations are printed.
PARKMAN, the historian, who has been
very i'll, is still confined to his bed, but
his recovery is not considered doubtful
A TRIAL of speed between English and
American locomotives will be an inter.
esting and novel feature Of the Worlds
fair.
A MEXICAN street car can be hired
for personal use for sS. 80 per day, with
right to stop at any one place for two
hours.
a SCRANTON (Pa.) dentist is sued for
$4,000 damages by a woman, who
claims that he fractured one of her
front teeth
Tom BEAN and Deaf Smith, of Texas,
were solid for Cleveland this year. One
Is the name of an election precinct, the
Dther of a county.
A VERMONT lumber dealer advertises
that he has for sale $4,000 shingles
made by 'the only Christian single
maker in the state"
The Brooklyn bridge is to have a
great pneumatic tube for the transmits.
sion of mail and baggage between New
York and Brooklyn.
TwENTY-oNE stays We're shot in a
single day by three sportsmen, it is
claimed, in the deer forests of Inchvae
and Strathvaicll, in Scotland
THE newest thing out for the table is
dainty plates, the size of a saucer, for
bread and butter The individual but
ter plate having gone ont of use.
Mrs. IRIS c. RYDER recovered a verdict
at Memphis, against the Appeal-Ava-
lanche Co., for $500, for the publica-
tion of an alleged libelous article.
OwINe to the large demand and the
scarcity of supply, the large cotton
mills at Atlanta, Ga, have advanced the
price of goods i Of a cent per yard.
New YORK state has paid out 1892,
G4T 80 for the expenses incidental to the
mobilization of troops at Buffalo during
the switchmen's strike last summer
A. p. KlsER, farmer near Wenat-
Chez Wash, owns a turnip which he
claims weighs twenty-one pounds and
measures four feet in circumference.
THE salaries of Queen Victoria's maids
of honor are $500 per annum, and should
one of them be married it is customary
for the queen to make her present OF
$1,000.
Hon. WADE HAMPTON declares that
he is square with South Carolina on po
litical account, and that he would not
take another office in the gift of hel
voters.
The sum of S4,O16,7 100 is wanted to
complete the Philadelphia city hall, on
which some ten millions have already
been spent. The tower alone is to cost
s7OO, 900
QUEEN VICTORIA has now 55 living
descendants-6 children, SO grandchil-
dren and 10 great-grandchildren The
latest addition to the royal family is a
boy, recently born to Princess Louise
of Hesse.
THE state department has instructed
Minister Ryan, of Mexico, to look into
the facts connected with the imprison-
ment in Mexico of r. j. Knox, of Ell
mira, H., and, if proper, to intercede
for his release.
A BLIND postmaster in Indiana can
not distribute the mails, but he knows
where everybody's box is and makes nc
mistake in handing it out as he recog.
nizes every voice,
TIE international monetary confer
ence, at Brussels, has adjourned, to
resume it's sittings on May 13 next,
should such an arrangement meet with
the approval of the various govern
ments represented.
A sCHooL-TEACHER in England has
lately been voted n pension of two
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