The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-03-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

army Off ,ers as Indian agents.
AMERICANS are now buying diamonds
at the rate of S13, 1000, 900 year.
IT is said that when Victorien Sardou
laughs he is the ugliest man in Paris.
IN Australia no newspapers are pub
lished or railroad trains run ON Sum
day.
AN Albino lobster was captured re-
Gently in the Atlantic off Eastport
Maine.
ROCK" o hog butchered the other
day at Yardville, N. j., weighed 973
pounds
TREASURY officials deny that England
has agreed to participate in monetary
conference.
A GIRL burglar, six years old, was
captured at work the other night at
Milford, Mass
HUNDREDS of imported song birds
were turned loose few days ago near
Beaverton, Ore.
A PHILADELPHIA ragman found
Greek grammar 2O5 years old in an ash
barrel recently
A RAILWAY in the Argentine Repub-
lie has one stretch of 211 miles without
a curve or bridge.
FIFTY-o ONE metals are now known to
exist Four hundred years ago only
seven were known.
A CREMATED body leaves a residium of
only eight ounces; all besides is restored
to the gaseous elements.
WALKING sticks, to be fashionable,
should show little or no metal The
natural sticks are preferred.
The theaters of London are now
fumigated after each performance to
prevent the spread of the grip.
A PHILADELPHIA saloon has a sign in
the window which reads: "a bi-chlor-
ide-of-gold sandwich with every drink"
MOUNTAIN in Australia was named
after Mr.. Gladstone last year. Another
has now been named Mount Sails
bury.
THE only really happy monarch in
Europe just now is the king of Spain,
and he is not old enough to know any
better.
In proportion to its population New
hampshire stands first among all the
states in the amount of its savings bank
deposits.
A BLIND black eel was found in
pond in Maine recently and sent to the
United States fish commission as a
curiosity
The new German army tent is divisi- |
BILE into two portions, each of which |
can be converted into an overcoat in
case of rain.
MEXICO will enforce the collection of
an export duty on ores, in order to in
luce the establishment of smelters in
that country.
WITHIN five years electricity has revo-
lutioniEed the welding of metals and
cheapened the production of aluminium
over so per cent.
PRoF. WIN. MCADAMs, of Alton, Ill,
dug up a bundle of fossilized vegetation
which he estimates had been buried |
nearly 1000 years.
JULES VERNE predicts the invention
OF ''telephote," that will enable peo- |
pie at the distance of thousands OF
miles to see one another.
REPRESENTATIVE CoGswELL, of Mas. |
sachusetts, has introduced bill to es.
tablish national sanitarium for the
treatment of consumption.
A SISTER of Cardinal Manning, Mrs.
Austen, has survived him, and, al
though over ninety years of age she is
still active in charitable and benevolent
work
j. II. JOHNSON, of Blakely, Mimi,
advises farmers to build their own
four-mflls They can then get 81 a
Dushel for their own wheat, says Mr..
johnson.
A NEW diamond is being cut in Ant
werp said to be the largest ever found
in Africa 1t weighs 400 carats, and
when it is finished it will be reduced
One-half.
A RECENT pamphlet on the RAILWAYS
OF London states that there are 256
railway stations within a six-mile ra-
dius of st. Paul's cathedral, and 391 |
within atwelve-mile radius of the same |
center
Two hundred and fifty electric rail.
ways are running in the United States, |
embracing ., 024 miles of tract. and $3.50 |
motor cars, with 174, 436 horsepower. |
These railways represent a value of
over $40, 900, 600.
KNOWLEDGE spower-- likewise money. |
French economist has been charged |
in the chamber of deputies at Athens
with receiving enormous pay from
French syndicate for his services in eff
forts to depreciate Greek bonds.
lT was the Chinese who invented the |
well-known plan of capturing ducks |
and other waterfowl by wading toward !
them with a basket over the head and !
dragging them under water before they
knew what had caught them by the |
legs
The election board at Neville, Pa,
at recent election ruled that legal |
voter must be twenty-one years and |
thirty days old, which shut out a young !
man who was but fourteen days past |
his twenty-tirst birthday. No explana-
ton is offered.
SENATOR PETTIGREw's first home in |
South Dakota was a rough log hut. !,
which he built with his own hand, at !
sioux City, when he went out there as
q laborer to United States deputy sur !
Veyor nearly twenty-five years ago.
AMONG the recent innovations in Ber-
lin is matrimonial clubhouse 1t is !
a large roomy building, divided into |
several apartments, in one of which |
portraits of each woman subscriber are !
exhibited with full descriptions of her
age, talents, fortune, color of hair,
eyes, etc, size of hands and feet, and |
general contour. There is also a brief !
account of her life, whether widow or |
spihster.
The story comes from Benson, Mimi,
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