The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-15
CURRENT TOPICS.


States, 240, 600 are women.
A PAPER has been started in Atlanta
called the Swapping Turtle.
ONE.HALF the population of Mime
sofa and the Dakotas is foreign born.
WOMEN are to be admitted to the
pulpit of the Sweden borgian church.
PHYSICIANS are saying frozen fish are
the cause of peculiar rash on the
body.
The San Francisco police now carry
IN AK to break into Chinese fan tan
shops.
CHRISTIAN JOACHIM Nom, who has
Just died at Naples, knew sixty Ian
guages.
ACcoMAc county, Virginia, ships
nearly 1000, 900 barrels sweet potatoes
annually.
FRANCIS MURPHY's son Tom has got
$4,000 Hartford men to sign the temper
ance pledge.
A CHICAGO woman has been arrested
on the charge of stealing a glass eye
from a man.
STATISTICS of mortality in the south
show that the death rate is 216 colored
to one white.
THE wire nail manufacturers have in
creased the price of their product one
dollar per keg.
AN office-seelser offers $500 to the gov
ernment for appointment as postmaster
at Austin, Tex.
THERE is said to be invested in Amer
lean breweries about S91, 000,0O of
English capital.
WOMAN is advancing. In thirty-two
states and territories she enjoys some
form of suffrage,
THE starfsh has no nose, but the
whole of its under side is endowed with
the sense of smell.
Christian Snyder has been road super
visor of Jackson township, Indiana, for
thirty-three years
THERE are nearly seven hundred ap-
plicants for one vacancy in the pay
corps of the army.
A BUFFALO firm recently advertised
for red-headed young woman to drive
four white horses
IT Is said that the water line has
risen one foot all around the Gulf of
Mexico since 1850.
A PIG with five well formed ears is an
animal monstrosity owned by Daniel
Reese, of Muncie, Ind.
AT the present time the Philadelphia
School of Pedagogy consists of eleven
professors and one pupil.
LAST year more tonnage passed
through the Sault Ste. Marie canal
than through the Suez canal.
UNDER the present law it is peni-
tentiary offense for full-grown Mis-
sourian to gamble with boy.
A MAN in Hackensack, N. j., was
recently sentenced to sixty days i'm
prisonment for swearing in public.
BLOCKS sixty feet long without a
break are found quite frequently in the
onyx quarries in Lower California.
AN Englishman in Philadelphia says
he hasn't eaten bread for twenty years,
but he eats meat four times a day.
A SALISBURY On. C) farmer states
that hogs watered exclusively with
well water will be free from cholera.
A PETRIFIED mound builder has ar
rived at Topeka from Oklahoma. Faith
er Baker pronounces it genuine speci-
men.
FISH in the Royal Aquarium in St
Petersburg are still alive after having
been on exhibition for more than $50
years
DAVID Mccoy, of California, who ia
reported to be 103 years of age is said
to be the oldest war veteran in this
country.
TEXAS has Deaf Smith county, about
Ia irS 6 "a. Lr,
been fixed upon an important political
division.
A MISSOURI man has applied for a
divorce after ten days of married life
because of the pugilistic inclinations OF
the bride.
A TYPE of frearm has been invented
in England by which compressed gas is
utilized instead of powder as propell-
ing force.
DR.. MARTIN KELLOGG, installed as
president of the university of Cali.
fornia, was the senior professor of that
institution.
TWIN sisters Mrs. Alderman and
Mrs. Christian, of Glen Ellyn, near
Chicago, recently celebrated their
ninety-frst birthday.
SO SMALL is the thread carried by the
spindle of the phonograph that the
process of threading requires the aiG
of mechanical device.
MERvIN PAGE, colored man of How
ard county, Mo-, wears shoe that
measures fourteen inches in length and
five inches across the sole.
A MOTHER at Pemiscot, Mo-, has foul
daughters who bear these euphonious
names: Beulah, May, Ivy Rose, Beoda
Alwilda and Greta Alheta
Mrs. JANE L. FOwLE, of Dedham
Mass, has been awarded $3.50 by Bos
ton jury against a dentist who extract
ed a sound tooth instead of decayec
one.
AN Atchison county CKan.) farmer
net profits last year on his eighty-acrc
farm were s1463. The net profits O
his wife from forty-two hens in thu
same time were Sl26. 49,
A BEECH tree on which Daniel Boone
carved his name in rude letters 1873 year,
ago will be a unique part of Tennessee'l
contribution to Worlds fair curios. TIL,
tree was long landmark near Jones
boro, Tenn.
DR. NJ. b. HARRIS of Milan, Tenn
has in his possession a pair of spectacle
owned and worn by Gen. Marion during
the revolutionary war. They are mad,
of steel and were constructed in black
smith shop.
A MICHIGAN woman recently received