The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-09
CURRENT TOPICS.


A NATURALIST says that of all ami
mails the horse has the acntest sense of
aearing.
In Austria women are employed as
hod-carriers and are paid at the rate Of
twenty-five cents day.
Four pounds of gold have been col
.ected from the SCOT of the chimney OF
the royal mint in Berlin.
A PENNSYLVANIA has gone into tho
business of raising Angora cats, and
charges S15 for one kitten.
THE greatest plague ever known Wis
tied Naples in 1856 and carried off $780,
600 people in twenty-eight weeks.
The steel rail mills of this country
have now orders on their books for S2o,-
600, 900 of rails, deliverable this year
Mrs. ELIZABETH BERKMAN, a resident
of Plainfeld, n. j., is a descendant of
Rubens, the great painter, it is stated
THE Irish parliament existed for over
800 years 1t was extinguished in 1901
at the time of the union with Great
Britain.
AN old continental hat worn in 1877
is the treasured relic of Coatesville
pa gentleman. The hat belonged to
his uncle,
AN Albany young man is under ar
rest for attempting to steal diamond
ring from jeweler to give to his girl
for Christmas.
CoNFLAGRArIoNs for the fire insur-
ance companies and grip epidemics for
the life insurance companies are eating
into insurance profits.
AFTER Seattle man had spent S., 900
and travelled extensively for ten months
to recover his voice, it came back to
him without costing cent few days
ago
A NORTH CAROLINA man claims to
have been married twice, and that he Is
the father of % children, and although
but 55 years old has great-grandchil'
dren.
TBB curious news comes from Bonn
bay that an epidemic of cholera has
broken out among shoals of sharks,
those terrible monsters that infest the
Indian ocean
A NEHBEB of New York china firm
says the very latest fad in New York
, society IS for all of girls intimates to
send her teacups on the announcement
of her engagement.
WASHINGTON is still the haven of
honeymoon tourists and it is also a
great town for weddings, the percent
age Of marriages there being greater
than IN ether cities of its size
GAIT. d. D. GIDDINaS who went
West grew up with Nebraska and be-
came her first congressman, has re-
lNxNY 4 As1
of the peace at Savannah, Mo.
LAWYERS still predominant in con-
gress, as probably they always will.
There are 212 mem bers of the present
session who have at one time or another
practieed law, while 65 are farmers.
ERTERrRIslNG newspapers are ex-
ceeding the proprieties in trying to get
up yellow fever scare. The grip and
other prevailing winter diseases are
amply sufficient for the present time
TEE new edition of the Bible which
Prof Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins,
has undertaken will have among its
editors several Jewish scholars, two OF
them Talmudists, said to be of the first
rank.
The Australian ballot system, which
was introduced in the United States
five years ago. has been adopted in
thirty three states of the union, eigh-
teen OF which fell into line during the
past year.
SENATOR WALTHALL, of Mississippi,
does not go 10 roost with the chickens
exactly, but he retires at 0 o'clock, and
as he awakens and sips his matutinal
nt vlat !,
or the lark is up first
CHRsTiNE NuLssONs husband, the
Count De la Miranda, has been appoint
ed Spanish minister to Stockholm, and
the peasant singer of former days will
retuyn 30 her native home with the
rank of eHbRssadress.
A FSyF9 Boston business man, who
now commands "a salary of 50, 900, went
through Harvard OF $500 year. He
says harvard is the poor as well as the
rich mans college, and that he did not
find It difficult to live on 81 q week.
A MONTHLY periodical of New York
city anNoRHces that it is ready to sup.
ply the pRblic with literary pabulum,
secular or religious "by the pound" II
sayss I'VE will send five pounds ot
reading matter prepaid for one dol.
lar"
THH splendid mansion in Paris, which
Mrs. Mackay has owned for some years
is to be offered for sale at auction, the
upset price being $4,000 Its front
-':1dOws and portion of its court com
Snand noble view of the Arc de Tri
omphc.
AT recent fair in Chicago given by
the First regiment, there was lively
voting on the disposition of doll three
feet high and beautifully dressed
Baby Mckee received 1,202 votes
and Ruth Cleveland 1.OOS The dol
was therefore sent to the White House
JosEPH JEFPERsoN's son Charles. in
stead OF going on the stage. has pre-
ferred ~ act as business manager fol
dramatic companies He is conducting
two ar three ventures of this sort he
sides looking after his fathers affairs
THERE are sixteen species of tress il
the United States, ont of the Who'll,
mum er of 4l3 which grow within the
limits of our resourceful country that
when perfectly seasoned, will sink il
water. Black iron wood, which grow.
only in Florida, is the heaviest wood
it Is more than 80 per cent heavier thar
water. Othe- heavy woods are the lig
mum vitB, the mangrove and some spe
cies of oak
THE latest fad in the west is a shoe
parry. They stretch a sheet across thf