The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

The Niagara Falls tunnel has reached
length of 3,267 feet.
CHICAGO has forty married women
public school teachers.
IDAHO is the only state whose name
mas never been satisfactorily accounted
for.
PRINCE BISMARCK enjoys now COM
potency closely estimated at s25O,00O
year.
A New YORK man committed suicide
''because his wife refused to support
him"
SIX million dollars are invested in the
manufacture of dynamite in the United
States.
THERE are said to be 110, 900 members
of volunteer military companies in this
country.
NICKEL steel does not corrode in salt
water which fact is of great value to
ship plates
THE salvation army is making n spe-
cialty of fashionable watering places
this season.
BISHOP MEssMER, of Green Bay, is one
of the few Catholic clergymen who
wear beard
The ST. Louis chief of police requires
the 1000 Chinese in that city to be
photographed.
SENATOR EUGENE HALE is one of
three purchasers of an immense lumber
tract in Maine.
SINCE the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has spent $4,000, 100000 on her
army and navy.
A VANDALIA (Mich.) farmer killed
twenty-three rattlesnakes in his hay
field in one day.
WILLIAM SPooNER, of Milan, Tenn,
who had lived for years in a hollow
tree, died lately.
AT present Mr.. Cleveland weighs
ESQ pounds and his girth is more ample
than ever before.
Mr.. GLADSTONE first spoke in the
house of commons on May II, 1888,
tifty-nine years ago.
The combined weight of three
peaches seen in New York market
lately was seven pounds.
CHICAGO authorities have ordered the
removal of all nickel-in-the-slot ma
chimes from public places.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION will produce
his long expected memoirs in the course
of the next sixteen months.
CANADA has about 10, 900 Chinese in
habitants, and the number is increas-
ing at the rate of 1,500 year.
Mr.. NICHOLS, the husband of Char
lotte Bronte, is still living, it is report
ed, in a remote part of Ireland.
IN Morgan county, Mo-, is an onyx
deposit which forms the floor of cave
for distance of 100 yards or more.
HIRAM LUKENs has been setting type
in the Office of the Doylestown pa
Intelligencer ever since June 81, 1882.
A MYSTERIOUS ringing of electric bells
IN u house in Switzerland was traced to
a spider, whose web had connected two
wires.
THERE are 175 different pieces in the
average watch, requiring in its manu-
facture ., 400 separate and distinct oper-
ations
A REPORT is in circulation that the
Rev. George Jacob Schweinfurth thinks
strongly of moving his Heaven" to
Texas.
AMONG the new cadets at West Point
are a son of Gen. John Pope and grand
sons of Gen. Sherman and Gen. C. +.
Smith.
DANIEL LAMoNT's physical condition
is very alarming, and the possibility of
his return to health is questioned by his
physician.
THE late Jules Lebundy, the great
Paris sugar refner, left fortune equal
to $40, 600, 900, probably the largest for
tune in France.
THE most expensive legislature in the
world is that of France, which costs an
nually $4,000, 900. The Italian parlia-
ment costs $3.50, 900 year.
THE region about the Dead sea is one
of the hottest places on the globe, and
the sea is said to lose million tons of
water day by evaporation.
MRS EDISON, the wife of the man who
has applied the electric light to do
mestic purposes, prefers candles to
any other form of household illumina-
tion.
AN enterprising Philadelphia pub
Usher contemplates bringing out an
edition of Shakespeare in words of
one syllable for use in the primary
schools.
Gov PECK, of Wisconsin, was once
humble printer, living on back street.
He now lives handsomely in the house
in which Ole Bull, the famous violinist,
once lived.
SOME New York hotels have now a
regular woman guide and chaperone
connected with tho establishment for
the convenience Of ladies visiting the
city alone.
SOME of the electric street railroad
companies of Brooklyn are equipping
theircars with storage batteries, having
found the plan of stored electricity per-
fectly feasible.
IT is now given out that the cruiser
Cincinnati will lie launched in October
1t is said her engines and machinery
will be the most powerful put in the
cruisers of her class
GERMANY is building a new double
track strategical railway between Curls-
ruhe into Lorraine to be completed
early in 1895. The bridge on which it
crosses the Rhine will cost four million
marks.
THERE are three places known where
green snow is found. One of these
places is near Mount Hecla, Iceland,
another fourteen miles east of the
mouth Of the Obi, and the third near
Quito South America.
ADoUr one-half the area of Algiers,
which comprises $50, 900 square miles in
the boundaries of Sahara is being mt