The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

CHIcAGo's new directory gives the city
spopulation of 1, 400, 900.
EVERY fifth boy in India il at school,
but only every fiftieth girl
AS LATE as IRE women rode astride.
Side saddles are modern inventions.
Miss RAY BEvERIDeE, of San Fran
cisco, is an accomplished blacksmith.
ONE pound of cork is sufficient to sup
port man of ordinary size in water.
SITTING BULLS daughter, Miss Stand
ing Holy, has joined wild west show.
THE number of men employed in the
railway industry in this country II
714,75O.
The leaf of the banana is usually six
feet long by two feet wide. The flow
ers are pink.
TIE Adirondack wilderness embraces
an extent of 5000 square miles, or
100000 acres
THE mouth of the Mississippi river,
curiously enough, is three miles higher
than its source.
In the old testament only one wom-
ans age is recorded, that of Sarah,
Abrahams wife.
THE first king to whom the title Of
majesty" was applied was to Louis XII.
in France, in 1863.
THE hardest wood known is cocua
wood; it turns the edge of any ak, how
ever well tempered.
NEIL BYRAN1, one of the once famous
troupe of minstrels, is a government
clerk at Washington.
TWELVE members of the senate have
been governors of states, and five have
been cabinet officers.
THE German emperor is said to have
posed before a camera 40 times since he
assembled the throne.
GEO. NJ. PULLMAN gives his daughter
Harriet one hundred dollars for naming
each new Pullman car
LAKE MICHIGAN boasts of gospel
ship that makes tour each year to the
lake villages and cities.
The longest journey taken by any
European train is from Paris to Con-
stantinople, 1857 miles.
AT the beginning of the present year
1851 miles of railway were in opera
ton in the United States.
Miss ADELrNE M. IRLsoN retires from
the Cambridge, Mass, corps of teachers
after fifty years of service.
A NIECE of the late James Russell
Iowell, Miss Ruth Burnett, is soon to
become Sister of Charity.
Four pounds of gold were recently
collected from the SCOT of the chimney
of the royal mint in Berlin.
COLUMBIA river contains trout covered
with large red spots. They have been
pamed Dolly Warden" trout.
The constitution of Louisiana per-
mits women to hold any Office in con-
nection with public education.
JOHN c. FREMONT, son of the famous
'Pathtidner," is acting as a reporter at
the scene of the Homestead riots.
The Presbyterians are about to es.
tablish a college in st. Lake City, and
have purchased site of 100 acres.
A SOUTH JERSEY paper makes the re-
marlSable statement that "thin people
are very thick in this neighborhood."
The Chinese, Japanese, Malays,
Siamese, New Zealanders and the North
American Indians are all but beardless.
BISHOP JOHN +. HURST, of the Meth
odist church, is to be married in Sep
tember to Miss Ella Agnes Root of Buff
falo.
SECRETARY OF STATE FOSTER is the
only man in the nations diplomatic his
tory who has held three first-class mis-
sions.
TIE Arkansas City Traveller thinks
that the Fourth Of July is all right, but
that the 9TH of July ought to be abol-
ished.
No bird can fly backwards without
turning; the dragon-fy, however, can
do this and can outstrip the swallow in
speed.
THE price of reserved seats ct the Sui
livan-Corbett fight in New Orleans has
been fixed at $50 each, and chairs at
e25 each.
FEW lovers of Walter Scott recall the
TACT that he wrote five plays, none of
which, however, has ever been put on
the stage.
GREAT BRITAIN has two lady lawyers,
Miss Frances II. Gray and Letitia Walk
ington Both are Irish women and na-
tives of Belfast.
DANCING is taught in many of the
public schools in Scotland, and made a
feature of the closing exercises at the
end of the term.
THE longest canal in the world is the
one which extends frou the frontier of
China to ST. Petersburg 1t meas
ures in all 4,4T2 miles.
THE largest county in the United
States is San Bernardino county, Cali
fornia. 1t is over 400 miles long and
half that distance in width.
The longest straight stretch of rail
road without curve is on the Argen-
tine Pacific. From Buenos Ayres to the
foot of the Andes, 211 miles
BEATRCE VEHoN, Chicago girl of
French ''1rentage, has achieved nota-
BILE. triun- 1h as a singer at the Royal
court theater at Stockholm.
A BUFFALO IN. " man proposes to
furnish the Worlds fair with an attrac-
ton ia the shape of collection Of
snakes. He claims to be able to show
as many as 1000 different varieties
The largest grain elevator in the
world was built at Minneapolis juno
ton in 1886. The main building is $50
feet long, 92 feet wide and 175 feet high.
Its storing capacity is 1000, 900 bushels
of grain.
A DOG at Canaveral, Fla, was bitter.
in three places by rattlesnake short
time ago. Fourteen spoonfuls of gun
powder were given it internally, and in
side of two days the dog had entirely