The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

BELGIUM is now declared to be the
most temperate country in Europe.
THE London geological garden con-
tains now no less than s. 100 animals.
THE policy-shops of New York lost
nearly $50, 900 on 4-11-44 the other day.
AN Oregon farmer boasts of tobacco
stalks which measure six feet in height
MoNGoLIAN pheasants are being kill
ed by the hundreds in Lane county,
Ore.
ABOUT twice as much power is requir-
ed to stop an express train as to start
one.
THE costliest dresses in the world are
said to be worn by the women of Sum.
atra.
In Samar beehives hang in the form
of oblong globes from the branches of
trees.
VIRGINIA has just awarded contract
for handsome state library in Rich
mond.
THERE is room for just five more dead
in the poets corner of Westminster
abbey.
To EVERY 1000 men in the British
army only eighteen are over six feet in
height
For she first time in years in North
Carolina there are no convicts at work
on railroads.
FRANCE is to have a new subsidiary
coinage, which is to be of some metal
besides copper.
REV ANDREW JONES, colored, is in
Chicago prophesying the destruction of
the city by flood
SOMEWHAT more than 1000, 900 Cana
dians have crossed over into the United
States since 1881.
BETWEEN the years 1882 and 1886 over
two thousand persons fell victims to
brigands in Italy.
LORD TENNYsoN married at the age
of forty-one. His wife was niece of
Sir John Franklin.
BY the law of Missouri a third con-
viction for larceny carries with it i'm
prisonment for life.
SOME New York people have taken to
putting Grape on the walking stick as
well as on their arms.
In order to collect pound of clover
honey, bees must deprive 81, 900 clover
blossoms of their nectar.
a PARTY near Tina, Mo-, advertises
pasture for turkeys, as he has large
lot of grasshoppers on hand
j. L. DOUGLAS, of Humboldt county,
Cal, is the possessor of a beard reputed
to be forty-seven inches long.
AMONG the wealthy classes of Japan
it is considered undignifed to ride a
horse going faster than walk.
A MARRIAGE by proxy, in which the
bride was in England and the groom in
Mexico, was a recent sensation.
IN Hebron, Conn, is an apple tree
that was planted 1875 years ago, and
still bears good fruit each year.
THE Chinese are to have an SS0,00C
house at the Worlds fair, with
pretty Chinese maidens to serve the tea.
ONE of the new cruisers will have a
Smokestack 110 feet high An English
mail steamer has tunnels 12O feet high.
A CHICAGO newsboy has been fined
for crying sensational news" that did
not appear in the paper he was selling.
SOME of the English journals are ad-
vising that the custom of appointing a
so-called Poet Laureate be discontinued.
PoMERoY, Wash, boasts of curiosity
in the shape of a carrot. 1t resembles
human hand having five fingers with
nails"
IN China wealthy people buy their
coftins long before they need them, and
exhibit them as ornamental pieces OF
furniture.
A DOCTOR in st. Augustine, Fla.
owns the oldest house in America anc
lives in it, too. 1t was built in 1860 by
q Frenchman.
The japanese government is said tc
have provided for visit of 2, 900 of its
middle class citizens to the fair in Chi
cago next year.
AMOS GGNKs, who is 1O7 years old
lives at Wellingsborough, Northamp
tonshire, England. His age is verified
by the registry of births.
A PHILADELPHIA soft drink cafe dis
plays a sign reading: "Try one of oul
Columbus egg posphates and you will
discover another world"
THE Marine City (Mich.) Magre
tolls of mushroom found in that towr
that filled bushel basket and weighed
fourteen and half pounds.
ASTRONOMER PICKERING reports Jupi
er's first satellite, $500 miles in diaro
eter, "egg-shaped and revolving enc
over end in the orbital plane"
DENTIST in Elizabeth, N. j., ha
been directed by the local courts to pa!
s156 damages to a woman whose jaw h
broke while pulling one of her teeth.
THE fastest train in the world is tn
Empire express, which runs betweel
New York and Buffalo, distance OF "A
miles, at the rate of fifty-two miles al
hour.
IT is said that Corporal Tanner ha
cleared nearly 5000, 900 from his bushes
as pension claim attorney since he wa
bounced from the pension commission
ership.
POSTAL card was sold in Paris TO
$50 a short time ago. 1t had gon
around the world after the person t
whom it was addressed and bore sev
enty-twd postmarks.
IN celebration of the birth of hi
daughter the German emperor has de
;ided TO pardon all female prisoner
now undergoing punishment for tn
6rst time for crimes committed throug
distress or anger
The Pennsylvania's union depot i
Philadelphia promises to be the mos
magnificent structure of the kind in tn
world. 1t will be modern gothic, gran
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