The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

A New York ieweler has n cigarette
holder worth $3.50
The average camel will travel 800
miles in eight days.
TRUCKER, Cal, has a child with one
olack and one blue eye
No SHIRT has been elected chief OF
:he Umatilla Indians in Oregon,
A BELGIUM viscount has enlisted as
private in the United States army.
A GIRL in Norway must be able to
bake bread before she can have beau.
IN Buffalo one line of street railway |
crosses tifty-four railroad tracks in its |
course.
ToRTY-EIGur stage coaches carrying |
the United States mails were held up |
last year.
a GENIUS proposes to transmit power
from Niagara to run the Worlds fair !
machinery
A LARGE number of men in Washing.
ton make their living by writing con-
gressmens speeches.
THERE are now % 7sG Irishmen in the
British army. In 1860 there were CO.
600 and in 1870 $4,000
FRANCE ought to be happy, according
to an Old saying, for her revenue last
year exceeded expenditures by $50, ,OOO,.
600
JAMES COLE, of Vernon county, Mo,
has been sent to tine penitentiary for
breaking his wife's nose with fence
rail
TIE cost of a round-trip ticket on
the proposed new railroad between
Joppa and Jerusalem will be about four
dollars.
A PLACE called Pro Tenn in Taney
county. Mo-, has lasted now for many
years and bids fair to become per-
manent.
SOME butchers of Ligonier, Pa, made
n Christmas sausage siXty-two feet four
inches in length. 1t weighed thirty
seven pounds
LOUIS KossUrH is very sick at his
home in Turin. He suffers considera-
bly, from asthma, and also has trouble
with his eyes.
SLATE and pencil are not good enough
for ;he New York school boy. He must
have 4 letter pad and fountain pen to
do his sums with
TIE other day New York city pa.
per published record OF LOG deaths,
twcnty-seven OF them being OF persons
over 20 years OF age.
By majority of /, ,144 the voters of
the city OF Toronto, in Canada, declared
against the running OF street cars on
Sunday, and only one newspaper advo-
Gated the change.
The noted Australian Tyre bird is
Threatened with total extinction in
New South Wales, owing to the Ameri-
can demand for its tail-feathers to adorn
feminine head-gear
A RESIDENT of Saratoga, Ark, un.
earthed what is supposed TO be the
bones of monstrous serpent There
were thirty joints and some o.
them weighed nine pounds.
STEEL casbets for the bodies of those
who die suddenly on ship oard are be-
ing carried on many of the transatlan'
tic liners. The remains are placed in
them and Theoretically sealed.
PRESERVED as memento at the
Adams house. Boston, is a LoX contain.
ing few cigars which belonged tc
Gen. Grant at the time his illness com.
PEELED him to give up smoking.
WHILE James Wilkersou, of Ray
county, Mo, was being buried, and his
family and friends were gathered at
the cemetery, thieves drove thirty-two
head Of cattle from his pasture.
ALL the Ii: en- for Princess Victoria
Mays trousseau will be made in Ire,
land her tweed dresses will come from
Scotland, and some of her finer COS.
tunes are to he of English-made silk.
Two colored delinquents in Raleigh,
n. c., were recently condemned to re.
ccivc thirty-nine lashes each, and spec
tators were admitted TO witness the
whipping at twenty-five cents head
The gate receipts went to the prison.
ers.
ELLEN TERRY's signature is worth
exactly 10s Sd sterling. She placed her
name, unsolicited, on some 1Sd photo
graphs of herself at an Edinburgh fair
the other night, and the price of the
pictures at once advanced to one guinea
each.
AT the auction sale of autographs in
London, the other day, letter of Ad-
-elina Patti, in which she declares that
every body is madly in love with her,
brought only eleven shillings and doc.
uments signed by Richelieu went for
two shillings
SECRETARY ELKINs has in West Vir.
ginia house which is described as one
of the finest country residences in the
south. 1t contains ninety rooms and
commands superb view of the sur.
rounding country, which is exception
ally beautiful.
LIBRARIAN SPoFFoRD points out Z
strange error in the Encyclopedia
Brittanca, which, confounding state
legislation in Virginia with nationa,
enac,meuts, states that the United
States congress had passed seventy acSs
authorizing lotteriesg
THERE are 1916 sailors in the Amer
lean navy, of whom S,097 are foreign
ers, 2,7jG have never taken out natural
ization papers, and l2S2 have never re
sided in the United States Mt all.
A CALiFORNIA prune grower has re
fused an offer from Bordeaux firm fol
his prune crop in sacks. They would
of course, be repacked and shipped a,
French prunes. But the Californian
means to make the profit himself
TRADE between this country ant
Australia is Increasing especially il
the demand for cur manufactured ar
ticles a. $4,000 Australian order TO
an elect ic plant will be filed at Cuya
hoga Falls, o., and Fort Wayne, Ind.