The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

In Hutchison, Kan.
A gold ROCK" was found in a bag of
coffee at Blakely, Ga.
CIDER brandy made in 1920 is owned
by West Hartford, CT, man.
THE town of Cumberland, r. l., boasts
of a meeting house built in 1740.
A WOMAN of Lyons, Neb., has a nose
four and three-quarter inches long.
GREAT BRITAIN has 80 inhabitants to
the square mile, the United States 1s.
A COIN COLLECTOR at South Bend,
Ind, has German coin minted in 1897.
EXPRESS trains in Russia rarely travel
faster than twenty-five miles an hour.
In South American countries baked
bananas are an excellent substitute for
meat
To CLEAN brass fixtures rub them
with slices of lemon, then wash in hot
water.
GILT EDGE BRICKS" is the name of
social club recently organized at Otta-
wa, Kas.
A NEW variety of ham in the eastern
market is noted as ''cut from only milk
fed pigs"
A FIvE-cENT nickel of 1877 is worth 81
and nickel fve-cent piece of 1878
about 10 cents.
CAPT. SCHUMACHER, of Fullerton, Ill,
claims to have cornstalk which is Is
feet inches high.
A New JERSEY man gives as a cure
for hay fever the smoking of pine nee
dies with tobacco.
ONE-HALF the Missouri delegation in
oh their
during the session.
OF 200, 900 women working at 100 diff
ferent trades in New York city $4,000
support their husbands.
A MEDAL won by De Soto, the discov-
crer of the Mississippi river, will be ex-
hibited at the Worlds fair.
THE standard yard of America is said
20 be one-thousandth of an inch longer
than the English standard.
THERE are $1,000 women telegraph
operators in the United States, and the
number is constantly growing.
CASTOR oil has not failed in any case
to remove warts to which it was ap-
piled once day for two to six weeks.
PHILIP SHERMAN, a dry goods dealer
of Grand Rapids, Mich, who opposed
early closing, has been boycotted out of
business.
A ''MoDEL of the figure of Lots wife
in salt will appear in the Kansas ex-
hibt to illustrate the salt industry of
the state.
THE corn crop in Kansas this year
will be the largest in the history of the
state, and is expected to reach $50, OOo,-
900 bushels.
a HoTHL with 1,SOO rooms is to be
erected in Chicago to accommodate
members of labor unions during the
Worlds fair.
ALLEN MILTON BROWNING, of Hunt
ington, w. Va, is sixty years old, has
been married six times and has sixty
seven children.
DREHER. the Vienna brewer, is re-
puted to be worth over $40, 900, 900, to
which the profits of his breweries add
$4,000, 600 a year.
A MEDICAL man in Vienna asserts that
diphtheria is thrice as prevalent among
smokers as those who deny themselves
the luxury of the weed.
THE guests at Springfield hotel re-
Gently presented one of the mattresses
with pair of roller skates in the hopes
of being waited on more rapidly.
AN economical old woman at Atchison
has brought up a family of spring
chickens on the bugs collected from the
machinery at the electric light station
every morning
JOHN q. WHITTIER writes in bold
dashing, but irregular and uneven
style, as different as you can imagine
from the plain, precise, unassuming
Quaker that he is,
SOME of the largest corporations and
business houses in Chicago who employ
young men in positions of trust, have
issued orders making. betting on races
cause for dismissal.
REV. DR. OsGooD, of Cchasset, Mass.
has been pastor of church in that city
for fifty years, He was called to the
church upon his graduation from the
Harvard divinity school.
WITHIN six months Savannah, Ga,
win have system of water works sup
piled by twelve artesian wells, each
with capacity of 100000 gallons q
day. and of perfect purity.
NHmE man was digging hole in
the cellar of his house at New Haven,
Ct, recently, he discovered bag
containing several large pieces of sill
verNvare, worth about 1,250.
TUE performance of Uncle Toms
Cabin" at Conway Springs, Kan, the
other night was slightly modified by
one of the bloodhounds, which stopped
TO nip flea as he was in pursuit OF
"E iza."
lS a recent appropriation of nearly
$500, 600 for an Indian tribe, attorneys
claim agents, etc, got S7OO, 900. In an
appropriation of $3.50, 900 to pay anoth,
er tribe, attorneys, claim agents, ETC.,
get $4,000.
rEN-YEAR-oLD Edith Brill, of Wool
wich, Eng, has received the Royal HUI
name society's medal for saving one oi
two little boys who fell into King vii.
liam's dock.
NJ PAsTEUR disclaims possession OF
any of the various microbes that have
been reported as undermining his sys-
tenn. He was at u recent meeting of the
Academic des sciences, apparently in
the best of health.
SAMUEL MILLER, ar aged and re
spected legislator of Michigan. says in
his biography which he wrote for the
red book that his political views have
been as varied as the good of the coun,
try seemed to demand"