The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

A Nova ScoTIAN mother gave bis%h
70 quadruplets four days apart
THREE,times as many kerrings are
consumed as any other kiSd of fish.
IT is stated that 100 of Viresnias
post offices are In charge of women.
DELAWARE sent six cars of native
woods to be exhibited at the Worlds
tair.
On the Sth Se April Missouri; school
children are expected to set cat 40, 900
trees
A NEW cable to connect the Central
American s5ates with Cuba is soon to
be laid
LAST yeN' Missouri raised enough
ulaxseed--075, 900 ioushels=-sto poultioe
the state.
MADAME PATTg thinks that singing
should be taught to a child as soon as it
can speak.
AFTER the queen, the duke of Bain-
burgh is the richest member of the
royal family.
PEAcHEs, strawberries and all early
vegetables in Mississippi were killed by
the cold snap.
A PHILADELPHIA jeweler committed
suicide by putting his head under a
steam-hammer.
DHE annual crop of English walnuts
in'Southern California reaches million
and "a half pounds.
IT is gross breach of etiquette for a
oChinaman to wear eyeglasses or spec
tacles in company.
SENATOR CARLISLE says that there
were never any ADLER men in public life
than there are to-day.
FRENCH salad plates with comic plot
ures and explanatory legends help con-
versation at the dinner table.
PATTI and Bernhardt will sell flow
ers at the coming fair in New York for
the benefit of the actors fund.
THoUGH Wales is deteriorating, and
even the language is dying out, there is
a colony of $4,000 Welshmen in Lon
don.
MARK TWAIN is now doing the south
of Europe. His daughters remain in
Berlin to finish their musical educa-
ton.
The Austrian war minister is about
to,esta blish a school to teach practical
balloo' ling for army uses in time of
war.
OILED silk placed over the chest in
cases of pleurisy and pneumonia brings
speedy relief and prevents danger from
cold
IN California peach trees are success
fully grated with rose buds, thus pro-
ducing groves of red, white and pink
roses.
&c r,.l ! -,
town, Pa, whose hight is 9219 inches,
length 81 inches and weight 1S5
pounds.
TO stop bleeding apply tea leaves, or a
paste of flour and vinegar. 1t is said
thatscrapings of sole leather will stop it
Immediately.
A PETRIFTED human body was taken
from the Phillipsburg IN. J.) cemetery
recently. The BODY was buried six
teen years ago.
IT is said that the recent mine explo-
sion at Anderlues Belgium, by which
about $50 lives were lost, was caused by
spiteful miner.
AT Reading, Pa, wedding the other
day, among the wedding presents was
displayed a liberal consignment of
homemade soap.
THE famous Florence Nightingale is
now seventy-two years of age and in
feeble health resulting from prolong-
ed attack of the grip.
SMOKE an inflamed wound by holding
it over the fumes of burning cloth, wool
or sugar for a quarter of an hour and
the pain will be taken out.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN announces that in
the future he proposes to hold the
newspapers responsible for all un-
friendly illusions to himself
The bill passed by the Massachusetts,
house of representatives forbidding the
manufacture or sale of cigarettes in the
stete hes failed in the senate.
BRIDGEPoRT Conn high school girls
will not sing because they fear the eX-
,ercise will spoil their good looks. The
school board has voted to make them
sing.
SPEAKING, a about opening the Worlds
fair on Sunday, Rev. Robert Collyer
suggests that people should attend
church in the morning and the far in
the afternoon.
FIRE escapes which can be carried in
the coat pocket and by which person
can safely descend from the highest
hotel window IN twenty second have
been invented.
WILLIAM DAVIS, an Australian, has
arrived in New York from Liverpool
with the avowed intention of swimming
the rapids of Niagara without the aid
ot any eontriVance.
A CORPSE at Providence, r. l., was
exhumed and the heart removed and
burned because of superstition that
by so doing the spread of consumption
would be prevented
GEN. GORDON, commanding the United
Confederate Veterans association, an
nounces that l13 camps, representing
all the southern states except Virginia,
have been organized.
A GOLD brick was recently shipped to
San Francisco from Yuma, Cal, the
value of which was estimated at be-
tween $50, 900 and $40, 900. 1T weighed
little over 34g pounds.
IT is stated that Paris frm of glass
makers has produced porous glass
to be used for window panes The
pores are too fine to permit of draught,
but cause healthy ventilation in
room.
FREDERICK SCHwATKA, the traveller,
once experienced a temperature of sew
enty-one degrees below zero in the
Arctic regions. near Burk' Great Fish