The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

A MAN under arrest at Gorham, Me.
has confessed to 500 burglaries
The secretary of state-elect in Kan
sas is Congregational preacher.
GIRLS over twelve can make valid
wills under the laws of Scotland.
j. NJ. MAHrICE, of Traverse CITY,,
Micit., owns clock 800 years old.
IT is said that Russia could put 4, $50,
900 men in the field in case of war
FLASH light pictures of dinner par.
ties are quite in order all along the
ine.
Nor single law has been enacted
by the Connecticut Legislature for two
years
IT is a misdemeanor for baggage
5mashers to smash baggage in Ala
bama.
The fire department in Vienna was
called out twenty-five times in one day
recently
SENATOR HoAR has been advised by
his physicians that his eyesight is fully
restored.
THE California orange crop is report
ed to be very heavy and unusually sat
isfactory.
The population of Aurora, New, was
once 5000. 1t is now, it is said, but
twenty-five.
UP to date the only thing that is not
manufactured in silver fer women's use
is corset steels.
IcE made at zero temperature win
last longer than that made at eighteen
Or twenty degrees,
PLACE 500 earths like ours side by
side, yet Saturn's outcrmost ring could
easily inclose them.
THE United States has less percent
age Of blind people than any other
country in the world.
THIRTY-sEyEN thousand women are
employed as telegraph operator in this
country, it is claimed.
The hair Of Nancy Garrison, colored,
of Hobby Springs, Miss, is said to meas
ure eight feet in length.
ALTHOUGH many bacteria are killed
by freezing, yet it is said that as MANI
as 10 per cent. survive in ice.
IN spinning cotton, one machine to-
day can DO as much as 100 operatives
could do two generations ago.
STATE secrets rarely leak out in Rus
sia- Any person who divulges one, if
discovered, is hustled off to Siberia.
TRE latest fashion in hair dressing
allows for an ornament being placed
vertically, cutting it directly in two.
CANADA takes in proportion to her in
habitants almost three times as much
of British goods as the United States
THERE are 4,S76 students at the uni
Of !
est number in the history of the institu-
ton.
TYPHUs fever is also known as Jail,
hospital, spotted and camp fever. and is
near relative to typhoid and emigrant
fever
IN manufacturing occupations the av-
erage life of soap boilers is the longest,
and that of grindstone makers tho
shortest.
DISPATCH from Lyden, Wash,
states that siXteen-foot vein of coal
has been discovered few mics north
of that place.
OVER dozen American maidens and
and two widows are at present matri-
monially engaged to foreigners of more
title than cash.
THERE are 81, coo places for the sale of
liquor in Paris, and throughout the re-
public there is one saloon for every
eighty-seven people.
MEXICO, Mo-, claims the live insur-
ance agent who sawed two cords of |
wood for the privilege of writing |
$4,000 policy on a mans life.
THE fleece of ten goats and the work |
of several men for half year are re-
quired to make Il genuine cashmere |
shawl u yard and n half wide.
GOLDEN shoes are worn by Shetland |
pouy belonging to the Shah of Persia
This eXpensively-shod animal is only |
twelve and Il half-inches high.
THE population of London now ex-
seeds that of New York, Brooklyn, |
Philadelphia and Chicago combined.
end these four are the only American |
cities having 1000, 900 or more inhabit. |
ants.
RABBITS are becoming serious nui- |
Eance in some parts of Kansas Barbour |
county pays Il bounty of five cents each |
for rabbit scalps and about o. 600 scalpr |
have been paid for there since last DC |
.ober.
REPORTS of temperature 40 and so de. !
grees below zero in Russia will quicken |
sympathy for starving peasants who |
are using materials of their houses for
fuel in order to keep from freezing to |
death,
The last spike on the Great Northern |
railway has been driven thirteen miles |
below the summit of Stevens Pass, on
the western slope of the Cascade mount
aims, near Spokane Falls, Wash, thus
completing another trans-continental !
route.
JOSEPH BARsTow, who went to learn |
the craft of a printer on the Norwich
Conn Weekly, in 1924, still works at
the case in that city. He is now eighty
four years old.
RUBIEs have been so successfully imi-
tnted that the price of the genuine
stone is said to have declined fully one
third, and it is said that oleomargarine
keeps genuine butter from going up to
war prices.
PHILADELPHIA confectioner, being
curious as to the weight of 500 pen
nies, placed them in a paper bag on
confectioners' scales, and found that
they weighed three pounds five ard a
quarter ounces.
Cooks in Boston average not more
than s. per week. This fact was as.
certained from the statements of 574
men questioned by officers Of the state