The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-09-02
CURRENT TOPICS.


SILK towels are the latest bathroom
luxury.
EUROPEAN railroads have no grade
crossings.
ONE person in every thirteen dies
zach year.
THE newest orange knife has saw
edge back.
An aluminium bridge over Gibraltar
II proposed.
Sixty thousand people in Ireland
speak Irish only.
COAL mines were begun in Pennsyl.
vania in 1854 at Pittsburgh.
GLASS curtains are coming into use
and are said to give satisfaction.
Hoae, BACON G. Frier is the name Of o
mercantile firm in western Australia
FOURTEEN Negro lawyers have been
admitted to practice at the Georgia
bar.
A sEAruRTLK weighing 1000 pounds
wae captured near Portland, Maine, re-
gently.
The Salt sea was the home of oysters
from fourteen to twenty inches in di-
aneter.
ILLINOIS now has new crime added
to the penal code; it is called wife de-
sertion.
Mrs. JULIA CUMMINGS, aged III years,
of Red Bank, N. j., has son who is 81
years old.
HAILsToRMs very rarely occur in
countries where there is large growth
Of timber
MORE machinery is moved by the Mer-
Inns ssxycr hoy h1yo 0th CT
the world.
THE post Office department costs $780,
100000 year, and has q revenue of
eo1, ,0oO,o
THE loss of champagne by bursting
bottles sometimes amounts to twenty
Ave per cent
THE catalogue of the books in the IL
brary of the British museum occupies
5000 volumes,
BRADsrREEr makes the estimate that
since June SOC, 900 employees have lost
their situations.
Official reports from the Mexican
government show 1875 Mormon resi-
dents in Mexico.
EVERY man in the French republic is
required by law to serve at least one
year in the army.
IMITATION pearls are nowadays so
skillfully made that they are prettier
than the genuine.
EVERY regiment of the British army
IN India has been rearmed with the
aew magazine rifles.
TIE 43d anniversary Of the admission
q California rs state will be cele-
brated in September.
AwoMAN of Seabright, N. j., took ad-
vantage of the fact that her husband
was in bathing to elope.
The proposed Trans-Siberian railway
will be the longest in the world. 1t
will be over 5000 miles long.
COLLECTOR CLARK, of Chicago, is
called upo oappraise seven barrels Of
water from the River Jordan.
THERE are two mountains in lower
California that are estimated to contain
1Oe,ooO,o 900 tons Of pure alum
a LUMP Of nickel weighing 4,b00
ounds, exhibited at the Worlds fair,
worth half as many dollars.
LORD SALISBURY is said to be the
only prime minister since the time Of
Elizabeth who has worn q beard.
THERE was a financial bank at Baby
Ion as early as 700 B. c., and, so far as
known, it was the first on record.
A HORSE thief was run down and cap
tured by policemen mounted on bicy-
cles, at Bloomsbury, Pa, recently.
ONE of the most curious farms in the
United States and one of the most
profitable is a frog farm in Illinois.
HAVING an income now of 800, 900 a
day, the Worlds fair managers see an
expanding rift in the financial cloud.
IT appears that in Massachusetts
nearly twice as many women as mer
live to be more than eighty years old
A SNAKE that climbs up the glasa
walls of its polished cage is an attrac-
ton in tho Natural History museum at
Paris.
A SKowHEeAN (Me.) man had quite a
tussle to drive three hungry deer out OF
his bean patch. 1t was illegal to shoot
them.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN lives on s12
aweek. If he had $1S he says he would
not know what to do with the extra
dollar.
IT Is estimated that there are nearly
1,000,o 900 acres of unoccupied govern
AnCnU Aoho AA hduooo oGiii OpCh iof SCV
tlement-
PROF. HOLDEN says that the cavity
represented by the largest spot on the
sun is sufficient to take in the whole
OF eur planet without touching the
Sides
ALPHABETs vary greatly in the mum
bsr of letters they contain. That O
Hawaii has twelve, while the Tartariar
Is made up of two hundred and two
characters.
MORE than forty million young trees
it is officially reported, have beer
planted in Switzerland in the las
seven years in the effort to "reforest'
that country.
THERE is society in Calcutta, India
which has for its object the giving O
food and shelter to old, useless COW
ana horses, that would otherwise b
left to starve.
THE transparent crystal from whic
Imitation diamonds are made is calle
''strass," from its inventor, Germa
jeweler who lived in the first half of tb
present century.
MATILDA w., one of the most famou
Jersey cows in the world, owned b
Congressman Joseph G. Sibley and hi
partner, Maj. Charles Miller, of Franl
lin, Pa. Is dead. She was valued q