The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

In fourteen days.
Hoes are dying rapidly of cholera in
Brooks county, Ga.
THE inhabitants of Zap island, in the
Pacific, have pink hair.
The churches built in America in
1899 numbered nearly 10000.
AMERICAN women are growing taller,
while men are getting shorter.
THE grand Catholic congress will
convene at Chicago September 4.
MARION HARLANp calls buclSwheat
cakes an American national dish.
The Chinese have coins of as small o
value as the twentieth part of cent.
RIOTS are numerous in Australia as
. result of lack of work for the masses,
REPORTS indicate n very favorable
silk production in Europe and the East.
EIGHT counties in Missouri are
Aamed after presidents of the United
States.
A BIRMINGHAM (Eng.) house makes q
speciality of supplying potentates with
crowns.
SAMUEL M1NTURN PECK, the Alabama
poet, is running turkey farm at TuS
kaloosa.
VERY handsome dresses, and window
curtains as well, are now made of glas
In Austria.
DIsT1NG UIsHED doctors say the seat Of
dyspepsia is not in the stomach, but ir
the head.
A CALF 'having seven legs" is the
latest monstrosity reported from New
Brunswick, n. j.
The empire Of Morocco is the mos
important state that is absolutely with
out newspaper.
A MARRIED couple at Raleigh, N. c..
are aged ninety-nine and ninety-thre,
years, respectively.
For the first time since the war tn,
regiments of the United States army
are short of officers.
The total number of colored troop
IN the United States army during thu
civil war was 1S6,017.
THE bank robbers at Jerico, Mo-, go
but $50. which made them so mad thai
they set the bank on fire.
The United States has produced two
thirds of the cotton consumed by the
world for the last 81 years.
SINCE 1860 the value of grain crop,
has steadily diminished, while that OF
pastoral products has increased.
Paris now gets its water supply from
six great springs; it travels through
eighty-three miles of aqueducts.
According to Canon Farrar about
1000 clergymen of the church O..
England are out of employment.
The dome of the new observatory
now in course of erection at Green.
wich will be made of papier mache.
THE agricultural capital of Europe
has doubled since 1910; that of the
United States has increased over six.
fold.
The scorpion is total abstainer. II
drop of whisky be placed on ones
back it will Immediately sting itself to
death.
OVER twenty-siX per cent. of the
reading men in every country are short
sighted or otherwise of defective
vision.
THE Wagner Co. owns 700 parlor cars
and sleeping coaches, valued at S1O,5OO,-
600; the Pullman Co. 2,366, valued at
Soo,uOO,OOU.
MACK GOODWIN, a Negro at Montser-
rat, Mo-, goes crazy every summer, re-
covering his reason as the weather
grows cooler
THE difference between the tallest
and shortest races in the world is foot
~ inches, and the average height is {
feet 81 inches.
The Oldest statue in the world is OF
the sheilk of an Egyptian village. 1t is
believe! to be not less than six thou.
sand years old.
THE hydra fusca, a sort of polypus,
may be turned inside out like glove,
and will continue to live and eat as
heartily as ever
BRITISH manufacturers of agricul.
tural machinery and hardware ac.
knowledge that the United States is in
keen competition.
The net loss of the Philadelphia ex
position in 1876 was found to be s3,OOO,
900; that of the Paris exposition in 1SS!
about twice as much.
The German government is consider
ing plan to cover with tax on rail
way tickets part of the expenditure re
quired by the army bill.
Leavenworth smothers it's impounde,
dogs with birthstone. One pound will
put twenty dogs to sleep in from on,
60 one and half minutes.
A SMALL boy in Boothbay Harbor
Me-. who has just happily recovered
from double atfiiction, has named hi.
two pet kittens "Mumps" and meas
les"
OscARW w. NEEBE, one of the pardonet
anarchists, is to be married soon. TIL,
future Mrs. Neebe owns Il saloon, S,
he will step into an established bust
ness.
THERE are now 1850 Christian con
gregations in Madagascar. The Ro
man Catholics began work there il
1918, but not trace is now left of thei
labors.
FRANCE will duplicate the nev
United States steamer New York. Ma
val officials at Washington are great.
delighted as it shows how excellent th
New York il.
The annual meat prodution of Aus
fralia is 300 pounds per inhabitant; O
Argentine. 800; of the United States
17s; of Ireland, 16c; of Denmark, l2s; o
Spain, II; OF France, so; of Great Brit
ain. SO; of Italy, 2S.
The worlds agriculture occupies tn
attention of 100000, 900 of men, repre-
sents capital of two hundred an
twenty-fonr thousand millions of dol
lars und has an animal nroduct of owe