The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHE homestead riot has cost Penn
Bylvania $500, 900.
JOHN WANAMAKER's life is insured fol
exactly S1,5O5, 900.
A New YORK beggar makes $4,000 9
year at the business.
THE greatest days run of an ocean
steamship was 515 miles.
DENVER is now in direct telegraph
communication with Pixies Peak.
UNPUNoTUATED letters are reported to
bo growing fad in social intercourse.
IN South Carolina there are 1O2, 900
white voters and 132, 900 colored voters
The enrolment of girl students in
the Harvard Annex this year is over
800.
LONDON photographers can not meet
the demand for pictures of Buffalo
Bill"
ONE-THIRp of the deaths among the
American Indians are due to consump-
ton.
AN irrigation canal in Utah and Ida
no will irrigate about 100000 acres of
land.
The Topeka lad who stole three BIZ
cycles has been sentenced to the reform
school
"a CREANG-coLoRED cat SQUIRREL was
killed the other day in Sumter county,
Georgia.
ONE Harper county (Kan.) farmer
Taised one thousand acres of broom corn
this year.
GIRLS sometimes have to marry poor
husbands to appreciate what good faith
ors they had.
NEGRO who was arrested at Albany,
Ca, recently for COW stealing, gave six
different aliases
THERE are but 100 colored voters in
North Dakota. There are Is, 600 in the
city of Baltimore.
The sword of Henry the pious duke
of Silesia, was six feet long and weigh
ed thirty pounds.
A NEW triple alliance of France, Rus
sia and Turkey is said to be greatly fa-
vored by the pope.
THE czar has excused all his French
cooks and scullions from becoming
naturalized Russians
THE armor of horse and rider in the
fourteenth century frequently weighed
as much as 400 pounds
ga TOWN with one street and few
alleys" is the way the Chicago man
sizes up New York city.
IT is said that American women spend
annually on powder, lotions, creams,
extracts, etc, Sc, 600, OOO
AN Oil City Pa.) colored man lately
won wager by devouring u sixty
two-pound watermelon.
CuA will I,o - H.
fair dedicatory ceremonies for $500
newspaper correspondents.
Mrs. GEO. w. MARVIN, of Cordell, Ga,
keeps her husbands dead body in the
parlor. He died in June last
IT may be of interest to the young
people to know that fashions in dances
change about once in five years.
Very few Scotch peasantry now wear
the kilt. Most of the peasants dress
after the manner of Englishmen.
THE bore-hole at Schladebach, near
Eethan, Germany, is 5,735 feet in depth
end is for geological research only.
: A LINN county (Mo.) man has a sign
up on his place, mo hunting aloud"
He evidently believes in a still hunt
A SECOND edition of the Siamese twins
were born at Aspen, Col, short time
(go. They were joined together face to
face.
THE lasso is an invention of the South
American Indians, and was in use when
Che country was discovered by Span
fards.
IN Bremen the textile factories are
working half time, as their trade has
been emil arrassed by the cholera quar-.
antine.
SIR LYON PLAYTAIR, just elevated
to the peerage, married in 1876 an
American lady, Miss Edith Russell, of
Boston.
IVAN KAanTz died at Schenectady, N.
Y, of blood poisoning, caused by wear
ing colored hose on a foot which had
blistered.
THERE are four states, Wisconsin,
Nevada, Minnesota and California in
which majority of the voters are fer
eign born.
A CORNELL college girl has taken up
veterinary surgery as her professional
study and means to make it her future
profession.
HAMILTON FISH is now the sole sur.
vivor of those distinguished men who
held the governorship of New York
prior to 1879.
AN apple grown near Portersville,
Cal, is reported to weigh almost two
pounds and measures fifteen inches in
circumference
VALUABLE discoveries of onyx have
been made at Bridgewater, Rocking
ham county, Va 1t is abundant and
Of superior quality
THE women in Newton, Kan, are so
slow in washing their supper dishes
that the theaters in that town don't
begin till o'clock.
AN English experimenter, Mr.. e. r.
Chaplin, has given an account of hyp.
nothing laying hen and inducing her
in that manner to sit on a sitting OF
eggs until seven of them had hatched
out.
MILLIONS of butterflies passed over
the city OF Williamsport, Pa, few
days ago, headed toward the South.
They flew high in the air, but many
dropped to the ground exhausted
The most recent theater Lightning is
produced by a unique apparatus. 1t
consists Of one old file, one equally old
piece of brass rod and one dead short
circuit Real lightning is the result
and the effect is perfect.
GEN. BooTH has 300 men, mostly
brollen-down drunkards at one time
working on his farm a few miles ont OF